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From : FrediXFilms
Added: Nov 8, 2009
FALLING STARS OF HOLLYWOOD - by frediXfilms One of the saddest, tragic artistic divorces in the "Golden Days" of film history was when the once mighty, Alfred Hitchcock fired his favorite film composer, Bernard Herrmann in 1966 during the shooting of Hitch's "Torn Curtain". It was at the time when Hitchcock had started to feel paranoid about his declining film successes at the box-office. The divorce was painful for both of them, considering that they earlier had produced masterpieces like Vertigo and Psycho together. Their collaboration started back in 1955, with Hitchcock's, "The Trouble With Harry", the first successful fruit of their artistic association. Here is a quote by Steve Vertlieb from the Bernard Herrmann Society: "Both Hitchcock and Herrmann had become renowned for their darker sides of genius. Each man was moody, and temperamental, suffering from long sieges of depression and prone to explosions of unpredictable rage. Yet, in each other's company, they were trusting and comfortable. The normally reclusive Hitchcock would often invite Bernard and Lucy Herrmann for the weekend at his Bel Aire estate. Hitchcock would cook, while the two men spent endless hours talking in the director's kitchen. Each man regarded the other with respect and a degree of admiration. Herrmann seemed to understand Hitchcock's inner complexities, and became a comforting influence on and off the screen. On the screen Bernard Herrmann became the musical voice the director had sought for years, a seamless expansion of the director's complicated psyche, manifested perfectly in all of its psycho-sexual nuance. Whatever inner doubts and demons plagued and inspired both men seemed to come provocatively to life in each of their highly successful marriages of visualization and music. Rarely in film has there existed as pure an artistic umbilical chord."
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