A Woman of Paris
MacArthur Park has been used as a filming location numerous times. In "Hard Luck" (1921) Buster Keaton eludes the police by posing with a statue in the park. In " A Woman of Paris" (1923) Charles Chaplin uses the north side of the park and the Ansonia in two scenes. MacArthur Park/Westlake Park and its boats figure prominently as the scene of a murder in the 1949 film noir "Killer Bait" (also known as "Too Late for Tears") with Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea and Arthur Kennedy. In 1973 'The Phantom of Herald Square' an episode of the t.v horror anthology series 'Circle of Fear' included a significant number of scenes filmed within the park. A scene from the 1977 TV movie "The Amazing Spider-Man" was filmed here. A scene from the television series Dragnet features MacArthur Park in 1967 titled "The Bank Examiner Swindle." In the episode of "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-air" "72 Hours", Carlton Banks plans to conduct illegal sales of counterfeit merchandise in the park, hoping to prove his street cred to Will and his friends.