Posing at the White Palace

Our group of walkers in the Susan G Komen Walk for the Cure today stop and pose in front of the White Palace restarant.   It’s actual name is the White Knight.   It was the film location for the 1990 movie, White Palace, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader along with Jason Alexander and Kathy Bates.  It is located at 18^th and Olive in St. Louis.  

James Spader plays Max, a 27 year old young widower who meets an older (40’s) greasy spoon waitress, Nora (Susan Sarandon), from the other side of the tracks and can’t believe he falls for her.  Neither can his friends. 

Before all this movie stuff, the place was part of a small chain called Super Sandwich Shops.  For the movie it was transformed into the White Palace.  The name comes from a novel (White Palace, by Glenn Savan, a St. Louis author).  In the novel it is a White Castle.  They couldn’t use White Castle in the film so they changed it to White Palace.  After the filming they turned it back over to the owner but wouldn’t let him use the name White Palace, hence the White Knight name. 

I’ve eaten there a couple of times.  There are some movie posters and memorabilia inside.

P.S.  It’s not a bad movie at all.  I’d recommend it if you haven’t seen it.  It was nominated for a Golden Globe, but I don’t think it won.  One reviewer described it as “sexually energetic”.  I agree. Not for kids.

Almost the entire film was filmed in St. Louis as you can see from the start of the film below.  The clip includes the White Palace restaurant scene where Max meets Nora.  (It comes at 5:18 into the clip)

 As a side note, in the scene where Max confronts Nora about his missing burgers, the character who interrupts them is played by the author, Glen Savan.

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