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THE NEWLYWED GAME: Cary Grant is a gambler who may or may not be planning to kill his new wife Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (1941), Hitchcock’s first film as a director/producer. - Photo: Courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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MURDER MOST FOUL: Staged around a dead body concealed in a trunk during a dinner party, Rope (1948) was shot as a series of four-to-ten-minute takes, with only two intentionally visible cuts. It was Hitchcock’s first color film. - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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LISTEN UP: Hitchcock monitors the sound in Blackmail (1929), generally considered the first British talkie. Much of the picture was originally filmed silent and then re-shot with the advent of sound. - Photo DGA Archives
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SUNBLOCK: Hitchcock seems out of place instructing Grace Kelly how to get a tan on the beach in Nice for the Riviera caper, To Catch a Thief (1955). - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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VOYEUR: Injured photographer Jimmy Stewart imagines a murder plot while peering into the courtyard of his building in Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). At the time, the set was the largest ever built indoors at Paramount Studios. A thousand arc lights were used to simulate sunlight. - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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QUE SERA. SERA: Doris Day thought Hitchcock was paying more attention to camera setups, lighting and technical matters than her performance on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). The film was a remake of his movie from 1934. - Photo: ©1978 Bill Avery/MPTV.net
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JUST SO: Gregory Peck plays a lawyer defending a woman accused of murdering her husband in The Paradine Case (1947). The film ended Hitchcock’s unhappy relationship with producer David O. Selznick, who re-edited and rescored the movie. - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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CLOAK AND DAGGER: Filmed at the height of the Cold War in 1966, Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain starred Paul Newman as an American rocket scientist who pretends to defect to East Germany in search of a mathematical formula, followed by his fiancée, Julie Andrews. - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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LOVE HURTS: Hitchcock, who delighted in showing icy blondes, shares a moment of uncharacteristic warmth with Kim Novak on the set of Vertigo (1958), a film many consider the director’s masterpiece. - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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BALANCING ACT: Known as one of the most controlling directors, particularly when it came to women, Hitchcock shows Tippi Hedren how to walk the plank in Marnie (1964). She plays a thief who marries Sean Connery, in his first American role. - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS.
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ROOM WITH A VIEW: Cary Grant, mistaken for a nonexistent secret agent, is abducted from a business lunch, shot in the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel, in the opening scene of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959). - Photo: Courtesy of AMPAS |
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