--- title: Hitchcock's Women: Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Ingrid Berman and More description: LIFE.com celebrates actresses who served as muses for the demanding and often completely besotted Alfred Hitchcock. canonical: https://time.com/3873751/spellbound-alfred-hitchcocks-women/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2012-08-13T10:44:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:55.437Z og:title: Hitchcock's Women: Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Ingrid Berman and More og:description: LIFE.com celebrates actresses who served as muses for the demanding and often completely besotted Alfred Hitchcock. og:url: https://time.com/3873751/spellbound-alfred-hitchcocks-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdaa998bcbe3eab/698847dacd1bba634f6fa749/10_00195796.jpg?branch=production&width=790&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 790 og:image:height: 444 og:image:alt: Janet Leigh in 1950 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hitchcock's Women: Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Ingrid Berman and More twitter:description: LIFE.com celebrates actresses who served as muses for the demanding and often completely besotted Alfred Hitchcock. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdaa998bcbe3eab/698847dacd1bba634f6fa749/10_00195796.jpg?branch=production&width=790&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Spellbound: In Praise of Hitchcock's Women > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Aug 13, 2012 10:44 AM UTC  Janet Leigh, who starred in Psycho. Janet Leigh, who starred in Psycho. Allan Grant—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Aug 13, 2012 10:44 AM UTC A 2012 critics poll that—shockingly, to some—toppled Orson Welles’ _Citizen Kane_ from its long-time perch atop the Sight & Sound “Greatest Films of All Time” list and replaced it with the unsettling 1958 masterpiece, _Vertigo_, also had two other welcome results: it sparked passionate debate among movie fans and critics about their own favorite films, and it brought _Vertigo_‘s singular director, Alfred Hitchcock, back into the spotlight.  Hitchcock’s movies are unlike any other filmmaker’s for reasons that have been celebrated and (over)analyzed for half-a-century. For our purposes we can state, without fear of contradiction, that his unique melding of wry humor, suspense, powerhouse performances and a healthy regard for adult relationships, i.e., sex, make Sir Alfred’s films among the most entertaining and, at the same time, aesthetically rewarding in the history of the medium. From early gems like _The 39 Steps_ and _The Lady Vanishes_ to later classics like _Lifeboat_, _Spellbound_, _Rear Window_, _The Trouble With Harry_, _Psycho_, _The Birds_ and so many others, Hitchcock’s movies—even when quite genuinely disturbing—are at-once sophisticated and _fun_. That he’s not above the occasional, laughably obvious visual pun—who can forget the train barreling into the tunnel at the end of _North by Northwest?_—adds a playfulness to his movies that might well feel utterly self-absorbed in a lesser artist’s hands. Here, LIFE.com pays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock by celebrating the many actresses who served as muses—and, in some cases, [emotional punching bags](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-tippihedren-hitchcockbre87103c-20120801,0,1419757.story)—for the demanding and often completely besotted director.  Tippi Hedren testing for Marnie (in which she starred) in 1963\. She also starred, most famously, in Hitchcock's The Birds. John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Teresa Wright (Shadow of a Doubt) and Alfred Hitchcock in 1942. Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Joan Fontaine -- of Rebecca and Suspicion fame -- with Alfred Hitchcock and Laurence Olivier in 1939. Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Tallulah Bankhead on the set of Lifeboat in 1943. Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Grace Kelly (on the set of the movie The Country Girl in 1954) was one of Hitchcock's favorite actresses, starring in To Catch a Thief, Rear Window and Dial M for Murder. Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Doris Day, who starred in The Man Who Knew Too Much. John Florea—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Julie Andrews, who starred in Torn Curtain. Leonard McCombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Anne Baxter, who starred in I Confess. John Florea—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Eva Marie Saint, who starred with Cary Grant and James Mason in North by Northwest. Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Janet Leigh, who starred in Psycho. Allan Grant—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Ingrid Bergman, who starred in Notorious and Spellbound. Gordon Parks—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Shirley MacLaine, who starred in The Trouble With Harry. Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Kim Novak, who starred in Vertigo. J.R. 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