Inside Look at Hallmark’s A Biltmore Christmas

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Here’s your inside look at the Hallmark romantic comedy A Biltmore Christmas, written by Marcy Holland.  A Biltmore Christmas Cast:  Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha, Mary Beth McDonough, Colton Little and David Alexander  Stream A Biltmore Christmas November 26, 2023 on Hallmark!

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00:00 [music playing]

00:03 Hi, I'm Christopher Palaha, and Hallmark and I

00:06 would like to take you on an exclusive tour of Biltmore

00:09 House, America's largest private home.

00:12 Come on.

00:13 Now, the first stop on our tour is the tapestry gallery.

00:16 And I'm talking in hushed tones, because if you look all the way

00:18 to the back of the room, we're actually filming a scene

00:20 right now for Biltmore Christmas.

00:22 But I want to show you this room first.

00:23 Come here.

00:24 The first thing you're going to notice

00:26 is a beautiful baby grand piano and then these three

00:27 massive 1,500 Flemish tapestries.

00:31 And this room boasts not one, but two fireplaces.

00:34 And if you look all the way to the back,

00:36 you'll see George Vanderbilt and his wife Cornelia.

00:38 George is the man who built this palace.

00:40 Now, in a Biltmore Christmas, the Hallmark movie,

00:43 the cute meet between my character and Lucy

00:46 happens in this room.

00:47 It's called the Winter Garden.

00:49 The Winter Garden was George Vanderbilt's

00:51 sort of inside greenhouse.

00:54 And if you look up, you'll see the glass ceilings.

00:56 And his daughter had her wedding breakfast right here.

00:59 Welcome to the Billiard Room.

01:00 In a Biltmore Christmas, Lucy and Winson

01:03 come through this room on the tour of the house.

01:06 And this is sort of where the men mostly, but the women too,

01:09 would come in for a little after dinner drink, a little cigar,

01:13 a little light conversation.

01:15 It's just a beautiful room.

01:16 And the next stop on the tour is the banquet hall.

01:19 A lot of scenes that were shot here,

01:20 particularly one between my character Jack and Lucy,

01:23 some snappy little 1940s style banter.

01:26 Excuse me.

01:28 Now, here at the Biltmore house, they

01:29 have a 35-foot tall Fraser fir that's grown specifically

01:33 for Biltmore House.

01:34 And every year, they chop this beauty down,

01:38 and they bring in a fresh, brand new live tree.

01:41 And let's see if we can find the pickle, shall we?

01:45 Now, that means good luck for you and me.

01:49 We found the pickle.

01:50 Let's go see another room.

01:51 We are in the library.

01:53 This room, if you were here, would blow your mind.

01:56 It's a two-story library.

01:58 George Vanderbilt built it to house all of his books.

02:00 He's got first editions totaling in the thousands.

02:03 There's a globe that's as big as my car in the corner.

02:07 This fireplace happens to be the biggest single fireplace

02:11 in the house, which kind of, I think,

02:12 makes it the single biggest fireplace in the country.

02:15 Look up, and you'll see an entire 13-panel ceiling

02:19 painting painted in the early 1700s by Pellegrini.

02:23 And they literally built the library to accommodate

02:26 the ceiling painting.

02:27 This is such an important room in the story

02:29 of Biltmore Christmas.

02:31 And in it, there's this beautiful Christmas tree

02:33 that is decked up as if it were from 1947.

02:36 It's kind of amazing.

02:38 Oh, no.

02:39 Look at this.

02:39 We're just about out of time.

02:41 I got more rooms to show you.

02:42 Come on.

02:43 Let's go.

02:44 And we are in the final room of the house, which is actually

02:47 the first room that you would meet as a guest.

02:49 Back in the day, this is the grand entry hall.

02:52 This is where the Cinderella moment in the movie happens.

02:55 You look beautiful.

02:57 Thank you.

02:58 Speaking of Cinderella, it's my leading lady,

03:00 Bethany Joy Lenz.

03:02 Hi, everybody.

03:03 So this is the grand entry that Vanderbilts would greet

03:05 their guests, but we're doing our Christmas party scene here.

03:07 May I cut in?

03:08 Yes.

03:09 No.

03:10 Hi.

03:11 It's all very romantic.

03:13 They're calling for me.

03:14 Sorry.

03:15 Ta-ta.

03:17 Now, you be sure to watch "A Biltmore Christmas,"

03:19 and thank you so much for coming on this tour with us

03:21 at Biltmore House.

03:23 I'll see you in the pictures, kid.

03:27 Merry Christmas.

03:27 [music playing]

03:30 (upbeat music)

03:33 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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