68 Hitchcock, 1942 (Gjon Mili / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)
75 Alfred Hitchcock and Thornton Wilder (J. R. Eyerman / Getty Images)
88 Alma Reville and Hitchcock, 1938 (Bettmann / Getty Images)
92 Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman (ScreenProd / Photonstop / Alamy Stock Photo)
93 Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and Irene Ives (AF Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)
101 Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren (ScreenProd / Photonstop / Alamy Stock Photo)
113 Hitchcock, 1960 (Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo)
125 Hitchcock, 1943 (John Florea / The Life Picture Collection / Getty Images)
131 Hitchcock at the 21 Club, Manhattan, 1956 (John Rawlings / Conde Nast Collection / Getty Images)
138 Hitchcock c. 1926 (Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)
144 Hitchcock and Cary Grant (Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)
157 Hitchcock, 1957 (Photo by Maxwell Frederic Coplan. Courtesy of David Coplan Schneider)
162 Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt (Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo)
167 The Hitchcocks on their wedding day, December 2, 1926 (Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
173 Alfred, Alma, and Patricia Hitchcock (Peter Stackpole / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)
185 Hitchcock on the set of To Catch a Thief (Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo)
188 James Stewart in Rear Window (cineclassico / Alamy Stock Photo)
203 Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS / Photofest)
214 Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Revue / Shamley / Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock)
220 Alfred Hitchcock at Screen Directors Guild award dinner (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
231 Hitchcock, publicity photo for The Birds (cineclassico / Alamy Stock Photo)
238 Hitchcock and Anny Ondra on the set of Blackmail (STUDIOCANAL Films Ltd)
257 Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman in London (Kurt Hutton / Picture Post / Getty Images)
262 Hitchcock in Blackmail (TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy Stock Photo)
272 Hitchcock in London, 1972 (Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo)
283 Hitchcock and Carol Lynley, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo)
294 Hitchcock on the set of Family Plot (Entertainment Images / Alamy Stock Photo)
Index
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ABC, 62, 270n
Academy Awards, 69n, 70, 82, 95, 110, 126, 193, 218, 242n, 267
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 192
Ackland, Rodney, 156, 215–16, 246
Ackroyd, Peter, 136
acting, AH’s knowledge of and opinions on, 95, 110, 151, 156, 188, 189, 203, 207–9, 241
actors:
AH’s abuse of, 6, 82, 87–88, 98–99, 107–8, 221
AH’s conflicts with, 30, 95, 142, 151, 209–10
AH’s lack of sympathy for, 111, 116, 241
AH’s positive relationships with, 90, 110, 128, 142, 145, 210, 217, 316
AH’s reticence with, 30, 209
AH’s views of, 95, 145, 151, 207–10, 241
Acuna, Frank, 140
advertising, AH’s innovative use of, 228–35
advertising industry, AH’s early work in, xi–xii, 7, 233
Aherne, Brian, 126
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (book series), 18
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (television series), 63, 202
“Final Vow, The,” 282
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, 18, 178
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (television series), 12, 17–18, 47, 62-63, 86, 94, 115, 132, 178, 285–86
AH’s appearances on, 32, 132, 202–7, 212, 226, 268
“Bang! You’re Dead,” 6
“The Case of Mr. Pelham,” 150
“Lamb to the Slaughter,” 112n
“Mr. Blanchard’s Secret,” 32
“Revenge,” 95
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to Be Murdered By (record album), 45
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fireside Book of Suspense, 200
Alfred Hitchcock Show, The (radio program), 62
Allardice, James, 218
Allen, Jay Presson, 87, 106
Allen, Richard, 91
All Fall Down (film), 95
Allgood, Sara, 287
Always Tell Your Wife (film), 27
Ambler, Eric, 116
American Beauty (Banner), 96–97
American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, 177
Americanism: A World Menace, 260
American Red Cross, 50
Anderson, Paul Thomas, 96–97
Andrews, Julie, 255–56
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 195, 244
Art of Alfred Hitchcock, The (Spoto), 199
Atkinson, G. A., 260
Auber, Brigitte, 102
Auiler, Dan, 246
Avenger, the (char.), 40, 41, 42, 89, 155, 230
Avenging Conscience (film), 11
Aventure Malgache (film), 47
Bailey, Eileen, 256
Balcon, Michael, 27–28, 52, 57, 70, 81, 83, 206, 212, 258–59, 266
Balestrero, Christopher Emmanuel, 163
Balestrero, Rose, 163
Ballantyne, John (char.), 20, 23
Balliett, Whitney, 215
Bankhead, Tallulah, 76, 111
Banner, Lois, 96–97
Barr, Charles, 69–70, 169, 251
Barrie, J. M., 1, 11, 15
Barthes, Roland, 140
Bartlett, Adelaide, 35, 183
Bartlett, Edwin, 35, 183
Bass, Saul, 63–64, 250
Bates, Norman (char.), 3, 29, 38, 40, 41, 182–83, 210, 277
cross-dressing by, 22, 158
Baudelaire, Charles, 150
Baxter, Anne, 9, 285
Bazin, André, 54, 288
BBC, 50, 233, 260
Beardsley, Aubrey, 37
Beatles, The, 262–63
Beau Brummell (film), 140
Beckham, David, 252
Beeson, Paul, 193
Beethoven, Ludwig van, AH compared to, 248
Bel Geddes, Barbara, 91
Belton, John, 186–87
Benchley, Robert, 191–92
Bennett, Arnold, 168
Bennett, Charles, 70–71, 81, 176, 221, 263
Benton, Sally, 162
Bergman, Ingmar, 195
Bergman, Ingrid, 20, 85, 111, 256, 270
AH’s interactions with, 30–31, 90, 95, 99, 128, 172, 175, 207
in Notorious, 85, 92, 109, 219, 282
Bernays, Edward, 227
Bernstein, Sidney, 47–48, 133, 159, 227, 258
Beville, Dickie, 223
Bicycle Thief, The (film), 195
Bidisha, 106
“Birds, The” (du Maurier), 227
Birds, The (film), 7, 13, 21, 64, 71, 146, 211, 227, 269, 313
Hedren in, 97–98, 102, 151
humor in, 211, 240
innovative artistry of, 98, 191, 240–44, 248
lesbian subtext in, 156
publicity for, 230, 231, 232
themes and symbols in, 14, 20–22, 25, 79–80, 163, 291
Black, Karen, 210
Blackguard, The (film), 28, 34, 107
Blackmail (film), 70, 83, 190, 211n, 212
innovative techniques in, 237, 238
London’s influence on, 233, 252, 254, 261, 262
themes in, 14–15, 34–36, 52, 81, 290
Bloch, Robert, 29
Blowitz, William F., 230
Blow-Up (film), 195
Blue Danube, The (Strauss), 81
Bogdanovich, Peter, 49–50, 119, 151, 169, 194, 200
Bon Voyage (film), 47
Booth, John Wilkes, 37
Boxall, H. G., 235
Boyle, Robert, 7, 197, 240–42, 245
Brady, Ian, 15
Bridie, James, 133
British Documentary Film Movement, 264–65
British Film Institute, 84, 201
British International Pictures (BIP), 52
British Ministry of Information, 47
British Museum, 83
Broken Blossoms (film), 256
Brooks, Mel, 216
Brothers Grimm, 14
Brown, Hugh, 191
Brummell, Beau, 135–38, 140, 149, 156
Brunel, Adrian, 260
Buchan, John, 31, 178
Buchanan, Barbara J., 107
Buchanan, John, 11
Burford, Roger, 166n
Burford, Stella, 166n
Burks, Robert, 186, 193, 240, 241–42, 245
Cahiers du Cinéma, 53–54
Callow, Simon, 279
Camden Town Murder paintings (Sickert), 42
Canning, Victor, 65–66
Cardiff, Jack, 193, 236
Careers for Women, 83
Carroll, Madeleine, 89, 165, 182
AH’s alleged cruelty toward, 87, 107–8, 221
Carson, Johnny, 99
Cassini, Oleg, 127
Catholicism, influence on AH of, 5, 253, 277–95, 282
Cézanne, Paul, xiv, 195
Chabrol, Claude, 54, 216
Champagne (film), 52, 164, 215, 235–37
Champlin, Charles, 256, 273
Chandler, Raymond, 77–78, 86
Chaplin, Charlie, 83, 268
Chesterton, G. K.,
