Full Definition of SWAG. 1. : sway 1. 2. a: something (as a decoration) hanging in a curve between two points: festoon b: a suspended cluster (as of evergreen branches). 3. a: goods acquired by unlawful means: loot b: spoils, profits.
Both aloof and sensual, Kim Novak was cast by Hitchcock in Vertigo after original actress, Vera Miles, left due to pregnancy. Novak played the dual role of Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster, who becomes the sole obsession of acrophobic police detective John Scottie Ferguson (Stewart).
Opposite Henry Fonda, she played the emotionally devastated wife of a man unjustly charged with robbery. Miles was then originally slated to appear in Hitchcockâs 1958 movie Vertigo, but due to pregnancy and production delays, she was replaced by Kim Novak. But a major role was in the making.