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A new biography explores the iconic movie career, glamorously lonely marriage, and tragic death of the original international beauty.

Alfred Hitchcock was always conscientious of the role that music played in his cinematic visions, as much in its absence as in its galvanizing force .

Born in Philadelphia, the beautiful daughter of a model and a self-made Irish-American multi-millionaire who won gold medals as an Olympic oarsman, Kelly was Hollywood's ice queen of the McCarthy era, a cold war figure of upper-middle-class Catholic rectitude.

Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps": Comedy. Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Hitchcock film and the novel by John Buchan.

I met Lisa Olmstead this past summer 2009 when WHC had their Dutch Oven demo with hot biscuits and kettle coffee.

When you go see "Alfred Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps,' " don't be fooled that the whole plotline is about that film alone.

Good e-e-evening, ladies and gentlemen. For your entertainment, the master of suspense will be subjected to shameless sendups in the hope that theatergoers will fall down laughing at "The 39 Steps." A giddy homage to the characters, MacGuffins, jolts and twists in Alfred Hitchcock's films, this Broadway smash promises a jolly good time for movie ...

Review by Thumper: Thumps from 1 to 5: Thump of 5 The film "Rear Window" is a 1954 mystery suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock , written by John Michael Hayes .

Thanksgiving is over and right before the holiday the weather started to turn a bit colder.

Over at his spiffy "Alfred Hitchcock Geek" blog, Portland writer Joel Gunz is making a case, eye-opening to me at least, that Hitch's work was heavily influenced by the director's acquaintance with the paintings of Edward Hopper.

By 1938, producer-director Alfred Hitchcock felt he had nothing more to prove in his native England and was ready for Hollywood.

After musician Taylor Swift brought "Saturday Night Live" to a surprising, hilarious season high the previous week, actress January Jones had less success bringing the humor to that level on Nov.

Possibly the most popular TV and musical cartoon of all time, #The Chipmunks enjoyed two periods of prosperity -- the '60s era of adolescent Baby Boomers and the '80s, when the Boomers' children were growing up.

Rear Window: Dr. Jekyll: Kim Kardashian: Lou Dobbs: I love January Jones on "Mad Men" and I wanted this to be a giant "suck it!" to Ashton Kutcher for telling her she should quit acting.

Jon Hamm's SNL episode came with cameos from Mad Men co-stars, and was on the night that Amy Poehler gave birth.

Ithacans can bone up on classic cinema on Sunday afternoons, thanks to a series of courses being given in November at the nonprofit movie house Cinemapolis.

"High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly" by Donald Spoto; Harmony Books Grace Kelly, bricklayer's daughter and alabaster goddess, was a stunner who shone briefly, and memorably, on screen before she became Her Serene Highness, Princess of Monaco.

Within the circles I travel, the question, "What is art?" repeatedly bubbles to the surface.

One of my favorite movies in general and Alfred Hitchcock movies specifically marks a landmark year.

Grace Kelly was one of Hollywood's most beautiful stars and one of its greatest legends -- the Oscar-winner who gave up her career to marry a prince.