Editing Rear Window (section)

== Release ==
[[File:Rear Window (1954) - Trailer.webm|thumb|thumbtime=2:05|Original trailer for the 1968 re-release of ''Rear Window'' (1954)]]
On August 4, 1954, a "benefit world premiere" was held for the film, with [[United Nations]] officials and "prominent members of the social and entertainment worlds" at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City,<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/08/05/archives/a-rear-window-view-seen-at-the-rivoli.html|title=A 'Rear Window' View Seen at the Rivoli|work=The New York Times|date=August 5, 1954}}</ref> with proceeds going to the American–Korean Foundation (an aid organization founded soon after the end of the [[Korean War]] and headed by [[Milton S. Eisenhower]], brother of [[President Eisenhower]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9835|title=Statement by the President on the fund-raising campaign of the American–Korean Foundation|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Barbara]]}}</ref>

During its initial theatrical run, ''Rear Window'' earned $5.3 million in [[North America]]n box office rentals.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/variety197-1955-01-05/page/n57/mode/2up|title=1954 Boxoffice Champs|work=Variety|page=59|date=January 5, 1955|access-date=September 13, 2020|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>