I've tried to locate it in Manhattan but it's so tricky. So many houses with that configuration of stairs and windows on the Upper West Side. Interestingly, not found on the Upper East Side anywhere.
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The address given in the movie is 51 west 67st. This is less then a block off Central Park West. A one bedroom apartment there today would likely go for over $600k minimum, escrow-wise.
shareTrue, but CC was living in a rental.
My question is why was a doctor living there?
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I know this is only marginally related to the topic, but even after seeing the film about two dozens times, I only just noticed now (when I was watching it tonight) a glaring error in the set. Viewed from the part of the apartment near the street window, you can see out the front door into the hallway, where the doctor's flat is AND within the apartment through to the kitchen. What you'll notice is that the door to the doctor's flat would probably open into Baxter's kitchen, and even if I have miscalculated that, we know in the film that behind Baxter's kitchen is not the doctor's flat, but Baxter's bathroom. Baxter's bedroom also has windows. So where exactly is the doctor's flat?
shareYou're very observant . . . . and logical! Where is the doctor's flat? In the set designer's imagination, that's where!
shareThe Dreyfusses had most likely lived in that building for a coupla decades. They were comfortable, they had no kids (at least none still at home), so why would they move? This is before the advent of Lincoln Center would have driven rents skyhigh, so I doubt they were paying more than $65-$70 a month.
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The doctor's is the middle of three apartments on that floor. From front to rear: Baxter, the doctor, third apt. That door faces Baxter's as seen near the very beginning.
shareIt may have been based on a real building at the time, but there's been a lot of demolishing and rebuilding since.
However, if you go downtown to the corner of Christopher and Hudson, you can still see the red brick building where Lars Thorwald, the Rear Window killer, lived.
However, if you go downtown to the corner of Christopher and Hudson, you can still see the red brick building where Lars Thorwald, the Rear Window killer, lived.
That can't be possible because Rear Window was filmed on a (huge) set at Paramount.
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Oh, I know it was a set (the largest indoor set ever at the time), but the "building" where Thorwald lived is based on an actual apartment building which still stands near the corner of Christopher and Hudson.
How can that be, when it's clear that Thorwald lives on busy 8th Street?
shareNo, it's established that Jeffries lives on West 10th Street, so if Thorwald lives behind the courtyeard, that's Christopher Street.
And if you visit that intersection today, you'll see the brick building which looks just like the one in the film.
My mistake, because I'd forgotten about the address given in the movie. Now you need to admit your mistake, as well. There are two apartment buildings at Christopher and Hudson, an intersection I've crossed countless times, and neither one could geographically be Thorwald's building. If you're talking about the Deco-ish building on the northeast corner, 125 Christopher, there's an architectural resemblance, but that's about it. And because it's L-shaped, facing out on both Christopher and Hudson, it doesn't fit the bill. The fact is that, like all movies of the studio era, the setting of Rear Window is a stylized and fictional version of reality.
shareYes, that is the building I was thinking of (adjacent to the Lucille Lortel theater).
And of course it's not the building in the film which is just a movie set facade. However, as you note, it does resemble the actual building. Hitchcock would have sent an assistant to scout out the location, and had the set designed based on what actual buildings at that sopt looked like.
Yeah, that's the address given, but don't go looking for it. The entire block was a Hollywood set designed by Alexander Trauner.
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