Stage Fright
About Stage Fright
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright is a 1950 thriller film. At 110 minutes long, it arrived in February 1950.
Its themes are extramarital affair, doll, maid, and lover. It is adapted from a novel.
Jane Wyman takes the lead as Eve Gill, Marlene Dietrich as Charlotte Inwood, Michael Wilding as Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith, and Richard Todd as Jonathan Cooper. The screenplay is by Whitfield Cook. In the United States it streams on TCM.
Bridget Jones's Diary, The Night of the Hunter, and The 39 Steps make useful companions to Stage Fright, all filed under black and white. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 381 votes.