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

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.

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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 Only 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,