Both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman had multiple turns in Hitchcock movies, but Notorious, is the only one that they both star in together. Bergman stars as Ms. Huberman, who father disgraces her family spectacularly by being tried and convicted of treason against the United States; he shortly kills himself in captivity with a poison pill. Huberman is then contacted by Grant's character Devlin, to ask her to travel with him to new post war South America in infiltrate a group of Nazi's who had escaped there. He then becomes his her case officer. The problem is that the two have serious chemistry between them...making it more and more difficult when she allows herself to become the "play thing" of the man who heads up this Nazi cabal: Alexander Sebastian, played in chilling cold blooded accuracy by Claude Rains. Things really get complicated when, after seeing Devlin and Huberman together at a horse race, and suspecting, he says, that they are in love, he asks Alicia to marry him. Things get really sticky from there. This is another completely in house project, with a rare original screenplay (considering that most of Hitchcock's films are based either on plays or novels), the two production companies who shared the film were Vanguard and RKO. It was nominated for 2 Academy Awards, one for the screenplay and one for Rains, for turning in that truly wicked and convincingly scary performance! He should have won!
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