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  • Kate Beckinsale proved her love for Ben Affleck by coming to bid him goodbye at the San Diego Railroad Museum in Campo.

  • John Wayne raced up a hill at Camp Pendleton, the setting for the World War II battle.

  • The distinctive structure of the Hotel del Coronado (see Hotel del Coronado) formed a backdrop for Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis.

  • Spreckels Theatre

    Commissioned by John D. Spreckels (see Silver Strand State Beach), this Neo-Baroque downtown landmark presents theatrical productions and concerts. Murals, classical statuary, and an elegant marble lobby give the theater an aura of old San Diego.

  • The San Diego Civic Light Opera performs summer Broadway shows in this idyllic Balboa Park setting (see Balboa Park). Although under the flight path of San Diego’s International Airport, plane-spotters cue the performers when to freeze. Audiences good-humoredly accept the interruptions as part of the experience.

  • This Peter O’Toole film had stuntmen jumping off the roof of the Hotel del Coronado.

  • Only 250 amphitheater-style seats wrap around the stage of this intimate theater housed in an Old Town barn. See musicals and comedies such as Forever Plaid and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change .

  • Filmed in an enormous, specially built water tank at Rosarito Beach, Mexico.

  • Tom Cruise chatted up Kelly McGillis at the Kansas City Barbecue (see Kansas City Barbeque).

  • Along with scenes of San Diego and Tijuana, Traffic’s car explosion took place in the judges’ parking lot of the Hall of Justice.

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