 The outdoor filming was done in New York City and the interiors were  done in Hollywood. The latter included an exact duplicate of a Third  Avenue bar, P.J. Clarkes, on Stage 5 at Paramount Pictures,  complete down to the dusty stuffed cat on the top of the payphone.  Ray Milland (qv), who starred in the film, tells that for one week  every afternoon at five oclock the door of the set would open, a  man would walk up to the bar (whether filming was going on or not),  order a straight bourbon, chat about the weather, plunk down fifty  cents, and stroll out. It was the writer Robert Benchley (qv), who  was homesick for New York.