Lots has changed in the 50 years since the movie Niagara was filmed. I could post all sorts of pictures of today’s Niagara Falls versus the Niagara Falls of 1952/1953. But I’ll only post one thing because you can be right there…
One of the main locations in the movie is Rainbow Cabins. There is a little stone “hut” that is beside the cabins that is right next to the gorge. The following is from page 7 of George Bailey’s Marilyn Monroe and the Making of “Niagara”:
Art Jolley… employed 25 carpenters for the construction of the imitation “Rainbow Cabins.” The cabins were built on the edge of the Niagara River opposite the American Falls in QUeen Victoria Park near our existing stone lookout called Inspiration Point (the lookout was removed for safety reasons by The Niagara Parks Commission several years ago). However, a similar lookout called Rambler’s Rest is still located north of the former Inspiration Point lookout.
If it wasn’t for that explanation, I would have thought the existing structure is the one that was used in the movie. Here are a few pictures:
This picture is scanned from page 6 of George Bailey’s Marilyn Monroe and the Making of “Niagara”. The caption to the picture is “Niagara Parks crew remove sod in order that Rainbow Cabins can be built”. Photo by Edwin Hodge
This is a screen capture from the movie. Jean Peters is walking towards her cabin and you can see the lookout and the American Falls in the background.
This is a picture taken today. If you look closely at the roof, you’ll see that it is angled slightly differently. The current lookout also looks narrower.
So apparently the first two pictures are of Inspiration Point which no longer exists. The last picture is of Rambler’s Rest which is located north of where Inspiration Point was.
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Is it still there? I can’t find a website listing for it and we’d love to go there
It was when I was 7,8 years old when I saw this movie in Ginza with my father , I was terrified when he kept blowing the horn of the car with a twig, and I shut my eyes tightly closed when the motor boat was tumbling down to the bottom of the Fall.
A year ago, I bought DVD and saw it again, revived my horrified memory, but not so horrified now I ‘m this age.:-)
About this rainbow cabin of your post, it is highly interesting, and I want to
thank you for your pictures and comments.
Thanks for the posting on the fictional “Rainbow Cabins”. We’re watching Niagara and were wondering if those cabins were real. Contemplating plans for our 25th anniversary.
Yes, believe it or not. I met Marilyn Monroe in June 1952, when she was on the set, filming Niagara. She was only about 26 years old and not yet that famous, I was 24 and liked what I saw. (Can you blame me?)
The movie, premiered in New York in Jan 1953, started her meteoric career in movies.
i bet if someone actually named their hotel “Rainbow Cabins” they would make a killing. people would be very disappointed when they arrived, though.
I wonder if people wanted to stay at “Honeymoon Haven” after watching Superman II as well?
I was very young when that came out, but had already been to Niagara enough to know that wasn’t right! 
Regarding “that wasn’t right,” how about the vendor cart at Table Rock in Superman II???
I just wanted to say my husbond and I went Niagara Falls back in 95 it was so nice and we went to where the Rainbow Cabins was Filmed It was so Beautful .I live in Port Huron with my family , just want to say how nice it is right across the river .
Manfred, you are soo lucky to have met her. I honestly don’t know what I would say if I had had that wonderful opportunity to have been in your shoes. I am probably without a doubt one of the worlds biggest fans and there is noone else on earth like the sweet, Marilyn. There will never ever be another and no woman alive can ever begin to compare