The Music Box - Location

Location

The steps which served as the location still exist in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, near the "Laurel and Hardy Park". The "Music Box" steps are a public staircase, and do not lead to a single residence (as in the film), but instead connect Vendome Street (at the base of the hill) with Descanso Drive (at the top of the hill). They are located near the neighborhood where Sunset Boulevard and Silver Lake Boulevard intersect. The address is 923-935 Vendome Street near the intersection of Del Monte Street. A plaque was set into one of the lower steps between 1993 and 1995 at 34°4′59″N 118°16′30.50″W / 34.08306°N 118.275139°W / 34.08306; -118.275139.

The "Music Box" steps can be seen in the background of an earlier Charley Chase silent comedy produced at the Hal Roach Studios, Isn't Life Terrible? (1925), during a scene in which Chase is trying to sell fountain pens to Fay Wray.

Contrary to popular belief, the long staircase is not the same one used by The Three Stooges in their 1941 film An Ache in Every Stake. Those stairs (147 steps in length) are approximately two miles northeast, located at 2212 Edendale Place in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.