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...rise was so rapid that it can be traced to her very first picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955), a Hitchcock exercise in ghoulish gaiety. She was the cute little widow who could help exhume and rebury her husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene...
Actors Are Cattle. Director Mann came away convinced she could do just that. "That test was animal-like in its naturalness," says he. "A searing inquiry with no pretense of being sophisticated." Another director who saw the test and agreed was Alfred Hitchcock. He saw it and signed her to play in The Trouble with Harry. Shirley came on Vermont location slightly more sophisticated than when she left Broadway, but "Hitch" finished the picture convinced that Shirley was "unique-which belongs to the making of a star, the rare quality we want." This was high praise from...
...cobblestone sidewalks, and the heehaw of the paddy wagon siren sounds in the night; from their window the fugitives watch, horrified, as the greengrocer across the street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation for long, agonizing minutes. As they prowl, Stevens' camera flashes to a shot of the family cat, perched on the drainboard...
Designed by Surgeons Claude R. Hitchcock and Joseph Kiser of Minneapolis General Hospital, the mask is made of flexible polyvinyl plastic. Inside it is a disposable filter of cotton and cellulose. In this trap the surgeon's breath is both dried and filtered; the exhaled air escapes backward from the mask's wings, is almost germfree. The new mask, built to stand away from the skin, is cooler than the close-fitting, clammy gauze. And although the plastic part costs $1.50, it should save hospitals money in the long run because it can be sterilized and reused...
...Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...