Hitchcock Annual 2011 [antikvár]

Thomas Leitch Notorious; Hitchcock's Pivotal Film To claim that Notorious (1946) is the pivotal film in Alfred Hitchcock's career is not to claim that it is his greatest film, or even his first great film. From The Lodger (1926) to Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Hitchcock had made so many highly accomplished thrillers before Notorious that he was already widely regarded as the Master of Suspense. Nor did the film have any immediate effect on Hitchcock's reputation. Although it was a considerable box office success, it did not enjoy the same critical esteem as The Lady Vanishes (1938) or repeat the record of six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director (and one victory, for Miklós Rózsa's musical score), accorded Spellbound (1945), his immediately preceding film.' Notorious garnered nominations for only two Oscars, Claude Rains for Best Supporting Actor and Ben Hecht for Best Original Screenplay, and did not win either one. Nor did it win any awards when it was chosen for the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Notorious did not mark a new era in Hitchcock's relationship with his collaborators or his studio. The package David O. Selznick sold to RKO so that he could concentrate on producing Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946) included two stars who had already appeared in Hitchcock films, Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941) and Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound, which had also been scripted by Hecht. Hitchcock had never before worked with cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff or composer Roy Webb, and would never work with them again. Apart from that of Edith Head, the costume designer who was working with Hitchcock for the first of their ten