Word: thorwald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...these lines reveal the feud of sorts which emerges concerning the goings-on outside the rear window of Jeffries' Chelsea, New York apartment. Lisa Carol Freemont's theories of the murder are founded on the ideas of female ritual and manner. She claims that the missing Mrs. Thorwald would not have left without her favorite handbag which hangs on her bedpost. Nor would she have left all her jewelry at home, much less in the handbag where it would have gotten tangled-up and scratched. And she absolutely would not have left her wedding ring. So she was murdered...