Tuesday, October 30, 2007

About the Main Cast

“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” Alfred Hitchcock


James Stewart (1908-1997)

As John Ferguson "Scottie"


He was born on July 20th 1908 in Indiana, Pennsylvania and became on of the best actors of America.
After graduating in 1932 from Princeton University (where he studied Architecture) , he was convinced by Joshua Logan to begin acting.
During the early years of his career he acted in musicals, for example Born To Dance (1936) and romantic comedies. Soon he received an Academy Award nomination for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and in 1940 he won the Oscar for The Philadelphia Story.
During the Second World War, he was sent to Germany for several missions as a bomber pilot, and then he got a better rank as a colonel. He won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross and later he got the rank of Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve.
After the War, he acted in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Harvey (1950) ,and Anatomy of a Murder (1959) films that were nominated to the Oscar.
In 1949 he married Gloria Hatrick with whom he had two daughters. They were together almost forty-five years until Gloria died in 1994. On July 2nd 1997 he died from a heart attack at his Hollywood home.
In 1990, he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
It is said that he was extremely polite, shy manner and that he had a drawl in his voice. He was one of the most loved actors in America.

Film Highlights

This side of heaven (1934) ; Art Trouble (1934) ; The Murder Man (1935) ; Small Town Girl (1936) ; Next Time We Love (1936) ; Important News (1936) ; After the Thin Man (1936) ; Rose Marie (1936) ; Wife vs Secretary (1936) ; Speed (1936) ; The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) ; Born to Dance (1936) ; Navy Blue and Gold (1937) ; The Last Gangster (1937) ; Seventh Heaven (1937) ; Vivacious Lady (1938) ; Of Human Hearts (1938) ; The Shopworn Angel (1938) ; You Can't Take It With You (1938) ; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) ; It's a Wonderful World (1939); Ice Follies (1939) ; Made For Each Other (1939) ; Destry Rides Again (1939); The Shop Around The Corner (1939); The Philadelphia Story (1940) ; No Time For Comedy (1940); The Mortal Storm (1940); Ziegfeld Girl (1941); Pot o' Gold (1941); Thunderbolt (1945) ; It's a Wonderful Life (1946) ; Magic Town (1947) ; You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) ; Rope (1948) ; Call Northside 777 (1948) ; On Our Merry Way (A Miracle Can Happen) (1948) ; The Stration Story (1949); Malaya (1949) ; Winchester'73 (1950); The Jackpot (1950) ; Harvey (1950) ; Broken Arrow (1950) ; No Highway in the Sky (1951) ; The Naked Spur (1952) ; Carbine Williams (1952); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) ; Bend of The River (1952) ; Thunder Bay (1953); Rear Window (1954) ; The Glenn Miller Story (1954); Strategic Air Command (1955); The Man from Laramie (1955); The Far Country (1955); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) ; The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); Night Passage (1957); Vertigo (1958); Bell, Book and Candle (1958); The FBI Story (1959); The Mountain Road (1960); Two Rode Together (1961); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Mr. Hobbs takes a Vacation (1962); How the West Was Won (1962) ; Take Her, She is Mine (1963); Cheyenne Autumn (1964); Dear Brigitte (1965); Shenandoah (1965); The Flight of the Phoenix (1965); The Rare Breed (1966); Fire creek (1968); Bandolero! (1968); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970); Fools' Parade (1971); That's Entertainment (1974); The Shootlist (1976); Airport '77 (1977); The Magic of Lassie (1978); The Big Sleep (1978); A Century of Cinema (1994).

This information has been taken and adapted from the following sources :

Obsessed With Vertigo.Dir. Harrison Engle. DVD. American Classic Movies 1997
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Jimmy/jimmy-bio.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/bio
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Guild/7634/stewart.html

The Film Highlights and the Biography of the actors were taken from "the bonus material" contained in a version of the film Vertigo




Kim Novak (1933 - Present )
As Madeleine and Judy Barton

Kim Novak was born as Marylin Pauline Novak on February 13, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. When she was a teenager he used to work as a model. Due to her job, she had to tour the country on an advertising campaign for a refrigerator manufacturer.
After this tour she signed contract that lasted six months at Columbia Pictures. Harry Cohon, Studio Chief, wanted her to replace Rita Hayworth and compete with the beauty of Marylin Monroe. At that time, Kim Novak still used her name Marilyn Novak, but after several disagreement, she and the studio settled on the stage name Kim Novak.
After taking acting lessons, she debuted in Pushover (1954) as Lona McLane.
Possibly, among her most well-known performances are: The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) where she played Molly ; Joshua Logan's Picnic (1955) where she played Madge and won a Gold won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer and for World Film Favorite, and she was also nominated for Best Foreign Actress ; Vertigo (1958) where she played Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton.
During the 1960s she acted in films such as The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; (1965) The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) among others.

On March 12, 1976 she married Dr. Robert Malloy with whom she lives until today in California.

Film Highlights

Pushover (1954); Phffft (1954); The French Line (1954); Son of Sinbad (1955); Picnic (1955); The Man With The Golden Arm (1955); 5 Against the House (1955); The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); Pal Joey (1957); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Vertigo (1958); Bell, Book and Candle (1958); Middle of the Night (1959); Strangers When We Meet (1950); Pepe (1960); The Notorious Landlady (1962); Boys' Night Out (1962); Of Human Bondage (1962); Kiss Me, Stupid (1964); The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965); The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Tales That Witness Madness (1973); Massacre at Blood Bath Drive-in (1976); The White Buffalo (1977); Just a Gigolo (1979); The Mirror Crack'd (1980); Es hat mich sehr gefreut (1987); The Children (1990); Liebestraum (1991).



This information has been taken and adapted from the following sources :

Obsessed With Vertigo.Dir. Harrison Engle. DVD. American Classic Movies 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Novak
The Film Highlights and the Biography of the actors were taken from "the bonus material" contained in a version of the film Vertigo (Hitchcock, Alfred, dir. Vertigo. Universal Studios 2005)





Barbara Bel Geddes (1933 - 2005)
(as Midge Wood)

She was born on October 31, 1922 in New York City. Her father was Norman Bel Geddes,a well respected stage designer.
She began her stage carreer when she was a teenager and she acted in several shows in New York. In 1945 she acted in "Deep are the Roots," and for her performance she won an Award.
Her film debut was in 1947 in The Long Night.In 1947, after working hardly, she received an Academy Award nomination for "I remember Mama".
She is also famous for her TV performances;for example, in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, she played a housewife who murders her husband, but it is the role that she had on the Tv's long-running series Dallas the one that she is remembered for. On that series, she plays Miss Ellie Ewing, the benign matriarch of a dysfunctional Texas family.
Unfortunately, after several problems of health, Barbara Bel Geddes died on August 2nd 2005, due to lung cancer.


Film Highlights

The Long Night (1947); Caught (1948); Blood on the Moon (1948); I Remember Mama (1948); Panic in the Streets (1950); Fourteen Hours (1951); Vertigo (1958) The Five Pennies (1959); 5 Branded Women (1960); By Love Possessed (1961); The Todd Killings (A Dangerous Friend) (1971); Summertree (1971).


This information has been taken and adapted from the following sources :


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000895/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bel_Geddes
http://www.ultimatedallas.com/barbarabelgeddes/
Obsessed With Vertigo.Dir. Harrison Engle. DVD. American Classic Movies 1997
The Film Highlights and the Biography of the actors were taken from "the bonus material" contained in a version of the film Vertigo (Hitchcock, Alfred, dir. Vertigo. Universal Studios 2005)

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