Farley Granger Articles

Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (top); Farley Granger, Robert Walker in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (bottom) Farley Granger, best known for the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), and for Luchino Visconti’s period romantic drama Senso (1954), has died. Variety reports that Granger, who was 85, died of "natural causes" in New York City. One of the best-looking [...]

SENSO (1954) Direction: Luchino Visconti Cast: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Nina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Christian Marquand, Sergio Fantoni Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Luchino Visconti; from Camillo Boito’s novella Highly Recommended Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Senso Critical consensus regards Luchino Visconti’s Senso as a radical departure, a sign of the director’s shift in focus from the gritty world of downtrodden proles (such as in [...]

Shelley Winters, winner of two best supporting actress Academy Awards, died of heart failure at the Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills on Jan. 14. In October, she had been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. She was 85. Besides her two Oscars — for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965) — Winters received two other nominations: in 1951 as [...]