Week 08.10 A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock in Vanity Fair, March 2008

March 5, 2008

Iconic Images From Classic Hitchcock Films

Alferd Hitchcock, Vanity Fair cover, March 2008

Alfred Hitchcock, Vanity Fair cover, March 2008

For Vanity Fair’s 14th annual Hollywood Issue they took 21 of the finest actors working today, plus 4 of Vanity Fair’s best photographers to recreate some of the most iconic images of film.

Read the rest of this article to see the Vanity Fair version side by side with the original Hitchcock image.

Click on the name of the film to find out more via imdb.com, click on the image to see a larger version, or the actors name below the image to go to the page on the Vanity Fair website.

Dial M For Murder, 1954

Charlize Theron.
Photograph by Norman Jean Roy

The original still: Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly.
©Warner Brothers

Rear Window, 1954

Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem
Photograph by Norman Jean Roy

The original still: Grace Kelly and James Stewart.
Paramount/Neal Peters Collection

Marnie, 1964

Naomi Watts.
Photograph by Julian Broad

The original still: Tippi Hedren.
Universal/Photofest

Rebecca, 1940

Keira Knightley and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Photograph by Julian Broad

The original still: Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson.
© United Artists

Strangers On A Train, 1951

Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy.
Photograph by Art Streiber

The original still: Farley Granger and Robert Walker.
Warner Brothers/Photofest

Vertigo, 1958

Renée Zellweger.
Photograph by Norman Jean Roy

The original still: Kim Novak.
© Paramount Pictures

To Catch A Thief, 1955

Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr.
Photograph by Norman Jean Roy

The original still: Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.
Paramount Pictures/Photofest

Lifeboat, 1944

From left: Tang Wei, Josh Brolin, Casey Affleck, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Foster, Omar Metwally, and Julie Christie.
Photograph by Mark Seliger

The original still: From left: Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, William Bendix, Canada Lee.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp./Photofest

The Birds, 1963

Jodie Foster.
Photograph by Norman Jean Roy

North By Northwest, 1959

Seth Rogen.
Photograph by Art Streiber

The original still: Cary Grant.
MGM/Photofest

Psycho, 1960

Marion Cotillard.
Photograph by Mark Seliger

The original still: Janet Leigh.
Paramount Pictures/Photofest

All images remain the copyright of either Vanity Fair, the photograhers or the Movie Studio that produced the original film.

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