Category: Filming Locations

With its rainbow of brightly colored doors and balconies—painted in bold shades of yellow, pink, blue, orange and green meant to evoke desert wildflowers—The Saguaro is one of Palm Springs’ most instantly recognizable hotels. So when The Lincoln Lawyer needed to send one of its L.A.-based characters to the desert, it’s easy to see why producers chose it as a backdrop. The hotel cameos in the season four episode “Confirmation Bias,” when Cisco Wojciechowski (Angus Sampson) checks in while tailing an elusive murder suspect and his girlfriend. Originally opened in 1971 as The International, the property has since become one of the desert’s most photographed spots, its colorful façade practically synonymous with Palm Springs. Love it or hate it, one look at The Saguaro and you know exactly where you are—which makes it pretty perfect shorthand for “Cisco has arrived in Palm Springs.”

This off-the-beaten-path Mexican restaurant masquerades as an Arizona gas station/diner in the 2018 drama “A Star Is Born.” It is there that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga share a meal and a pump-side kiss while on the road at the start of a concert tour. I was lucky enough to happen upon the cast and crew filming at the location on April 17, 2017. Two photos from the shoot that day are pictured in the gallery below. The eatery (which serves up some stellar tacos in real life!) also appears briefly at the beginning of the 2005 thriller “Constantine.”

Celebrities have long flocked to the exclusive Parker, so it is only natural that the resort made its way to the screen. Not only did Lisa Kudrow vacation there on the HBO series “The Comeback,” as did the Kardashians in a season 13 episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” but the property also hosted a very awkward bachelorette party in the 2023 romcom “You People.” The hotel was even the subject of its own reality show, “Welcome to the Parker,” in 2007, though the venture was short-lived, lasting only one season.

A very young Richard Gere headed to this clean-lined modernist dwelling for a rather voyeuristic job opportunity at the beginning of the 1980 thriller “American Gigolo.” The one-story pad, located on the grounds of the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, has since been renovated and looks somewhat different than when Gere pulled up to its sleek confines, though it remains a masterpiece of architecture and design.

Patricia Arquette and Christopher McDonald call this Indian Canyons midcentury gem home on the 2023 Apple TV+ series “High Desert” – until being busted for selling narcotics, that is. It is here that a SWAT team descends upon the duo in dramatic fashion during a Thanksgiving celebration in episode one. The polished property also served as the popular Christopher Kennedy Compound during Modernism Week in 2019.

This pad in the Canyon View Estates complex figured prominently in the 2022 thriller “Don’t Worry Darling” as the residence of Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, with Oliva Wilde residing right next door. Crafted by William Krisel and Dan Palmer for developer Roy Fey, the picturesque community, completed in 1965, is marked by a smattering of low-slung duplexes dotted around quaint cul-de-sacs with striking mountain views. Undeniably screen-worthy, the setting brought the film’s idealistically planned Victory neighborhood to brilliant cinematic life.