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Rear Window: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter. A house and wheelchair-bound photographer, his fashion model girlfriend and his visiting Nurse spy on neighbors from his courtyard window.
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- Mystery, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1954-09-01
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- Rear Window's Original Story Doesn't Include Lisa Or Stella.
- Alfred Hitchcock Was Inspired by Two Actual Murder cases.
- Grace Kelly Turned Down The Lead in on The Waterfront to Star in Rear window.
- Alfred Hitchcock Modeled Rear Window's Villain on A Producer He hated.
- Jimmy Stewart's Wife Didn't Want Him to Make A Movie with Grace Kelly.
- "Miss Torso" Was A Teenage Ballerina.
- The "Songwriter" Was Also One in Real Life.
- Jeff and Lisa's Romance Is Supposedly Based on A Real Life Ingrid Bergman Fling.
- Rear Window's Elaborate Set Cost Some Serious Cash.
- Rear Window Is The only Film Where Grace Kelly Smokes on-screen.
Rear Window was based on Cornell Woolrich's short story, “It Had to Be Murder.” In Woolrich’s version, the voyeuristic protagonist does not have a girlfriend or a nurse, although he does have a “day houseman” named Sam who checks in on him. Oh and his leg injury? It isn't explicitly mentioned until the very last line.
Although John Michael Hayes wrote the screenplay for the movie, Hitchcock helped with the actual crime at the center of the story. As he told François Truffaut, he lifted two news items from the British press: the 1910 case of Dr. Hawley Crippen and the 1924 case of Patrick Mohan. Crippen killed his wife, told friends she went to America, and then ...
In the fall of 1953, Grace Kelly was offered the female lead in two films: one was Rear Window, the other was Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront. Although she was dying to work with Hitchcock again, On the Waterfront would’ve allowed Kelly to stay in New York, which she preferred to Los Angeles. Still, she ultimately chose to play socialite Lisa Fremon...
Hitchcock had a long-standing grudge with his former producer, David O. Selznick. The director believed Selznick had meddled too much with his movies, so much so that Hitchcock effectively disowned his first film with the producer, Rebecca. His ties to Selznick ended with the 1947 movie The Paradine Case, though, so Hitch decided to enact a sly bit...
Before she was Princess Grace of Monaco, Grace Kelly had areputation (whether true or not) for having affairs with her male costars—even the married ones. One of those men was Ray Milland, whose spurned wife just happened to be good friends with Jimmy Stewart's wife, Gloria. Gloria was less than thrilled at the prospect of her husband working with ...
Georgine Darcy was 17 years old when she was cast as “Miss Torso,” Jeff’s dancing neighbor. Hitchcock picked her out of a pile of publicity photos; hers apparently caught his eye because she had paid extra for color prints. Darcy was fairly new in town, having left her home in Brooklyn just the year before to pursue ballet in California. So when Hi...
Ross Bagdasarian played the pianist neighbor who is frequently seen composing new pieces. The credits bill him as “The Songwriter,” which is pretty appropriate, considering what Bagdasarian did when he wasn’t acting. He was also a pianist and composer himself, and made his name by creating Alvin and the Chipmunks. But before he recorded “The Chipmu...
Rumor has it that Jeff and Lisa were based on war photographer Robert Capa and Ingrid Bergman. The pair dated while Bergman was filming Notorious with Hitchcock in 1946, so he saw the relationship firsthand. The affair ended within a year, but it clearly struck a chord with Hitchcock, who had what many described as an "acute, unrequited passion" fo...
The apartment complex seen in Rear Window was completely constructed on the Paramount Studios lot—and it cost a pretty penny. It reportedly cost an “unprecedented” $9000 to design and $72,000 to build. (About $728,805total, when adjusted for inflation.) The final set included seven apartment buildings and three other buildings on the other side of ...
Kelly refused to smoke cigarettes in her movies, but she made a slight exception for Hitchcock in Rear Window. In one scene, she’s seen with an unlit cigarette between her lips. The camera cuts to Stewart, then back to her. She’s suddenly holding a lit cigarette, which she soon puts out. This way, Hitchcock got his smoking scene, while Kelly never ...
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Jun 2, 2024 · Rear Window follows a wheelchair-bound photographer, played by James Stewart, who becomes obsessed with spying on his neighbors. He believes he has witnessed a murder and tries to unravel the mystery before it’s too late.
The hero of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” is trapped in a wheelchair, and we’re trapped, too–trapped inside his point of view, inside his lack of freedom and his limited options. When he passes his long days and nights by shamelessly maintaining a secret watch on his neighbors, we share his obsession.
A newspaper photographer with a broken leg passes time recuperating by observing his neighbors through his window. He sees what he believes to be a murder, and decides to solve the crime himself....
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- PG
- James Stewart
As his hero, Jimmy Stewart, idly picks up a camera with a telephoto lens and begins to scan the open windows on the other side of the courtyard, we look too. And because Hitchcock makes us accomplices in Stewart’s voyeurism, we’re along for the ride.
Aug 3, 2022 · In Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart has the role of a news photographer confined by a broken leg to a wheelchair. The situation anchors him in one small room and, almost throughout the film, the camera...
