Alfred Hitchcock
A giant photography showing late US film director Alfred Hitchcock is set on a building's facade, on May 12, 2012 in Cannes, southeastern France, four days ahead of the start of Cannes film festival.
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I'd been playing a lot of heavy character roles. I'd done them on 'Alfred Hitchcock,' and 'Twilight Zone' and some others, and at first I found myself just doing an impersonation of Jim Nabors doing Gomer. I finally said, 'Look, tell me about this guy and who he is.'
I’ve known the famous Alfred Hitchcock film version from 1935 my whole life
You don’t want to know the cost of a gin and tonic in the Pera Palace Hotel, where Agatha Christie reputedly wrote ‘Murder on the Orient Express,’ and other guests have included Queen Elizabeth II, Alfred Hitchcock, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- but what the heck, we were on holiday. Would we go back to İstanbul? You can bet your life we will.More quotes »
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Dior exhibit set to trace 60 years of film fashion
for men's sweaters she ordered from the house. Dietrich , a close friend of the designer, once famously refused to star in an Alfred Hitchcock film unless he created the costumes, according to Jeauffroy-Mairet. "She declared, 'No Dior, No Dietrich,' and this Read more »
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'Silent House': Silent but deadly
obvious comparison to "Silent House," starring Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman trapped in a maze of horror, is Alfred Hitchcock 's 1948 classic "Rope." Not because of the themes (which differ) or the quality (ditto), but because both films are presented as Read more »
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Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess
notes accompany the screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess on May 30 and 31 and June 1 in Theater 3. Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) has thus far been represented in our series by Blackmail (1929) and Notorious (1946). Rather than showing I Confess, frankly, 5/29/12 from MOMA Read more »
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Outfit Your Backyard for the Birds
Hitchcock might have given birds a bad rep, but there’s a reason bird watching is one of the most popular and fastest growing outdoor hobbies around the world. Perhaps it’s because you don’t have to be a birding expert to spot, or appreciate, even the most from Whole Foods Market Blog Read more »
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Finding Hitchcock's dogs put trainer in suspense
Hollywood as the lapdog of choice for Cary Grant , Elizabeth Taylor , Bette Davis , Gary Cooper , Humphrey Bogart and Alfred Hitchcock . But by the time animal trainer Sarah Clifford got the call to round up a couple of pups for Anthony Hopkins ' forthcoming from San Francisco Chronicle Read more »
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Cannes 2012: Actor Norman Lloyd remembers Hitchcock, Renoir
best-known work (unless you count his TV stint on “St. Elsewhere”) was his first appearance, a key role as a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 "Saboteur." His character famously plunges off the Statue of Liberty. But before he ever came to Hollywood, Lloyd from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Special screenings: ‘Rear Window,’ Czech films, ‘Repo!’
scene from the documentary "How to Die in Oregon." (image courtesy Sundance Institute) Hitchcock’s classic Alfred Hitchcock’s classic "Rear Window," in which a laid-up photographer (Jimmy Stewart) and his girlfriend (Grace Kelly) suspect a neighbor (Raymond from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
