![]() ![]() ![]() My father depended on her for everything. She said she decided to write the 2003 book Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man because “I don’t think she ever got the credit for being as good as she was. Boyle, who worked on several of her father’s films. Years later, Hitchcock served as an executive producer on the 2000 documentary The Man on Lincoln’s Nose, about production designer Robert F. I didn’t know anything else.Īround that time, she also appeared on such shows as Suspense, My Little Margie, The Life of Riley and an installment of Playhouse 90 directed by John Frankenheimer. “You didn’t speak unless spoken to, but it didn’t bother me or have any repercussions. “I was brought up rather as an English child, so I knew what was expected, and I pretty much always did it,” she told the Post. She liked to ride horses and always wanted to be an actress. ![]() Selznick to direct Rebecca (1940), and they settled in a house on Bellagio Road in Bel Air. in March 1939 when her dad accepted an offer from producer David O. We didn’t try out stuff.”īorn on July 7, 1928, Patricia Alma Hitchcock spent two years away at boarding school starting at age 8. Just like with, we would discuss the scene and do it. In a 2004 chat for the TV Academy website The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, Hitchcock talked about working with her father, noting, “There wasn’t anything unusual about it. In real life, she was attending RADA at the time.Īnd in Psycho (1960), she appeared near the start of the movie as the plain office worker Caroline, who offers to share some tranquilizers with Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane. Hitchcock’s most prominent role came in Strangers on a Train (1951) as the bespectacled Barbara Morton, who, as the kid sister of Ruth Roman’s character watches the unhinged Bruno (Robert Walker) nearly strangle a woman to death at a cocktail party.Īfter starring as a teenager in a pair of 1940s Broadway comedies, she had a small role as Chubby Bannister, a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art classmate of Jane Wyman’s character, in Stage Fright (1950). However, for those unfamiliar with Hitchcock, or maybe only aware of his biggest hits, the following are all worth exploring, and collectively deliver hours of suspense, dark comedy, thrills, and intense psychological drama.She played the hired help in the Jean Negulesco palace drama The Mudlark (1950), starring Irene Dunne and Alec Guinness, and had an uncredited part in Cecil B. In total, he made about 60 films, and since the majority of those are worth watching, a ranking of just 25 proves to be challenging, as there are naturally some omissions. The best of his works still feel alive, exciting, and vital, and that's a reason other filmmakers have always been influenced by him, whether it was back when he was alive and making movies, or in the years since 1980.Īs a director, Hitchcock made numerous movies in both the British and American film industries, starting with silent films in the 1920s, and continuing to direct into the 1970s. Many of his best works don't feel like they live in the past, or merely feel like products of it. His films live on and hold up well, despite the fact Hitchcock himself passed away in 1980, and his final film was released in 1976. Alfred Hitchcock's influence on cinema cannot be denied. ![]()
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