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Vanity Fair Hitchcock Portfolio, 2008

Each year, Vanity Fair puts together a Hollywood portfolio, featuring the biggest stars of the year. For 2008, it placed various actors into iconic moments from Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movies.


Movie: To Catch a Thief, 1955
Original: Grace Kelly and Cary Grant
Recreated with: Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr.
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy


Movie: Dial M for Murder, 1954
Original: Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly
Recreated with: Charlize Theron
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy


Movie: Strangers on a Train, 1951
Original: Farley Granger and Robert Walker
Recreated with: Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy
Photographer: Art Streiber


Movie: Marnie, 1964
Original: Tippi Hedren
Recreated with: Naomi Watts
Photographer: Julian Broad


Movie: Vertigo, 1958
Original: Kim Novak
Recreated with: Renée Zellweger
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy


Movie: The Birds, 1963
Original: Tippi Hedren
Recreated with: Jodie Foster
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy


Movie: Psycho, 1960
Original: Janet Leigh
Recreated with: Marion Cotillard
Photographer: Mark Seliger


Movie: Rear Window, 1954
Original: Grace Kelly and James Stewart
Recreated with: Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy


Movie: Rebecca, 1940
Original: Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson
Recreated with: Keira Knightley and Jennifer Jason Leigh
Photographer: Julian Broad


Movie: Lifeboat, 1944
Original: Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, William Bendix, Canada Lee
Recreated with: Josh Brolin, Casey Affleck, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Foster, Omar Metwally, and Julie Christie
Photographer: Mark Seliger


Movie: North by Northwest, 1959
Original: Cary Grant
Recreated with: Seth Rogen
Photographer: Art Streiber


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