Hollywood on Sutton Place

Ever on the quest to spot Hollywood movies that have been shot or have taken place on Sutton Place, I was watching the old noir thriller "Sorry, Wrong Number" the other day and, lo and behold, I found out that the apartment of rich heiress Barbara Stanwyck in the film is on our favorite street.



She's bedridden throughout the whole movie on a hot summer night when she overhears a plot to murder her on a phone call party line.



There are a couple of angles where you see an open picture window...and through that window you see a bridge. This can only be the Queensboro bridge as it's the only bridge in view of Sutton Place.



Therefore, based on this, her apartment must be in 1 Sutton Place South, probably the swankiest building in the neighborhood. This would make sense given the story's plot.

1 Sutton Place South

I read somewhere once that if you can't live on Park Avenue then the next best thing is this address. That would put her bedroom on the Southern exposure of the building on a high floor (maybe the penthouse?) Here's a picture of the top of the building and the bridge in the distance.



Now, I'm sure this picture was made on a Hollywood soundstage and La Stanwyck came nowhere near Sutton Place and the view through the window is merely a filmed backdrop, but it does look like the production designers got it right.