Stage Fright
Stage Fright is a 1950 British thriller film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a vignette.
Plot
Eve Gill is an aspiring actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend and crush, Jonathan Cooper, the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress and singer Charlotte Inwood. Via a flashback, he says Charlotte visited him after killing her husband; she was wearing a bloodstained dress. Jonathan claims he went back to her house for another dress but was seen by Nellie Goode, Charlotte's Cockney maid and dresser. He escaped the police and needs help.
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| author | Alma Reville Ranald MacDougall |
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| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| editor | Edward B. Jarvis |
| genre | mystery thriller |
| keywords | £ act boast cockney detective inspector disturb dresser dressing room fall frame kill la vie en rose plan police search pound sterling royal academy of dramatic art safety curtain secret lover small boy stage actress west end west end theatre widow |
| musicBy | Leighton Lucas |
| producer | Alfred Hitchcock |
| productionCompany | Transatlantic Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | film noir mystery thriller noir |