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Film School Rejects: Spotting Hitch: Help with Finding Hitchcock’s Cameos

  • Mister Hand · 1 year ago
    Wow! Nice article. Enjoyed very much taking a trek back through all of those movies that I loved when I was a kid. He has my sympathy filming that PSYCHO shower scene, though. If I'd had Janet Leigh naked in the shower, I believe it would have taken me weeks as well to get it... just... RIGHT.
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    My favorite is that newspaper ad in Lifeboat. It's also awesome that the product is called "Reduco Obesity Slayer." And Hitch is both before and after in the pictures, because he'd just lost 100 pounds. No lie.

    The lesson of this article is that Tallulah Bankhead should never wear panties.
  • Maggie Van Ostrand · 1 year ago
    Some consider Trouble with Harry a comedy, but Hitchcock himself didn't.

    Hitchcock considered The Trouble With Harry to be "a whimsical grotesquerie," which is different from comedy.
  • Mister Hand · 1 year ago
    I consider THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY and FAMILY PLOT to be the only Hitchcock films I never watched more than once.
  • The Pterodactyl from Citizen K · 1 year ago
    Hitchcock's cameo in "Lifeboat" was copied by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant", although I don't know if it was an intented homage or he just came up with the same solution. Fassbinder, who acted or had a cameo appearance in most of his films couldn't get a part for himself in the film which - adopted from his own play - is set entirely in an apartment, or more specifically in one bed, so he did the same as Hitchcock: his image appears in a newspaper on an image, behind one of the main characters.

    Some fans of Hitchcock speculate that he had a "secret cameo" in "North by Northwest" as an old lady on the train questioned by the police, in drag.