Top Five Homes That Got Their 15 Minutes Of Fame

Showtime has just released a new drama, “Billions,” wherein U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king (and crook), Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, who (of course) has a house in the Hamptons. In honor of this, we decided to pay our respects to some of the many Hamptons digs that have been graced by Hollywood. Let’s just hope the fame hasn’t gone to their heads. Annnnd, action!

In this romantic, science fiction dramedy, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play a couple that undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship crumbles. And this beach house starlet in the background is featured in various scenes, including when their memories start to fall apart, and when Winslet’s character whispers, “Meet me in Montauk.” Psst: the house is actually in Wainscott.

A Quogue manse hit the big screen in this movie, written and directed by Woody Allen. Cate Blanchett plays a rich but troubled Manhattan socialite, and Alec Baldwin portrays her former husband, a wealthy (and crooked) businessman. Ms. Blanchett’s character, Jasmine, has flashbacks to when the couple vacationed at their Hamptons home, which turns out were shot in Quogue. Blanchett also won an Academy Award for Best Actress for this role. No word on what the house won.

Meet a high wattage Southampton home that played a lead role in this romantic comedy starring Dianne Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Nicholson plays a perpetual playboy with a fondness for younger women, and Keaton is the woman whose daughter he starts off dating but ultimately falls for instead. The majority of the movie takes place inside the home. Overlooking the ocean, this traditional shingle-style ingénue was also the second top seller of the fourth quarter in 2014, coming in at a cool $41 million.

Dianne Keaton also stars in this Woody Allen classic, playing the neurotic girlfriend of New York comedian Alvy Singer—played by none other than Mr. Allen. And this kitchen made it to the silver screen, offering a backdrop to one of the best scenes in the movie—a.k.a. the lobster scene, where the couple struggles to put some snippy crustaceans in a pot. It just so happens to have been shot in the home of East Hampton Star Publisher Helen Rattray!

This is one of the most famous (and infamous) houses on the East End, having once belonged to eccentric mother-daughter duo Edith Bouvier Beale and Little Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. A documentary by the Maysles brothers spotlights their bizarre world—living in a decaying mansion in an affluent East Hampton neighborhood, alongside a battalion of wild animals. The house later received a full makeover after being purchased by Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn.