Rebecca 1940: Joan Fontaine as the “successor” and Judith Anderson as the creepy lesbian housekeeper, madly in love with her deceased mistress. ‘Rebecca’ 1940: Alfred Hitchcock Best Picture Oscar winner back on Brazilian screens Based on Daphne Du Maurier’s 1938 novel, Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood…
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Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman: The ‘Notorious’ British (Hitchcock, Grant) and Swedish (Bergman) talent. British actors and directors in Hollywood; Hollywood actors and directors in Britain: Anthony Slide’s ‘A Special Relationship.’ ‘A Special Relationship’ Q&A: Britain in Hollywood and Hollywood in Britain First…
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Marion Cotillard naked and doomed: Psycho shower scene scream that turned Janet Leigh into a film icon. Marion Cotillard naked & screaming in ‘Psycho’ shower scene A few years ago – more exactly, in Feb./March 2008 – Vanity Fair published a series of images honoring…
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Teresa Wright. Teresa Wright: Later years (See previous post: Hollywood actress goes from Broadway hit to late 20th-century movies Somewhere in Time & The Rainmaker.) Teresa Wright and Robert Anderson were divorced in 1978. They would remain friends in the ensuing years.[1] Wright spent most…
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Alfred Hitchcock heroine Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt, facing serial killer Joseph Cotten. Teresa Wright in ‘Shadow of a Doubt’: Alfred Hitchcock heroine in the director’s favorite film (See preceding article: “Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History.”) After scoring with The Little Foxes,…
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Rod Taylor ca. 1960s. Rod Taylor movies: Actor best known for ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘The Birds’ dead at 84 Rod Taylor, best remembered for the early 1960s movies The Time Machine and The Birds, has died. Taylor suffered a heart attack at his Los…
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Scariest Movies: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ with Janet Leigh, John Gavin and Vera Miles. Scariest movies ever made: The top 100 horror films according to the Chicago Film Critics I tend to ignore lists featuring the Top 100 Movies (or Top 10 Movies or Top 20…
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Mary Anderson: Gone with the Wind actress. ‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Mary Anderson dead at 96; also featured in Alfred Hitchcock thriller ‘Lifeboat’ Mary Anderson, an actress featured in both Gone with the Wind and Alfred Hitchcock’s adventure thriller Lifeboat, died following a series…
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San Francisco Symphony & Cary Grant in ‘North by Northwest.’ San Francisco Symphony salutes Alfred Hitchcock: Halloween movies and Hitchcock movie music The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock movies and their music scores beginning at 8 p.m. on Halloween eve, October 30, 2013,…
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Joan Fontaine. Joan Fontaine today: One of the best actresses of the studio era has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Joan Fontaine, one of the few surviving movie stars of the 1930s, is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” star on Aug. 6.…
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Alfred Hitchcock silent films’ Unesco honor: Ivor Novello in The Lodger. Alfred Hitchcock silent films added to Unesco UK Memory of the World Register The nine Alfred Hitchcock silent films recently restored by the British Film Institute have been added to the Unesco UK Memory…
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Alfred Hitchcock ca. 1960. Alfred Hitchcock San Francisco: Guided tour through the sites of Hitchcock’s movies The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has arranged for San Francisco City Guides to lead “a special, SFSFF-only edition” of its “Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco” guided walking tour. This…
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Anthony Hopkins: Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins ‘Hitchcock’ poster: ‘Psycho’ style The Hitchcock poster above shares a few elements with the Psycho 1960 poster, such as the splitting of the image into various fragments featuring the film’s actors. And in Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock, about the behind-the-scenes goings-on…
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The Birds poster: Universal Studios horror. Universal Studios horror: Alfred Hitchcock & James Whale + ‘Tarantula’ Academy screenings As part of the year-long celebration of Universal Pictures’ centenary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present “Universal’s Legacy of Horror,” a month-long series…
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Bette Davis sings “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” About two decades later, Davis herself would be the subject of a song: Kim Carnes sings “Bette Davis’ Eyes.” Bette Davis Singing ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’ Bette Davis would have turned 104 today. The…
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Tippi Hedren once told The Times of London that Alfred Hitchcock – for whom she starred in The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), and with whom she had an exclusive contract – “kept me under contract, kept paying me every week for almost two years…