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Marnie Overview:

Marnie (1964) was a Mystery - Romance Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.

SYNOPSIS

Hitchcock discovery Hedren (The Birds, 1963) plays a repressed kleptomaniac with a hidden past and Connery the insurance investigator whose obsessions with her dark secrets are nearly as troubled. Hitchcock returns to the theme of sexual obsession seven years after Vertigo. This is a psychologically intriguing film that remains in the mind. Featuring a young Dern in an important small role, and one of Herrmann's finest scores.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Marnie BlogHub Articles:

Book Review: Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie

By Devon Powell on Jul 9, 2014 From Hitchcock Master

Publisher: University of Illinois Press Release Date: October 1, 2011 Nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Critical/Biographical, 2012. Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick’s Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process betwe... Read full article

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Marnie Quotes:

Mark Rutland: You're very sexy with your face clean.
Bernice Edgar: Oh, Marnie. You shouldn't spend all your money on me like you do.
Marnie Edgar: But that's what money's for: to spend. Like the Bible says, "Money answereth all things."
Mark Rutland: When we get home, I'll explain that we had a lover's quarrel... That you ran away... That I went after you and brought you back. That'll please Dad. He admires action. Then I'll explain that we' re gonna be married before the week is out... That I can't bear to have you out of my sight. He also admires wholesome animal lust.
Mark Rutland: Here we are old bean, the homestead.
Marnie Edgar: I don't believe in luck.
Mark Rutland: What do you believe in?
Marnie Edgar: Nothing.
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Marnie Facts
Joseph Stefano originally wrote a screen adaptation of the novel when Grace Kelly was supposed to star. Stefano's adaptation was much truer to the original book, and would have included two important characters from the novel that never made it into the final version of the film. One was a psychotherapist that Marnie was seeing at Mark's insistence, whose role ended up being merged into Mark's. The other was a man named Terry who was a co-worker of Mark's and also in love with Marnie. The part of Terry was massively reworked and ended up becoming Lil.
After rehearsing just a few scenes with co-star Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren asked Alfred Hitchcock, "Marnie is supposed to be frigid - have you seen him?" referring to the young Connery. Hitchcock's reply was reportedly, "Yes, my dear, it's called acting."
The company created for copyright purposes for the film, "Geoffrey Stanley," was named after Hitchcock's pet dogs.
When Louise Latham came onto the set in her "young" makeup to film the film's climactic flashback, she looked so different that the cameraman began to ask around to find out who the new actress was.
Screenwriter Jay Presson Allen thought that the expensive car Mark drove and the fancy clothes worn by his father were ridiculous and out of place, but Alfred Hitchcock insisted that they were necessary to convey the proper feeling of Mark being part of an "American aristocracy" to the audience.
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