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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2023 1:07:15 GMT
Lee Tracy jots down a note with his right hand at the 22 minute mark of CLEAR ALL WIRES (1933).
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Post by topbilled on Nov 5, 2023 0:07:41 GMT
Shot from JUAREZ proving Paul Muni is right handed:
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Post by kims on Dec 6, 2023 21:38:37 GMT
watched THE BEST OF EVERYTHING this morning. Hope Lange wrote a note with left hand
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Post by kims on Dec 26, 2023 2:48:24 GMT
Watching VERTIGO. Kim Novak writes a letter with her left hand. Wondering if any other of Hitch's leading ladies are lefties besides Novak and Hedron.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 28, 2023 16:47:36 GMT
In North by Northwest (1959), Eva Marie Saint jots down a phone message with her left hand. (see it at 2:25)
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Post by kims on Dec 28, 2023 20:40:48 GMT
Doesn't that seem to defy the odds? That Hitchcock had three left handed leading ladies?
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 29, 2023 0:20:06 GMT
watched THE BEST OF EVERYTHING this morning. Hope Lange wrote a note with left hand |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 29, 2023 20:11:58 GMT
Doesn't that seem to defy the odds? That Hitchcock had three left handed leading ladies?
I read somewhere that Hitchcock liked left-handedness and enjoyed casting those people. Maybe we don't really notice it here as Grant shaves because we are looking at his reflection instead of at him.
But in other parts of North by Northwest, Grant uses his left hand to light Saint's cigarette, he holds the telephone receiver with his left hand, he drinks with his left hand, often gestures with his left hand. He does use his right hand for his soup spoon, but I also know people who eat with their nondominant hand. Plus, in that scene Grant is sitting with his left side to the wall, which can make it difficult. I suspect though that no one would shave with this nondominant hand. (Not I anyway -- I choose life!)
All of that said, when Roger Thornhill (Grant) writes a message to Eve Kendall (Saint) in a matchbook, the closeup of said scrawling shows the writer using his right hand. Clearly, these are not Grant's hands. It is not because of the left- vs right-handedness that I say this, though that's certainly a give away, but because of the appearance of the hands. You'll notice that Grant's hands and knuckles are quite hairy, while the writer's hands are not. Considering that Hitchcock liked casting lefties, it seems to me that this scene is a faux pas.
Grant did wear his watch on the left, but that's not always a tell-tale sign. I know several people who wear their watches on their dominant side, left and right.
Here's Grant displaying his watch in Charade (1963) and fastening it in That Touch of Mink (1962). All of his watches must have been water resistant!
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Post by kims on Dec 30, 2023 10:26:22 GMT
Was there a reason Hitchcock wanted lefties in his films?
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Dec 30, 2023 17:28:20 GMT
Was there a reason Hitchcock wanted lefties in his films? I wouldn't assume he wanted lefties but instead just wanted those actors and they happened to be left-handed. |
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Post by kims on Dec 30, 2023 22:21:14 GMT
Bunny Whit said Hitchcock liked left handedness and he enjoyed casting lefties. I wondered if there was a back story, like why Hitchcock was afraid of police.
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Post by intrepid37 on Dec 30, 2023 22:44:12 GMT
Bunny Whit said Hitchcock liked left handedness and he enjoyed casting lefties. I wondered if there was a back story, like why Hitchcock was afraid of police. Actually it was that he was afraid to drive - the reason being that by doing so he would fall under the discretion of the police. Nobody needs a reason to be afraid of the police. Who isn't? |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Dec 30, 2023 23:43:53 GMT
Bunny Whit said Hitchcock liked left handedness and he enjoyed casting lefties. I wondered if there was a back story, like why Hitchcock was afraid of police. I read what Bunny Whit said she recalled. Liking left handedness and enjoying casting lefties isn't the same as wanting lefties. I would only buy that POV if Hitchcock hired a leftie that didn't do better in their audition than righties: I just can't believe Hitchcock, a master at his craft, would do something so superficial. I also assume that if Grant was righthanded Hitchcock would have still selected him for the four films they did together. |
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Post by kims on Dec 31, 2023 12:52:58 GMT
Hitchcock also told that as a child he had committed some minor crime. His father took him to the local police station. To teach Hitch a lesson, he was put in a cell and Hitch said he was frightened ever since of police.
Regardless of why an actor was hired, I still wonder if there is a back story to why Hitch enjoyed left-handedness.
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Post by NoShear on Dec 31, 2023 18:11:12 GMT
Doesn't that seem to defy the odds? That Hitchcock had three left handed leading ladies?
I read somewhere that Hitchcock liked left-handedness and enjoyed casting those people. Maybe we don't really notice it here as Grant shaves because we are looking at his reflection instead of at him.
But in other parts of North by Northwest, Grant uses his left hand to light Saint's cigarette, he holds the telephone receiver with his left hand, he drinks with his left hand, often gestures with his left hand. He does use his right hand for his soup spoon, but I also know people who eat with their nondominant hand. Plus, in that scene Grant is sitting with his left side to the wall, which can make it difficult. I suspect though that no one would shave with this nondominant hand. (Not I anyway -- I choose life!)
All of that said, when Roger Thornhill (Grant) writes a message to Eve Kendall (Saint) in a matchbook, the closeup of said scrawling shows the writer using his right hand. Clearly, these are not Grant's hands. It is not because of the left- vs right-handedness that I say this, though that's certainly a give away, but because of the appearance of the hands. You'll notice that Grant's hands and knuckles are quite hairy, while the writer's hands are not. Considering that Hitchcock liked casting lefties, it seems to me that this scene is a faux pas.
Grant did wear his watch on the left, but that's not always a tell-tale sign. I know several people who wear their watches on their dominant side, left and right.
Here's Grant displaying his watch in Charade (1963) and fastening it in That Touch of Mink (1962). All of his watches must have been water resistant!
The Inequity of The Arts: Dammit, with your gift of fashion sense and eye for detail, BunnyWhit, you should be somewhere in the movie business - or at the very least in a hostess spot on T CM!! (I like how you slipped a watch drop in here as well.) |
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