55 “this Hitchcock idolatry”: Ibid., 169.
55 Hitchcock arranged for . . . days: Peggy Robertson to Jean Douchet, June 14, 1963, AHC MHL.
55 excepting a night . . . paid: Suzanne Gauthier to Miss Minotto at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, June 28, 1963, AHC MHL.
55 “They are their . . . man”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Films We Could Make,” London Evening News, November 16, 1927, 13.
56 “Fresh from Berlin . . . patent”: June Tripp, The Glass Ladder (London: William Heinemann, 1960), 156.
57 “began to tell . . . Woolf”: Balcon, Michael Balcon Presents, 26.
57 “as humiliating for . . . other”: Ivor Montagu, The Youngest Son (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1970), 349.
57 “in the nature . . . light”: Ivor Montagu, “Working with Hitchcock,” Sight & Sound 49, no. 3 (Summer 1980): 190.
58 “what the film . . . qualities”: Ibid.
58 “observation of familiar . . . compositions”: Montagu, The Youngest Son, 349.
58 “a born celebrity”: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 3.
58 “seamy side of film life” . . . “cutter””: Joan Weston Edwards, “Making Good in the Film Trade,” unknown publication, February 26, 1927, AHC MHL.
58 A variety of . . . Griffith: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzerau, Alma Hitchcock, 25.
59 “unthinkable for a . . . position”: Alma Reville Hitchcock, “My Husband Hates Suspense,” Everywoman’s Family Circle, June 1958, 37.
59 “extremely self-conscious . . . education”: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 19.
59 Alma even had . . . crowds: Ibid., 17.
60 “groaned, nodded her head, and burped”: Alfred Hitchcock, “The Woman Who Knows Too Much,” McCall’s, March 1956, 12.
60 As observed by . . . fantasy: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 1656 of 20272, Kindle.
60 “sweet soul, gave . . . marvelously”: Hitchcock, “I Begin with a Nightmare,” 17.
60 “Like a man . . . work”: Ibid.
60 “standing four-foot-eleven . . . pyjamas”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Life Among the Stars,” News Chronicle, March 1, 1937, 15.
60 It’s been said . . . Germany: Patrick McGilligan and Peter Ackroyd both make this point in their biographies of Hitchcock.
61 “one or two . . . ended”: A. J. Hitchcock, “Titles—Artistic and Otherwise,” Motion Picture Studio, July 23, 1921, 6.
61 “my most interesting . . . fascinating”: Alfred Hitchcock, “My Spies,” Film Weekly, May 30, 1936, 27.
61 “I have some . . . mother”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Lecture at Columbia University,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1, 267. Full transcript of the lecture in AHC MHL.
63 “We don’t show . . . show”: John P. Shanley, “Lady Producer of Thrillers,” New York Times, May 29, 1960, 11.
63 “Let ’em suffer . . . turning”: Gilbert Millstein, “Harrison Horror Story,” New York Times, July 21, 1957, 23.
63 “Alfred Hitchcock was . . . shots”: Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens, Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller (London: Pavilion Books, 1995), 67.
63 “spontaneous, not something . . . attention”: “Hitchcock’s Shower Scene: Another View,” Cinefantastique 16, no. 4 (October 1986): 66. Saul Bass Collection, MHL.
64 “Hitch was always . . . not”: Ibid.
64 “This is our . . . sell”: Evan Hunter to Scott Meredith, October 27, 1961, Evan Hunter Collection, HGARC.
64 “No, you didn’t . . . Hitchcock did”: Evan Hunter, Me and Hitch (London: Faber & Faber, 1997), 4.
64 “about 99.44-percent Hitchcock”: Maloney, “What Happens After That?” 25.
64 “I dictate the picture . . . Hitchcock”: Pamela Robertson Wojcik, “The Author of This Claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock, and Rear Window,” in Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor, ed. R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011), 218. Quoting from AH’s deposition in the case of Stewart v. Abend. See also http://www.writingwithhitchcock.com/ontherecord.html.
65 “biggest trouble is . . . lines”: Gerald Clark, “Here’s Hitchcock’s Recipe for Suspense,” Weekend Magazine, The Standard, December 22, 1951, 11.
65 “I can’t really . . . picture”: Auiler, Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks, 24.
65 Original scripts were . . . Vidal: Such lists and correspondence are located in various parts of Hitchcock’s papers, AHC MHL.
65 “I never read . . . book”: Alfred Hitchcock, “How I Make My Films,” News Chronicle, March 5, 1937, 14.
65 “a very lucky . . . on it”: “Story Conference for Family Plot,” 44, Ernest Lehman Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. See also McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 16344 of 20272, Kindle.
66 Certainly, he had . . . studios: See Leonard J. Leff, Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987).
66 “The first scene . . . novel”: Baer, Classic American Films, 61.
67 “Certain writers want . . . play”: Peter Bogdanovich, “Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980),” in Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors (New York: Ballantine Books, 1997), loc. 9300 of 15740, Kindle.
67 “unrealized ambition is . . . Rushmore”: Lawrence Greene, “He Is a Camera,” Esquire, August 1952, 110.
67 “They were all . . . them”: Baer, Classic American Films, 63.
68 “tried to develop . . . like him”: Ibid., 71.
68 “a Hitchcock picture . . . pictures”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 392.
68 “very special kind . . . Hitchcock”: Ernest Lehman, “Screen Writer’s Recipe for ‘Hitch’s Brew,’ ” New York Times, August 2, 1959, 5.
69 “writing a bitter . . . except me”: Ernest Lehman, Kirby.
69 “My God, how . . . lists”: Transcript of Family Plot story conference, Ernest Lehman Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
70 “too many scripts . . . theme”: Charles Barr, English Hitchcock (Moffat, Scotland: Cameron and Hollis, 1999), 23.
70 “the master of . . . missing”: Samuel Taylor, speaking in Omnibus: It’s Only Another Movie, BBC One, September 26, 1986.
70 “completely vain . . . director”: Charles Bennett, Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett, ed. John Charles Bennett (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2018), 205.
70 “We were a . .
