See historic sights in "No Way to Treat a Lady"

Today I watched the 1967 thriller film No Way to Treat a Lady starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, & George Segal.  Rod Steiger plays a fictional owner of a Broadway house, whose fixation upon his deceased mother, a former Broadway star, leads him to commit a string of serial killings of middle-aged women living alone. 

The movie was filmed on location throughout New York from June to September 1967, and there are many noteworthy sights such as dining at Sardi's, passing by the St James theater with Hello Dolly! on the marquee, seeing a billboard advertising Ingrid Bergman & Colleen Dewhurst in More Stately Mansions, & one scene set in the bar of Joe Allen's - which is presented as somewhere cheap prostitutes could be found hanging about.

Lee Remick is shown working as a tourist guide at Lincoln Center, while construction of Julliard is ongoing. 

I found this website with pictures from the film:

http://onthesetofnewyork.com/nowaytotreatalady.html

I don't know all the theaters well enough to be certain which one is used as the one supposedly owned by Steiger's character where a final showdown takes place.  They mention it near 44th & 6th so I'm thinking it may be what is now known as the Hudson.  Unfortunately,  there don't seem to be any pictures on that above website.

The murders on the film are not gruesome or gory, so I reccommend it to others with an interest in sight seeing through mid-60's New York.

 

I enjoyed looking at the pictures.  I did not know that The Merv Griffin Show studio was in the theatre district.   On certain days, that would have been a fun stage door.  He had all the legends on his show.  BTW, Lee Remick looked gorgeous in those pictures.