211 “I always look . . . myself”: Alfred Hitchcock, “My Spies,” Film Weekly, May 30, 1936, 27.
212 “a process by . . . hitherto”: Alfred Hitchcock, “The History of Pea Eating,” Henley Telegraph, December 1920, reprinted in McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 963 of 20272, Kindle.
212 “slept with men . . . soldier”: “Blackmail Test Take,” BFI YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8mSwzSQQk
213 “From then on I was his pet”: Peggy Robertson, OHP.
213 “sex-starved gorillas”: Bernard Cribbins in discussion with the author, July 13, 2018.
213 The film publicist . . . floor: Herb Steinberg, Kirby.
213 “common sense and . . . dancing”: Clive James, “Exploring the Medium,” in Clive James on Television (London: Picador, 1991), 307.
215 “the brilliant realization . . . work”: Whitney Balliet, “Hitchcock on Hitchcock,” The New Yorker, August 8, 1959, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/08/15/hitchcock-on-hitchcock
215 “as a burlesque . . . guyed”: Ackland, The Celluloid Mistress, 36.
216 When Mel Brooks . . . Haut-Brion: AH to Mel Brooks, March 1, 1979, AHC MHL.
216 At a test . . . scene: “Audience Reactions at CAMELBACK THEATRE, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA,” June 10, 1966, AHC MHL.
216 “We don’t know . . . dissembler”: Claude Chabrol, “Story of an Interview,” in Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews, 39 (trans. James M. Vest). Originally appeared as “Histoire d’une Interview,” Cahiers du Cinéma, no. 39 (October 1954): 39–44.
216 “anecdotes that apparently . . . ago”: Ibid., 40.
216 “none of this . . . ride”: Ibid., 39.
216 “You have to . . . met”: Fallaci, “Mr. Chastity,” in The Egotists, 256.
217 Actors were told . . . himself: These, and other similar remarks, have been recorded plentifully. See the Hitchcock biographies by Spoto, McGilligan, and Chandler. In discussion with the author, William Devane, Bernard Cribbins, and Barbara Leigh-Hunt also mentioned this quirk of Hitchcock’s.
217 “the testicle”: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 4288 of 20272, Kindle.
217 Georgine Darcy . . . break: Georgine Darcy, Kirby.
217 Grant filled pages . . . “Eddie Tor”: Batdorf, “Let’s Hear It for Hitchcock,” in Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews, 82. See also “Hitchcock Comedy Crew,” Cary Grant Papers, MHL.
217 “seriousness is acceptable . . . outlawed”: Kate Fox, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004), 62.
217 “dignity sitting on a tintack”: George Orwell, “Funny But Not Vulgar,” in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 3 (London: Penguin), 1970, 325.
218 he claimed that this . . . peg: Bob Thomas, “Alfred Hitchcock: The German Years,” Action (January-February 1973), 23–25, in Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock Interviews, 159.
219 includes what Hitchcock . . . “Captain?”: Truffaut, Hitchcock, 227.
219 “skids to preposterous depths”: John McCarten, “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker, October 29, 1955, 145.
219 “I must not . . . taste”: Thelma Ritter to Joseph Moran, August 1954, Thelma Ritter and Joseph Aloysius Moran Papers, MHL.
220 “everyone’s wicked uncle . . . century”: “Everyone’s Wicked Uncle,” BBC Radio 3, July 27, 1999.
221 “weals and bruises” . . . endured: Spoto, Spellbound by Beauty, loc. 882 of 4805, Kindle, quoting Donat in Kenneth Barrow, Mr Chips: The Life of Robert Donat (London: Methuen, 1985), 75–76.
221 “beastly to her”: Ibid., loc. 953 of 4805, Kindle.
221 “only a sadist . . . laughs”: Bennett, Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense, 63.
221 overheard a colleague . . . boasting: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 110.
221 Shortly after Joan Harrison . . . all: Selznick International Pictures biographical materials on AH, AHC MHL
222 “My father belongs . . . game”: Marya Saunders, “My Dad, the Jokester,” Family Weekly, July 21, 1963, 8.
222 “He was a . . . humour”: Spoto, Dark Side of Genius, 132.
223 In his memoirs . . . “was bit”: Bennett, Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense, 66.
223 “Would any of . . . wouldn’t”: Mrs Alfred Hitchcock as told to Martin Abramson, “My Husband Alfred Hitchcock Hates Suspense,” Coronet, August 1964, 17.
224 “I’m very sensitive . . . days”: AH, Markle, “A Talk with Hitchcock, Part Two.”
224 Yet the story . . . father: Donald Spoto’s notes on a Warner Bros. draft press release, November 30, 1950, DS UCLA.
225 “the moment any . . . joke”: AH, interview by George Angell, “Time of My Life,” BBC Home Service, August 28, 1968.
225 Patrick McGilligan discovered . . . enrolled: McGilligan, Darkness and Light, loc. 439 of 20272, Kindle.
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226 “Hitchcock is the . . . drain”: Sarris, “The Movie Journal,” 8.
228 In 1953, his . . . 3D: Sidney Bernstein to AH, July 31, 1953, AHC MHL.
228 “mysterious importance”: Rebello, Making of Psycho, 149.
229 “will be met by force”: Ibid., 151.
229 “Your women are . . . men”: “Hitchcock: ‘Treat Your Wives Better,’ ” The Sun, May 16, 1960, AHC ML.
229 he also posed . . . newsworthy: “Case of the Missing Shoe,” Sydney Morning Herald, May 5, 1960, AHC MHL.
229 The Australian leg . . . silhouette: “Everything Went Black,” The Herald, May 14, 1960, AHC MHL.
230 “The star of . . . element”: Kapsis, Making of a Reputation, 83.
230 Hitchcock invited the . . . eye: Tony Lee Moral, The Making of Hitchcock’s The Birds (Harpenden, UK: Kamera Books, 2013), loc. 3141 of 3812, Kindle.
230 “The Birds is coming!”: Hunter, Me and Hitch, 77.
230 “The birds are coming”: Ibid.
232 “BEWARE GIRLS!” . . . “THE GRAND”: Kinematograph Weekly, March 31, 1927, AHC MHL.
232 “proved very successful . . . proposition”: “Impersonating ‘The Lodger,’ ” The Bioscope, March 17, 1927, 70.
232 “feature stories on . . . production)”: Leff, Hitchcock and Selznick, 168.
232 Ernest Lehman recollects . . . man: Ernest Lehman, interview by Julian Schlossberg, “[Interview],” Sound and Moving Images Archive, British Library.
233 On his television . . . slots: Folders regarding the advertising agency Young and Rubicam in the Thelma Ritter and Joseph Aloysius Moran Papers, MHL, indicate what a commercial asset Hitchcock’s “lead-ins” and “lead-outs” were thought to be.
233 One wrote about . . . shot: “Film-Making Problems,” Daily Mail, March 31, 1927, AHC MHL.
234 another described the . . . built: “Talk
