History Trivia / Vertigo

* {{Trope Namer|s}}: Hitchcock helped give rise to the term FridgeLogic when admitting that he had no explanation for the scene where Madeleine leaves her hotel room without Scottie or the desklady seeing:
-->"[This scene] hits you after you've gone home and start pulling cold chicken out of the [[TechnologyMarchesOn icebox]]."

* DoingItForTheArt:
** It took a week to film the brief scene of Madeleine staring at the painting of Carlotta, just because Hitchcock wanted to get the lighting right. The famous shot of Madeleine's silhouette at Ernie's Restaurant (when Scottie first sees her) was actually a composite of inserts from the original production and reshoots taken long after production had finished because Hitchcock was not entirely satisfied with it.
** Hitchcock wanted a certain realism for the film but he hated shooting on location [[DirtyBusiness unless absolutely unavoidable]]. For the scenes set in Ernie's, the famous real-life restaurant (which shut down in 1995), Hitchcock recreated the entire restaurant in detail in Paramount's studio lot, and ''then'' he brought the entire staff and regular patrons to act as extras in the studio version of Ernie's.

** Creator/JosephCotten, Creatr/LeeJCobb and Everett Sloane were considered for Gavin Elster.

** Creator/JosephCotten, Lee J. Cobb and Everett Sloane were considered for Gavin Elster.

** Creator/AlfredHitchcock in his interviews with Creator/FrancoisTruffaut said that he considered ''Vertigo'' one of his best films, but he admitted that it was imperfect and in other interviews, he blamed the poor reception on miscasting James Stewart, saying he was perhaps "too old" for his role. He also later said that Kim Novak was miscast and that he regretted the fact that his first choice Creator/VeraMiles did not play the part. Later scholars, noting Hitchcock's tendency [[LyingCreator for obfuscation]] have questioned this. Stewart was always Hitchcock's first choice for the part, and the film he made after ''Vertigo'' had Creator/CaryGrant who was ''older'' than Stewart. Kim Novak however was indeed forced by the studio, and Hitchcock had developed a rapport with Vera Miles who he directed in ''Film/TheWrongMan'' and the pilot episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'',[[note]]She would later play Lila Crane in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''[[/note]] and indeed the original costumes designed by Edith Head for Madeleine was made with Miles in mind.

** Just about every erotic thriller made between the late 1980s and early 1990s used the premise of ''Vertigo'' as a template (easily-manipulated protagonist coping with a past trauma, enigmatic FemmeFatale with a dual identity, and often a BigBadFriend who sets up the protagonist).

* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Movies: #61
** AFIS100Years100Thrills: #18
** AFIS100Years100Passions: #18
** AFIS100YearsOfFilmScores: #12
** AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #9
** AFIS10Top10:
*** Mystery, #1

* AFIS100YearsSeries:

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JimmyStewart in a not very heroic part.

** Creator/AlfredHitchcock in his interviews with Creator/FrancoisTruffaut said that he considered ''Vertigo'' one of his best films, but he admitted that it was imperfect and in other interviews, he blamed the poor reception on miscasting James Stewart, saying he was perhaps "too old" for his role. He also later said that Kim Novak was miscast and that he regretted the fact that his first choice Creator/VeraMiles did not play the part. Later scholars, noting Hitchcock's tendency [[LyingCreator for obfuscation]] have questioned this. Stewart was always Hitchcock's first choice for the part, and the film he made after ''Vertigo'' had Creator/CaryGrant who was ''older'' than Stewart. Kim Novak however was indeed forced by the studio, and Hitchcock developed a rapport with Vera Miles who he directed in ''Film/TheWrongMan'',[[note]]She would later play Lila Crane in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''[[/note]] and indeed the original costumes designed by Edith Head for Madeleine was made with Miles in mind.

** Just about every erotic thriller made between the late 1980s and early 1990s used the premise of ''Vertigo'' as a template (easily-manipulated protagonist, enigmatic FemmeFatale with a dual identity, and often a BigBadFriend who sets up the protagonist).

** Just about every erotic thriller made between the late 1980s and early 1990s used the premise of ''Vertigo'' as a template (easily-manipulated protagonist, sexy FemmeFatale with hidden motivations and a dual identity, and often a BigBadFriend who sets up the protagonist).

** Just about every erotic thriller made between the late 1980s and early 1990s used the premise of ''Vertigo'' as a template (easily-manipulated protagonist, sexy FemmeFatale with hidden motivations, and often a BigBadFriend who sets up the protagonist).

** Just about every erotic thriller made between the late 1980s and early 1990s used the premise of ''Vertigo'' as a template.

** Creator/AlfredHitchcock in his interviews with Creator/FrancoisTruffaut said that he considered ''Vertigo'' one of his best films, but he admitted that it was imperfect and in other interviews, he blamed the poor reception on miscasting James Stewart, saying he was perhaps "too old" for his role. He also later said that Kim Novak was miscast and that he regretted the fact that his first choice Creator/VeraMiles did not play the part. Later scholars, noting Hitchcock's tendency [[UnreliableNarrator for obfuscation]] have questioned this. Stewart was always Hitchcock's first choice for the part, and the film he made after ''Vertigo'' had Creator/CaryGrant who was ''older'' than Stewart. Kim Novak however was indeed forced by the studio, and Hitchcock developed a rapport with Vera Miles who he directed in ''Film/TheWrongMan'',[[note]]She would later play Lila Crane in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''[[/note]] and indeed the original costumes designed by Edith Head for Madeleine was made with Miles in mind.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: This was the first film to ultilize a digitally crafted title sequence (designed by Creator/SaulBass), as the effects in the sequence were done on a computer converted from an old anti-aircraft locator by effects artist John Whitney.

* DawsonCasting: Scottie and Midge are meant to be the same age, but Creator/JamesStewart was fifteen years older than Barbara Bel Geddes. He was also twenty-four years older than Kim Novak.

* FollowTheLeader: Creator/BrianDePalma made two loose remakes: ''Obsession'' ([[TheBigEasy New Orleans]] instead of San Francisco and an extra twist involving the DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest, and a Music/BernardHerrmann score) and ''Film/BodyDouble'' (claustrophobia instead of acrophobia).

* FollowTheLeader: Creator/BrianDePalma made two loose remakes: ''Obsession'' ([[TheBigEasy New Orleans]] instead of San Francisco and an extra twist involving the DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest) and ''Film/BodyDouble'' (claustrophobia instead of acrophobia).

* FollowTheLeader: Creator/BrianDePalma did two loose remakes: ''Obsession'' ([[TheBigEasy New Orleans]] instead of San Francisco and an extra twist involving the woman's true identity) and ''Film/BodyDouble'' (claustrophobia instead of acrophobia).

* FollowTheLeader: Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/BodyDouble'', but with claustrophobia instead of acrophobia.

* WorkingTitle: Filming began as ''From Among the Dead'', the title of the English translation of the novel, but nobody really liked it. The studio suggested a bunch of titles, many with the word "face" in them, and Hitchcock liked ''Face in the Shadow'', but he changed his mind, and others were worried about the similarity to ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd''. Hitchcock chose ''Vertigo'' but the studio hated it and tried to talk him into going back to ''Face in the Shadow'', or ''Fear and Trembling'', or a long list of other suggestions that he turned down (which included ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' and ''Series/WithoutATrace'').

* ActorSharedBackground: Judy Barton is a Midwestern girl who moves to California and gets noticed by an older man, who grooms her into portraying a specific look and image. This parallels Kim Novak and her experience working for Harry Cohn at Creator/ColumbiaPictures. Judy's hometown of Salina, Kansas is where Novak filmed her StarMakingRole in ''Theatre/{{Picnic}}'' (though that was just a coincidence).

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/AlfredHitchcock said that Creator/VeraMiles was his preferred choice as Madeleine. She performed a costume test and modelled for an early version of Carlotta's portrait, but had to leave the project after becoming pregnant. Apparently the studio wasn't really enthusiastic about Miles and was eager to have Kim Novak, who had been their choice from the start, take over.

* ActorSharedBackground: Judy Barton is a Midwestern girl who moves to California and gets noticed by an older man, who grooms her into portraying a specific look and image. This parallels Kim Novak and her experience working for Harry Cohn at Creator/ColumbiaPictures.