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However, the best directors and actors often fail to get Atlanta's city-with-a-small-town-vibe and non-twangy Southern dialect correct. One exception was Designing Women, who portrayed Atlanta and its dialect almost perfect even though the series was filmed in Los Angeles.
DESIGNING WOMEN
Designing Women, the hit television show about the lives of four Southern women in an Atlanta interior design firm premiered in 1986 and still airs today in reruns on Lifetime.
Just don't waste your time looking for Julia Sugarbaker's home in Buckhead where the show takes place. The exterior of Sugarbaker & Associates Interior Design is actually The Villa Marre, a Victorian mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas where Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the show's creator, producer and writer is from.
The exterior of Suzanne Sugarbaker's home is the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, although the Georgia Governor's Mansion on W. Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta is frequently shown many times before and after commercial-breaks.
MORE ATLANTAWOOD
From the 1970s to the 1990s, most productions shot in Georgia were period pieces about the Old South like Roots, Glory, and Driving Miss Daisy.
Recently, however, moviegoers have begun to recognize Atlanta as a contemporary city. Tyler Perry, for example, has used Atlanta as the backdrop for most of his movies. Perry recently made history when he became the first African American ever to open his own major film and TV studio, Tyler Perry Studios, in Delta's old Atlanta headquarters.
Many of the Hollywood productions shot in Georgia are filmed at RiverWood Studios, 25 miles south of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The studios are helping redevelop 142-year-old Senoia, Georgia nearby.
Home to over 22 movies and television shows over the past 10 years, Fried Green Tomatoes was filmed there in 1991 and most recently, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.
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