The Mountain Eagle (1926)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
The Ring (1927)
The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
Champagne (1928)
The Manxman (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Murder! (1930)
The Skin Game (1931)
Rich and Strange (1931)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
Abbreviations
AH
Alfred Hitchcock
AHC MHL
Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
BFI
British Film Institute
MHL
Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Kirby
Transcripts of interviews by Tim Kirby, Patrick McGilligan Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society
DSP UCLA
Donald Spoto Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Library, University of California, Los Angeles
HGARC
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University
OHP
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Oral History Projects
PMC WHS
Patrick McGilligan Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society
SMU
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection
Notes
INTRODUCTION
xi It appears he . . . 1921: Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), loc. 1062 of 20272, Kindle.
xii According to Hitchcock . . . present: Andy Warhol, “Hitchcock,” Andy Warhol’s Interview, September 1974, 7.
xii “an economical way . . . cinema”: Paula Marantz Cohen, “Alfred Hitchcock: modest exhibitionist,” TLS (September 5, 2008), https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/alfred-hitchcock-modest-exhibitionist/.
xiv The economist David Galenson . . . either: David Galenson, Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006).
xvi “I’ve never known . . . should be”: Norman Lloyd, interview by Fletcher Markle, “A Talk with Hitchcock, Part Two,” Telescope, on the DVD A Talk with Hitchcock, 2000. Originally broadcast by CBC, 1964.
1: THE BOY WHO COULDN’T GROW UP
2 “This eerie and . . . scuttles”: “Our Captious Critic: ‘Mary Rose,’ at the Haymarket Theatre,” review of Mary Rose by J. M. Barrie, Haymarket Theatre, London, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, May 15, 1920.
2 “slice of a delightful cake”: “ ‘Mary Rose’ at the Haymarket,” review of Mary Rose by J. M. Barrie, Haymarket Theatre, London Common Cause, May 7, 1920.
2 It so influenced . . . inspiration: Herbert Coleman to Kay Selby, May 9, 1957, Paramount Pictures Production Records, MHL.
3 “the man is not different from the boy”: Charlotte Chandler, It’s Only a Movie—Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography (London: Pocket Books, 2006), 34.
3 “A wonderful character . . . line”: Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, in “Reputations,” Hitch: Alfred the Great, BBC Two, May 30, 1999.
5 “lamb without a spot”: François Truffaut, Hitchcock (London: Faber & Faber, 2017), 25.
5 Society of Jesus . . . God: For a useful narrative history of the Jesuits, see Jonathan Wright, God’s Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power—A History of the Jesuits (London: Doubleday, 2005).
5 “highly dramatic . . . going for execution”: John O’Riordan, “Interview with Alfred Hitchcock,” Ignatian, summer 1973, reprinted in Neil Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock’s Fright and Delight (Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1993), 290.
6 “spread it over . . . strokes”: Ibid.
6 He told some . . . work: Donald Spoto, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (London: Collins, 1983), 28, citing an interview with Hitchcock in TV Guide, May 29, 1965.
6 “If you don’t . . . id”: Bill Mumy, interview by Archive of American Television, September 3, 2013, Television Academy Foundation, https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/bill-mumy.
7 “I don’t remember ever having a playmate”: “The Elderly Cherub That Is Hitchcock,” TV Guide, May 29, 1965, 15.
7 schoolmates tended to . . . fish: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 485 of 20272, Kindle.
7 “An alarm clock . . . inside”: Hedda Hopper, “Hitchcock: He Runs on Fear,” Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1958, part V, 1.
7 “It was amazing . . . screen”: Robert Boyle, OHP.
7 “a visual poet of anxiety and accident”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 9.
8 “I think he . . . nerve-wracking”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 37.
8 “I must have . . . boys”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 25.
8 John Russell Taylor . . . events: John Russell Taylor, Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock (London: Bloomsbury Reader, 2013), loc. 147 of 5468, Kindle.
8 the journalist Oriana Fallci . . . eleven: Oriana Fallaci, “Mr. Chastity,” in The Egotists: Sixteen Surprising Interviews, trans. Pamela Swinglehurst (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1968), 249. The interview took place in May 1963. See also McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 137 of 20272, Kindle.
8 “I’m told I . . . thrills”: “Hitchcock in Sydney on PR Visit,” The Advertiser, May 5, 1960, AHC MHL.
9 “perhaps he was . . . about me”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 31.
9 “There he was . . . time”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 340.
9 One time he . . . returned: Ibid., 18–19.
9 he explained that . . . “Boo!”: Hitchcock told the yarn to various interviewers, including Fletcher Markle and Dick Cavett. See Markle, “A Talk with Hitchcock, Part Two,” and The Dick Cavett Show, ABC, June 8, 1972.
10 “a clear horizon . . . plate”: AH, Markle, “A Talk with Hitchcock, Part Two.”
10 “a tidy mind”: AH, interview by George Angell, Time of My Life: Alfred Hitchcock, BBC Home Service, August 28, 1966.
10 “I believe it’s . . . pictures”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 13.
10 “mind of an . . . abstractions”: Russell Maloney, “What Happens After That?” Profiles, New Yorker, September 10, 1938, 24.
11 “I was very . . . child”: Patrick McGilligan, Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 138.
11 “My wife says . .
