00:08Good evening, I'm Alicia Malone, and tonight's line-up on TCM is dedicated to actor Farley
00:13Granger, who was born 100 years ago. That was in San Jose, California, on July 1st, 1925,
00:20and he was named after his father, who owned a successful car dealership.
00:25When the stock market crashed, their fortune was wiped out, so his dad took his wife and
00:30only child to Los Angeles. The elder Farley became friends with the silent film comedian
00:36Harry Langdon, who advised him to take his son to an audition at a local theatre. That turned out to
00:42be good advice, because after being cast in the play, young Farley Granger, who had grown into a
00:48handsome teenager, was spotted by an agent, which led to a contract with Samuel Goldwyn.
00:54Farley Granger's debut role was in the war film The North Star from 1943, followed by another war film,
01:01The Purple Heart from 1944, but it was his third role, coming in 1948, that introduced him to
01:08director Alfred Hitchcock. And after casting him in Rope, Hitchcock borrowed Granger again a few years
01:17from 1951. Adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, Granger stars as Guy Haynes, a tennis player who
01:25wants to divorce his wife and marry his girlfriend, Anne, played by Ruth Roman. While on a train to ask
01:31his wife for that divorce, he meets a strange man named Bruno Antony, played by Robert Walker,
01:37and accidentally makes a dangerous pact. Originally, Hitchcock wanted William Holden to play Guy Haynes,
01:44but when that didn't work out, he asked Granger to come for a meeting at his house in Bel Air.
01:49Granger wrote in his memoir that Hitchcock told him the plot of the film, playing all the parts with
01:54relish, and he was thrilled when Hitch offered him this role. Also with Patricia Hitchcock from 1951,
02:02this is Strangers on a Train.
02:14Stengers on a Train.
02:14Stashes on a Train
02:14St Antonio
02:14St Lightning
02:14St années
