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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Otto Preminger
hisgrandmogulhighness — 11 years ago(September 12, 2014 03:09 PM)
Chicago Tribune
, Saturday, January 21, 1961, p. 14, c. 7:
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD
Jimmy Stewart Offered Part in 'Advise, Consent'
by Hedda Hopper
Hollywood, Jan. 20Jimmy Stewart, vacationing in Acapulco with Gloria, and heaven knows he needs it, was contacted by Otto Preminger to play a Democrat in "Advice and Consent," but before he can do that he has an Alfred Hitchcock film to make. He doesn't know the title nor what it is about, and Hitch won't tell. Jimmy also has, "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" for Jerry Wald. . . .
. . . . Tony Perkins learned that Fred Zinnemann is interested in him for one of the starring roles in "Hawaii." . . .
Well, as far as I am aware, Stewart never again worked for either Preminger or Hitchcock . . .
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kevin-bergin — 11 years ago(February 08, 2015 10:24 PM)
Shows how useless some of these publicity plantings are.
Stewart never worked with Hitchcock in the 1960s and frankly I can't see any of Hitch's later movie that Stewart could have been considered for?
He would have been good in :Advice and Consent" however. -
ecarle — 10 years ago(October 17, 2015 08:48 PM)
The Hitchcock film that James Stewart was under consideration for in 1961 was realbut it was never made.
Tentative title: "The Blind Man." Stewart was conceived to play a blind man given the eyes of a murder victim and sight. Stewart starts to see flashbacks of the murder and to know who the murderer was.
The big deal was that the story would climax with a chase through Disneyland. But
Walt Disney got wind of this idea and gave a press interview where he said "The director of that sickening film Psycho will not be allowed to make a movie at Disneyland."
End of project.
James Stewart was getting on in age by 1961 and I suppose the only reason The Blind Man would have worked with him in the role is that it wasn't intended as a romantic lead.
I'm guessing that Preminger wanted James Stewart in Advise and Consent for the lead given - somewhat surprisingly to Walter Pidgeon, who was no longer a big star in 1961/1962. Advise and Consent had Henry Fonda as its biggest name, but Fonda wasn't really in the lead role. Pidgeon was.