The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White (an ebook reader txt) 📗

71 “ ‘Thank you’ was . . . vocabulary”: Coleman, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock, 181.

71 “I’m not being . . . good”: Bennett, Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense, 52.

71 “cheerful side is . . . experience”: Evan Hunter to Scott Meredith, September 30, 1961, Evan Hunter Collection, HGARC.

71 “the script has . . . total”: AH to Evan Hunter, November 30, 1961, AHC MHL. Published in Auiler, Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks, 206.

71 “stuck his finger . . . door”: Hunter, Me and Hitch, 56.

72 “He essentially left . . . them”: Chris Wehner, “Chris Wehner: Interview with REAR WINDOW scribe John Michael Hayes,” http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/article/d14ec43e. Originally published in Screenwriter’s Monthly, December 2002.

72 “You know they . . . material”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 361.

72 “Young man, you . . . Times”: Ibid.

73 “He wasn’t for . . . own”: Wehner, “Chris Wehner: Interview.”

73 “credit where credit was due”: Ibid.

73 “I had a . . . resented it”: John Michael Hayes, interview by Steven DeRosa, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l981MGsT9n4.

74 Unthinkable, said Hitchcock . . . classic: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 71.

74 “For hours Hitchcock . . . employer”: Thornton Wilder to Isobel Wilder, May 26, 1942, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder, eds. Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 395.

74 “He wasn’t like . . . for that”: Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It, loc. 9798 of 15740, Kindle.

74 “My relationship with . . . have been”: AH, interview by Gilbert Harrison, January 4, 1980, Gilbert A. Harrison Papers Relating to Thornton Wilder, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

77 “incredible English middle class . . . people”: John Steinbeck to Annie Laurie Williams, February 21, 1944, in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, ed. Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten (London: Penguin, 2001), 267.

77 “hard to work with”: Frank MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986), 175.

77 “sarcastic and disagreeable . . . bastard”: Ibid., 171.

77 “trying to make . . . happened”: Ibid., 173. Quote from Chandler’s notes in his personal files.

77 Ormonde recalled that . . . trash: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 10195 of 20272, Kindle.

78 “a flabby mass . . . characters”: Raymond Chandler to AH, December 6, 1950, in The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909–1959, eds. Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000), 142.

78 “camera angles, stage . . . story”: Ibid.

78 “there must be . . . written”: Raymond Chandler to Sol Siegal, April 27, 1951, in Hiney and MacShane, eds., Raymond Chandler Papers, 162.

78 However, in postproduction Hitchcock . . . executives: Charles Barr, Vertigo, 2nd ed. (London: BFI, 2012), 11. See also Dan Auiler, Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic (London: Titan, 1999).

79 “the type of . . . suspense”: AH to Vladimir Nabokov, November 19, 1964, AHC MHL.

79 “As I indicated . . . story-teller”: Ibid.

80 “symbolized the more . . . symbolism”: Hunter, Me and Hitch, 24.

80 “we are going . . . doing it?’ ”: AH to Evan Hunter, November 30, 1961, AHC MHL. Published in Auiler, Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks, 209.

80 “It’s those damned . . . reality”: Baer, Classic American Films, 70.

80 “shot at, caged . . . longer!”: March 9, 1969, Sandee to AHC MHL.

80 “Why should I . . . omnipotent”: Cited in Robert Kapsis, Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 68. A form of those words appears in numerous letters from Hitchcock’s office to members of the public during the 1960s, AHC MHL. Kapsis’s book reproduces various letters from members of the public who were confused, curious, and angered by the film’s oblique ending and the lack of apparent reason for the birds’ attack, 64–68.

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81 “Hitchcock’s genius . . . pettiness”: G. A. Atkinson, “The Authenticity of Alfred,” The Era, December 16, 1931, 10.

82 “Too big and . . . looking”: AH to David O. Selznick, July 19, 1939, AHC MHL, reprinted in Auiler, Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks, 308.

82 “Grotesque”: AH to David O. Selznick, July 21, 1939, AHC MHL, reprinted in Auiler, Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks, 309.

82 “We liked each . . . about it”: Joan Fontaine, No Bed of Roses (London: W.H. Allen, 1978), 116.

82 “I did . . . bawling”: Leff, Hitchcock and Selznick, 74. Originally printed in Photoplay, September 1979, 57.

82 “gorgeous genius . . . demands!”: “Exposing Weaknesses of Top Ranking Stars,” Modern Screen, December 1940, 24. Joan Fontaine Collection, HGARC.

83 the “suffragette outrages” . . . ladylike: For an excellent overview of Britain’s suffragette movement, see Diane Atkinson, Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

83 When the American . . . director: Anthony Slide, The Silent Feminists: America’s First Women Directors (Lanham, MD, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996), xvii.

84 identified in some . . . Codd: John Russell Taylor in his authorized biography Hitch names the writer as Anita Ross; in an unpublished part of an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Hitchcock called her Elsie Codd.

84 Hitchcock’s writing work . . . Morton: Bryony Dixon, “The White Shadow,” http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1423007/index.html.

84 “caught on the hop”: Balcon, Michael Balcon Presents, 16.

85 “without a soul”: Title card from The White Shadow (1923).

85 “to please women . . . audience”: Alfred Hitchcock, “How I Choose My Heroines,” in Langford Reed and Hetty Spiers, eds., Who’s Who in Filmland (London: Chapman and Hall, 1931), xxi.

85 “80 percent of . . . choice”: Huw Weldon, “Alfred Hitchcock on His Films,” The Listener, August 6, 1964, 189.

86 “never had the gift of friendship”: Donald Spoto, Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies (London: Arrow, 2009), loc. 3777 of 4805, Kindle.

87 “fruitful kind of . . . opinions”: Joseph McBride, “Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock,” Sight & Sound 45, no. 4 (Autumn 1976): 225.

87 “Although I think . . . them”: Tony Lee Moral, Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (Lanham, MD; Toronto; Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 100.

87 Hitchcock told some . . . conceived: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 4009 of 20272,