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

259 “an English director of genius”: “From Our London Correspondent,” Western Morning News, May 29, 1926, 6.

259 “mystery and magic . . . crime”: “British Films Booming,” Daily Herald, September 15, 1926, 2.

260 “which will centre . . . back-garden”: “To Be Seen on the Screen,” Daily Herald, December 5, 1925, 7.

260 The effort was . . . virus: Genevieve Abravanel, Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 8.

260 “They talk America . . . citizens”: G. A. Atkinson, “ ‘British’ Films Made to Please America,” March 18, 1927, cited in Mark Glancy, Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain: From the 1920s to the Present (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013), 14.

260 he was even . . . empire: “The British Film,” Western Morning News, October 19, 1926, 4.

261 “Americans, I am . . . woodlands”: “The Farmer’s Wife,” Daily Mirror, March 5, 1928, AHC MHL.

261 “It’s been left . . . gloriously”: “Putting England on the Screen,” Evening Standard, March 5, 1928, AHC MHL.

261 “Hear English as . . . spoken”: Advertising poster for Blackmail, AHC MHL.

261 “British Triumph . . . Americans”: Daily Mail, June 24, 1929, AHC MHL.

261 “All British—and . . . achieved”: London Evening News, June 22, 1929, AHC MHL.

261 “sweeping aside American . . . glamour”: The Times, June 24, 1929, AHC MHL.

261 “I’m American trained” . . . qualities: Batdorf, “Let’s Hear It for Hitchcock,” in Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews, 82.

264 “men who leap . . . feel”: Alfred Hitchcock, “More Cabbages, Fewer Kings: A Believer in the Little Man,” Kinematograph Weekly, January 14, 1937, 30.

264 Unlike “stodgy” British films, “American . . . drama”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Stodgy British Pictures,” Film Weekly, December 14, 1934, 14.

264 “must be a . . . income”: Britain Through a Lens: The Documentary Film Mob, BBC Four, July 19, 2011.

264 “the best director . . . films”: John Grierson, “Two Reviews,” in Forsyth Hardy, ed., Grierson on Documentary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), 71–72.

265 in 1969, Hitchcock . . . movement: Barr and Kerzoncuf, Lost and Found, 209–10.

266 “couldn’t just point . . . jewels”: Durgnat, The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock, 30.

266 “you would go . . . that”: Norman Lloyd, SMU.

266 “plump young junior technician”: Michael Balcon, “DESERTERS!” Sunday Dispatch, August 25, 1940, 6.

266 “had sold his . . . Hitchcock”: C. A. Lejeune, “Cinema Cameos,” The Sketch, July 10, 1940, 52.

267 “his first Hollywood . . . best”: Ibid.

267 “a completely British picture”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 128.

267 “broader viewpoint than . . . Britain”: Ibid.

267 “name of England . . . picture”: H. Mark Glancy, When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood ‘British’ Film, 1930–1945 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999), 3, citing The Spectator (May 7, 1937).

267 According to one . . . films: Ibid., 1.

268 “You’ve got to . . . idiom”: Leslie Perkoff, “The Censor and Sydney Street,” World Film News, March 12, 1938, 5.

268 Curiously, in her . . . lost his: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 167.

269 “the Hitchcock name . . . history”: Coleman, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock, 217.

269 “polyglot country. I . . . foreigners”: Ian Cameron and V. F. Perkins, “Interview with Hitchcock,” Movie, no. 6 (January 1963): 6.

270 he exchanged letters . . . screen: Mogens Skot-Hansen, UN Representative to the Motion Picture Industry, to AH, February 5, 1951, AHC MHL.

270 “widespread organized opposition . . . country”: Peter Bart, “Advertising: TV series on U.N. Stirs Debate,” New York Times, April 10, 1964, AHC MHL.

271 Amid a galaxy . . . name: White, London in the Twentieth Century.

271 Juliet Gardiner’s equally . . . Henry VIII: Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History (London: Harper Press, 2010).

273 “I’ve never really . . . Stinky”: Champlin, “What’s It All About, Alfie?” 12.

274 During the fifties . . . earlier: Viewings of all these British films—and many others—are listed in Hitchcock’s appointment books, AHC MHL.

274 “I am out . . . English”: AH notes on draft script of The Man Who Knew Too Much, April 27, 1955, AHC MHL.

274 Arthur La Bern . . . characters”: Arthur La Bern, “Letters to the Editor: Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy,’ from Mr Arthur La Bern,” The Times, May 29, 1972, 7. See also Taylor, Hitch, loc. 4900 of 5468, Kindle.

274 “England had changed . . . now”: Barbara Leigh-Hunt in discussion with the author, December 15, 2018.

12: THE MAN OF GOD

276 Several family members . . . live: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 216; Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 550.

277 “The Hitchcock pictures . . . paranoia”: Roger Ebert, “Scorsese Learns from Those Who Went before Him,” January 11, 1998, https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/scorsese-learns-from-those-who-went-before-him.

277 “His face was . . . work”: Gilbert Harrison’s spoken notes on his meeting with AH, January 4, 1980, Gilbert A. Harrison papers relating to Thornton Wilder, 1956–1985, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

278 “shapes the mind . . . powers”: O’Riordan, “Interview with Alfred Hitchcock,” 289.

278 “to arrange things . . . judge”: Bruce Bradley, James Joyce’s Schooldays (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1982), 7.

278 “organization, control, and . . . analysis”: Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It, loc. 9287 of 15740, Kindle.

279 “They epitomized the . . . radical”: Simon Callow, “The Spiritual SAS,” Guardian, January 31, 2004, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview6.

279 One Jesuit critic . . . “Expressionism”: Neil Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock’s Fright and Delight (Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1993), 13.

280 “a bright red . . . drab”: Jon Whitcomb, “Master of Mayhem,” Cosmopolitan, October 1959, 24.

281 In his ill-fated . . . story: AH to Richard Condon, November 3, 1964, Richard Condon Collection, HGARC.

281 In his youth . . . Mass: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 20.

282 “The sense of . . . catacombs”: Anthony M. Maher, The Forgotten Jesuit of Catholic Modernism: George Tyrrell’s Prophetic Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017), 26.

282 “Catholics live in . . .