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Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton VERTIGO (1958) — dir. Alfred Hitchcock

You know, I think I’m allergic to your cat.

Bell, Book and Candle (1959) dir. Richard Quine

One final thing I have to do. And then, I’ll be free of the past.

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

VERTIGO 1958, Alfred Hitchcock

If I let you change me, will that do it? If I do what you tell me, will you love me? Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

“I identify so very completely with the role because it was exactly what Harry Cohn and what Hollywood was trying to do to me, which was to make me over into something I was not. In the beginning, they hire you because of the way you look, obviously, and yet they try to change your lips, your mouth, your hair, every aspect of the way you look and the way you talk and the way you dress. So it was constantly fighting to keep some aspect of yourself, trying to keep some of you. You feel: there must have been something in you that they liked, and yet they wanted to change you.” — Kim Novak

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

There’s nothing you must do. No one possesses you. You’re safe with me. Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice. Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Kim Novak, 1950s.

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Do you believe that someone out of the past - someone dead - can enter and take possession of a living being?

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Only one is a wanderer. Two together are always going somewhere.

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

FILMS WATCHED IN 2018: Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock