Hitchcock's cameo in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) occurs about 43 minutes into the film. As the camera pulls back from the hotel steps, Hitchcock walks across the screen from left to right.
Alfred Hitchcock can be seen at Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette, near the end of the film. The film marks the first appearance of the comedy double-act Charters and Caldicott (played by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford).
Alfred Hitchcock makes his signature cameo as a man walking dogs out of the pet shop at the beginning of the film. They were two of his own Sealyham Terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley.
Everyone on set knew about Hitchcock's fixation. He had a reputation for obsessing about his blonde leading ladies but according to his assistant Peggy Robertson, he never got over Tippi and his preoccupation with her went beyond anything he had ever experienced before.
Mr. Mrs. Smith (1941) by Alfred Hitchcock, Clip:Hitchcock cameo: Hitch walks past an hotel, smoking
When did Alfred Hitchcock appear in The Birds?
Hitchcock's cameo in The Birds (1963) occurs about 2 minutes into the film. As Tippi Hedren walks into the pet store, Hitchcock walks out with his own two Sealyham Terriers, named Geoffrey and Stanley.
This film contains an Alfred Hitchcock cameo, a signature occurrence in most of his films. At around seven minutes into the film, both Hitchcock and the screenwriter Charles Bennett can be seen walking past a bus that Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim board outside the music hall.
Hitchcock's cameo appearance in the film occurs approximately at the forty-minute mark, when he can be seen exiting an elevator at the Empire State Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette.
“Easy Virtue” (1928) Hitchcock's first appearance came because the actor who was supposed to film the role had to drop out. That got the ball rolling and justified more appearances.
Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In Stage Fright, he can be seen 39 minutes into the film as a man on the street turning to look at Eve as she rehearses her scripted introduction speech to Mrs. Inwood.
Johnny Depp was originally cast as John Smith, but turned it down after being overworked with other movies he was shooting. Brad Pitt reportedly left the project after Nicole Kidman dropped out and her replacement had not yet been found. Once Angelina Jolie signed on, he returned to the project.
New York and Italy filming locations for the Amazon series. The newest adaptation of Mr & Mrs Smith landed on Prime Video last month and viewers were left enthralled by the lavish onscreen locations behind the spy story.
Glover and Waller-Bridge were originally cast in the respective roles that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie played, only for Waller-Bridge to suddenly exit in 2021. For Donald Glover, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's exit from “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” felt like “a divorce.”
Hitchcock's Film Cameo Appearances: Alfred Hitchcock made a total of 36 self-referential cameos (confirmed) in his 52 surviving films over a 50 year period (from 1927-1976), if one counts his off-screen narration at the start of The Wrong Man (1956). Some films may have had two cameo appearances, but were unconfirmed.
Buchan's son William later wrote that the name of the book originated when the author's daughter was counting the stairs at St Cuby, a private nursing home on Cliff Promenade in Broadstairs, where Buchan was convalescing. "There was a wooden staircase leading down to the beach.
The program consisted of the following titles: BLACKMAIL, CHAMPAGNE, DOWNHILL, EASY VIRTUE, THE FARMER'S WIFE, THE LODGER, THE MANXMAN, THE PLEASURE GARDEN, and THE RING.
What is the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made?
Charade was praised by critics for its screenplay and the chemistry between Grant and Hepburn. It has been called "the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made". It was filmed on location in Paris and contains animated titles by Maurice Binder. Henry Mancini's score features the popular theme song, "Charade".
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques (1955) is often referred to as “the greatest Hitchcock thriller that Hitchcock didn't direct.” One Hollywood folktale has Hitchcock scrambling to secure the rights to its source novel, Celle qui n'était plus (She Who Was No More), only to be beaten out by the Clouzot by mere ...
39 Easy Virtue (1928) Hitchcock can be seen walking across the tennis court about 20 minutes into his silent romance film Easy Virtue. Like his cameo in The Lodger: A Story of London Fog, Hitchcock's face never turns toward the camera in this appearance.
Alma Reville, wife of Alfred Hitchcock, was famously a major influence on his work but she also had a filmmaking career of her own, both before and after their marriage in 1926.
According to Hitchcock, 28,000 birds were used (out of which 3,200 were trained, 30 were considered special, and 4 were so consistently reliable they became leads).
