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 http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html