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Along with this duo, Hitchcock has assembled notables such as the famous character actress Thelma Ritter as Stella, the savvy insurance nurse who tries to set Jeffries' mind straight about Lisa, and Raymond Burr as the sinister murder suspect, Mr. Lars Thorwald. Stella quips after she removes the thermometer from Jeffries' mouth, "You've got a hormone deficiency...Those bathing beauties you've been watching ["Miss Torso," the ballet dancer across the courtyard who flits around in her brassiere and panties] haven't raised your temperature in a month," When Jeffries continues to debate with her about marrying Lisa, Stella...
...going? And what about the truck he sent away? And was it really Mrs. Thorwald who allegedly left with Lars Thorwald at six o'clock that same morning, just after Jeff had fallen asleep? The superintendent of the building must have been bribed. Mrs. Thorwald must have been murdered. Stella wants to know who killed the neighbor's dog which was always digging in Mr. Thorwald's flowerbed. She agrees with Lisa's female logic and says that someone would have to chop off her finger in order to remove her wedding ring. Mrs. Anna Thorwald was definitely murdered...
Lisa Carol Freemont struts her stuff and her street smarts by investigating the murder while Jeff and Stella watch from across the way. She is trying to convince her love Jeff that she can endure the danger and hardship he tackles on his photography assignments. She doesn't have to be holed up in some fashion salon or at the editor's desk of a fashion magazine. She's an independent gal who will prove to Jeff that even though she is from Park Avenue and knows the ritziest people in town (and could get him fashion shoots or portrait...
...Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny as the postcommunism paralysis in Russia. Altogether, Rebellions provides proof...
...film. This is one of the few restorations made by a major film company which improves the original version. Leigh deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Blanche. She showed Blanche's struggle to maintain her Southern politesse until the bitter, insane end. Kim Hunter as Stella won the Best Supporting Actress while Karl Malden, playing Mitchell, the naive, yet passionate love interest of Blanche, won the Best Supporting Actor award...