A while back ago, I read that this staircase only existed in one short, but later I saw it in a 2nd Laurel and Hardy silent short.
Sometime later was watching a Three Stooges and they also were trying to get an object up this staircase.
I do not remember the post, but I thought I saw a color photo of the site today and it is still there.
I seemed to have found it myself:
Hats Off was the silent film I thought I saw--they say it is Lost, the thing I remember was there was a lady in a large hat walking above the steps in the still. Anyway, to find out more about the steps visit your local library or read below:
The steps which served as the location are still in existence in Los Angeles, California. 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. (Google Maps link to the location.)
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.
The staircase used in the 1941 Three Stooges film, An Ache in Every Stake, while resembling the one in The Music Box and used to similar comic effect, was at a different location.
San Francisco is known for its hills, but Los Angeles has a few formidable hills of its own which have figured in comedy films. In addition to the two described above, the apparent "skyscraper" in the famous Harold Lloyd picture Safety Last! was filmed on a structure that was located on a steeply sloping street near downtown, which made Lloyd's stunts look much more dangerous than they were.
[edit] Film remakes
The film is a partial remake of their 1927 silent short Hats Off, which was filmed at the same location and is today considered a lost film. Hats Off was itself remade in the same location in a film called It's Your Move starring Edgar Kennedy in 1945.
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