One of most intriguing and haunting voices in Alfred Hitchcock's film Marnie is this jump-rope rhyme familiar to many girls. This song, which refers to Marnie (Marnie is identified with famous first scene in which we see her from behind, carrying a purse), occurs at beginning and at end of film and in each case is associated with Marnie's visits to her mother. Like other Hitchcock films, such as Rear Window, The Lady Vanishes, and Shadow of a Doubt, subtle songs contain significant clues.' The ambiguity of rhyme questions gender and creates a riddle concerning the The song offers four discursive positions for women: daughter, mother, nurse, and lady, but only one position for men, doctor. The lady is intriguing because she doesn't fit within dualistic economy of male/female, doctor/nurse, and mumps/measles. The words play on gender identification and therefore gap in logic creates a mystery, a possible other position for lady. Like Marnie, lady from rhyme doesn't fit within oedipal triangle of man, woman, and child. She is scary spinster with purse; she is mysterious other. Marnie is story of a woman who has an obsessive need to steal and who makes her living as a thief. Her every move is studied, a performance of survival through manipulation. Marnie steals from patriarchy and returns to a women's space, where her mother lives in a world of fatherless families. Marnie wears man's desire and distracts him from realizing that he's made a bad deal. Easily and successfully, this trickster hits man in his most vulnerable spot, pocket. After stealing a large amount of money from a company where she was