Der unsichtbare Dritte
Hitchcock and Lehman made an appearance before MGM executives telling the story of "North by Northwest", and said that MGM would get two films out of Hitchcock under his contract with MGM. However, Hitchcock eventually abandoned the idea of "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" (which MGM proceeded to make with Cooper and director Michael Anderson) and went ahead with "North by Northwest" instead.