In 1945, Dalí created the dream sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound, but neither Dalí nor the director were satisfied with the result.

Hidden Faces portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats, who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe in the 1930s.

On the morning of January 23, 1989, while his favorite record of Tristan and Isolde played, Dalí died of heart failure at the age of 84. He is buried in the crypt below the stage of his Theatre-Museum in Figueres. The location is across the street from the church of Sant Pere, where he had his baptism, first communion, and funeral, and is only 450 metres (1,480 ft) from the house where he was born.

After a prolonged legal battle in which a Spanish fortuneteller claimed to be Dalí's daughter, it was announced that his body would be exhumed in order to obtain samples for the paternity suit. Although the tests proved conclusively that Dalí and the claimant were not related, Narcís Bardalet, the embalmer who prepared Dalí's body after his death in 1989, exhumed his remains and noted, with some glee, that the artist's mustache was in excellent condition.