It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock (47 page)
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Authors: Charlotte Chandler
Tags: #Direction & Production, #Film & Video, #Performing Arts, #Motion Picture Producers and Directors - Great Britain, #Hitchcock; Alfred, #Entertainment & Performing Arts, #Great Britain, #Motion Picture Producers and Directors, #Biography & Autobiography, #Individual Director, #Biography
Scarlett O’Hara
Schaefer, George J.
Schnell, Georg
Schüfftan shots
Schünzel, Reinhold
“Schwartz-Metterklume Method, The,”
Scream, The
(Munch)
Seaton, George
Secret Agent
Secret Agent, The
(Conrad)
Segal, Martin E.
Selznick, Daniel
Selznick, David O.
Notorious
sold by
Rebecca
produced by
Spellbound
and
Selznick, Irene Mayer
Selznick, Myron
Sergeant York
Shadow of a Doubt
plot of
Shaffer, Anthony
Shaffer, Peter
Shakespeare, William
Shamley Productions
Shaw, George Bernard
Shayne, Constantine
Sheean, Vincent
Short Night, The
(film project)
Short Night, The
(Kirkbride)
Sidney, Sylvia
Sim, Alastair
Simmons, Jean
Simpson, Helen
Sink the Bismarck
Sjöberg, Alf
Skin Game, The
(film)
Skin Game, The
(Galsworthy)
Sleuth
(Shaffer)
Slezak, Walter
So Long at the Fair
Sons and Lovers
Spellbound
plot of
Selznick as producer of
use of color in
Springer, John
Stafford, Frederick
Stage Fright
Stannard, Eliot
Stanwyck, Barbara
Stefano, Joseph
Stein, Jules
Steinbeck, John
Sternberg, Josef von
Stevens, Gary
Stewart, James
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(1956)
in
Rear Window
in
Rope
in
Vertigo
“Storm Cloud Cantata” (Benjamin)
Strangers on a Train
(film)
plot of
Strangers on a Train
(Highsmith)
Stuart, John
Stuart, Leslie
Student of Prague, The
Subor, Michel
Summers, Virgil
Sunrise
Sunset Boulevard
Suspicion
Swerling, Jo
Taming of the Shrew, The
(Shakespeare)
Tandy, Jessica
Taylor, Gil
Taylor, Rod
Taylor, Samuel A.
Tearle, Godfrey
Tennyson, Penrose
Tester, Desmond
Tey, Josephine
theremin
Thinnes, Roy
39 Steps, The
(Buchan)
39 Steps, The
(film)
plot of
Saboteur
and
North by Northwest
as retellings of
Thomas, Jameson
3—D film process
Three Sisters, The
(Chekhov)
Titanic
To Catch a Thief
(Dodge)
To Catch a Thief
(film)
plot of
Todd, Ann
Todd, Richard
Tomasini, George
Tomlin, Lily
Topaz
(film)
Hitchcock’s war films compared with
plot of
Topaz
(Uris)
Torn Curtain
Townsend, Peter
“Traitor, The” (Maugham)
Transatlantic Pictures
Trevor, Jack
Tripp, June
Tristan und Isolde
(Wagner)
Trouble with Harry, The
Truex, Philip
Truffaut, François
Truman, Ralph
Tschechowa, Olga
UFA (Universum-Film Aktien Gesellschaft)
“Uncle Charlie” (McDonell)
Under Capricorn
(Dane and Simpson)
Under Capricorn
(film)
Universal-MCA
Universal Studios
Hitchcock’s final project at
Hitchcock’s studio-bungalow at
Hitchcock’s TV shows and
Kaleidoscope Frenzy
turned down by
Uris, Leon
Utrillo, Maurice
Vachell, H. A.
Valentino, Rudolph
Valli, Alida
Valli, Virginia
Van Druten, John
Vanel, Charles
Variety
Ventimiglia, Gaetano di
Vernon, John
Vertigo
Kim Novak on
plot of
restoration of
screenplay for
Verwehte Spuren
“Vicious Circle” (Hunter)
Vidor, King
Viktor und Viktoria
Violet
(Cook)
Vlaminck, Maurice de
Vosper, Frank
Wagner, Richard
Wakefield, Hugh
Walker, Robert
Wallis, Hal
Waltzerkreig
(Berger)
Waltzes from Vienna
(Bolton)
Waltzes from Vienna
(film)
Wanger, Walter
Warner Brothers
Warrington, Bill
Washington, George
Wasserman, Edie
Wasserman, Lew
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
at Hitchcock’s knighting ceremony
Hitchcock’s relationship with
Hitchcock’s retirement and
Mary Rose
project turned down by
Universal acquired by
Watson, Wylie
Way Down East
Welles, Orson
Wheel Spins, The
(White)
White, Ethel Lina
White Shadow, The
Whitty, Dame May
Wilder, Billy
Hitchcock’s admiration for
Wilder, Thornton
Wilding, Michael
Williams, Emlyn
Williams, John
Wilson, Paul
Wise, Robert
Within the Gate
(O’Casey)
Witness for the Prosecution
Woman to Woman
women, in film industry
Woolf, C. M.
Woolrich, Cornell
World War I
World War II
Langlois’s film preservation efforts during
Wreck of the Mary Deare, The
Wright, Teresa
Wrong Man, The
W. T. Henley Telegraph and Cable Company
Wyman, Jane
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yetter, William, Jr.
Young, Loretta
Young, Robert
Young and Innocent
You Only Live Twice
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Zanuck, Richard D.
Zinnemann, Fred
William Hitchcock and his son, Alfred Joseph, in front of the family store, about 1906. A mosaic version of this picture appears in the Leytonstone tube station in London. (
British Film Institute
)
Hitchcock directing
The Mountain Eagle
at the Emelka Studios in Munich, 1926. Alma stands behind him, and the cameraman is Baron Gaetano di Ventimiglia, who was the cinematographer for Hitchcock’s first three films.
(British Film Institute)
In the 1920s, Hitchcock first drew this caricature of himself, and he continued to draw it throughout his life. He drew this one for the author.
(Collection of Charlotte Chandler)
Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat in
The 39 Steps
. Hitchcock denied the rumor that he lost the key and the couple had to stay handcuffed for a whole day.
(British Film Institute)
Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and John Gielgud in
Secret Agent
(1936). Gielgud was later sorry he had made so few films after this one.
(British Film Institute)
Michael Redgrave and Margaret Leighton are consoled by Paul Lukas, who is really the villain. In 1938,
The Lady Vanishes
anticipated the coming European war.
(Museum of Modern Art Collection)
Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in
Rebecca
. Fontaine thought Olivier wanted his wife, Vivien Leigh, to play her part, but she later found out she was wrong.
(British Film Institute)
MacDonald Carey, Wallace Ford, Teresa Wright, and Joseph Cotten during an early crucial moment of Hitchcock’s own favorite Hitchcock film,
Shadow of a Doubt. (Museum of Modern Art Collection)
Walter Slezak adjusts the clasp of Tallulah Bankhead’s diamond bracelet in
Lifeboat
. The Cartier bracelet symbolizes all of Constance Porter’s hopes and dreams.
(The
Sunset Boulevard
Collection)
Hitchcock with his daughter, Pat (left), and wife, Alma, in Bel Air during 1945. Hitchcock had just lost weight on an orange diet, and he is demonstrating how not to eat one.
(Collection of Robert Haller)
The famous kissing scene between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in
Notorious
that found its way around the three-second limit for film kisses.
(British Film Institute)
