Word: dialed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dial M for Murder. Ray Milland tries to murder Grace Kelly and Director Alfred Hitchcock sees to it that he gets his comeuppance (TIME...
...Dial M is starred with fine scenes and good performances. Though played as contemporary melodrama, it somehow manages to reflect the gaslight magic of turn-of-the-century London. Murder is the plot, but everyone is extremely gentlemanly about the crime, from the Holmesian police inspector (John Williams) down to the caddish assassin (Anthony Dawson). The crime is conceived by quick-witted Ray Milland, who, losing his wife's love, decides to murder her for her money rather than wait for her to leave him. A solicitous sort who doesn't want to hurt anyone unnecessarily, Milland arranges...
...intended victim, Grace Kelly is not required to do much more than look beautiful and vulnerable, and she accomplishes both with patrician distinction. The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits, and audiences may relish seeing Milland mowed down by superior intelligence rather than by a sawed-off shotgun...
Since her first Metro picture (Mogam-bo), Grace has been busier than a flock of starlets at a cocktail party. Warner Bros, borrowed her for Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
What brought on the rush for Kelly? Says Director Alfred Hitchcock, who worked with Grace in Dial M and Rear Window: "She is that rare thing in movies, a lady. She is a real actress. Not in the histrionic sense, but in a deeper sense. She's one of those people who fit into any leading-lady part. She has a youthful appearance photographically, but she is no child or juvenile in any sense. Ingrid Bergman has the same quality. It suggests intelligence...