Life and work
Barbara Bel Geddes was an American actress. Born: 31 October 1922. Died: 8 August 2005. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United States.
Actor · 1922–2005
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes was an American actress. Born on 31 October 1922, this profile follows Barbara Bel Geddes through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Vertigo (1958). The location trail reaches Fort Point, Legion of Honor and Mission San Francisco de Asís, with existing stories in San Francisco. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
← All peopleFollow the geography ↓Vertigo · Fort Point
Barbara Bel Geddes is credited as cast member on Vertigo. The work’s existing location story leads to Fort Point. Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate is where Scottie rescues Madeleine from the bay, pairing the Civil War fort with the film’s most decisive plunge.
THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY
A life on the map.
Explore 5 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
Fort Point ↗︎
Vertigo — Fort Point
Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate is where Scottie rescues Madeleine from the bay, pairing the Civil War fort with the film’s most decisive plunge.
201 Marine Dr, San Francisco, CA 94129
Open street map ↗︎Legion of Honor ↗︎
Vertigo — Legion of Honor
At the Legion of Honor, Madeleine studies the portrait of Carlotta while Scottie watches her; museum looking becomes the grammar of obsession.
100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121
Open street map ↗︎Mission San Francisco de Asís ↗︎
Vertigo — Mission San Francisco de Asís
Mission Dolores and its cemetery give Madeleine’s invented past an address, while the active sacred site requires restrained visiting.
3321 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94114
Open street map ↗︎Golden Gate Bridge ↗︎
Vertigo — Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is both orientation and threat: the city’s most recognisable line placed above the water where the mystery turns physical.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA
Open street map ↗︎Union Square ↗︎
Vertigo — Union Square
Union Square returns Scottie’s pursuit to hotels, flowers and shop windows—the public surfaces from which he tries to reconstruct a woman.
333 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94108
Open street map ↗︎IN THE STORY1922-10-31 2005-08-08
Born 31 October 1922
Died 8 August 2005
WORKS
Culture, connected.
Follow the work through its real places.
Vertigo ↗︎
Alfred Hitchcock
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
San Francisco ↗︎
Suspense on the waterfront, chases on impossible grades and music built in shared rooms.
Vertigo ↗︎
Spiral: follow her, and find which places were never there.