88 “to tell me . . . life!”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 34.
89 “not a backward . . . century”: Spoto, Spellbound by Beauty, loc. 276 of 4805, Kindle.
89 “exactly how male and female joined”: E. M. Forster, diary entry, cited in Wendy Moffatt, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), 39.
89 “women with sex . . . baubles”: Roderick Mann, “Hitchcock: Show Must Go On,” Los Angeles Times, August 8, 1978, part IV, 7.
89 “a woman who . . . air”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Elegance Above Sex,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1, 95. Originally published in Hollywood Reporter, November 1962, 172.
89 “Anything could happen . . . taxi”: American Film Institute, “Dialogue on Film: Alfred Hitchcock,” in Sidney Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 93.
89 a real-life experience . . . thirties: Evan Hunter, Kirby.
90 “typical American woman . . . mother”: Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It, loc. 10034 of 15740, Kindle.
90 “the snow princess . . . writer”: Bryan Mawr, quoted in Robert Lacey, Grace (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994), 138.
90 Hitchcock’s view of . . . women: Steven DeRosa, Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes (New York and London: Faber & Faber, 2001).
90 In each of . . . characters: For a brilliant description of Lisa’s “alien presence” in Rear Window, see Tania Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory, 2nd ed. (New York and London: Routledge, 2005), 73.
91 women, as Richard Allen . . . intuition: Richard Allen, Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 81.
92 “very well known . . . breasts”: Arthur Knight, “Conversation with Alfred Hitchcock,” in Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews, 175. Originally published in Oui, February 1973, 67–68, 82, 114, 116–21.
92 “A woman who . . . you”: “Women,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2, 226. Originally published in Picture Show and TV Mirror, September 12, 1959, 15.
93 there were multiple . . . judging: Including, Eric D. Morley (Miss World) to AH, October 15, 1963; George J. Cavalier (Miss California) to AH, April 4, 1963; Maureen Dragone (Miss Zodiac) to AH, July 29, 1972, AHC MHL.
94 sounded out about . . . 1978: Jason Frankfort, Women’s Basketball Association to AH, October 24, 1978, AHC MHL.
94 “It’s easy for . . . again”: June Morfield, “The One Man Grace Kelly Couldn’t Say ‘No’ To,” TV Radio Mirror, July 1962, 89.
94 “Hitchcock Gives Free . . . Sex”: “Hitchcock Gives Free Rein to the Gentle Sex,” TV Guide, May 10, 1958, 12.
95 “it was very . . . ideas”: Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi, “Hitch, Hitch, Hitch, Hurrah!” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock Interviews, 123. Originally published in Écran, July-August 1972, 2–8.
95 “rich man who . . . detail”: Ibid.
95 “I took a . . . dissipated”: Hedda Hopper, “Papa Hitchcock,” Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, April 29, 1962, C16, DSP UCLA.
96 “you go to . . . wasted”: “Hitchcock on Truffaut,” in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2, 133.
96 In her book . . . naivete: Lois Banner, American Beauty (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983), 284.
97 In a draft . . . script: Draft of The Trouble with Harry, July 27, 1954, written by John Michael Hayes, AHC MHL.
97 “poor Marilyn had . . . face”: transcript of AH interview with Peter Bogdanovich, 1962, AHC MHL.
97 “high-style, lady-like . . . Colbert”: Moral, Making of Marnie, 17. Transcripts of the Hitchcock-Truffaut interviews, AHC MHL.
97 “Shortly after our . . . gasped”: Tippi Hedren, Tippi: A Memoir (New York: William Morrow, 2016), loc. 614–25 of 3653, Kindle.
98 “Tippi started to . . . eyes”: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 189.
98 “eyes were dry . . . himself”: Hedren, Tippi, loc. 625 of 3653, Kindle.
98 “It was brutal . . . relentless”: Ibid., loc. 791 of 3653, Kindle.
99 “very hard for . . . watch it”: Kyle Counts, “The Making of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds,” Cinemafantastique, Fall 1980, 33.
99 Even when Hedren . . . her: Notes on Edwin Miller’s interview with Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock, March 20, 1963, Edwin Miller Interviews for Seventeen Magazine, Rare Books and Manuscript Division, New York Public Library.
99 “He was not . . . fabulous”: Peter Anthony Holder, Great Conversations (Albany, NY: BearManor Media, 2017), loc. 3273 of 3562, Kindle.
100 “threw himself on . . . memory”: Hedren, Tippi, loc. 709 of 3653, Kindle.
100 “referred to my weight”: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 221 of 5468, Kindle.
100 “I’ve never gone . . . repulsed”: Hedren, Tippi, loc. 989–1001 of 3653, Kindle.
100 Hedren contends that . . . untrue: Tony Lee Moral, “How Accurate is The Girl?” Broadcast, December 14, 2012, http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comment/how-accurate-is-the-girl/5050231.article.
102 “How else is . . . Hitchcock?”: John Russell Taylor, “Alfred Hitchcock: Fact and Fiction by John Russell Taylor,” April 8, 2013, https://bloomsburyreader.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/alfred-hitchcock-fact-and-fiction-by-john-russell-taylor/.
102 “It was an . . . different”: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 12557 of 20272, Kindle.
103 “capable of questionable . . . mouth”: Ibid., loc. 3993 of 20272, Kindle.
103 “ugly, intimate demands”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 550.
103 “I’m being erotic . . . Hitchcock”: David Freeman in discussion with the author, October 6, 2018.
103 “a god of cinema”: This form of words, and similar terms, have been used to describe Hitchcock by multiple actors, directors, and critics, including Barbara Leigh-Hunt and William Devane, who both used it in interviews with the author.
103 “It was a . . . knowing this”: David Freeman in discussion with the author, October 6, 2018.
104 “lots of laughs . . . boy”: Peggy Robertson, OHP.
104 “absolutely charming. He . . . right”: Marcella Rabwin, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. Courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby.
104 “He was sarcastic . . . overlooked it”: Ibid.
104 “Every relationship my . . . required”: Jean Stein, West of Eden (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016), 178.
104 “the vanity of . . . cold, too”: Elspeth Grant, “Converted to Beatledom,” Tatler,
