There, Clemens (who had just explained his past history as a disgraced doctor for malpractice), for whom Ripley had an affection and made love, was killed by the Alien - and then, in the film""s scariest scene, Ripley experienced an unnerving, close encounter with the Alien - it inspected her and hissed with its second maw in her ear, but left her unharmed.In the same year, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director for the Best Picture-winning filmRebecca (1940)- his first American film (Foreign Correspondentwas Hitchcock""s second film in 1940).]The melodramatic, Freudian-based crime film, with recurring hemes of betrayal and trust, is enhanced by the musical score of Max Steiner and the frantic pacing brilliantly served up by the director.This was not he first time the subject matter was performed.The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W.Somerset Maugham""s mid-1920s London stage play (that featured Gladys Cooper in the lead role).Then, it was a Broadway play that opened in 1927 (with Katharine Cornell), followed by Paramount Studios"" talkie of the same name in 1929 with Academy-Award nominated Jeanne Eagels (in her sound film debut) as the female protagonist Leslie Crosbie." Lola spices up the drinking establishment by singing flirtatiously: "Will You Be My Lovey Dovey?" and then dancing in front of her dance roupe.