The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock
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94 “Hitchcock Gives Free . . . Sex”: “Hitchcock Gives Free Rein to the Gentle Sex,” TV Guide, May 10, 1958, 12.
95 “it was very . . . ideas”: Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi, “Hitch, Hitch, Hitch, Hurrah!” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock Interviews, 123. Originally published in Écran, July-August 1972, 2–8.
95 “rich man who . . . detail”: Ibid.
95 “I took a . . . dissipated”: Hedda Hopper, “Papa Hitchcock,” Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, April 29, 1962, C16, DSP UCLA.
96 “you go to . . . wasted”: “Hitchcock on Truffaut,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2, 133.
96 In her book . . . naivete: Lois Banner, American Beauty (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983), 284.
97 In a draft . . . script: Draft of The Trouble with Harry, July 27, 1954, written by John Michael Hayes, AHC MHL.
97 “poor Marilyn had . . . face”: transcript of AH interview with Peter Bogdanovich, 1962, AHC MHL.
97 “high-style, lady-like . . . Colbert”: Moral, Making of Marnie, 17. Transcripts of the Hitchcock-Truffaut interviews, AHC MHL.
97 “Shortly after our . . . gasped”: Tippi Hedren, Tippi: A Memoir (New York: William Morrow, 2016), loc. 614–25 of 3653, Kindle.
98 “Tippi started to . . . eyes”: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 189.
98 “eyes were dry . . . himself”: Hedren, Tippi, loc. 625 of 3653, Kindle.
98 “It was brutal . . . relentless”: Ibid., loc. 791 of 3653, Kindle.
99 “very hard for . . . watch it”: Kyle Counts, “The Making of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds,” Cinemafantastique, Fall 1980, 33.
99 Even when Hedren . . . her: Notes on Edwin Miller’s interview with Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock, March 20, 1963, Edwin Miller Interviews for Seventeen Magazine, Rare Books and Manuscript Division, New York Public Library.
99 “He was not . . . fabulous”: Peter Anthony Holder, Great Conversations (Albany, NY: BearManor Media, 2017), loc. 3273 of 3562, Kindle.
100 “threw himself on . . . memory”: Hedren, Tippi, loc. 709 of 3653, Kindle.
100 “referred to my weight”: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 221 of 5468, Kindle.
100 “I’ve never gone . . . repulsed”: Hedren, Tippi, loc. 989–1001 of 3653, Kindle.
100 Hedren contends that . . . untrue: Tony Lee Moral, “How Accurate is The Girl?” Broadcast, December 14, 2012, http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comment/how-accurate-is-the-girl/5050231.article.
102 “How else is . . . Hitchcock?”: John Russell Taylor, “Alfred Hitchcock: Fact and Fiction by John Russell Taylor,” April 8, 2013, https://bloomsburyreader.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/alfred-hitchcock-fact-and-fiction-by-john-russell-taylor/.
102 “It was an . . . different”: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 12557 of 20272, Kindle.
103 “capable of questionable . . . mouth”: Ibid., loc. 3993 of 20272, Kindle.
103 “ugly, intimate demands”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 550.
103 “I’m being erotic . . . Hitchcock”: David Freeman in discussion with the author, October 6, 2018.
103 “a god of cinema”: This form of words, and similar terms, have been used to describe Hitchcock by multiple actors, directors, and critics, including Barbara Leigh-Hunt and William Devane, who both used it in interviews with the author.
103 “It was a . . . knowing this”: David Freeman in discussion with the author, October 6, 2018.
104 “lots of laughs . . . boy”: Peggy Robertson, OHP.
104 “absolutely charming. He . . . right”: Marcella Rabwin, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. Courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby.
104 “He was sarcastic . . . overlooked it”: Ibid.
104 “Every relationship my . . . required”: Jean Stein, West of Eden (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016), 178.
104 “the vanity of . . . cold, too”: Elspeth Grant, “Converted to Beatledom,” Tatler, July 22, 1964, 183.
105 “glaringly fake cardboard . . . script”: Eugene Archer, “Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie,’ with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery,” New York Times, June 23, 1964, 19.
105 “If you don’t . . . cinema”: Robin Wood, in The Trouble with Marnie, DVD extra on Marnie, 2005.
106 “Evan, when he . . . face!”: Hunter, Me and Hitch, 75.
106 “reason for making the movie,” Ibid.
106 “I’m very fond . . . rape”: Richard Allen, “An Interview with Jay Presson Allen,” in Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual, eds. Sidney Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002), 208.
106 “didn’t bother me . . . [Mark]”: Jay Presson Allen, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC, PMC WHS.
106 “full-on misogyny . . . apologism”: Bidisha, “What’s Wrong with Hitchcock’s Women,” Guardian, October 21, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/21/alfred-hitchcock-women-psycho-the-birds-bidisha.
106 “has a singular . . . himself”: William Rothman, Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, 2nd ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 360.
106 “whose will, if . . . whom”: Ibid., 414.
106 “so-called rape”: Ibid., 411.
106 “gives him grounds . . . her”: Ibid., 416.
106 “entranced, turned inward”: Ibid.
107 In the 1980s . . . much: Wood, Hitchcock’s Films Revisited, 241–22.
107 “portrait of a . . . graceful”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 155.
107 “carnal qualities . . . brassiere”: Ibid., 248.
108 “her dignity and glamour”: Barbara J. Buchanan, “Alfred Hitchcock Tells a Woman that Women Are a Nuisance,” Film Weekly, September 20, 1935, 10.
108 “a nuisance . . . girls!”: Ibid.
108 “entered into the . . . her!”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Making ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps,’ ” Film Weekly, May 23, 1936, 29.
108 “torture the women!”: Cited in Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 458. Quoting Stephen Rebello, “Plotting with Hitchcock,” The Real Paper, February 16, 1980, 30–31.
108 “sooner or later . . . humiliated”: Roger Ebert, “Vertigo,” October 13, 1996, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-vertigo-1958.
109 “When one is . . . ‘yes, but . . .’ ”: Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much, 3.
5: THE FAT MAN
110 “I don’t know . . . disgracefully”: AH to Darryl F. Zanuck, August 30, 1943, in Auiler, Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks, 131.
110 “It has tempo . . . level”: Darry F. Zanuck to AH, September 4, 1943, ibid., 132.
110 “Hitch knows more . . . know”: Walter Slezak, What Time’s the Next Swan? (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962), 219.
111 “there’s no law . . . comfortable”: Hume Cronyn, A Terrible Liar: A Memoir (New York: William Morrow, 1991), 163.
112 “accidentally swallow . . . away”: Alfred Hitchcock, “The Woman Who Knows Too Much,” McCall’s, March 1956, 12.
113 “I don’t feel . . . fat”: John D. Weaver, “The Man Behind the Body,” Holiday, September 1964, 85.
114 “I have all . . . fat”: Robert Boyle, OHP.
114 “The casting department . . . self”: Alfred Hitchcock, “The Real Me (The Thin One),” Daily Express, August 9, 1966, 8.
115 “funny-looking”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 33.
115 “You’ll grow out of it”: Ibid.
116 “You’re sitting on it”: Emerson Batdorf, “Let’s Hear It for Hitchcock,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock Interviews, 78. Originally published in Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 1, 1970, 28–31.
116 “in England, everyone . . . on it”: David Freeman, Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1984), 6.
116 “was not one . . . food”: Coleman, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock, 253.
116 “his pleasure was . . . efficiency”: David Freeman, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC, PMC WHS.
116 When he threw . . . 1892: Chandler, It’s On
ly a Movie, 233.
117 “He is much . . . ice-cream”: Rita Grosvenor, “I don’t scare easily, says Mrs Hitchcock,” Sunday Express, January 30, 1972, 3.
117 “feet planted firmly . . . hand”: Spike Hughes, “Coarse Cricket,” Daily Herald, July 30, 1938, 8.
118 “Hitch insists on . . . time!”: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 151.
118 Whitfield Cook recalled . . . “watched”: Ibid.
118 “He does not . . . most”: T.H.E., “Meet the Strong, Silent Director!” Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, February 16, 1935, 10.
118 “sprawl artistically on . . . gleaming”: Frank S. Nugent, “Assignment in Hollywood,” Good Housekeeping, November 1945, 12.
118 The turn against . . . more: Daniel Delis Hill, Advertising to the American Woman, 1900–1999 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002).
119 Male bodies were . . . bodybuilding: Peter Stearns, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 20.
119 William Howard Taft . . . weight: Alexis Coe, “William Howard Taft Is Still Stuck in the Tub,” New York Times, September 15, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/opinion/william-howard-taft-bathtub.html.
119 In 1909, Lillian Russell . . . workout: Stearns, Fat History, 20.
119 When the German . . . shape: Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 38.
119 A few years later . . . singers: Edward White, The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), 79.
119 “Working with Hitch . . . him”: Shirley MacLaine, I’m Over All That: And Other Confessions (New York: Atria, 2012), 70.
119 “I wasn’t blonde . . . me”: Shirley MacLaine, interview by James Corden, The Late Late Show with James Corden, CBS, March 1, 2017.
119 “breakfast was pancakes . . . soufflés”: MacLaine, I’m Over All That, 70.
120 If Smith’s account . . . brandy: H. Allen Smith, “Hitchcock Likes to Smash Cups,” New York World-Telegram, August 28, 1937, 7.
120 He was reported . . . debut: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 4666 of 20272, Kindle.
120 “His free-floating, unconfined . . . another”: “Falstaff in Manhattan,” New York Times, September 5, 1937, 122.
120 “Alfred Hitchcock has . . . flee”: Lawrence Greene, “He Is a Camera,” Esquire, August 1952, 43.
120 “forepart of a . . . chins”: Walter Ross, “Murder in the Mezzanine,” Esquire, January 1954, 75.
121 “The newcomer was . . . suit”: Alva Johnston, “300-Pound Prophet Comes to Hollywood,” Saturday Evening Post, May 22, 1943, 12.
121 “holds two distinctions . . . cords”: Bill Davidson, “Alfred Hitchcock Resents,” Saturday Evening Post, December 15, 1962, 62.
121 “comply with their . . . arose”: Casey McKittrick, Hitchcock’s Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 30.
121 he had caught . . . image: Leff, Hitchcock and Selznick, 107.
122 he was experiencing . . . enlarged: McKittrick, Hitchcock’s Appetites, 27.
123 Joel McCrea, the . . . 1940: Ibid., 28. See also Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 31.
123 Around the same . . . Suspicion: Ibid. See also McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 6331 of 20272, Kindle.
123 Anthony Shaffer, the screenwriter . . . again: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 15965 of 20272, Kindle.
123 Life magazine, which . . . an eight-week period: “Speaking of Pictures . . . Alfred Hitchcock Reduces as Plant Expands,” Life, March 13, 1944, DSP UCLA.
124 “Hitchcock countenance will . . . building”: Alfred Hitchcock, “My Most Exciting Picture,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1, 282. Originally published in Popular Photography, November 1948. See also George E. Turner, “Rope—Something Different,” American Cinematographer, 1985.
124 “one of the . . . century”: Jan Olsson, Hitchcock à la Carte (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2015), 1.
126 “the breast ballet”: Whitfield Cook, diary, April 1, 1945, Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
126 “the whistling sailor . . . expression”: Rodney Ackland and Elspeth Grant, The Celluloid Mistress, or The Custard Pie of Dr. Caligari (London: Allan Wingate, 1954), 38.
126 As originally written . . . obese: Torn Curtain script, October 6, 1965, AHC MHL.
126 “I don’t look . . . garret”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 11.
126 “simply but a lot”: Ben Wickham, “Hitchcock Co., Horror Unlimited,” unknown publication, 1940, AHC MHL.
126 By the 1950s . . . martini: Clark, “Here’s Hitchcock’s Recipe for Suspense,” 11.
127 “that turkey and eggnog waistline”: “It’s Time Now to Start Taking Off That Turkey and Eggnog Waistline,” Los Angeles Times, January 18, 1955, B2.
127 the paper’s West . . . sophistication: Telegram from AH to Mary Reinholz, September 13, 1967, AHC MHL.
127 For the popular . . . fifties: Olsson, Hitchcock à la Carte, 54, citing Selma Robinson, “Alfred Hitchcock in the Hundred-Pound Mystery,” McCall’s, April 1958, 58, 150, 152–53.
127 he suggested, they . . . fact: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 118.
127 “I don’t get . . . off”: Richard Gehman, “Chairman of the Board,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2, 235. Article found in the Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, Hitchcock clippings folder #2. No publication or page number.
127 “He used to . . . about it”: Donald Spoto, High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood (London: Hutchinson, 2005), 138, citing Roderick Mann, “Princess Grace: How a Royal Beauty Stays Beautiful,” Ladies Home Journal, May 1970.
127 “We would gather . . . more”: Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion: An Autobiography (London: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 252–53.
128 “It was a meticulously timed event”: Marcella Rabwin, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC, courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby.
128 His expenditure on . . . liquor: Report made by Carol Stevens of AH’s income and expenditure for 1939, February 6, 1940, AHC MHL.
128 “Grace was never . . . so”: Edith Head, The Dress Doctor (Kingswood, UK: World’s Work, 1960), 151.
128 “I loved to . . . dessert”: Charlotte Chandler, Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography (London: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 124.
129 Pat remembers that . . . wife: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 228.
129 “They took their . . . dishes”: Ibid., 230.
129 which apparently cost . . . house: Martin Abramson, “What Hitchcock Does with His Blood Money,” Cosmopolitan, January 1964, 74.
129 In his excellent . . . 1963: Olsson, Hitchcock à la Carte, 57–61.
129 Olsson points out . . . kitchens: Ibid., 57.
129 “Food, like pure . . . something”: Marilyn Kaytor, “The Alfred Hitchcock Dinner Hour,” Look, August 27, 1963, DSP UCLA.
130 From the mid-sixties . . . maintain: Olsson, Hitchcock à la Carte, 57.
130 In 1966, he . . . issued: AH to Geoffrey Watkins, May 13, 1966, AHC MHL.
130 the decade in . . . began: Greg Critser, Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
130 Weekly check-ups with . . . week: AH appointment books, AHC MHL.
131 He’d ask a . . . vodka: Ernest Lehman, Kirby.
131 the maid knew . . . medicinal: AH to Elsie Randolph, December 6, 1978, AHC MHL.
131 he’d find a . . . swigs: David Freeman in discussion with the author, October 6, 2018.
132 “Lunch usually consists . . . week”: AH to Gladys Hitching, June 15, 1978, AHC MHL.
132 While his television . . . lip: See McKittrick, Hitchcock’s Appetites, for a more thorough exploration of how Hitchcock used his body to build his brand in various ways.
132 David O. Selznick . . . re-release: David O.
Selznick to AH, August 28, 1956, DSP UCLA.
132 Hitchcock refused: Herman Citron to David O. Selznick, August 30, 1956, DSP UCLA.
132 Later, a PR executive . . . design: Bill Blowitz to AH, March 21, 1963, AHC MHL.
132 Again, Hitchcock said no: Ibid. Annotation at the top of Blowitz’s letter states that Hitchcock rejected the idea of changing his silhouette.
6: THE DANDY
134 “It’s inherently uncinematic . . . movie”: David Fincher in Rope: Pro and Con, DVD extra on Hitchcock/Truffaut, 2016.
135 “a man unduly . . . dandy”: Search result from google.com, March 1, 2019.
135 Wilde, the unignorable . . . imagination: For more on the self-invention of Wilde’s dandy persona as a key to his celebrity, see David M. Friedman, Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014).
136 Under his influence . . . existence: For a vivid and entertaining biography of Brummell, see Ian Kelly, Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005).
136 “We can’t recall . . . affection”: Frank S. Nugent, “The Screen in Review,” New York Times, October 12, 1939, 33.
136 “virtually unwatchable”: Barr, English Hitchcock, 204.
136 “Laughton’s picture, not Hitchcock’s”: Peter Ackroyd, Alfred Hitchcock (London: Chatto & Windus, 2015), 81.
136 The film features . . . performance: Jamaica Inn shooting script, Alfred Hitchcock Collection, BFI.
137 While still working . . . Strand: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 779 of 5468, Kindle.
137 “the kind of . . . to be”: Samuel Taylor, in “Reputations,” Hitch: Alfred the Great, BBC Two, May 30, 1999.
138 “the Hollywood people . . . combination”: Transcript of Hitchcock’s interview with Peter Bogdanovich, AHC MHL.
138 “a form of . . . months”: Oscar Wilde, “The Philosophy of Dress,” New York Tribune, April 19, 1885, 9.
139 One Hitchcock biographer . . . Sternberg: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 2683 of 5468, Kindle.
139 “The dandy does . . . living”: Philip Mann, The Dandy at Dusk: Taste and Melancholy in the Twentieth Century (London: Head of Zeus, 2017), 5.
139 “always wore them . . . Marrakesh”: Thomas Elsaesser, “The Dandy in Hitchcock,” in Richard Allen and S. Ishii Gonzales, eds., Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (London: British Film Institute, 1999), 4.