Opinions differ: Robert Capa's photographs inspired the opening sequence of Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" and his love affair with Ingrid Bergman was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/2003/05/25/behind-the-memorable-images/ef19c1d3-49d6-44cd-bb79-0883bf986e70/ *Rear Window* was adapted from a story in *Dime Detective Magazine* called "It Had To Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich, writing as William English. * * * In Woolrich's story, the hero had no profession. In *Rear Window*, he is a photojournalist. Donald Spoto, one of Hitchcock's biographers (the one with his mind in the gutter) speculated that he was inspired by Ingrid Bergman's love for photojournalist Robert Capa, a romance observed by Hitchcock while shooting *Notorious* with Bergman. Spoto suggests Hitchcock was fascinated by Capa's indifference to a beautiful woman about whom he could only fantasize. Other writers have suggested a closer autobiographical tie is the villain Torvald's resemblance to producer David O. Selznick, with whom Hitchcock had often tussled for creative control. http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDRearWindow.htm However, clearly flummoxed as to how any man could say ‘no’ to Ingrid Bergman, Hitchcock used the Bergman-Capa dynamic as the model for the relationship of the leads in his film *Rear Window **(1954)*. Lisa Freemont (Grace Kelly) is a beautiful and gracious fashionista who wants L. B. ‘Jeff’ Jeffries (James Stewart), a globe-trotting photojournalist, to stop putting himself in harm’s way, marry her and take pictures in the fashion world of New York City. But, like Capa, Jeffries’ not interested in such domesticity. However, solving a murder and almost dying can apparently bring a couple much closer together. And in the final frames of *Rear Window*, we get to see just how these two celluloid opposites have figured out a way to make their relationship last. Sadly, *Rear Window* was released the very year that Capa died, killed by a landmine while on assignment in Vietnam. https://joanndiverdi.wordpress.com/tag/ingrid-bergmanrobert-capa/ Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:28 AM Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve read that Capa and Bergman are the models for the two main characters > in Hitchcock’s Rear Window. > > > On 5 Sep 2020, at 14:56, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > For those interested in the private lives of great photographers, I > > understand this book is being made into a movie (once the pandemic > permits): > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seducing_Ingrid_Bergman > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
