I didn't know that. Dali also did art direction for Hitch's Spellbound. He put together a wonderfully trippy sequence - excuse me for being unsure, but I think it was a dream sequence narrated by Gregory Peck's character.

It's been quite awhile since I viewed Spellbound, but that sequence stuck with me.

Here's an article on Hitchcock's and Dali's collaboration, w/a YouTube clip of the dream sequence down a ways on the page.

@pt100 said:

Here's an article on Hitchcock's and Dali's collaboration, w/a YouTube clip of the dream sequence down a ways on the page.

Wow! Verry cool. How'd you find out about Dali doing the Vertigo stuff?

@CelluloidFan said:

@pt100 said:

Here's an article on Hitchcock's and Dali's collaboration, w/a YouTube clip of the dream sequence down a ways on the page.

Wow! Verry cool. How'd you find out about Dali doing the Vertigo stuff?

There's no mention of Dali doing Vertigo in the article. I think Senor PT 100 just put it on the Vertigo thread because it's a more famous film than Spellbound as he hasn't specifically mentioned that Dali did Vertigo anywhere, just that he collaborated with Hitchcock. It spun me out a bit too.

@CelluloidFan said:

How'd you find out about Dali doing the Vertigo stuff?

It was discussed on a one-hour episode of "Stars of the Silver Screen" covering James Stewart on the Cinemoi channel on Sling TV. They also noted that Stewart was considered for the lead in North by Northwest before Cary Grant got the part. Hitchcock felt that the initial poor box office reception for Vertigo (now considered a classic) was due to Stewart's looking too old for the part, and he didn't want to chance the same mistake again.

Nevertheless, Hitchcock and Stewart had a good collaboration, completing three films together in addition to Vertigo: Rope, Rear Window and the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.