Darrell Newton, as nobody else (e.g., Mike Frank) has picked you up on 
this, it falls to me!  I hope I'm not missing a joke!

You wrote:
> As for my two cents, there was some criticism over auteur Hitchcock's treatment of actress Kim Novak after her "illicit" romance with Sammy Davis, Jr. became public. Despite being considered the consummate pro, and having worked with Novak in Vertigo (1958), Hitchcock banned her from his next project, From Amongst the Dead. 
>  
Hmm.  Hitchcock's VERTIGO was adapted from the Boileau & Narcejac novel 
'D'entre les morts'/'Among the Dead'.  Hitchcock then moved from 
Paramount to Metro where his first project was going to be THE WRECK OF 
THE MARY DEARE but which he and Ernest Lehman abandoned (the film was 
later  made by Michael Anderson) in favour of something that Hitchcock 
had been mulling over for several years and whose final title was  NORTH 
BY NORTHWEST.

(Hitchcock had rashly told James Stewart, co-star of VERTIGO, that he 
would also be the star of the NxNW film.  But as the script with Lehman 
developed, that project quickly became an obvious vehicle for Cary 
Grant.   Reportedly, Hitchcock simply stalled until Stewart  was tied up 
on BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE, then was able to politely tell him, 'Sorry, 
Jimmy, but we had to get Cary instead!')

- KM
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