She is primarily known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds and Marnie ( in which she played the title role ), and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983.

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

Leigh had hoped to co-star with Olivier and made a screen test for Rebecca, which was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Olivier in the leading role.

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

Audiences did not respond as well to Lombard in dramatic roles ; she made a return to comedy, teaming with director Alfred Hitchcock in Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ).

The trailer for North by Northwest features Hitchcock presenting himself as the owner of Alfred Hitchcock Travel Agency and telling the viewer he has made a motion picture to advertise these wonderful vacation stops.

" A. H. Weiler of The New York Times made it a " Critic's Pick " and said it was the " year's most scenic, intriguing and merriest chase "; Weiler complimented the two leads: " Cary Grant, a veteran member of the Hitchcock acting varsity, was never more at home than in this role of the advertising-man-on-the-lam.

In the book Hitchcock / Truffaut ( p. 107-108 ), Hitchcock called it a " phallic symbol ... probably one of the most impudent shots I ever made.

In Patrick McGilligan's biography of Hitchcock he said the film was perhaps the most American film that Hitchcock had made up to that time.

In a 1964 interview on Telescope with host Fletcher Markle, Markle noted, " Mr Hitchcock, most critics have always considered Shadow of a Doubt, which you made in 1943, as your finest film.

Hitchcock believed the fossils were made by gigantic ancient birds, long before scientists accepted that modern birds and dinosaurs are related.

Alfred Hitchcock made a low-budget biographical film of Strauss in 1933 called Waltzes from Vienna.

Alfred Hitchcock used him in Stage Fright ( 1950 ), then he made a film in Hollywood for King Vidor, Lightning Strikes Twice ( 1951 ).

Although admirers would argue that Powell ought to rank alongside fellow British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean, his career suffered a severe reversal after the release of the controversial psychological thriller film Peeping Tom, made in 1960 as a solo effort.

He made his big-screen debut in Space Camp ( 1986 ), playing the role of Max, after starring in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " A Very Happy Ending " the same year.

In addition to her stage work, Wright made numerous television appearances throughout the decade, including episodes for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ( 1964 ) on CBS, Bonanza ( 1964 ) on NBC, The Defenders ( 1964, 1965 ) on CBS, and CBS Playhouse ( 1969 ).

His performance as Major Hitchcock in the Boulting brothers ' Private's Progress ( 1956 ) gave birth to his catchphrase, " you're a shower, an absolute shower ", and made him a favourite in British comedy films for the next decade.

Cronyn also made appearances in television, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " Kill With Kindness " ( 1956 ) and Hawaii Five-O episodes " Over Fifty, Steal " ( 1970 ) and " Odd Man In " ( 1971 ).

Alfred Hitchcock regularly made cameo appearances in his films.

Kasey Rogers ( Miriam, credited as Laura Elliott ) noted that she had perfect vision at the time the movie was made, but Hitchcock insisted she wear the character's thick eyeglasses, even in long shots when regular glass lenses would have been undetectable.

Hitchcock wanted the phone in the foreground to dominate the shot, emphasizing the importance of the call, but the limited depth-of-field of contemporary motion picture lenses made it difficult to get both phone and women in focus.

Hitchcock made personal appearances in most of them, and was often accompanied by his daughter.

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), Sabotage ( 1937 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

In the 1950s, Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales and glamorous stars.

Gibson's writing style is said to be similar to Raymond Chandler's detective stories and Alfred Hitchcock ’ s thrillers that used McGuffins ( the identity of the maker of the footage, in this case ) to drive the story.

The influence of Hitchcock emerged in several French thrillers, especially The Champagne Murders ( 1967 ) directed by Claude Chabrol.

Other thrillers of this period inspired by Hitchcock include The Bedroom Window ( 1987 ), largely a remake of Rear Window ( 1954 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance " The Gentleman from America ", which was filmed in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Her appearances ranged from Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford thrillers to comedic roles alongside of Charley Chase, the Three Stooges, Leon Errol, Edgar Kennedy and Laurel and Hardy.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

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* Following Hitchcock's death, Universal, which had previously purchased the rights to Psycho ( 1960 ), eventually acquired the distribution rights to the four other films ( along with a former WB feature, Rope ) in 1983 from the Hitchcock estate ( which still holds all other ancillary rights to these films — the estate is overseen by his daughter, Patricia );

Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian ", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

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Hitchcock was quick to bring in men closely allied with big business, which further alienated the progressive wing of the party.

In May 2007, he accompanied Robyn Hitchcock and Ruby Wright in performing the song " Gigolo Aunt " at a tribute for Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett in London, which he did on mandolin .< ref >

The dramatic conflict is heightened by film noir-inspired lighting and smoke, a dissonant string orchestra score that is reminiscent of movie scores for horror films ( including Bernard Hermann ’ s scores for Alfred Hitchcock films ), and the house itself, which acts as a character in the story, apparently reacting to the family ’ s crisis.

In TV interviews, Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves, but, as to what that object specifically is, he declared, " the audience don't care ".

The term lent itself to several " in " jokes: in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a " Mr. MacGuffin ".

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

About 70 Pawnee were killed in this attack, which occurred in a canyon in present-day Hitchcock County.

Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War II.

The film was one of two Hitchcock films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941, the other being Rebecca, which went on to win the award.

* Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ) — which was filmed by Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ) ( with a changed ending )

In the same vein is Iles's Before the Fact ( 1932 ), which became the Hitchcock movie Suspicion.

Years later, in a show at the Pompidou Center called " Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences ", an aerial shot of Grant in the cornfield, with a " road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen ", was said to draw on Léon Spilliaert's " Le Paquebot ou L ' Estran ", which features " alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretch to the edge of the canvas.

The film's plot involves a " MacGuffin ", a term popularized by Hitchcock: a physical object that everyone in the film is chasing but which has no deep relationship to the plot.

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.