"""The New Yorker"" dismissed the film as ""an Alfred Hitchcock picture that makes you wonder what has happened to the man ... As the heiress, Grace Kelly is very pretty. She does not, presumably, try to act."" ""The Monthly Film Bulletin"" wrote, ""Even a comedy thriller needs considerably more in the way of plain excitement and tension than ""To Catch a Thief"" provides, and Hitchcock's celebrated habit of playing tricks with the audience ... seem a poor substitute for the real thing."" ""The Guardian"" called the film ""a thorough disappointment,"" writing that Hitchcock had ""failed so completely that one can"
"motion picture ""To Catch a Thief"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb ""Set a thief to catch a thief"". (Or as is more widely used, ""It takes a thief to catch a thief"".) ""It Takes a Thief,"" which was created by television writer Roland Kibbee, featured the adventures of cat burglar, pickpocket, and thief Alexander Mundy, who steals to finance his life as a polished playboy and sophisticate. He is in prison when the U.S. government's SIA (the fictional Secret Intelligence Agency) proposes a deal to Mundy: steal for the government in exchange"
"Brigitte Auber Brigitte Auber (born 27 April 1928) is a French actress who has worked on stage, film and TV in Europe. She was born in Paris, France. Auber began her film career with the leading role in Jacques Becker's ""Rendezvous in July"" (1949) and was known for roles in numerous French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's Romance ""Under the Sky of Paris"" (1951). Auber's best-known role, and one of her few English-speaking parts, was opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's ""To Catch a Thief"", released in 1955. Auber plays the role of Danielle Foussard."
"Stewart Granger. She played Catherine Knowland, a coffee plantation owner. Granger wrote in his autobiography of his distaste for the film's script, while Kelly later confided to Hedda Hopper, ""It wasn't pleasant. We worked at a pathetic village – miserable huts and dirty. Part of the crew got shipwrecked ... It was awful."" After the consecutive filming of ""Rear Window"", ""Toko-Ri"", ""Country Girl"", and ""Green Fire"", Kelly flew to the French Riviera to begin work on her third, and last, film for Alfred Hitchcock - ""To Catch a Thief"". Lent by MGM to Paramount Films for the fifth time, Kelly"
"Alfred Hitchcock's ""To Catch a Thief"". A trend of bodysuits was observed by film reviewer Alan Farrell in his book ""High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans"", and a number or occurrences of the garb in films were mentioned - Charlize Theron in ""Aeon Flux"", Milla Jovovich in the and film of the ""Resident Evil"" franchise, Carrie-Anne Moss in ""The Matrix"", Angelina Jolie in """", Kate Beckinsale in ""Underworld"", and Raquel Welch in ""Fantastic Voyage"". The trend of leather and vinyl catsuits were identified as an attempt to redefine the gender role of women through films. Theresa L. Geller described the"
"was developed from the saloon platform, it suffered from rigidity compromises despite extra side members in the chassis. The gearbox ratios were changed, and from 1954 an overdrive unit became standard. The gearchange lever was column-mounted. A true open 2-seater, there were no external door handles or wind-up windows. Very few of these cars are ever seen on the big screen. However, a sapphire blue Alpine featured prominently in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film ""To Catch a Thief"" starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. More recently, the American PBS show ""History Detectives"" tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned"
"Hermès's wife Julie. It was meant to fit into a car door and to allow riders to carry their saddle. In the 1930s, Hermès's son-in-law Robert Dumas redesigned it as a spacious travel bag called Sac à dépêches. It was a sharp contrast to the dominant purses of the time, which were simple, small and flat, resembling envelopes. The handbag gradually went on to become stiff and boxy. Alfred Hitchcock has been credited with bringing the handbag into the limelight. In 1954, Hitchcock allowed the costume designer Edith Head to purchase Hermès accessories for the film ""To Catch a Thief"","
"Dan Tobin, Dean Miller, and Movita. The character of ""Princess Tarji"" was slightly resurrected in one of Sheldon's ""I Dream of Jeannie"" TV episodes, ""This Is Murder"" (4/9/66), portrayed by Gila Golan. Shortly after the release of this film, Cary Grant went into a self-imposed retirement from acting, subsequently turning down many film offers including ""Sabrina"", in which he would have co-starred with Audrey Hepburn and ""A Star Is Born"" with Judy Garland. In 1955, director Alfred Hitchcock persuaded Grant to return to films with his classic thriller ""To Catch a Thief"". Businessman Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) breaks his engagement"
"film ""Foolish Wives"" although it was filmed in California. The casino featured in the James Bond films ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), and ""GoldenEye"" (1995). ""To Catch a Thief"" (1954) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting and featured Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco, as the stars. There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly—and dangerously—along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo; an interesting coincidence to her actual fate in 1982."
"and interior features in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, ""World (The Price of Love)"". More famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film ""To Catch a Thief"" starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy ""There's a Girl in My Soup"" and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning"
"how ""She just loved his personality and his taste"" and that Hitchcock was ""one of her very favorite people to work with"". In 2008, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented an exhibit titled ""Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film"", that showed how Hitchcock worked with the other professionals on the set in his movie, with details of how he collaborated with Redmond on seven of his films such as the 1940 movie ""Rebecca"", 1954's ""Rear Window"" and the 1955 film ""To Catch a Thief"". On January 31, 2016, Dorothea Holt Redmond will be inducted into"
"get away with it. The fact that many scenes of the film were set in a cinema allowed Hitchcock to include references to contemporary films and storylines. Perhaps the most famous of these is the final film sequence, an excerpt from a Walt Disney Silly Symphony ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"" (1935). Sabotage (1936 film) Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel ""The Secret Agent"", about a woman who discovers that her husband,"
"Grace Kelly, Claudette Colbert, and others but which is now quite rare."" Hitchcock put Hedren through an extensive color screen test that lasted two days and cost $25,000, doing scenes from his previous films, such as ""Rebecca"", ""Notorious"" and ""To Catch a Thief"" with actor Martin Balsam. According to Balsam, Hedren was very nervous but studied every line, did every move she was asked to, and tried to do everything right. Hitchcock asked costume designer Edith Head to design clothes for Hedren's private life and he personally advised her about wine and food. He also insisted for publicity purposes that"
"""North by Northwest"" (1959), both starring Cary Grant and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In ""North by Northwest"" she played Grant's character's mother, and in ""To Catch a Thief"" and ""The Swan"" (1956), she played the mother of characters played by Grace Kelly. Landis's appearance in ""North by Northwest"" earned her publicity for portraying Cary Grant's mother despite claiming to be nearly a year younger. Landis listed 1904 as the year of her birth. However, she had actually shaved eight years off her age. She appears in the 1900 U.S. Census as a 3-year-old born in November 1896; not old enough"
"as Margot and Roddy McDowall as Inspector Hubbard. It was run from September 26, 1995, to March 10, 1996, and directed by Edward Hastings. Nancy Allen (actress) Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress and anti-cancer activist best known for her roles in the films ""Carrie"" (1976), ""RoboCop"" (1987), and ""Dressed to Kill"" (1980), the last of which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Allen began an acting and modeling career as a child, and from the mid-1970s appeared in small film roles, most notably the anchor of Robert Zemeckis' ensemble comedy ""I Wanna Hold Your"
"is Born"", Grant believed that his film career was over, and briefly left the industry. In 1955, Grant agreed to star opposite Grace Kelly in ""To Catch a Thief"", playing a retired jewel thief nicknamed ""The Cat"", living in the French Riviera. Grant and Kelly worked well together during the production, which was one of the most enjoyable experiences of Grant's career. He found Hitchcock and Kelly to be very professional, and later stated that Kelly was ""possibly the finest actress I've ever worked with"". Grant was one of the first actors to go independent by not renewing his studio"
"In ""Rear Window"" (1954), Lisa (Grace Kelly) risks her life by breaking into Lars Thorwald's apartment. In ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955), Francie (Grace Kelly again) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In ""Vertigo"" (1958) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959) respectively, Kim Novak and Eva Marie Saint play the blonde heroines. In ""Psycho"" (1960), Janet Leigh's character steals $40,000 () and is murdered by Norman Bates, a reclusive psychopath. Tippi Hedren, a blonde, appears to be the focus of the attacks in ""The Birds"" (1963). In ""Marnie"" (1964), the title character, again played by Hedren, is"
"1954. Subsequently, she had leading roles in five films, including ""The Country Girl"" (1954) with Bing Crosby, for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include ""High Noon"" (1952), with Gary Cooper; ""High Society"" (1956), with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra; and three Alfred Hitchcock films: ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954), with Ray Milland; ""Rear Window"" (1954), with James Stewart; ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955), with Cary Grant. Kelly retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Rainier, and began her duties as Princess of Monaco. They had three children: Caroline,"
"Dorothea Holt Redmond Dorothea Holt Redmond (May 18, 1910 – February 27, 2009) was an illustrator and production designer noted for her work on Alfred Hitchcock films. Known as the first woman production designer, Redmond entered the industry in 1938. She worked on more than 30 films, including ""Gone with the Wind"" and ""The Ten Commandments"", as well as seven Hitchcock productions, among them ""Rebecca"", ""Rear Window"" and ""To Catch a Thief"". She was born in Los Angeles on May 18, 1910, to Mary and Harry Holt, who was a co-owner Western Lithograph Co. She attended the University of Southern"
"Nancy Allen (actress) Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress and anti-cancer activist best known for her roles in the films ""Carrie"" (1976), ""RoboCop"" (1987), and ""Dressed to Kill"" (1980), the last of which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Allen began an acting and modeling career as a child, and from the mid-1970s appeared in small film roles, most notably the anchor of Robert Zemeckis' ensemble comedy ""I Wanna Hold Your Hand"" (1978) and in Steven Spielberg's 1979 comedy ""1941"". A pivotal supporting role in ""Carrie"" (1976) brought her recognition, and after marrying the director"
"1954 while filming ""To Catch a Thief"", and that Hitchcock hoped to have John Michael Hayes write the screenplay. Hepburn was an admirer of Hitchcock's work and had long wanted to appear in one of his films. Samuel A. Taylor, scenarist for ""Vertigo"" and ""Topaz"", wrote the screenplay after Ernest Lehman rejected it. The Taylor screenplay included a scene, not in the original novel, where the heroine disguises herself as a prostitute and has to fend off a rapist. Hepburn left the film, partly because of the near-rape scene, but primarily due to a pregnancy. (Hepburn suffered a miscarriage during"
"Alfred Hitchcock cast her as cynical journalist Constance Porter in her most successful film, both critically and commercially, ""Lifeboat"". Her superbly multifaceted performance was acknowledged as her best on film and won her the New York Film Critics Circle award. A beaming Bankhead accepted her New York trophy and exclaimed, ""Dahlings, I was wonderful!"" Bankhead appeared in a revival of Noël Coward's ""Private Lives"", taking it on tour and then to Broadway for the better part of two years. The play's run made Bankhead a fortune. From that time, Bankhead could command 10% of the gross and was billed larger"
"Holiday"" (1938). One of her most widely seen performances was as ""Mrs."" Todhunter in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938). She also appeared in ""The Stars Look Down"" (1940) ""The Ghost Train"" (1941), and ""Quartet"" (1948). Her career consisted mainly of supporting roles, but she also played occasional lead roles, such as Miss Blandish in both the well received 1942 stage adaptation and widely panned 1948 film version of James Hadley Chase's 1939 novel ""No Orchids for Miss Blandish"". She retired in 1948, after her second marriage. In 1999, she took part in the television programme ""Reputations: Alfred Hitchcock"", paying"
"Kathryn Harrold Kathryn Harrold (born August 2, 1950) is an American counselor and retired film actress, best known for her female leading roles in films ""The Hunter"" (1980), ""Modern Romance"" (1981), ""The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper"" (1981), ""Yes, Giorgio"" (1982), and ""Raw Deal"" (1986). She also had leading roles in horror films ""Nightwing"" (1979) and ""The Sender"" (1982). Harrold was born in Tazewell, Virginia to B.H. and Carolyn Harrold. She attended Tazewell High School and Mills College in Oakland, California, majoring in drama. Harrold was Steve McQueen's leading lady in the screen legend's final film, ""The Hunter"" (1980), and"
"the British Film Institute's ""75 Most Wanted"" lost films. Woman to Woman (1923 film) Woman to Woman is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts, with Alfred Hitchcock as the uncredited assistant director and co-screenwriter. The film was adapted from the 1921 play ""Woman to Woman"" by Michael Morton. To capitalise on the success of the film, Cutts and Hitchcock made another film, ""The White Shadow"", with Compson before she returned to the United States. Hitchcock met his future wife, Alma Reville, while working on this film. As of August 2010, the film is missing from the"
"tolerance and compassion. In 2012, she attended a screening with President Barack Obama at the White House to mark the 50th anniversary of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". In 2015, she defended the release of Harper Lee's first draft of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""Go Set a Watchman"", and its portrayal of an older, more bigoted, Atticus Finch. Mary Badham Mary Badham (born October 7, 1952) is an American actress who portrayed Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1962), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At the time, Badham (aged 10)"
"Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918) Mary Bebe Anderson (April 3, 1918 – April 6, 2014) was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film ""Gone With the Wind"" as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film ""Lifeboat"". Mary B. ""Bebe"" Anderson was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Howard College (now Samford University). Her younger brother James Anderson (1921–1969) was also an actor, best known as Bob Ewell in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"""
"in her stocking. She is thrilled at having filmed the battle between the two vessels, but her movie camera is the first in a series of her possessions to be lost overboard in a succession of incidents. Among the passengers is Mrs. Higley, a young British woman (Heather Angel) whose infant child is dead when they are pulled from the water after being saved by steward ""Joe"" Spencer (Canada Lee). After being treated by a U.S. Army nurse, Alice (Mary Anderson), she must be tied down to stop her from hurting herself. The woman, still wrapped in Porter's mink coat"
"Natasha Calis Natasha Calis (born 27 March 1999) is a Canadian child actress known best for her role in the supernatural horror film ""The Possession"", where she plays the role of Emily Brenek, a possessed girl, as well as her role in the Canadian-American television drama ""The Firm"" as Claire McDeere. Natasha Calis started acting professionally at age 7 and made her television debut with her role as Alice Cooper in the television film ""Christmas Caper"". She is best known for playing Emily Brenek in the film ""The Possession"" as well as playing Maryann in the film ""The Harvest"". She"
"a femme fatale in """" and Rosamund Pike starred in ""Gone Girl"". Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard has frequently played femmes fatales, in such films as ""A Private Affair"" (2002), ""A Very Long Engagement"", ""The Black Box"", ""Inception"", ""Midnight in Paris"", ""The Dark Knight Rises"" and ""Macbeth"". Nicole Kidman has also played a few femmes fatales in films as ""To Die For"", ""The Paperboy"" and ""Moulin Rouge!"". The archetype is also abundantly found in American television. One of the most famous femmes fatales of American television is Sherilyn Fenn's Audrey Horne of the David Lynch cult series ""Twin Peaks"". In"
"The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. Based on the novel ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ""Who Is He?"" co-written by Belloc Lowndes, the film is about the hunt for a ""Jack the Ripper""-like serial killer in London. A young blonde woman,"
"produced a second series character, expatriate private investigator and tough-guy adventurer Al Colby, who first appears in ""The Long Escape"" (Random House, 1948). After two more well-received Colby books in 1949 and 1950, Dodge abandoned series characters and focused on stand-alone suspense adventures set in exotic locales around the world; ""To Catch a Thief"" was Dodge's greatest career success, primarily due to the fact the Alfred Hitchcock purchased film rights before the novel was even published in 1952 and turned it into the 1955 Paramount film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. For the remainder of his career, Dodge alternated"
"jewels, 34 of which have been described as exceptional, in a suitcase. The heist has been called the biggest heist ever in France, and possibly the biggest heist of all time. The theft was at the same hotel where Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film ""To Catch a Thief"" was set. The robbery was the third in the Riviera over a short period, following the theft from the Cannes Film Festival of jewels worth $1.4 million, and the theft of a $1.9 million necklace. 10 days after the heist SW Associates, working for the insurers Lloyd's of London, offered a $1.3 million"