He is grateful to Eve, but she is starting to fall in love with Detective Smith. The police search for Jonathan and Eve again helps him escape. She casually tells him no, but he says he still has the bloodstained dress. Jonathan comes to her dressing room, asking her to accompany him abroad. Smith makes a courtship visit to Eve and her mother at home, where the Commodore drops subtle hints that Jonathan has left the seaside house.ĭespite her widowed status, Charlotte continues to perform her West End musical show. When Smith visits Charlotte, Eve has to disguise the fact that she is also "Doris", the maid. Eve discovers Charlotte is having an affair with her manager Freddie Williams.Įve and "Ordinary" Smith become more friendly. Using her acting skills, Eve becomes "Doris" and starts working for Charlotte. Eve then poses as a reporter she bribes Nellie to tell Charlotte she is ill and introduce her cousin "Doris Tinsdale" as a replacement. While she is there, Eve meets Detective Inspector Wilfred O. She hears Charlotte's dresser Nellie Goode boasting about her newfound notoriety in a bar. Jonathan angrily destroys the dress and, thus, the most useful piece of evidence.Įve starts to investigate. Commodore Gill notices that the blood on Charlotte's dress has been smeared on deliberately he and Eve think that Charlotte framed Jonathan. He escaped the police and needs help.Įve takes him to her father's house on the coast to hide. Jonathan claims he went back to her house for another dress but was seen by Nellie Goode, Charlotte's Cockney maid and dresser. Via a flashback, he says Charlotte visited him after killing her husband she was wearing a bloodstained dress. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend (and crush), actor Jonathan Cooper, the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress and singer Charlotte Inwood. The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook and Alma Reville (the director's wife), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the 1947 novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson.Įve Gill is an aspiring actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a vignette. Stage Fright is a 1950 British thriller film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd.
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