Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films other iconic stairwell shot comes from the movie "Suspicion" as Cary Grant slowly walks up the stairs to deliver what would have been the poisonous warmed milk to his wife. Hitchcock, the studios and Grant decided his character could not end up as a murderer and that scene becomes a red herring with a new ending added. In "The Birds", the camera follows Tippi Hedren up the stairs to the attic where (suspensefully) the birds wait silently to attack her. Staircases also appear prominently in the 'ball-gown scene' in "Rebecca" and in the 'guard-dog scene' in "Strangers on a Train".
Christine Taylor guest starred in "Hannah Montana Forever". In 2010, she also starred in the Hallmark Channel Christmas movie "Farewell Mr. Kringle". In 2013, Taylor reprised her role as Sally Sitwell in two episodes of the revived "Arrested Development". Taylor guest starred on "Elementary" in 2017, playing villainess Gail Lundquist. Taylor married actor Ben Stiller on May 13, 2000. They met while making the TV show "Heat Vision and Jack". Stiller and Taylor appeared together in "Zoolander", "", "Tropic Thunder", "Zoolander 2", and the TV series "Arrested Development" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm". They live in Westchester County, New York and have a