Judging from the casts of his movies, Alfred Hitchcock preferred working with the same actors and actresses when he could. Which actors were cast as leads in more than two of his pictures? More than one? (Highlight the blank area below for the answers)
Four each: Cary Grant, James Stewart
Two each: Ivor Novello, Carl Brisson, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Robert Cummings, John Forsyth, and, of all people, Edmund Gwenn (depending on who you think the lead actor is).
James Stewart: Vertigo, Rear Window, and the Man Who Knew Too Much.
You missed one. Not surprising since it’s not seen all that often.
Cary Grant: Notorious, Suspicion, North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief
Rope!
Yup. One of the few if not the only full length major motion picture filmed in a single shot.
Update
I looked it up. There are actually around 30 of them and with the advent of digital cameras they’re becoming more common. They’re sort of the killing recibiendo of film-making.
Right, and of course Hitchcock didn’t actually shoot it all in a single shot (film magazines weren’t long enough.) He just hid the cuts.
In addition everybody stopped where they were until the film magazine was changed and then continued.
Tippi Hedren was my favorite. What a great name.
Steve