It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, a Personal Biography

349 Pages·2005·1.72 MB·English

by  Chandler Charlotte

Also by Charlotte Chandler
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandler, Charlotte.
It’s only a movie : Alfred Hitchcock, a personal biography / Charlotte Chandler.
p. cm.
Includes index
Filmography: p.
1. Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899–1980. 2. Chandler, Charlotte. 3. Motion picture producers and directors—Great
Britain—Biography. I. Title.
PN1998.3.H58 C53 2005
791.4302’33’092—dc22 2004052559
ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-709-6
ISBN-10: 1-84739-709-3
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Acknowledgments
With special appreciation
Pat Hitchcock-O’Connell, Alma Reville Hitchcock, Chuck Adams,
and Bob Bender.
With appreciation
Michael Accordino, Jan Anderson, Judith Anderson, Claudio
Angelini, Enrica Antonioni, Michelangelo Antonioni, Amelia
Antonucci, Dennis Aspland, Linda Ayton, Diane Baker, Roy Ward
Baker, Charles Bennett, Marcella Berger, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney
Bernstein, Robert Boyle, David Brown, Kevin Brownlow, Henry
Bumstead, Bob Calhoun, Jack Cardiff, Fred Chase, Larry Cohen,
Herbert Coleman, Wilkie Cooper, Rusty Coppleman, Warren Cowan,
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Hume Cronyn, George Cukor, Tony Curtis,
Georgine Darcy, Marlene Dietrich, Karin Dor, Mitch Douglas, Lisa
Drew, Jean-Louis Dumas, Laura Elliott, C. O. “Doc” Erikson, Ray
Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Rudi Fehr, Jean Firstenberg, Henry
Fonda, Joan Fontaine, Barry Foster, Joe Franklin, John Emmanuel
Gartmann, Bob Gazzale, Anthony Gentile, John Gielgud, Lillian Gish,
Milton Goldman, Elliott Gould, Farley Granger, Cary Grant, Hilton
Green, Dick Guttman, Dolly Haas, Robert Haller, Peter Handford,
Curtis Harrington, Robert A. Harris, Harry Haun, Edith Head, Tippi
Hedren, Audrey Hepburn, Bernard Herrmann, Arthur Hiller, Thurn
Hoffman, John Houseman, Evan Hunter, Peter Johnson, James Katz,
Howard G. Kazanjian, Fay Kanin, Grace Kelly, Theodore Kheel,
Alexander Kordonsky, Martin Landau, John Landis, Ted Landry, Fritz
Lang, Bryan Langley, Henri Langlois, Robert Lantz, Arthur Laurents,
Ernest Lehman, Johanna Li, Janet Leigh, Norman Lloyd, Joshua
Logan, Sirio Maccioni, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Malden, Groucho
Marx, James Mason, Mary Merson, Ray Milland, Ruth Anna
Millman, Laurent Momméja, Thom Mount, Dieter Mueller, Reggie
Nalder, Ronald Neame, Paul Newman, Arthur Novell, Eileen
O’Casey, Maureen O’Hara, Laurence Olivier, Robert Osborne, Jerry
Pam, Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Vlada Petric, Jay Presson
Allen, Dan Price, Michael Redgrave, Claude Reininger, Robert
Rosen, David Rosenthal, Eva Marie Saint, Sandra Seacat, Daniel
Selznick, Peter Shaffer, Sidney Sheldon, Sylvia Sidney, Martin E.
Segal, Walter Slezak, John Springer, June Springer, Jeff Stafford,
Michael Starr, Gary Stevens, James Stewart, Roy Thinnes, Richard
Todd, François Truffaut, John Vernon, King Vidor, Lew Wasserman,
Cheryl Weinstein, Billy Wilder, Emlyn Williams, Paul Wilson, Teresa
Wright, Jane Wyman.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American
Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, the
Cinémathèque Française, Film Forum (New York), The Film Society
of Lincoln Center, the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, The
Leytonstone Alfred Hitchcock Society, the Museum of Modern Art,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Plaza
Athénée Hotel (Paris), The Potsdam Museum, The Royal Lancaster
Hotel (London), the Savoy Hotel (London), Turner Classic Movies,
UCLA Department of Theater, Film, and Television.
To Hitch
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
I. The Early Years
Hitch
Hitch and Alma
II. The British Films
Cub Director
The Pleasure Garden to The Lodger
Great British Hope
Downhill to Waltzes from Vienna
British Star
The Man Who Knew Too Much to Jamaica Inn
III. Hollywood
The Selznick Years
Rebecca to The Paradine Case
Transatlantic Interlude
Rope to Stage Fright
The Golden Years
Strangers on a Train to Psycho
The Universal–International Years
The Birds to Family Plot
IV. The Last Years
The Short Night to The End
Alfred Hitchcock—A Complete Filmography
Index