SISTER CARRIE was shot on location in the United States, Canada, and France.
The film's jailhouse and factory sequences were collected in the Old Sheriff's House and Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, from which John Dillinger escaped in 1934.
A fantasy sequence of dancing "alternate Carries," choreographed by members of Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, is set beneath the Tiffany dome of the Grand Army of the Republic in Chicago's Cultural Center.
In Paris, sequences were filmed at Notre-Dame Cathedral in the days before it was seriously damaged and closed due to fire.
Transitional sequences were filmed at the Eurotas River below Sparta, Greece, where Helen of Troy was thought to have been conceived, and at Delphi, Greece, at the ruins of the residence of Pythia, its legendary Oracle.
Additional images for the film were collected at the graves of Puccini (Viareggio, Italy), Verdi (Milan), and Leonard Cohen (Montréal, Québec).
The climactic sequence, a dance of mourning for Carrie, was filmed in a wheatfield near Auvers-sur-Oise, France, where Vincent Van Gogh is thought to have spent his final day.
Cinematographic tableaux in Sister Carrie:
. New York Movie (Edward Hopper)
. Rédemption (Julius Stewart)
. Flaming June (Frederic Leighton)
. Paris Street, Rainy Day (Gustave Caillebotte)
. Imagen de Yagul (Ana Mendieta)
. Suzanne in Contortion (Joyce Tenneson)
. The Church at Auvers (Vincent Van Gogh)
. Wheatfield with Crows (Vincent Van Gogh)
