# Rear Window -- on the big screen
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 23, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730 "2015-03-23T00:33:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730/21 "2015-06-13T17:43:43Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> The aww-shucks is a big part of it, and his voice is often like fingernails on a blackboard for me.
Same here. NO sex appeal at all. And I couldn’t figure out what Grace Kelly’s character saw in him-- the judgmental, stuffy fussbudget. He didn’t even seem to notice her until she pulled that stunt at the end of the movie.
She makes the film. I love it when she (in case there’s someone who hasn’t seen it)
crawls over the murderer’s balcony in that gigantic organza skirt!I do love the movie, however, especially the premise. I used to live in an apartment complex where all the balcony-patios faced each other across an interior space–three stories. It was like a beehive with each story unfolding in its own little cell. It was fascinating to sit out there with a beer and just watch the comings and goings. And no, I didn’t own a telescope (but it would have been interesting).
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### Author:  [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730/22 "2015-06-13T17:53:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> He didn’t even seem to notice her…
There you have it. 😉
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### Author:  [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730/23 "2015-06-14T04:12:52Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#):
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> Grace Kelly’s first appearance in the film, an extreme close-up as she closes in to kiss a dozing-off Stewart, has got to be one of the most erotic images in the whole history of Hollywood. I swear, I’m gay and yet I get excited seeing zoom into view. Whew!
I got to see Rear Window in the theater at my colleges years ago. Before that, I had only seen stills of Grace Kelly and thought she was a bit plain. Then I saw This scene and suddenly got what the fuss was about. Yowza.
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730/24 "2015-06-14T11:08:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> One thing I hadn’t noticed before was that
One thing I hadn’t noticed before was that Ross Bagdasarian aka David Seville, adoptive father of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, played the piano player neighbor.
Well, o.k., I _still_ have never _noticed_ it but I recently read it and thus became informed of it.
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> Bagdasarian played minor roles in films, the best known of which is his appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 murder mystery Rear Window. Bagdasarian portrays a piano-playing songwriter who composes, plays, and sings the song “Lisa”. His character lives in an apartment opposite the protagonist’s; in keeping with the screenplay’s theme of social voyeurism, his dialogue is never clearly heard, and he appears only in long shots, sometimes seen through a window. He stands next to Hitchcock in his signature cameo appearance.
]([Ross Bagdasarian - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bagdasarian,_Sr.))
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rear-window-on-the-big-screen/715730/25 "2015-06-15T03:51:42Z")
“Did Mr. Doyle think I stole this case?”
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