Another film fave of mine: North by Northwest! Jordan Riefe: The music had everything to do with it on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, where Saint hosted The Big Picture: Hitchcock!, a salute to the master of suspense and film composers such as Dimitri Tiomkin, Alfred Newman, and, of course, Bernard Herrmann, whose music for Psycho slices like a steak knife through the popular imagination. Herrmann also scored Hitch’s previous movie, North By Northwest, starring Saint, Cary Grant, and James Mason. It was the last of a string of classics the director made in the 50s, including Psycho, Rear Window, and Vertigo; the films starred a string of blonds like Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Vera Miles, and, in 1959, Saint, in North By Northwest, despite the studio’s insistence on using Cyd Charisse. “He didn’t talk about acting. He worked with me from the outside in,” Saint recalled about working with Hitch. “My hair, my makeup, my shoes, my jewelry, my purse, my gloves, everything. And just from creating that exterior for me, he gave me the sense of a spy lady. But we never talked about emotion. He told me not to use my hands, I have a habit of doing that, and to lower my voice. And always, in my scenes with Cary Grant, look directly into his eyes, which was not difficult.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:59:08 +0000
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