The Best of Everything
Joan Crawford Geography
Movie Sets
Warners Lot (Stage 24) • Mildred Pierce • Sudden Fear • Johnny Guitar • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Warner Brothers Lot (Stage 24)
Los Angeles
Above: Stage 24 of the Warner Bros. lot, where Mildred Pierce was filmed. Thanks to Dan S., who took these shots in February 2013.
1143 N. Jackson, Glendale, CA
Mildred's Glendale home as it appears in 2013. Thanks to Norman for the photo.
San Francisco
2800 Scott St @ Green
I took the 4 shots at this address in July 2006.
I took these 6 pictures during my July 2006 visit to San Francisco
This is the Big Damn Hill (Green Street) that I (with my
smoker's lungs and pitifully weak flesh) had to climb to get to the Myra/Lester
home in "Sudden Fear."
The house is at the left of the picture---2800
Scott, at the intersection of Green.
Myra's final-scene trek from home to nemesis Irene's Tamalpais apartment (1201 Greenwich @ Hyde) is about a mile east down Green, then to the left.
Front view of the Myra/Lester house, standing on Scott Street.
View of the
house from Scott Street. There's a blue eagle above the door, and a plaque
to the left of the door reading "Wisma Indonesia."
This building
is now an Indonesian cultural center (NOT the consulate---which is at 1111 Columbus).
Sign in front of 2800 Scott (pictured to right). It's a wonder, with all of my wheezing after that hill,
that the cops weren't immediately dispensed to this location for said "suspicious activities"!
Tamalpais Apartments (1201 Greenwich @ Hyde)
In "Sudden Fear," this was where Lester's floozy Irene (Gloria Grahame) lived,
and where the final
showdown between Myra and Lester took place.
Click here
or on the photo to see 12 large photos of this location, shot by me in May 2025.
Sedona, Arizona
(See also 3 large 2014 photos by Mike O'Hanlon of the Sedona landscape and Johnny Guitar plaque.)
(map and bottom two photos courtesy of the Johnny Guitar Society site)
Sedona is located 120 miles north of Phoenix. In 1953, while JG was being filmed, it was a town of 1500.
The numbers on this map show where various scenes from the movie were shot:
(1) Site of the hideout cabin.
(2) Site of the town.
(3) Entrance of the waterfall hideout entrance.
(4) Site of the wooden bridge.
(5) Vienna's casino.
A Sedona set shortly after "JG" had wrapped. This site is now known as "Posse Grounds."
See photo below left for what the site looks like today.
The site of the town scenes (#2 on the map above) is now the Sedona West residential subdivision.
Many streets, such as the one shown at the left above, are named after movies filmed in the town.
The waterfall entrance to the gang's secret hideout (above right photo) was actually an irrigation tunnel running from Oak Creek.
(See #3 on the map above.) A firehose was set up over the tunnel to create the waterfall.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Los Angeles
The Hudson Sisters' house. 172 McCadden Place. Photo courtesy of Louis.
Two shots of 172 McCadden Place. Photos courtesy of Danny.
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