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Making the Grade is a 1984 American teen comedy film. [2] It was directed by Dorian Walker and written by Charles Gale and Gene Quintano. It was filmed at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] It marks the debut of actor turned television producer Dan Schneider. [4]
The early origins of Rhodes can be traced to the mid-1830s and the establishment of the all-male Montgomery Academy on the outskirts of Clarksville, Tennessee. [4] The city's flourishing tobacco market and profitable river port made Clarksville one of the fastest-growing cities in the then-western United States and quickly led to calls to turn the modest "log college" into a proper university. [4]
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The film about Cash, who got his musical start in Memphis, was shot there and in other locations in the Mid-South by director James Mangold, and earned five Academy Award nominations.
The Orpheum's summer movie series was launched in 1984 as a way to show off and encourage Memphians to visit the newly restored and reopened theater.
This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Movies filmed in Memphis: 10 spots film fans should check out. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News.
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