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".
Jeannine Taylor cost of $1,250,000. In 1980, Taylor made her film debut as Marcie Cunningham in Sean S. Cunningham's horror film "Friday the 13th". She starred alongside Kevin Bacon, Adrienne King, and Betsy Palmer. Taylor portrayed the lead, Madame Trentoni / Aurelia Johnson, in Robert Kalfin's off-Broadway production "Hijinks!" from December 17, 1980 to January 18, 1981. In 1982, Taylor portrayed Samantha Edwards in the television film "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana". In 1984, Taylor portrayed Henrietta in the stage production of "Robert and Elizabeth". The following year, she portrayed Nina in Robert Kalfin's stage production "Seagulls". In 2006, archive