“There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Author unknown
5th Avenue Girl 1939
…And Justice for All 1979
Auntie Mame 1958
Bates Motel
Battleship Potemkin 1925
Blackmail 1929 – a view repeated in Vertigo
Bojangles and Temple
Brady staircase
Brigitte Bardot
Buster Keaton
Cabaret 1972
Cat People 1942
Caught 1949
Cinderella 1950
City Lights 1931
Blackmail 1929
Close to My Heart 1951
Crawford by Hurrell
Devlin
Dial “M” For Murder 1954
Double Indemnity 1944
Dracula 1931
Elizabeth Taylor
Filming A Matter of Life and Death aka Stairway to Heaven 1946
Filming “Cheeck to Cheek” – Top Hat 1935
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
Fred Munster intro
Gaslight 1944
Kelly in Paris
Gene Tierney
Gene Kelly
Frankenstein 1931
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953
Harold Lloyd Estate
Harold Lloyd – movie scene unknown
Harriet Craig 1950
He Ran All the Way 1951
Neff sees Phyllis
Hedy Lamarr
Hitchcock
Horror of Dracula 1958
How Green Was My Valley wedding 1941
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte 1964
I Love Lucy – The Courtroom
It’s a Wonderful Life
Joan Crawford
Kubrick Photograph – NYC 1940s
Las Abandonadas 1945
Leave Her To Heaven
Leave Her!
Lucy in a fashion show
George Bailey
Suddenly Last Summer 1959
Lupe Velez
Marion’s sister in the Bates Motel
Mildred gets slapped
Swing Time
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
Henry Higgins
My Fair Lady 1964
My Little Chickadee 1940
Night of the Eagle 1962
Norma descends
Mildred Pierce 1945
Nosferatu 1922
Notorious Grant
Now Voyager “before”
Poor Blanche
Rear Window 1954
Looking down at Rhett
Rocky 1976
Roman Holiday 1953
Romancing the flower girl
Scarlett
Shadow of a Doubt 1943
Shirley Temple
Sinatra and Gardner
Some Like it Hot 1959
Sophia Loren
The Little Tramp in City Lights 1931
Strangers on the stairs
Swing Time
Talk of the Town 1942
The Ape Man 1943
The Black Cat 1934
The Canterville Ghost 1944
Some Like it Hot 1959
Now, Voyager 1942
The Dame and her anklet
The Desmond staircase
The Exorcist 1973
The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942
Don Corleone arrives home from the hospital
The Haunted House 1921
The Haunting 1963
The Heiress 1949
The Housemaid 1960
The Little Colonel 1935
The Little Foxes 1941
The Lodger 1927
The Mummy’s Ghost 1944
The Munsters
The Music Box 1932
The Night of the Hunter 1950
The Seven Year Itch 1955
The Shining 1980
The Shop Around the Corner 1940
The Show Off 1926
The Spiral Staircase 1946
The Stevens house
The Suspect 1944
The Third Man 1949
The Uninvited 1944
The Untouchables 1987
Tomorrow is Forever 1946
Vertigo 1958
The Seven Year Itch 1955
Witness for the Prosecution 1957
Written on the Wind 1956
Cagney as George M. Cohan
Ziegfeld Girl 1941
Out Of The Past 1947
Once upon a screen... 
Fabulous selection!
Thanks, Vienna!
That’s what I call a good time. Looking at all those stairs and not moving from my chair. The following quotes always come to my mind when the escalators aren’t running.
“Charge!” – Teddy in “Arsenic and Old Lace”
“Stairs, my old enemy.” – Po in “King Fu Panda 2”
:0D Love those!! After a while it’s difficult to remember what’s been included in these collections, but they’re fun to do.
Wow…I never realized how many iconic stairways there were in films. Horror, comedy, dramatic entrances, dancing – great collection!
Thanks! There are many more I didn’t even include as you can imagine. It’s fun to think about how stairs were used through all those genres – as menace, comedy, etc.
This is a nice reminder of how important an innocuous thing as a staircase can be in film. Of course, the mother of all staircases – from The Magnificent Ambersons – is missing (well, sort of – a piece of the staircase was used in the film Cat People, which is on the list).
Tam
Anyone classic movie fan worth his/her salt would’ve taken me to task about The Amerberson staircase. 🙂 I didn’t forget to include it, but rather couldn’t quite get a good image on the laptop I used for this. Since you reminded me I may have to look again on my own laptop.