History Film / Marnie

** Hitchcock put Creator/EdgarAllanPoe references throughout this film. Marnie's last name is Edgar. In the novel, Marnie's last name is Elmer. Unlike the film, the novel takes place in England. Like Poe's characters, Marnie Edgar is subject to Psychological terror. The film takes place in New York (Strutt's office), Virginia (Garrod's Stables) and Philadelphia (Rutland Publishing and Wickwind). These are the three places that Poe lived throughout the better part of his life. The film's climactic scene takes place at Marnie's mother's home in Baltimore, the city where Poe died under mysterious circumstances in 1849. Tippi Hedren played Marnie. Both Hedren and Poe were born on January 19. In the novel, Marnie's mother's name is Edith Elmer. In the film, Alfred Hitchcock changed Marnie's mother's name to Bernice Edgar. "Berenice" was a short story written by Poe. In a 1960 article called "Why I Am Afraid of the Dark", Hitchcock noted this information - "...it's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's stories so much that I began to make suspense films."

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** On the surface it seems like a totally different beast from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', since it's in color and plays more like a melodrama than a horror film, but there are some intriguing connections between the films. They both open with a woman named Marion stealing a large amount of money from her boss. And they both focus on a {{Woobie}}-ish serial criminal whose [[FreudWasRight deviant behavior and sexual peculiarities]] stem from a [[MyBelovedSmother domineering mother]] and a horrific childhood incident.
** You can also view it as a variation on ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'', with Mark as Maxim de Winter, Marnie as the second Mrs. de Winter, and Lil as Mrs. Danvers.

* PlayingGertrude: Louise Latham, who played Tippi Hedren's mother is in reality only 8 years older. The aging makeup used on her was so good that when Latham filmed the climactic flashback scene without it, the crew thought it was a different actress. It should be noted however that the studio department was lying about Tippi Hedren's age - as they felt a Hollywood leading lady should be younger. The age she was thought to be just about matches up with the fifteen year age difference between the characters in the script.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Lil tells Mark "I'm queer for liars", using the old sense of "queer for" as "have a preference for". She means Mark, but with the FoeYay undertones in her interactions with Marnie, who's most definitely a liar, it's an obvious DoubleEntendre.

* [[SonOfAWhore Daughter Of A Whore]]: In the film, Marnie's mother was a prostitute.

* SpiritualSuccessor: On the surface it seems like a totally different beast from ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', since it's in color and plays more like a melodrama than a horror film, but there are some intriguing connections between the films. They both open with a woman named Marion stealing a large amount of money from her boss. And they both focus on a {{Woobie}}-ish serial criminal whose [[FreudWasRight deviant behavior and sexual peculiarities]] stem from a [[MyBelovedSmother domineering mother]] and a horrific childhood incident.

[[CharacterTitle Marnie]] Edgar (Hedren) is a young woman with a number of quirks. She has an unnatural fear and mistrust of men, [[FearOfThunder thunderstorms]], and the color red. More importantly, she suffers from [[StickyFingers kleptomania]]. Her latest victim is her employer Sidney Strutt (MartinGabel). She disappears with the contents of his safe. She later applies for a job to the company of publisher Mark Rutland (Connery).

* AmbiguouslyBi: Lil loves Mark, but also seems to have some BelligerentSexualTension with Marnie.

* PlayingGertrude: Louise Latham, who played Tippi Hedren's mother is in reality only 8 years older. The aging makeup used on her was so good that when Latham filmed the climactic flashback scene without it, the crew thought it was a different actress.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Marnie shows some signs of this when Mark brings Forio to her, but otherwise she stays the same.

* CharacterTitle: Marnie, short for Margaret.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Mark, the "hero" of the story, is pushy and manipulative, blackmails a woman into marriage, and invokes MaritalRapeLicense on the honeymoon. Marnie has a legitimate FreudianExcuse for her actions.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Lil tells Mark "I'm queer for liars", using the old sense of "queer for" as a "have a preference for". She means Mark, but with the FoeYay undertones in her interactions with Marnie, who's most definitely a liar, it's an obvious DoubleEntendre.