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February 9, 2016 (XXXII:3) Alfred Hitchcock, NOTORIOUS (1946, 101 Min) February 9, 2016 (XXXII:3) Alfred Hitchcock, NOTORIOUS (1946, 101 min) Director Alfred Hitchcock Writers Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, and Clifford Odets (dialogue: love scenes) Producer Alfred Hitchcock Music Roy Webb Cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff Film Editing Theron Warth Art Direction Carroll Clark, Albert S. D'Agostino Set Decoration Claude E. Carpenter, Darrell Silvera Special Effects Paul Eagler, Vernon L. Walker Still Photographer Robert Capa Director of Photography Gregg Toland (uncredited) Costume and Wardrobe Edith Head (gowns designer: Miss Ingrid Bergman) respect are Murnau and Eisenstein. Here, form does not Cast merely embellish content, but actually creates it.” François Cary Grant…Devlin Truffaut wrote that Hitchcock had “a unique ability to film the Ingrid Bergman…Alicia Huberman thoughts of his characters and make them perceptible without Claude Rains…Alexander Sebastian resorting to dialogue,” and that he was “almost unique in being Louis Calhern…Paul Prescott able to film directly, that is, without resorting to explanatory Leopoldine Konstantin…Mme. Sebastian dialogue, such intimate emotions as suspicion, jealousy, desire, Reinhold Schünzel…'Dr. Anderson' and envy.” (Notorious was Truffaut’s favorite Hitchcock film.) Moroni Olsen…Walter Beardsley Critic Andrew Sarris wrote, “What has been most disturbing in Ivan Triesault…Eric Mathis Hitchcock’s films–the perverse ironies, the unresolved Alexis Minotis…Joseph ambiguities, the switched protagonists–now mark him as a Wally Brown…Mr. Hopkins pioneer in the modern idiom in which nothing is what it seems on Charles Mendl…Commodore the surface.” Hitchcock left nothing to chance, not even that Ricardo Costa…Dr. Barbosa famous image of him as the plump solemn joker with a taste for E.A. Krumschmidt…Hupka the macabre: that was the product of a PR company he set up in Fay Baker…Ethel the 1930s. Hitchcock began in film as a title designer and art Alfred Hitchcock…Man Drinking Champagne at Party director and he claimed he storyboarded (made scene and motion (uncredited) sketches) for every shot in every one of his 62 films. Some of his films are Frenzy (1972), The Birds (1963), Psycho (1960), North ALFRED HITCHCOCK by Northwest (1959), Vertigo (1958), The Man Who Knew Too (b. August 13, 1899 in London, England—d. April 29, 1980, age Much (1956), To Catch a Thief (1955), Rear Window (1954), 80, Los Angeles, CA) was nominated for 5 Academy Awards but Dial M for Murder (1954), Rope (1948), Spellbound (1945), he only won the Thalberg Award in 1980. That was a very good Lifeboat (1944), Suspicion (1941), Rebecca (1940), The Lady year for him: he also received a Legion of Honor from the French Vanishes (1938), The 39 Steps (1935), The Man Who Knew Too government and a knighthood from the queen. Directors Eric Much (1934) Blackmail (1930, the first British talkie), and The Rohmer and Claude Chabrol wrote of him, “Hitchcock is one of Lodger (1926). the greatest inventors of form in the history of cinema. Perhaps the only filmmakers who can be compared with him in this Hitchcock—NOTORIOUS—2 CLIFFORD ODETS (b. July 18, 1906 in Philadelphia, in the D-Day landing "armed" only with camera and he was the Pennsylvania—d. August 18, 1963, age 57, in Los Angeles, only photographer in the first wave hitting the Omaha beach. California) was a playwright who also wrote and directed film. Capa was also involved in love affair with Ingrid Bergman. The Besides writing the uncredited love scene dialogue in Notorious, two met while Ingrid was overseas entertaining the troops during some of his plays and original scripts are Golden Boy (1962, TV World War II. The romance was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's Movie), The Story on Page One (1959), Clash by Night (1959, Rear Window. TV Movie), The Big Knife (1955), The Country Girl (1954), and Clash by Night (1952). His screenplay work includes Wild in the GREGG TOLAND (b. May 29, 1904, Charleston, Illinois—d. Country (1961, screenplay) Sweet Smell of Success (1957, September 26, 1948, age 44, Hollywood, California, coronary screenplay), Humoresque (1946, screenplay), Rhapsody in Blue thrombosis) was one of the great cinematographers. Nearly all of (1945, uncredited), None But the Lonely Heart (1944), The his successors credit his work and his imagination. While he is General Died at Dawn (1936) and Sweet Smell of Success perhaps best known for his work on Citizen Kane (1941), some (1957). He also directed 2 films, The Story on Page One (1959) of his other films include The Bishop's Wife (1947), The Best and None But the Lonely Heart (1944) starring Cary Grant. Years of Our Lives (1946), December 7th (1943), The Outlaw (1943), The Little Foxes (1941), The Long Voyage Home (1940), TED TETZLAFF (b. Dale H. Tetzlaff, June 3, 1903 in Los The Westerner (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Raffles Angeles, California—d. January 7, 1995, age 91, in Fort Baker, (1940), Wuthering Heights (1939), Intermezzo: A Love Story California) was the son of a (1939), Come and Get It (1936), racecar driver and silent movie Les Misérables (1935), Nana star, Teddy Tetzlaff Sr. Junior, (1934), Tugboat Annie (1933), born Dale but used the name Indiscreet (1931), Raffles (1930), Teddy Tetzlaff Jr., grew up to Bulldog Drummond (1929), and be a famous and well- Bat (1926). He was nominated respected studio cameraman for six Oscars: Citizen who worked on over 100 Kane, The Long Voyage Home, films. His career zenith was Wuthering Heights (won), in the ‘40s and in 1943 he was Intermezzzo: A Love Story, Dead nominated for an Oscar for End, and Les Misérables. Best Cinematography, Black- and-White, The Talk of the CARY GRANT (b. Archibald Town (1942). Some of his Alexander Leach on January 18 cinematography work includes the films Notorious (1946, 1904 in Gloucestershire, England—d. November 29, 1986, age director of photography), Those Endearing Young Charms 82, Davenport, Iowa,) was in four Hitchcock films, every one of (1945), The Enchanted Cottage (1945), The More the Merrier them memorable: North By Northwest (1959), To Catch a Thief (1943), I Married a Witch (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942), (1955), Notorious (1946), and Suspicion (1941). Hitchcock saw Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941), Road to Zanzibar (1941), I Want in him a dramatic edge few other directors were able to utilize or a Divorce (1940), Rhythm on the River (1940), Safari (1940), control. Grant did some important dramatic work away from Cafe Society (1939), Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938), Arrest Hitchcock, but with a few exceptions his best other work was in Bulldog Drummond (1937), True Confession (1937), Swing comedy. Some of his other films are Charade (1963), Indiscreet High, Swing Low (1937), Lady of Secrets (1936), Hands Across (1958), An Affair to Remember (1957), I Was a Male War Bride the Table (1935), Annapolis Farewell (1935), Paris in Spring (1949), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), The (1935), His Greatest Gamble (1934), Should Ladies Behave Bishop's Wife (1947), Night and Day (1946), Arsenic and Old (1933), Soldiers of the Storm (1933), Man Against Woman Lace (1944), Destination Tokyo (1943), His Girl Friday (1940), (1932), Attorney for the Defense (1932), Arizona (1931), The Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Gunga Din (1939), Bringing Texas Ranger (1931), Tol'able David (1930), Prince of Up Baby (1938) and Topper (1937). Diamonds (1930), Mexicali Rose (1929), Wall Street (1929), The Flying Marine (1929), The Donovan Affair (1929), The Apache INGRID BERGMAN (b. August 29, 1915 in Stockholm, (1928), The Power of the Press (1928), Stool Pigeon (1928), Sweden—d. August 29, 1982, age 67, in London, England) Comrades (1928), Ragtime (1927), Eager Lips (1927), The started out wholesome. David O. Selznik saw some of her Ladybird (1927), Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926), and Atta Swedish films and brought her to Hollywood where he set her to Boy (1926). Teddy Jr. also directed 17 films some of which are playing nice girls. When he lent her to another studio for Dr. The Young Land (1959), Son of Sinbad (1955), Terror on a Train Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), she insisted in playing the prostitute. (1953), The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952), A Dangerous Audiences loved her as a more complex woman. The following Profession (1949), Johnny Allegro (1949), Fighting Father year she starred in the film for which she is perhaps best known, Dunne (1948), and World Premiere (1941). Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart. She had another great role the following year, with Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls ROBERT CAPA (b. Endre Friedman on October 22, 1913 in (1943). The year after that, she won her first Oscar for best Budapest, Austria-Hungry—d. May 25, 1954, age 40, in Thai actress for Gaslight (1944). She had a number of great starring Binh, Vietnam) He is known for his work on The 400 Million roles over the next 15 years, but things got rocky when she left (1939), Notorious (1946) and Temptation (1946). Capa took part her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, for Italian director Roberto Hitchcock—NOTORIOUS—3 Rossellini. Sanctimonious Hollywood punished her for going factory worker until, after intensive language study, she landed a public: she didn’t get a Hollywood movie for 7 years. In 1956, supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious. Best Buddy Adler and Anatole Litvak starred her in Anastasia, for remembered her role as the autocratic, venomous mother of which she won her second best actress Academy Award. She Claude Rains, who was just three years her junior. Some of her won best supporting actress Oscar for Murder on the Orient other acting work includes Robert Montgomery Presents (1957, Express (1974). Her last major role, completed the year of her TV Series), Actor's Studio (1950, TV Series), The Making of a death, was as Golda Meir in the made for TV film, “A Woman King (1935), Prinzessin Turandot (1934), Cairo Season (1933), Called Golda,” for which she won an Emmy.
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