 The Rocky Steps are the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They are well known for the role it played in a famous scene in the film Rocky, and also in two of its sequels, Rocky II and Rocky V. Visitors to the museum can often be seen mimicking Rocky's famous run up the front steps. The steps represent the ability of an underdog, or an everyman, to rise to the occasion. A bronze statue of Rocky was briefly placed at the top of the steps for the filming of Rocky III.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ...
Rocky (1976) is a motion picture written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa. ...
Rocky II was the 1979 sequel to Rocky, a motion picture in which an unknown boxer had been given a chance to go the distance with the World Heavyweight Champion. ...
Rocky V is the fifth film in the Rocky film saga. ...
Rocky III (1982) is the third installment in the Rocky movie series, starring Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, and Talia Shire. ...
Philadelphia Culture Tourists and residents alike still make the run up the museum's front steps, the Rocky Steps, mimicking the famous scene where Rocky himself sprints up the steps at the end of his training run. Many people visit the steps, but never make it inside to see the museum.
Some TV shows have copied the "Rocky Run", an example being "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." During the 1996 Olympic Torch Relay, Philadelphia native Dawn Staley was chosen to run up the museum steps. [1] The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996, featuring Will Smith in a fish-out-of-water tale of a streetwise Philadelphia teenager sent to live with rich relatives in a Bel-Air, California mansion. ...
Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an US-American basketball player and coach. ...
In 2004, Presidential candidate John Kerry ended his pre-convention campaign at the foot of the steps before going to Boston to accept his party's nomination for President. [2]
The steps are the backdrop each Fourth of July fo the Independence Day celebration, and are also faetured whenever a concert like Live 8 is held. The steps will be featured again in Rocky VI. The statue will return to the foot of the steps in 2007. Official Live 8 DVD. Released 7th/8th November 2005 Live 8 was a series of benefit concerts that took place in July 2005, in the G8 nations and South Africa. ...
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Bronze statue
 A bronze statue of Rocky, called "ROCKY", was commissioned by Sylvester Stallone and created by A. Thomas Schomberg in 1983. Three statues were created and one was placed on the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the filming of Rocky III. After filming was complete, a furious debate erupted in Philadelphia between the Art Museum and the City's Art Commission over the meaning of "art." Claiming the statue was not "art" but rather a "movie prop" the city considered various alternate locations and settled upon the front of the Wachovia Spectrum in South Philadelphia. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 490 KB) This image was originally posted to Flickr as Rocky. ...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ...
Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France. ...
In the performing arts, a prop (the common short form for the more formal property) is anything that is carried by a performer during the performance. ...
Wachovia Spectrum The Wachovia Spectrum (formerly known as the Spectrum, CoreStates Spectrum and First Union Spectrum) is an indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
It was later returned to the Art Museum where it was used in the filming of Rocky V, as well as Mannequin and Philadelphia. Afterward it was again moved to the front of the Spectrum. The statue was replaced with a simple set of footprints reading "Rocky." Rocky V is the fifth film in the Rocky film saga. ...
Mannequin is a 1987 film starring Kim Cattrall, Andrew McCarthy, Meshach Taylor, James Spader, G.W. Bailey, and Estelle Getty. ...
Philadelphia is a 1993 movie written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. ...
The third of the three statues was listed on eBay with a starting bid of US$5,000,000 to raise funds for the International Institute for Sport and Olympic History. It failed to sell and was listed again for US$3 million; after receiving only one bid, which turned out to be fraudulent, it has been relisted several times for US$1 million. [3] eBay Inc. ...
The statues weighed 2 tons each and stood about ten feet tall.
See also Sylvester Stallone in The Contender Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City) is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ...
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