Rear Window (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock DVD BluRay featurettes:
M. Night Shyamalan, director: You immediately are watching this husband and wife. It seems very innocuous. And she's reading the newspaper. It's a regular, normal moment in this couple's life and you're like 'Hmmm.'
And then she reads this piece of paper, the insert of the boat arriving and then immediately you're with another guy and she's kissing this other guy and she's all in red. and it's such a great kind of, you know, that normally would take us 20 minutes to set up. She has a marriage, She's pretending to have a happy life but really, she's in love with this other man. Immediately, there's a conflict and you go, 'Wow!'
Richard Franklin, director: Bearing in mind that Hitchcock had only done two pictures in color in prior to this and had done several black-and-white films in a row between Under Capricorn and this picture. His uses of color here is really quite striking.
He uses the color in an interesting way in terms of the costuming because you see her in white with her husband, but in red with her lover. And the contrast of those first two moments with the two men in her life are very strong.
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Grace Kelly & Cary Grant
in To Catch a Thief (1955)
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GRACE KELLY in REAR WINDOW (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock, in b&w
(requested by anonymous)
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Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III in Monaco on 6 May 1955. Grace had been in Cannes to promote her film The Country Girl when a French journalist arranged a meeting between her and the Prince at the palace.
On the day of their meeting there was labour strike which meant that there was no electricity in the city and so Grace could not dry her hair or iron her clothes. Instead she put her hair up, covering it with a floral headband and wore a drop-waist silk floral dress that didn't require ironing. She had to take the stairs as the elevator was out of order and would later get into a minor car accident causing her to be late to her meeting with Rainier, who had to leave. Grace was given a tour of the 225-room palace by herself and later met with the Prince who gave her a tour of his private zoo.
The two didn't expect to meet again but soon after this meeting they would continue to write to each other in secret for eight months. Over Christmas that year Prince Rainier was invited to stay with the Kelly family in Philadelphia - only the second time he and Grace had met in person. Shortly after arriving Prince Rainier proposed to Grace. Their engagement was announced in January 1956 and the two married in Monaco in April.
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Rear Window (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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