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Cary Grant behind Alfred Hitchcock's audacious 'double bluff' that stunned viewers

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McCann said: "Hitchcock had wanted Grant for the role precisely because of such audience expectations. "He knew that audiences on seeing Johnnie Aysgarth would know that he was Cary Grant, so that however bleak the situation might become, they would not believe that a character played by Grant could really turn out to be a murderer. "Hitchcock, therefore, planned to execute an audacious double-bluff, revealing Grant's character to be as bad, as cold, as evil as he had seemed to be, thereby administering a shock far beyond anything that the plot itself could have been expected to deliver. "DON'T MISS:Sophie Loren once spilled all about famous Cary Grant proposal claim [ANALYSIS]Sean Connery's daring request of Hitchcock 'Cary Grant wouldn't ask' [LATEST]North By Northwest: 'First James Bond' film nearly had Christmas star [INSIGHT]Away from the camera, Grant's personal life was often scrutinised.

Even years after his death in 1986, those linked with the Bristol-born actor shutdown claims of romances, including with Italian icon Sophia Loren.

Reports from the set of 1957 film The Pride and the Passion suggested an affair between Grant and Loren developed. But in 2020, the star told the Radio Times exactly what happened.

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