Yesterday, I went to see Psycho at the Naro (a local old movie theater). Anyway, as hard as I tried I was not able to see Hitchcock in the flick. Anyone know where he made his appearance?
His picture was in a newspaper in the bottom of the boat.
NOTE: Don’t flame me. I know what you’re going to say. It’s just a joke, OK?
Very near the beginning, where Vaughn Taylor and Frank Albertson walk into the real-estate office, bitching about the heat. Hitchcock is standing just outside the glass door.
. . . and he’s wearing a cowboy hat.
Psycho is, IMHO, the best work Bernard Herrmann ever did with Hitch.
…and carrying a bass fiddle.
Oh, yeah? What about the Fandango used for the opening credits and just-after-the-knifing-in-the-U.N. in NORTH BY NORTHWEST? It’s got a nice beat, and you can dance to it.
A slight hijack here, but…Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren, Kim Novak, Grace Kelly, and Eva-Marie Saint. Whew - could he cast 'em or what?
In Norfolk by any chance? I love the Naro.
Yeah, the one in Norfolk. It’s a great theater, and they are showing a bunch of old Hitch movies this week.
Yea, he had a thing for blondes. One of his tamer alleged “things.” He also professed a fear of eggs.
hyjack-of-a-hyjack, Dorothy Parker co-wrote his Saboteur. Hitchcock’s cameo in that movie is him driving in a car, and Dottie talked him into riding in the car with him at the last minute. So the cameo of Hitchcock is also a cameo of Parker. When the movie came out, she’d drag all her friends to see it, and then demand they leave after her “scene” was over, as she had been present during the filming and the premiere, and “It wasn’t a wonderful movie to begin with.”
I love Dorothy Parker.
. . . Y’all forgot Madeleine Carroll, the first icy Hitchcock blonde. Check 'er out here:
I knew about his “thing” for icy, blonde, WASPs. Oddly enough, his wife was a mously little brunette. He apparently also had a “thing” for telling dirty jokes to the WASPs.
IIRC his dad took him to the local jail as a kid, had the constable put him in a cell, and left for the day. No warning, nothing explaining what was going on, just put him in a cell and left him so he’d know what being in jail was like. He said that it haunted him for his entire life.
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