Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Clift at a dinner party around the filming of "I Confess" (1953) to swallow a carafe of brandy, which caused the actor to pass out almost immediately. In "Torn Curtain" and "Topaz", brandy is defined more closely as cognac. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is offered a brandy by Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette), and after being attacked by the birds, drinks the brandy offered by Mitch (Rod Taylor). In "Rear Window", Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) is "just warming some brandy". In "Frenzy", Richard Blaney is sacked for supposedly stealing brandy, and can be seen in several sequences to be drinking brandy.
Tara Hitchcock KTVK, in Phoenix from 1997 through September 27, 2011. Tara Hitchcock lived in the Phoenix suburb of Ahwatukee Foothills, prior to her marriage to Kenn Francis. Hitchcock now resides in Scottsdale with Francis and his children from a previous relationship. On October 31, 2013 she started a Thursday morning segment on KPHO's CBS 5 News at 6AM called "Tara's Reel Travels" where she interviews cast members of an upcoming movie. Tara Hitchcock Tara Hitchcock (born 1971) is an American journalist and news anchor. She was born in Pennsylvania, the eldest of four daughters. Her family lived in Massachusetts and New