Discovered by Samuel Goldwyn while still a high school student, Farley Granger has bee-stung lips and soulful looks and was immediately plugged into "The North Star" (1943), a propaganda film of World War II, in which he played a freedom-loving Russian youth. After a similar WWII film, "The Purple Heart" (1944), he went into the military himself. When Granger was repatriated to Hollywood, he began a string of films in which he was a pretty boy with seemingly everything in the world going for him yet who truly harbored dark impulses. This was first displayed in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948),