Petronella Wyatt
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The famous “rape” scene. Actress Tippi Hedren was baffled by Hitchcock’s casting of Sean Connery in “Marnie”(1964). She argued that even the most frigid woman would never scream if a man as attractive as Connery approached her, and insisted she would be unable to do the scene. Hitchcock replied “It’s called acting.” Years before, while filming “Spellbound”, Ingrid Bergman had told Hitch that she was unable to convey the emotion he wanted. She recalled: ‘He said, ‘fake it’, Ingrid’”, adding it was the best advice she had ever been given.
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Peter Ustinov tells a very funny story about Alec Guinness and Adolf Hitler
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MGM bought the film rights to Irving Berlin’s masterpiece “Annie Get Your Gun” for Judy Garland, but it soon became clear she wasn’t mentally or physically up to the task of playing Annie. Co-star Howard Keel recalled her “shaking with fright.” The studio replaced Judy with the lesser known Betty Hutton. Here, Hutton sings the delightful number, “You Can’t Get A Man With a Gun.”
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“You know they’re not real”. “Well, I am.” Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in the firework scene in Hitchcock’s “To Catch A Thief” (1955). The Production Code Administration found the cross-cut symbolism too obvious and asked Hitchcock to remove the fireworks. Hitchcock refused, creating one of the most famous examples of suggestion and subtext outshining explicit action in 1950s cinema.
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Richard Burton performs “Camelot” from the Lerner and Loewe musical of the same name at a gala in 1978.. Burton had played Arthur in the original 1960 Broadway production, with Julie Andrews as Guinevere and Robert Goulet as Lancelot. I don’t know why, but this song always makes me cry.
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Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth dance up a storm in 1942’s “You Were Never Lovelier” it was Hayworth’s big break in a musical. She said later, “Fred knew what those fools at Columbia didn’t; that I was a dancer.” Fred told friends that Rita was his favourite dancing partner,
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