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Eva Marie Saint North by Northwest | Your 1959 Hitchcock Blonde Inspiration

Eva Marie Saint North by Northwest | Your 1959 Hitchcock Blonde Inspiration

Eva Marie Saint North by Northwest, is your go-to for late 1950’s Hitchcock Blonde inspiration.

Eva Marie Saint plays the ultimate Hitchcock blonde as Eve Kendall in North By Northwest—the icy and dangerous Eve Kendall who seduces Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) then sends him into danger.

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Cary Grant To Catch a Thief Clothes - 10 Life-Changing Outfits to Inspire Your Summer Wardrobe

Cary Grant To Catch a Thief Clothes - 10 Life-Changing Outfits to Inspire Your Summer Wardrobe

Cary Grant’s wardrobe of 10 outfits will forever inspire--and thus--transform your summer wardrobe. 

Although the costume designer for the film was the famous Edith Head, she was in charge of designing Grace Kelly’s outfits in the film, as Cary Grant selected his own outfits.

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Dial M for Murder Synopsis
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Dial M for Murder Synopsis

Ray Milland plays Tony Wendice, a tennis star who finds out about his wife Margot’s (Grace Kelly) affair with an American novelist (Robert Cummings). Tony then elaborately plots Margot’s murder by hiring a killer. When the attempted murder goes wrong, he twists the story to incriminate her. Anthony Dawson co-stars as Charles Swann, the would-be murderer.

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Grace Kelly’s 1950s fashion in Rear Window (1954)

Grace Kelly’s 1950s fashion in Rear Window (1954)

The first evening Grace Kelly’s character shows up to bring dinner in for Jimmy Stewart who is wheel-chair bound.

She arrives in an elegant monochromatic dress with a full white skirt and off the shoulder top, complete with red lipstick and a simple string of pearls.

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Vertigo plot holes—and did Judy commit suicide at the end?
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Vertigo plot holes—and did Judy commit suicide at the end?

We have to talk about them…there are just too many of them not to notice—call them plot holes, loose ends, script errors, whatever you like, but there are plenty of them in Vertigo.

Despite Vertigo being one of our favorite Hitchcock films, perhaps his best! It’s hard not to watch it and wonder about the loose ends that never get tied up.

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Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock’s best film?
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Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock’s best film?

Welcome to our second Alfred Hitchcock movie review! 

Following up our review of Rear Window, today we are talking about a film that has been cited as one of the defining works of Hitchcock’s career, Vertigo (1958)

Vertigo, shot in San Francisco, has a stunning cinematography, complex characters and a storyline that feels like a novel, versus some of Hitchcock’s movies that are based on plays. It has a super high rating on IMDB, an 8.3 at the time of this blog post.

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Hitchcock Movie Review: Rear Window
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Hitchcock Movie Review: Rear Window

Today we are talking about Rear Window (1954) with James Stewart and Grace Kelly.

Hitchcock, was known as the “master of suspense” and liked to make the audience suffer as much as possible…he certainly earns his nickname in Rear Window, as the first 40 minutes are pretty painful to get through...but after that, the story begins to ramp up and you see why it’s such a classic.

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