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Sep 2, 2014 · Cary Grant Kissed Eva Marie Saint So Well on North by Northwest That He Made a Photographer Fall Off a Ladder. By Jordan Riefe. September 2, 2014. By Valerie Macon/Getty. Eva...
North by Northwest: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
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- Action, Adventure, Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1959-12-18
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman , who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
- IT WAS CONCEIVED WHILE ITS WRITER AND DIRECTOR WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON SOMETHING ELSE. MGM hired Ernest Lehman (Sweet Smell of Success) to write the movie version of a novel called The Wreck of the Mary Deare, with Alfred Hitchcock assigned to direct.
- THE MOVIE WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT BERNARD HERRMANN. The legendary film composer, a Hitchcock collaborator since 1955's The Trouble with Harry, is the one who introduced Hitchcock to Ernest Lehman, thinking they'd hit it off.
- JAMES STEWART WANTED TO PLAY THE LEAD. Stewart had been in four Hitchcock movies at this point, and he wanted North by Northwest to be the fifth. But while Hitch loved him, he didn't think he was right for the glibly debonair Roger Thornhill.
- CARY GRANT HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON. The star found the screenplay baffling, and midway through filming told Hitchcock, "It's a terrible script.
Jan 21, 2022 · MGM. By Joshua Meyer / Jan. 21, 2022 12:15 pm EST. The climactic set piece in Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy thriller "North by Northwest" sees Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint being...
Jul 4, 2021 · Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint during the Mount Rushmore scene in “North By Northwest” Courtesy Everett Collection. He got his chance with “North by Northwest,” but only after...
