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TMI (Today’s Movie Info)

 NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) was the fourth and final movie director Alfred Hitchcock made with Cary Grant.  The other three were: Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955).
 
This film contains two iconic Hollywood scenes: the chase across Mount Rushmore, and the Crop Duster (“where there ain’t no crops”) buzzing Grant.
 
Jimmy Stewart really wanted the role, but Hitchcock preferred Grant for this one.  
 
Sophia Loren was the first choice for the Eva Marie Saint role, but studio contractual obligations required her to turn it down
 
The film contains one of Hitchcock’s most memorable cameos: (during the opening credits) he arrives at a bus stop, but gets there just as the door is closed in his face.
 
Hitchcock couldn’t get permission to film inside the United Nations building or on the face of Mount Rushmore, so sets were built.
 
Ernest Lehman – wrote this script and also some of Hollywood’s most successful screenplays: The Sound of Music (1965), West Side Story (1961), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

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