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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 21, 2021 7:43:35 GMT
I was intrigued when I heard of Bell, Book and Candle because it came out after Vertigo. I wonder what prompted this pair up of Novak and Stewart so quickly after it. I've either read or heard how that came about, and if I'm recalling correctly (and welcome corrections if I'm not), it went something like this. After Alfred Hitchcock had settled on Novak to replace Vera Miles (who had withdrawn due to pregnancy) in Vertigo, Harry Cohn at Columbia agreed to loan her only on the condition that Stewart commit to a film with her for him. Several of Stewart's best pictures - You Can't Take It With You and Mr. Smith Goes To Washington among them - had been for Cohn at Columbia, so to grease the wheels for Hitchcock, Stewart agreed. Some little irony: Cohn would never live to see the finished product. Bell, Book and Candle went into production in Feb of '58, and Cohn died before that month was out.
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