The Woman In Red - Teddy's House
Then … Teddy arrives home in his Mitsubishi Tredia and is seen here about to climb the steps to his front door at 720 Steiner Street in the Alamo Square neighborhood of San Francisco.
… and Now, the house is one of the famous Painted Ladies, aka the Seven Sisters, facing Alamo Square Park. The house at far left is the original home of Matthew Kavanaugh, the builder of the iconic row - note that it’s styled differently from the other six. 720 Steiner is the only house in the row whose steps are on the right; perhaps Mr. Kavanaugh wanted to distance himself from his neighbor’s comings and goings?
… in 1978 … several movies over the years filmed scenes at one of these homes including Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978 whose leading lady Brooke Adams’ character also lived at 720 Steiner (see her below about to walk up the front steps and note that its basement hadn’t yet been converted into a garage). Director Phillip Kauffman’s better composition of his shot captured all 6 of the similarly styled Victorians.
Another name for the houses is Postcard Row because of their ubiquitous presence on postcards like this one.
Teddy’s daughter Missie, (Kyra Stempel) lets him in. In this shot of them in the lobby we see a vestibule between it and the front door…
… which tells us that the interiors were not filmed at 720 Steiner. In the photo below taken in the real 720 Steiner living room the front door can be seen on the left. No vestibule there, it’s a completely different spatial layout.
Chuckles from the movie audience are understandable when Teddy meet’s his daughter’s boyfriend, Shelley (Michael Zorek) who, as we will later see, has a thing going on with Teddy’s wife.