12 Thrilling Fact About Rear Window<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n3. GRACE KELLY TURNED DOWN THE LEAD IN ON THE WATERFRONT TO STAR IN REAR WINDOW.
\n<\/span><\/strong>In the fall of 1953, Grace Kelly was offered the female lead in two films: one was Rear Window, the other was Elia Kazan\u2019s On the Waterfront. Although she was dying to work with Hitchcock again, On the Waterfront would\u2019ve allowed Kelly to stay in New York, which she preferred to Los Angeles. Still, she ultimately chose to play socialite Lisa Fremont over blue-collar Edie Doyle. Instead, the part went to Eva Marie Saint, who would become a Hitchcock blonde herself with North by Northwest.<\/p>\n4. HITCHCOCK MODELED THE VILLAIN ON A PRODUCER HE HATED.
\n<\/span><\/strong>Hitchcock had a long-standing grudge with his former producer, David O. Selznick. The director believed Selznick had meddled too much with his movies, so much so that Hitchcock effectively disowned his first film with the producer, Rebecca. His ties to Selznick ended with the 1947 movie The Paradine Case, though, so Hitch decided to enact a sly bit of revenge onscreen. It involved Raymond Burr, the actor playing Rear Window villain Lars Thorwald. Hitchcock gave Burr glasses just like Selznick\u2019s and curly gray hair to match. He also instructed Burr to adopt many of the producer\u2019s mannerisms, such as the way he cradled a telephone in his neck. When all was said and done, Burr\u2019s murderous character looked a lot like Selznick, no doubt to the producer\u2019s supreme annoyance.<\/p>\n11. HITCHCOCK DELIBERATELY MISDIRECTED HIS ACTORS FOR LAUGHS.<\/span><\/strong>
\nEach neighbor has a hook: Miss Torso is a dancer, Miss Lonelyhearts is severely single, the Songwriter is, well, a songwriter. Then there\u2019s that random couple sleeping on the fire escape. Actors Sara Berner and Frank Cady played the unnamed pair, who spend most of the movie fidgeting on a mattress outdoors without incident. Until it rains. For this scene, Hitchcock intentionally messed with his actors. He told Berner to pull the mattress one way and Cady to pull it the other. Neither one knew the other had received conflicting directions. So when Hitchcock called “action,” the pair struggled with the mattress until Cady accidentally flew into the window. Hitchcock thought it was so funny, he kept it in the movie.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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