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.
Renée Taylor released in 2009. Taylor also appeared on Fran Drescher's latest show "Happily Divorced" as the best friend of Fran's mother. In 2011, Taylor was cast in the short-lived Fox cartoon "Allen Gregory", in which she voiced the character of Principal Gottlieb. In 2013, she starred in the "Tyler Perry" film "" as Ms. Waco Chapman, the owner of Chapman drug company. In 2016, Taylor starred in the Netflix movie "The Do-Over" with Adam Sandler as the role of Mrs. Kessler and in the TV show "Rock in a Hard Place". Recently, Taylor appeared in the 2017 film "How To Be