Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, & Cornell Woolrich

<b>Book Vs. Movie: </b><br /><b></b><br /><b>Rear WindowThe 1942 Short Story Vs. the 1954 Classic Film<br /><br /><br />The Margos are swooning throughout this episode for one of the greatest movies of all time, adapted from a short story by a very interesting (and prolific) author. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_filmography" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alfred Hitchcock's</a> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rear Window</a> is one of his finest works based on the short story; It Had to be Murder by Cornell Woolrich. </b><br /><b><br />Woolrich is considered one of his generation's best mystery/suspense writers, with dozens of titles making it to movie adaptations, including The Bride Wore Black, Night Had a Thousand Eyes, Mrs. Winterbourne, and Original Sun. He was so proficient as a writer of novels, screenplays, and short stories he had two noms de plumes--William Irish &amp; George Hopley. </b><br /><b><br />A lonely man (he once dedicated a book to his hotel room), when he passed in 1968, he left his work to his alma mater Columbia University which eventually helped change the copyright laws. (See S<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2589" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">onny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, 1998</a>.)<br />The story's bones are the same as the film: an injured man stuck in his apartment becomes a “peeping tom,” spying on his neighbors and being grumpy to “Sam,” who is paid to help him. Our protagonist believes he has witnessed a murder across the street and is trying to get the police to take him seriously. </b><br /><b><br />The 1954 adaptation was shot on the Paramount Studio lot with a full-sized apartment building courtyard to mimic the real thing in Greenwich Village. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">James Stewart</a> plays LB “Jeff” Jeffries, a photojournalist who is home recovering from a