From 2008:
The Old Mission, which was built in 1791 and is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco, makes a very different impression when filled with ordinary churchgoers than when you see Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak passing through it on the way to the graveyard in back. In Vertigo it is subtly glamorized, if only by the presence of famous faces. In regular use it is no less beautiful, but also homelier—in every sense of the word….
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