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Love the peacock feather dress from Samson and Delilah, Sue Sue! How they managed to keep that one from disintegrating is beyond me.
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It's also amazing that so many of those historic costumes are still so well preserved thanks to Debbie Reynolds. The enormous expense of cleaning and climate controlled environments as well as documenting and creating a database with a catalog is enormously expensive even for just a few dresses. I think part of the reason Debbie is such a workaholic is that she was trying to do all she could to save all the memorabilia she had amassed.


She knew so many of the performers who wore those costumes, and probably has a treasure trove of memories and amusing anedcotes for many of the outfits. Wish she would write a book about some of the individual costumes, her memory of the performer who wore them, and her reasons for venerating such historical pieces.
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Oh my gosh, she really should! I bet it would be a hoot!
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Dontchano...:lol:
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It's started...
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The Girl...on HBO...now.
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8) Photo Sue Sue ... I wished I could watch it ... I don't have HBO. :(
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New title: Hitchcock's Obsession.

Imelda Staunton (Sense and Sensibility, Cranford) is the long-suffering Alma, and viewers definitely feel her pain. Penelope Wilton, as assistant Peggy Robertson, reversed her course, as her usual forte as a determined, aggressive Alpha female like Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey or the Duchess of Kent in Victoria and Albert don't reveal much of her ability to nurture, just badger, so she has a chance to nurture and be reserved. Toby Jones nailed the quirky, obsessive nature of one who is destined to be unrequited, and revealed Hitch's darker side with understated rivers of angst. Sienna Miller's scenes, especially during and after the torturous filming of the attic encounter in The Birds is moving. Lush cinematography, iconic costumes, and the voyeuristic filming of a scene within a scene are definitely other reasons to see this surprisingly riveting HBO feature. An attempted seduction and a naughty limerick spice up the private encounters between Tippy and Hitch, who knew how to be cruel to his unresponsive leading lady. You can see the dollars on the screen and extraordinary measures were taken by the cast and crew to recreate the moment.

Tippi Hedren was thanked on the final roll of the credits, and Donald Spoto, who has penned biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly and others, was credited as script consultant
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Hey Christy, what did you think of “THE GIRL”? Did you like it or no. I agree with you about Toby, but if I had one quibble, one small quibble, it’s that Toby kind of played Hitch in a one-note way. I liked his performance and thought he nailed it, but now having seen the YouTube clip posted in the Hitchcock thread ( since seeing the movie ), where he is interviewed by Pia Lindstrom, I kind of forgot that he had a twinkle in his eye. This doesn’t excuse his behavior, but I just thought Toby might have injected that witty sense of humor in between Hitch’s limericks and drinking. Penelope Wilton was great as his assistant. It was hurtful when he turned on her in one moment; sent her back to her typewriter in sniffles, the ol’ meanie!

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...and the voyeuristic filming of a scene within a scene are definitely other reasons to see this surprisingly riveting HBO feature.”
I wonder if it would have been too cutesy if the director had filmed the movie as though Hitchcock was making this movie.
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That's exactly what I was wondering, Maven. It sounds like he went the straightforward way, but how fun would it have been to make it a Hitch-ian thriller?
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Us film buffs would have loved the Hitchcockian conceit. Guess it's better to do it straight-forward so folks won't complain about that.
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Excellent points, Cinemaven and Jackie. I think having Hitch make his own movie of his memory of certain experiences would be the ultimate psychological study of his modus operandi. The Girl is really Tippi's version, and I found it entertaining and some elements quite accurate from what I've read and observed. But what of Joan Fontaine's version of this pairing? Would she have a similar tale to tell? And what about Grace Kelly's? I think Kelly's version would be much different considering how she continued to work with him, and was almost lured back from regality to star in Marnie.

But I am glad that Marnie is now being considered more of his pantheon of classics, and is actually thought by some to be his final masterpiece.

I would be extremely interested in what Barbara Leigh Hunt (Brenda Blaney in Frenzy, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Pride and Prejudice '95, THE definitve version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle) has to say about working with Hitch in his first 'R' rated film. Is the last shot of Hunt in Frenzy what he really envisioned doing to Tippi?

Found this interesting blog about Frenzy: http://voices.yahoo.com/the-murder-sequ ... 47904.html
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Read it. Whew! Graphic. Thorough.
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Yes. Graphic is the word.

Immediately after I finished watching The Girl, I felt that it just wasn't the Hitchcock that I knew from his television shows and public appearances on television. I think it lacked his humor, and his humanity.

But if he ever did exact revenge on Tippi, besides locking her out of Hollywood for a time, and it was done on the screen, it must have been when he filmed poor Barbara Leigh-Hunt's last scene in Frenzy. (shudder!)
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I'm inclined to agree with you SueSue. Boy, what a psychiatrist could do with Hitch. But for me, his films are masterpieces.
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The films reveal such wonderful stories that they have set a standard and tone that others keep trying to emulate, but can't, that others keep revisiting because they are so well crafted, and that viewers connect with because of the human desire to be entertained well.
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