Alfred Hitchcock put Edgar Allan Poe references throughout this movie. Marnie's last name is Edgar. (In the novel, Marnie's last name is Elmer.) Unlike the movie, the novel takes place in England. Like Poe's characters, Marnie Edgar is subject to psychological terror. This movie takes place in New York City (Strutt's office), Virginia (Garrod's Stables), and Philadelphia (Rutland Publishing and Wickwind). These are the three places that Edgar Allan Poe lived throughout the better part of his life. The movie's climactic scene takes place at Marnie's mother's house in Baltimore, the city where Poe died under mysterious circumstances in 1849. Tippi Hedren played Marnie. Hedren and Poe both were born on January 19. In the novel, Marnie's mother's name is Edith Elmer. In this movie, Alfred Hitchcock changed Marnie's mother's name to Bernice Edgar; "Berenice" was a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. In a 1960 article called "Why I Am Afraid of the Dark", Hitchcock noted, "it's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's stories so much, that I began to make suspense films."

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