It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock (48 page)

Hitch makes himself useful for Ingrid on the
Under Capricorn
set between shots.
(British Film Institute)

Hitchcock and Marlene Dietrich discuss a serious matter during the shooting of
Stage Fright
in London. Dietrich was more likely concerned about her appearance than about her character.
(Museum of Modern Art Collection)

The four stars of
Rear Window
: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, and the celebrated courtyard set of Joseph MacMillan Johnson.
(Museum of Modern Art Collection)

Georgine Darcy, who played Miss Torso, with James Stewart between scenes of
Rear Window
. The pink shorts she saved provided the key to the color restoration of the film. The cast Stewart wore is standing behind them.
(Collection of Georgine Darcy)

Edith Head’s original sketch for Kim Novak’s unforgettable white coat in
Vertigo. (Collection of Charlotte Chandler)

James Stewart making arrangements to follow Kim Novak more closely than her husband had asked him to.
(Potsdam Museum)

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Alfred Hitchcock, and James Mason during a promotional appearance for
North by Northwest. (Collection of Eva Marie Saint)

Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and Alma enjoy a joke during the filming of
To Catch a Thief. (Museum of Modern Art Collection)

Hitchcock regards the “bad” aspect of Janet Leigh’s character in
Psycho
, symbolized by her black bra and half-slip. In the opening scene, before she steals the money, she wears white lingerie.
(Collection of Robert Haller)

Rod Taylor and Jessica Tandy assist an injured Tippi Hedren after she has endured a nightmarish attack by
The Birds
. The birds themselves seem unperturbed.
(Collection of Robert Haller)

Pat Hitchcock, right, during her stay in New York at the Plaza Hotel, just after Christmas, 2003, with the author. The photograph was taken by Trisha, the great-granddaughter of Alfred Hitchcock.
(Collection of Charlotte Chandler)