Marnie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Marnie or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Marnie

[kyle]

Bernard Herrmann's last score for a Sir Alfred Hitchcock movie.

[jamie]

Screenwriter Jay Presson Allen wrote in Mark's hobby of studying animal behavior because that was her hobby and tangentially fit with Mark's later inclination to psychoanalyze Marnie.

[eli]

Tippi Hedren commented on Facebook in May 2017 that she's still in touch with Sir Sean Connery.

[aaron]

Joseph Stefano originally wrote a screen adaptation of the novel when Princess Grace Kelly was supposed to star. Stefano's adaptation was much truer to the original book, and would have included two important characters from the novel that never made it into the final version of the movie. One was a psychotherapist that Marnie was seeing at Mark's insistence, whose role ended up being merged into Mark's. The other was a man named Terry who was a co-worker of Mark's and also in love with Marnie. The part of Terry was massively re-worked and ended up becoming Lil.

[tom]

Tippi Hedren has stated that many people have asked her what it was like to kiss the handsome Sir Sean Connery in this movie. Her reply was, "How sexy was it? It wasn't. It was simply technical. It was totally technical."

[alyssa]

Louise Latham, who played Marnie's mother, was suggested by Screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, the two had been classmates in a boarding school in Texas.

[alyssa]

Bruce Dern had a small role as a sailor in the climactic scene. Sir Alfred Hitchcock cast him as a leading man in Family Plot (1976).

[amber]

After Princess Grace Kelly dropped out of talks to be in the movie, Marilyn Monroe expressed interest in playing the part. According to Hollywood columnist Army Archard, when Sir Alfred Hitchcock was asked about this possible casting, his reply was, "It's an interesting idea".

[claude]

Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Screenwriter Jay Presson Allen were allowed to see scenes from Dr. No (1962) when considering Sir Sean Connery for the role of Mark. They liked his charismatic performance so much, that they decided to offer him the role, even though the obviously Scottish actor did not really fit with their conception of Mark as an "American aristocrat."

[riley]

Sir Sean Connery appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) with Harrison Ford, and The Hunt for Red October (1990) with Alec Baldwin. Ford and Baldwin appeared in Working Girl (1988) as love interests to Melanie Griffith. The Hunt for Red October (1990) also featured Sam Neill, who appeared in Jurassic Park (1993) with Laura Dern.

[victoria]

On Mark's (Sir Sean Connery's) attempts to cure Marnie (Tippi Hedren): "The film works with a simplistic and reductive Freudian scheme of revelation of trauma followed by instant catharsis and cure: a pattern familiar from many Hollywood films of the post war period. Marnie defends herself against Mark's controlling attempt: it brings under control the dangerously independent stance of both mother and daughter who articulate hatred of men, who despise sex, and want to live without men." (From E. Anne Kaplan: "Motherhood and Representation" in "Psychoanalysis and Cinema"; 1990.)

[ronnie]

The six and a half carat blue-white flawless diamond ring that Mark (Sir Sean Connery) buys for Marnie (Tippi Hedren) cost forty-two thousand dollars, or approximately two hundred eighty-five thousand dollars in 2008 currency, when factored for inflation. In the week that Mark had returned with Marnie up until their marriage, he spends approximately seventy thousand dollars, including the ring, or approximately four hundred seventy-five thousand dollars when factored for inflation.

[violet]

Naomi Watts dressed up as "Marnie" for a portrait that was published in the March 2008 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine. (She said she was fascinated by Tippi Hedren when they appeared in I Heart Huckabees (2004).

[kristina]

Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted Princess Grace Kelly to make her screen comeback in the title role, but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their Princess playing a compulsive thief.

[ronnie]

Despite the troubles which reportedly took place on set, Tippi Hedren has stated that this is her favorite movie in which she has appeared.

[eli]

Filmed from November 26, 1963 to March 19, 1964.

[sandra]

Sir Alfred Hitchcock first offered the role of Lil Mainwaring to Elizabeth Montgomery. She, however, turned it down, due to her commitment to Bewitched (1964).

[kyle]

To film real horses riding without having to work outdoors, Sir Alfred Hitchcock came up with the idea of running the horses on a gigantic treadmill. Crew members objected to the idea, because it was considered highly unsafe, and because they simply didn't think it would work. Still, Hitchcock wanted to at least try it, and when they did, it worked without a problem. Originally, a harness was attached to Tippi Hedren during these shots for safety reasons, but it was removed when it was found to impede shooting.

[sophie]

The name of Marnie's favorite horse is "Forio". "Phorion" is Greek for "stolen goods", an appropriate name given Marnie's behavior.