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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Rear Window can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/parentalguide.

No. Rear Window is based on the short story It Had to Be Murder (1942) by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich [1903-1968].

There is mention of it being a hatbox, but what was inside the hatbox was never clearly stated in the movie. Most viewers assume it to be Thorwald's wife's head. He then kills the little dog and reburies the hatbox.

Alfred Hitchcock is known for cameoing himself in each of his movies. His cameo in Rear Window is about an hour into the movie, in the scene in the singer's room. Hitchcock is the one winding the clock. For a photo of this scene, go to http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2971 or to http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/28358.hitch.jpg.

Just when Jeff and Stella think she's going to take a handful of pills, Miss Lonelyheart hears the songwriter playing the piano and stops. At the end you see her in the songwriter's apartment telling him how much his music means to her.