A BRIEF CONCESSION TO REALITY
Hollywood
took liberties.
We understand the public found our affairs entertaining. It is difficult to account for public taste.
THE PICTURE IN QUESTION
An unfortunate
amount of publicity.
Trading Places is the 1983 comedy directed by John Landis. Eddie Murphy’s Billy Ray Valentine and Dan Aykroyd’s Louis Winthorpe III become the subjects of the Duke brothers’ experiment in exchanging social circumstances. The consequences are, from our perspective, rather poorly managed.
Ralph Bellamy plays Randolph Duke; Don Ameche plays Mortimer. Jamie Lee Curtis appears as Ophelia, and Denholm Elliott as Coleman. Their resourcefulness is acknowledged here with considerable reluctance.
Consult Paramount’s account of eventsA SMALL ARCHITECTURAL PARTICULAR
Philadelphia in spirit.
New York in certain rooms.
According to the American Film Institute, the Park Avenue Armory supplied interiors for the Duke offices and the Heritage Club. The family appreciates a room with the correct bearing, regardless of the forwarding address.
Inspect the AFI recordTHE FICTION CONTINUES
The film supplies the name.
We supply the presumption.
This website is an independent parody. The dynastic history, extended biographies, service descriptions, and journal are original interpretations. They are not official film material. The character photographs are stills from the film, credited separately. Modesty was considered and rejected.
No brokerage services or real client accounts exist here. Form entries are not sent or saved. This project is unaffiliated with Paramount Pictures.
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