Life and work
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. Born: 16 July 1907. Died: 20 January 1990. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United States.
Actor · 1907–1990
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. Born on 16 July 1907, this profile follows Barbara Stanwyck through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Double Indemnity (1944). The location trail reaches Pershing Square, Paramount Pictures Studios and Hollywood & Western Building. 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.
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Double Indemnity · Pershing Square
Barbara Stanwyck is credited as cast member on Double Indemnity. The work’s existing location story leads to Pershing Square. The opening looks toward Pershing Square from the surrounding downtown streets. Buildings have changed, so the photograph offers present-day context rather than a frame match.
Double Indemnity — credits ↗︎Double Indemnity · Pershing Square ↗︎
THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY
A life on the map.
Explore 3 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
Hollywood & Western Building ↗︎
Filming location · Lola’s drop-off
Hollywood and Western plays the corner described as Vermont and Franklin. The building behind the encounter helps reveal the film’s quietly rearranged geography.
5500 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
Open street map ↗︎Paramount Pictures Studios ↗︎
Production site · the noir interiors
Paramount stages held key interiors, including the apartment and market scenes. A studio visit explores production history; the original sets are not preserved as a visitor attraction.
5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
Open street map ↗︎Pershing Square ↗︎
Filming area · the opening downtown drive
The opening looks toward Pershing Square from the surrounding downtown streets. Buildings have changed, so the photograph offers present-day context rather than a frame match.
532 S Olive Street, Los Angeles
Open street map ↗︎IN THE STORY1907-07-16 1990-01-20
Born 16 July 1907
Died 20 January 1990
Explore a shared connection.
WORKS
Culture, connected.
Follow the work through its real places.
Double Indemnity ↗︎
Billy Wilder
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
Los Angeles ↗︎
Follow a scene into the hills. A song onto the Strip. A story all the way to the ocean.
Double Indemnity ↗︎
Downtown streets and a studio lot expose the careful construction of Billy Wilder’s Los Angeles noir.
PEOPLE IN THE STORY
Creative connections.
Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.
Edward G. Robinson ↗︎
Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-American actor. Born on 12 December 1893, this profile follows Edward G. Robinson through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Double Indemnity (1944). The location trail reaches Pershing Square, Paramount Pictures Studios and Hollywood & Western Building. 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.
Fred MacMurray ↗︎
Fred MacMurray was an American actor. Born on 30 August 1908, this profile follows Fred MacMurray through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Double Indemnity (1944). The location trail reaches Pershing Square, Paramount Pictures Studios and Hollywood & Western Building. 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.