“It like stops people in their tracks. Somehow ‘The Godfather’ comes up, and people are obsessed.”
Lake Tahoe ‘the key to making this movie’
“My father, John DeMaria, was a friend of Coppola in [the] North Beach area of San Francisco and had sold him a building,” Phillip DeMaria told SFGATE via email. “I always heard that my dad was a catalyst in putting it all together.” “You know, I didn’t love my experience working on the first ‘Godfather,’ and I had a lot of bad memories about the picture,” Coppola said. “The idea of doing it again, being involved with those executives and [producer] Bob Evans was too much to even think of.”
Coppola eventually got his way on the title, too. Because of that, he ended up inadvertently inventing the modern sequel and the tentpole movie franchise — and it was the first movie to use the words “Part II” in the title. Michael Corleone and Kay Adams played by Al Pacino and Diane Keaton, with their movie family, James Gounaris, who played Anthony Corleone, and Lake Tahoe local BJ Topol, who played Mary Corleone.“Filming of Paramount’s sequel to the Oscar-winning movie ‘The Godfather’ began here recently under conditions of secrecy worthy of the Mafia itself,” the Boston Globe reported with a Lake Tahoe dateline Dec. 19, 1973.
While rumors of real organized crime ties informing the shoot in Lake Tahoe were never substantiated, the buzz of a major film landing on the shores of the lake continues to strike up conversation in the Tahoe Basin today.
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