JFK spoke at United Nations sixty years ago this week, three years after Alfred Hitchcock defied UN rules to covertly film important scenes for “North by Northwest” there: 
Cary Grant and the ill-fated “Lester Townsend” in scene shot in studio for “North by Northwest” (1959) but intended to be at United Nations Visitors’ Lounge:
Cary Grant in “North by Northwest” (1959) with Ed Platt, who later played “the Chief” in “Get Smart!"
“Sorry about that, Chief!"
In “North by Northwest” were Cary Grant and Ed Platt, who later played “the Chief” in NBC’s “Get Smart”:
Philip Ober, who played the ill-fated “Lester Townsend” in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959), was married at the time to Vivian Vance, who was playing “Ethel Mertz” in “I Love Lucy”:
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