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Aug 24, 2016 · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of director Frank Capra’s best, among the “top three” that also includes It Happened One Night (1934) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Deeds (Gary Cooper) is another naïve man, like Stewart’s character, who leaves a country town for the big city and finds people at their worst and, then later ...
Jun 30, 2016 · The plot of You Can’t Take It with You is simplicity itself. Tony Kirby (James Stewart) wants to marry, Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), the only member of a large wacky family who is gamely employed, or cares to be.
Jul 3, 1997 · (When the film was made, the Production Code didn't allow Stewart to drink on-camera. He's only shown ordering drinks for others.) His last movie credit was the voice of a droll, tired sheriff,...
- John Hartl
- Overseas Prints of The Film Have A Different Ending
- The Invention of The “Contra-Zoom” Cost $19,000
- Vertigo Had A Ton of Alternative Titles
- There Was A 25-Year Age Gap Between James Stewart and Kim Novak
- Hitchcock Went to Extreme Lengths to Avoid Shooting on Location
- Bernard Herrmann Came to Hate His Acclaimed Musical Score
- The Film’S Screenwriter Credits Are Misleading
- Kim Novak Wasn’T Hitchcock’s Top Choice For The Female Lead
- The Iconic “Vertigo Zoom” Was Created When Alfred Hitchcock Fainted at A Party
Although Alfred Hitchcock loved the ambiguous ending to Vertigo, the studio insisted on tacking on a final scene set at Midge’s apartment that was filled with exposition about where Scottie and Elster ended up. Hitchcock successfully prevented the ending from being added to the U.S. release, but the studio managed to attach it to prints of the film...
One of the greatest cinematic revolutions to come out of Vertigois the “contra-zoom” (sometimes called a “trombone shot”) in which the camera zooms out and tracks in at the same time. Second unit camera operator Irmin Roberts is credited with inventing the shot, but it wasn’t cheap. The shot looking down the mission stairwell cost a whopping $19,00...
When Vertigo went into production, the film was going by a different title: From Among the Dead, the literal English translation of the French source material’s original title. However, no one involved in the production liked it and they set about changing it. Hitchcock liked Face in the Shadow, but it was deemed too similar to A Face in the Crowd....
Years after Vertigohit theaters and became a classic, Alfred Hitchcock admitted that James Stewart was miscast in the lead role, as he was too old, and considered that he should’ve gotten a younger actor. RELATED: 10 Most Suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock Scenes, Ranked There was a 25-year age gap between Stewart and his co-star Kim Novak – who, at the ...
Hitchcock wanted Vertigothat have a sense of realism, but he also despised shooting on location and avoided it as much as possible. If it could be done on a set, he did it on a set. There are a few scenes in the film set at the real-life restaurant Ernie’s, but instead of shooting those scenes at the actual restaurant, Hitchcock had the whole inter...
Bernard Herrmann’s score for Vertigo is often included on lists of the greatest film scores ever composed. But the composer himself came to hate his music in the film, as he wasn’t able to physically conduct and orchestrate the music. At that time, not a lot of film composers actually had hands-on involvement in the orchestration of their scores, b...
The screenplay for Vertigois credited to Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, but these credits are misleading. Coppel didn’t contribute a single word to the final draft and was only credited for contractual reasons. Meanwhile, Taylor didn’t read a word of Coppel’s version of the script or the original novel that the film was based on. The only previo...
Alfred Hitchcock wasn’t happy with the casting of Kim Novak as Madeleine and instead wanted to cast Vera Miles, with whom he’d worked on a couple of projects. Miles even did a costume test for the part. However, she had to drop out when she became pregnant. The studio was relieved when this happened, because they didn’t want Miles as their leading ...
Hitchcock came up with the initial seed of the idea that became the iconic “Vertigo zoom” when he was making Rebecca. However, at the time, the technology wasn’t there and he couldn’t achieve it. He initially got the idea to do a disorienting mix of tracking in and zooming out when he fainted at a party and his vision did a similar thing. NEXT: Lik...
- The Man Who Knew too Much (1956) Like Mann and Capra before him, Stewart developed a highly successful relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock. Although he was badly miscast in his first outing for Hitchcock in Rope (1948), he was put to better use in the director’s remake of his 1934 British success.
- Harvey (1950) Counter balanced with the ‘tough guy’ image of the Anthony Mann films, was Stewart’s role as the pleasant, middle aged Elwood P. Dowd, who has befriended an invisible 6 foot ‘pooka’ (rabbit) named Harvey.
- Bend of the River (1952) In 1950, Stewart began a fruitful collaboration with director Anthony Mann. Bend of the River was the second of these films, with Stewart playing Glyn McLyntock, scout for a wagon train of settlers, who saves Emerson Cole (Arthur Kennedy) from a lynching.
- Call Northside 777 (1949) In 1941 Stewart, a certified pilot, enlisted in the Air Force and ended up becoming a decorated pilot, flying numerous dangerous missions during the war.
Jan 25, 2022 · Jimmy Stewart starred in four Alfred Hitchcock films. The first was the most difficult to shoot, and it almost proved to be a hurdle to the classics that would follow.
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May 29, 2012 · More so than in any of those Westerns directed by Anthony Mann, or in the four thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, it is believed by many critics and movie fans that James Stewart gives the best performance of his career in Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder.
