The Louisiana bayou is home to vampires Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in the 1994 film Interview With the Vampire, which was shot in and around New Orleans including the famous French Quarter. Most of the movie took place just a few miles upriver on the grounds of a quintessential antebellum home called Oak Alley, a massive Greek Revival house known for its two rows of magnificent 250-year-old oak trees.Zeb Mayhew is the current owner and operator of this historic landmark, but a French Creole sugar grower from New Orleans named Jacques Threemaw constructed this magnificent home in 1837 in order to persuade his wife, Selena, to leave the city for the country. He painted it pink, her favorite color, and built it with 28 columns around it to match the 28 oaks that were in the front of the house. Selena fell in love with the home and had many huge parties there. Over the years, Oak Alley has played host to numerous films including Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte with Bette Davis and Primary Colors with John Travolta. But in the case of Interview With the Vampire, the home itself played a key role in driving the story. In the movie, this house is what brought the two main characters together because one lived there and the other one wanted it. After fighting over the house, they eventually burned it to the ground.
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