154 “According to Hitchcock . . . attack”: Laurents, Original Story By, 131.
154 “always sexual”: Ibid.
154 “Not once was . . . do it”: David Thomson, “Charms and the Man,” Film Comment, February 1984, 61.
155 “a new kind . . . at all?”: McCann, Cary Grant, 121.
155 “It was just . . . while”: Ackland and Grant, The Celluloid Mistress, 35.
155 “a soft baby-face . . . effeminate”: Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest (New York: Viking Press, 1972), 11.
155 “if there is . . . Code”: Geoffrey M. Shurlock to Robert Vogel, of the Motion Picture Association of America, August 21, 1958, AHC MHL.
155 Yet Landau intentionally . . . infatuated: Burrows, “Martin Landau: ‘I chose to play Leonard as gay.’ ”
156 “Martin,” he assured . . . “role”: Ibid.
156 An “odd, weird, little faggish man”: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 6342 of 20272, Kindle.
156 “become a poof”: Taylor, Hitch, loc. 190 of 5468, Kindle.
156 “sapphic overtones”: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 1476 of 20272, Kindle.
158 “In the hotel . . . anything”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 39.
158 “They are all . . . trousers”: Batdorf, “Let’s Hear It for Hitchcock,” in Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews, 77.
158 Once, he did . . . 1957: Alfred Hitchcock, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Great Hitchcock Murder Mystery,” This Week, August 4, 1957, 8–9, 11.
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159 “Florence we just . . . badly”: Alma Reville to Carol Shourds, April 18, 1951, AHC MHL. Published in Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 156.
160 “Journal of Mr. Hitchcock. . . . of it”: AH to Carol Shourds, May 21, 1951, AHC MHL.
163 “like a town without neon signs”: Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It, loc. 9801 of 15740, Kindle.
163 Throughout research and . . . perfect: AH to Maxwell Anderson, March 15, 1956, AHC MHL.
164 “cutting and continuity . . . capital ‘A’ ”: Alma Reville, “Cutting and Continuity,” Motion Picture News, January 13, 1923, 10.
165 “Alma in Wonderland . . . married!”: “Alma in Wonderland: A woman’s place is not always in the home,” Picturegoer, December 1925, 48.
165 prompting some researchers . . . career: See Christiana Lane and Josephine Botting, “ ‘What Did Alma Think?’ Continuity, Writing, Editing, and Adaptation,” in Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen, ed. Mark Osteen (Lanham, MD, and Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).
165 “Be interested . . . country”: Weston Edwards, “Making Good in the Film Trade,” AHC MHL.
166 “utmost value so . . . girls?”: Roger Burford, “A New “Chair” Which a Woman Might Fill,” The Gateway for Women at Work, July 1929, 102.
166 “the product of . . . likely to”: Alfred Hitchcock, “Making Murder!” Cassell’s Magazine, August 1930, in Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2, 165. NB: The author was unable to locate this piece in the edition of Cassell’s given by Gottlieb in his anthology.
166 “who is two . . . coppice”: Ibid., 164.
167 “imbued with the . . . days”: Alan Warwick, “Alfred Hitchcock’s Tudor Cottage,” Home Chat, February 27, 1932, AHC MHL.
167 “delightfully vivacious and . . . garden”: Mary Benedetta, “A Day with Hitchcock,” unknown publication, undated, AHC MHL.
168 “there is no . . . hall”: Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 116.
168 “I have a . . . cook”: Jeffrey Meyers, The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis (London: Routledge, 1980), 100. Originally published in Geoffrey Grigson, “Recollections of Wyndham Lewis,” The Listener, May 16, 1957, 786.
168 Hitchcock’s affectionate public . . . highbrows: See John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880–1939 (London: Faber & Faber, 1992), 152–81, for a discussion on Bennett’s take on family life.
168 “chaos world”: The phrase was first used by Robin Wood in 1965. See Wood, Hitchcock’s Films Revisited.
169 As Donald Spoto . . . Hill: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 132–33.
169 “In front of . . . abroad!”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 80.
169 “After it’s all . . . movie”: Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It, loc. 9534 of 15740, Kindle.
169 as pointed out . . . Barr: Barr, English Hitchcock, 122.
170 “What I want . . . here”: Geoffrey T. Hellman, “Alfred Hitchcock,” Life, November 20, 1943, 43.
170 Alma’s green thumb . . . baskets: Hitchcock O’Connell and Bouzereau, Alma Hitchcock, 99–100.
171 The blurry snapshots . . . shirt: Frederick Knott Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
171 “When Hitchcock liked . . . family”: Laurents, Original Story By, 125.
171 felt like an adopted child: Arthur Laurents, interview by Donald Spoto, October 19, 1981, DSP UCLA.
171 “it was lovely . . . other”: Laurents, Original Story By, 126.
171 “Oh God, I . . . Daddy’s”: McGilligan, Backstory 2, 138–39.
171 “It wasn’t like . . . to do”: Peggy Robertson, OHP.
172 “He had very . . . personality”: Chandler, It’s Only a Movie, 256.
172 Cook’s agent wrote . . . role: Jacques Chambrun to Whitfield Cook, November 17, 1944, Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
172 “Papa Hitchcock will . . . trouper”: “Film Director’s Daughter Scores in New Comedy,” Hartford Times, October 13, 1944, Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
173 “her mother does . . . daughter”: Marjory Adams, “Hitchcock, En Route Overseas, Stops Off for Daughter’s Play,” Boston Morning Globe, October 17, 1944, Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
174 In 1948, Cook . . . party: December 24, 1948, and December 31, 1948, Whitfield Cook diary, Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
174 prior to engaging . . . Temple: December 30, 1945, ibid. Cook’s diary entry says David Selznick was interested in having Temple star in a remake of an old Hitchcock movie, but doesn’t state which one.
174 “late-Victorian sense of. . . smile”: Whitfield Cook, “Happy Ending,” Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
174 “gin and menstrual . . . beamish”: Laurents, Original Story By, 126.
175 “Unexpected evening!”: Whitfield Cook Diary, September 20, 1948, Whitfield Cook Collection, HGARC.
175 “Chez moi later”: Whitfield Cook Diary, October
