Sweet Home Alabama (film)
Melanie, in her wedding gown in the rain, finds Jake planting lightning rods in the beach to create more sand sculptures. She tells him they are still married, and as they kiss, sheriff Wade "arrests" them and takes them to Jake's mother's bar where their friends and family are waiting. They finally get their first dance as husband and wife, to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama." A mid-credits sequence shows that they have a daughter, Melanie continues to thrive as a designer and Jake opens a "Deep South Glass" franchise in New York. Andrew is engaged to marry a girl named Erin Vanderbilt.Although centered in a fictional version of the town of Pigeon Creek, near a fictional version of Greenville, Alabama, the film was mostly shot in Georgia. The Carmichael Plantation, which Melanie tells the reporter is her childhood home, is the Oak Hill Berry Museum, a historic landmark in Georgia which is on the campus of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.
Alabama Theatre (Myrtle Beach)
The Theatre has held concerts for about 24 years. In '95, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Billy Ray Cyrus played at the Alabama Theatre. Alabama (its namesake, since they started on the Bowery in Myrtle Beach) played there in '96 and '13. Kenny Chesney played there in 2000 (He filmed the music video for "Anything But Mine" in Myrtle). The Oak Ridge Boys played there in '03. Kenny Rogers played there for 2 nights in '07. Anne Murray from Canada was there in '08. Little Richard (from Macon) in '09, Canadian Gordon Lightfoot in '10, Aaron Tippin (from the Greenville area) in '12, Charlie Daniels Band (from Wilmington, NC) in '13, Merle Haggard in '13 (he died in '16), Three Dog Night in 14, Martina McBride in '14, comedian Bill Engvall in '14, Loretta Lynn in '15, and LeAnn Rimes in '16.