She played as the socialite girlfriend to Stewart's wheelchair-bound photojournalist who plays along with his idea that one of his neighbors killed his wife.
She was a wealthy young socialite who travels to a seaside California town in pursuit of a new beau, only to find herself among the townspeople being pecked to death by swarms of seagulls.
In Psycho, she played Marion Crane, a secretary who embezzles $40,000 from her employer in order to free her lover from debt.
In Suspicion, she played as the naive wife, marrying a charming man after a brief romance, only to suspect that he is after her money and wants to kill her.
She plays a dual role of Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster, who becomes the sole obsession of scrophobic police detective John Ferguson. Madeline is obsessed with her own death. Ferguson helps her save her life.
She plays a Catholic teacher-in-training who falls for Terry Malloy. Not familiar with the lifestyle on the waterfront, she exhibits bravery by choosing to stick around through a dangerous time. An almost angelic gentle soul who often rescues stray animals, she sees the good in Terry that nobody else sees.
She was a psychoanalyst who falls in love with her new boss and learns that he's a troubled amnesiac and possibly even a killer.