Vera Miles was Hitchcock’s intended lead for Vertigo and became pregnant during pre-production, which he never entirely forgave. Kim Novak took the role.
She played the sister in Psycho, and The Wrong Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance gave her substantial work for Hitchcock and Ford respectively. She returned for Psycho II, and worked steadily in television for decades.
Andy DevineThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Ford spent thirty years building the Western myth and then made the film that takes it apart, shot on a soundstage in black…
Anthony PerkinsHitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 American horror-thriller adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, depicting a Phoenix real-estate secretary who steals…
Jeffrey HunterWayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
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