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Tag Archives: Suspicion
Glowing Poisonous Milk: Two Scenes
Suspicious-acting and potentially-evil husband carries a potentially-poisoned glass of milk upstairs to his unsuspecting wife. Little light put in glass of milk to make it glow in eerie fashion. 1. Cary Grant in Suspicion, Alfred Hitchcock (1941) 2. Bruce Campbell … Continue reading
That Glowing Glass Of Milk
Richard Schickel: What is significant about Suspicion is that, for the first time, one really feels the dangerousness of a charm as seductive as [Cary] Grant’s. It was perhaps hinted at in Sylvia Scarlett, but the world of that film … Continue reading
The Books: “Cary Grant: A Biography” (Marc Eliot)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Cary Grant: A Biography, by Marc Eliot First off, I love the cover design of this latest biography. It’s stark, simple, eye-catching … and Cary Grant was hugely tall so his posture here really stands … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, entertainment biography, Marc Eliot, Suspicion
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Suspicion
Yet another photo of that “ordinary chap“. Yeah, you know. Totally ordinary. Uh huh. Reguluar dude. Hitchcock saw something different in him. Suspicion (that’s him with Joan Fontaine) was Hitchcock’s first attempt to tap into the darkness beneath the gleam. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
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Hitchcock and Audience Expectations
Janet Leigh, on her role in Psycho: “I saw that she was really a shabby, mousy little woman. She wasn’t in any way glamorous or anything. So we chose clothes that she could have afforded. We didn’t have a dressmaker … Continue reading
The Glass of Milk in Suspicion
Hitchcock put a small light in the glass of milk, so it glowed as Cary Grant ascended the stairs – drawing the attention of the audience – making us wonder: “What the hell is in that glass??” It’s very jarring … Continue reading
From Screwball to Suspicion
The trend of screwball comedies pretty much came and went in a 5 or 6 year period, and Cary Grant was an enormous and influential part of the trend Once the trend waned – Grant was smart enough to recognize … Continue reading