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Notorious

1946 ★ 102 min
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, Clifford Odets
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock

Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.

Trivia

  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
  • With everything stage-bound, production was smooth and problems were few, and small—for instance, Claude Rains, who stood three or four inches shorter than Ingrid Bergman.
  • For the scenes where Rains and Bergman were to walk hand-in-hand, Hitchcock devised a system of ramps that boosted Rains's height yet were unseen by the camera.
  • Hitchcock gave Rains the choice of playing Sebastian with a German or his English accent; Rains chose the latter.

Filming Locations

  • Principal photography for Notorious began on October 22, 1945, and wrapped in February 1946.
  • Production was structured the way Hitchcock preferred it: with almost all shooting done indoors, on RKO sound stages, even seeming "exterior" scenes achieved with rear projection process shots.
  • The only scene requiring outdoor filming was the one at the riding club where Devlin and Alicia contrive to meet Alexander Sebastian on horseback; this scene was shot at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California.

Previous Showings

30 Runs • 21 Festivals

Original Billings: 1 run (January 5, 1947)

Original Run: January 5, 1947 (Sunday - Friday)

All runs on record (30):

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