MrWriteLA Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Cinesage? You there? Link to post Share on other sites
CineSage_jr Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Sorry. I was out getting my Macguffin waxed. Here's one: In what film (not by Hitchcock), via voice-over, is the meaning and history of the expression Que Sera Sera (from THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH's song) explained, though in its original Italian form (Che Sara Sara)? Link to post Share on other sites
MrWriteLA Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 "The Barefoot Contessa" Link to post Share on other sites
CineSage_jr Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Absolutely. And Rossano Brazzi's character in the film might've added (courtesy of writer-director Joe Mankiewicz) that beyond "Whatever will be will be," what's gone will never grow back. Link to post Share on other sites
MrWriteLA Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 In which Hitchcock movie do you find this line? "You have all the makings of an outstanding boor." Link to post Share on other sites
RobertEmmettHarron Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 "Saboteur" Nasty Otto Kruger says it to Robert Cummings. Link to post Share on other sites
MrWriteLA Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Very good, Robert. He does indeed. Your go. Link to post Share on other sites
RobertEmmettHarron Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Okey-dokey. Here's a little gem from Hitchcock's British period. On the set of "Sabotage" Hitch incurred the wrath of leading lady Sylvia Sidney when he coined this nickname for Sidney's co-star Desmond Tester. (Tester played her kid brother "Stevie." What was the nickname? Link to post Share on other sites
bansi4 Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 Robert, it looks like you have us stumped. Link to post Share on other sites
CineSage_jr Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Well, obviously ****, or **** (remember "The Noble Mr Alcock" in the wonderful British miniseries, To Serve Them All My Days?). Of course, the name "Hitchcock" is rather open to **** embellishment, as well. Link to post Share on other sites
RobertEmmettHarron Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Yes, sir. I'm most grateful that we can finally get beyond this question. Sir Alfred enjoyed calling the 16-year-old Tester Desmond ****, which the youth apparently thought was pretty darn funny. Sidney, not known for anything in the way of a sense of humor, thought it in unspeakably poor taste, which, of course, it was. According to the McGilligan biography, Hitchcock was happy to pun on his own name as well. According to the author, he liked to urge people to call him by his nickname. "It's Hitch," he would say, "without the ****." Take it away, CineSage, with a G-rated question if you would, please. Link to post Share on other sites
CineSage_jr Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 A thread about Alan Ladd elsewhere on this site brings to mind the fact that he wasn't Paramount's first choice for the role of Raven, the lead in THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1941), the film that made Ladd a star. Who was the studio's preferred lead? Link to post Share on other sites
path40a Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Er, this is Hitchcock Trivia. See what you get for changing the subject line;-) Link to post Share on other sites
vallo13 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Robert Preston (for the This Gun for Hire) Trivia vallo Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Here's an easy one to get us back on track: Hitch received his first award as a director from what organization? Link to post Share on other sites
MrWriteLA Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 New York Film Critics Circle? ("The Lady Vanishes," 1939) Link to post Share on other sites
LuckyDan Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 You are correct sir. Link to post Share on other sites
MrWriteLA Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 What singular distinction does Hitchcock's "Psycho" share with John Cromwell's "The Prisoner of Zenda"? Link to post Share on other sites
RobertEmmettHarron Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Both films were remade, shot for shot, in color, by another director. Gus Van Sant, for Psycho, of course, and Richard Thorpe re-shot Zenda for MGM in 1952. Link to post Share on other sites
MrWriteLA Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Correct. You might also have added: using the same screenplays and same musical scores as the originals. Link to post Share on other sites
RobertEmmettHarron Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I knew that the script was the same for Zenda (same studio property), but I wasn't sure about Psycho. Had no idea about the scores. I wouldn't think that would even be legal in regard to the Hermann score for Psycho. I've never seen the modern Psycho, although I've seen the 1952 Zenda film, which is proof positive that if you don't have the director the material isn't gonna pull you through. Just a personal opinion, out of line here possibly, but if Richard Thorpe ever directed a decent film in his life I've yet to see it. OK, off soapbox, next question... Who is the only actor or actress to be directed by both Hitchcock and the great Danish master Carl Th. Dreyer? Link to post Share on other sites
inglis Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 This is going to seem lame compared to what I have read on your forum but what body of water does Tippi Hendren have to cross by boat to see Rod Taylor ?I hope this is considered Hitchcock trivia as well Link to post Share on other sites
CineSage_jr Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Bodacious Babe. Link to post Share on other sites
inglis Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 you are right ! Link to post Share on other sites
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