Editing Alfred Hitchcock (section)

====''Marnie''====
[[File:Marnie (1964) trailer.webm|thumb|Trailer for ''[[Marnie (film)|Marnie]]'' (1964)]]

In June 1962, Grace Kelly announced that she had decided against appearing in ''[[Marnie (film)|Marnie]]'' (1964).<!--explain why?--> Hedren had signed an exclusive seven-year, $500-a-week contract with Hitchcock in October 1961,<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|1996|p=270}};
{{harvnb|Moral|2013|p=16}}</ref> and he decided to cast her in the lead role opposite [[Sean Connery]]. In 2016, describing Hedren's performance as "one of the greatest in the history of cinema", [[Richard Brody]] called the film a "story of sexual violence" inflicted on the character played by Hedren: "The film is, to put it simply, sick, and it's so because Hitchcock was sick. He suffered all his life from furious sexual desire, suffered from the lack of its gratification, suffered from the inability to transform fantasy into reality, and then went ahead and did so virtually, by way of his art."<ref name=Brody17Aug2016>{{cite magazine |last1=Brody |first1=Richard|author-link=Richard Brody |title="Marnie" Is the Cure for Hitchcock Mania |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/marnie-is-the-cure-for-hitchcock-mania |magazine=The New Yorker |date=17 August 2016|access-date=2 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103072926/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/marnie-is-the-cure-for-hitchcock-mania|archive-date=3 January 2018|url-status=live}}{{pb}}
{{cite magazine |last1=Brody |first1=Richard|author-link=Richard Brody |title=Tippi Hedren's Silence |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/tippi-hedrens-silence |magazine=The New Yorker |year=2012|access-date=5 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105180346/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/tippi-hedrens-silence|archive-date=5 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> A 1964 ''New York Times'' review called it Hitchcock's "most disappointing film in years", citing Hedren's and Connery's lack of experience, an amateurish script and "glaringly fake cardboard backdrops".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Archer |first1=Eugene |title=Hitchcock's 'Marnie,' With Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/072364hitch-marnie-review.html |work=The New York Times |date=23 July 1964|access-date=3 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511180850/http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/072364hitch-marnie-review.html|archive-date=11 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the film, Marnie Edgar (Hedren) steals $10,000 from her employer and goes on the run. She applies for a job at Mark Rutland's (Connery) company in Philadelphia and steals from there too. Earlier, she is shown having a panic attack during a thunderstorm and fearing the colour red. Mark tracks her down and blackmails her into marrying him. She explains that she does not want to be touched, but during the "honeymoon", Mark rapes her. Marnie and Mark discover that Marnie's mother had been a prostitute when Marnie was a child, and that, while the mother was fighting with a client during a thunderstorm{{snd}}the mother believed the client had tried to molest Marnie{{snd}}Marnie had killed the client to save her mother. Cured of her fears when she remembers what happened, she decides to stay with Mark.<ref name=Brody17Aug2016/><ref name=Cleaver13Aug2012>{{cite news |last1=Cleaver |first1=Emily |title=My favourite Hitchcock: Marnie |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/13/my-favourite-hitchcock-marnie |work=The Guardian |date=13 August 2012|access-date=27 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122740/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/13/my-favourite-hitchcock-marnie|archive-date=27 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Pat Nixon Alfred Hitchcock 1411-15A.jpg|thumb|upright|The Hitchcocks with First Lady [[Pat Nixon]] and first daughter [[Julie Nixon Eisenhower]] in 1969]]

Hitchcock told cinematographer [[Robert Burks]] that the camera had to be placed as close as possible to Hedren when he filmed her face.{{sfn|Spoto|1999|p=471}} [[Evan Hunter]], the screenwriter of ''The Birds'' who was writing ''Marnie'' too, explained to Hitchcock that, if Mark loved Marnie, he would comfort her, not rape her. Hitchcock reportedly replied: "Evan, when he sticks it in her, I want that camera right on her face!"<ref>{{harvnb|Moral|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=2WFCQednbTMC&pg=PA37 37]}}, citing Evan Hunter (1997). ''[[Me and Hitch]]''.</ref> When Hunter submitted two versions of the script, one without the rape scene, Hitchcock replaced him with [[Jay Presson Allen]].{{sfn|Moral|2013|pp=38–39}}