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August 4, 1954, New York, New York, USA: GRACE KELLY at the premiere of ''Rear Window'' in 1954. Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story 'It Had to Be Murder'. The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest films ever made.