Marnie (1964) on Netflix
PG19642h 10mCrimeDramaMysteryRomanceThriller
Marnie Edgar steals from her employers and vanishes under new identities. When she applies for a job at Mark Rutland's Philadelphia publishing company, he recognizes her and hires her anyway.
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Plot summary
Sidney Strutt tells two detectives that a female employee he hired without references has emptied his company safe and vanished. Mark Rutland, who runs a publishing house in Philadelphia, hears the account during a business meeting and remembers the woman. She is Marnie Edgar, who has taken nearly ten thousand dollars, changes her hair color, and travels to Virginia, where she keeps a horse named Forio stabled. In Baltimore she visits her mother Bernice, an invalid who is cold with her and warmer with a neighbor child she babysits. Marnie suffers nightmares and an aversion to the color red. Months later, calling herself Mary Taylor, she applies for work at Mark's company. He recognizes her and hires her anyway.
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- George Bruggemanas Racetrack Patron (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Marnie (1964)
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- Alfred Hitchcock's first choice to play Marnie was Grace Kelly, by then Princess Grace of Monaco, but she pulled out of the film when the citizens of Monaco objected to her appearing in it, especially as a sexually disturbed thief.
- Tippi Hedren claimed Hitchcock made sexual overtures to her during The Birds and, on Marnie, pressured her sexually more blatantly, crudely and cruelly. She did not give in, and when she asked to be released from her contract he refused.
- Screenwriter Evan Hunter wrote a draft of Marnie containing the novel's rape scene, but also an alternative sequence he pleaded with Hitchcock to use instead. Hunter was dismissed from the project on 1 May 1963.
- Sean Connery annoyed people by asking to see a script for Marnie: he feared being typecast as a spy and did not want a repeat of Hitchcock's Cary Grant spy films North by Northwest or Notorious. Told Grant never asked for a script, Connery said, "I'm not Cary Grant".
- Marnie was due to start shooting at Universal City Studios on 25 November 1963, but the start was postponed because the nation was in mourning for John F. Kennedy, assassinated three days earlier. Unit manager Hilton A. Green told the story in a making-of documentary.
- Marnie was the last Hitchcock film to give a "Hitchcock blonde" a central role, and it ended his collaborations with cinematographer Robert Burks, editor George Tomasini and composer Bernard Herrmann, fired on Torn Curtain when Hitchcock and Universal wanted a pop-and-jazz score.
- Hitchcock gave the title role to Tippi Hedren, a one-time model he had seen in a 1961 commercial for a diet drink and had just cast in The Birds. Hedren said he offered her the part of Marnie while they were still filming The Birds.
