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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock

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by An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense (epub)


  Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) (Parker), 197

  Trautonium, 243

  Trautwein, Friedrich, 243

  Trilby (du Maurier), 94

  Tripp, June, 55–56, 254

  Trouble with Harry, The (film), 72, 97, 119, 183, 202, 218–20, 280

  Trouble with Harry, The (Story), 218

  Truffaut, François, 100, 195, 248

  interviews with AH, 8, 19–20, 40, 55, 74, 78, 96, 107, 206, 216, 239, 247

  Truffaut, Laura, 100

  TV Guide, 94

  Twentieth Century-Fox, 110, 246, 267

  24 Hour Psycho (Gordon), 196

  Twickenham Studios, 58

  Tyrrell, George, 282

  Under Capricorn (film), 30, 109, 159, 171, 175, 193, 213, 235–36, 244, 270

  United Nations, 270

  Universal Pictures, 55, 65, 103, 143, 192, 194, 230, 246–47, 277

  University of Essex, 252

  University of London, 253

  Valentine, Joseph, 240

  Valentine, Val, 169

  Valentino, Rudolph, 155

  Valli, Alida, 133

  Van Sant, Gus, 17, 18

  Vatican, 285

  Vertigo (film), 2, 63, 65, 78, 91, 145, 179, 198, 235, 239, 252

  critical response to, 94–95, 107, 199, 201

  male gaze in, 94–95, 107, 109, 182, 184, 187–88

  Stewart in, 94, 142, 187–88

  themes in, 19, 142, 215

  Vice Museum, 40

  Victoria, Queen of England, 158

  Vidal, Gore, 65

  Vietnam War, 39

  Village Voice, 226

  Violet (Cook), 172, 174

  Walker, Michael, 14, 199

  Walker, Robert, 37, 155

  Walsh, Kay, 271

  Waltzes from Vienna (film), 81

  Warhol, Andy, xii, 115, 183

  Warner, Jack, 244

  Warner Bros., 159, 181, 224, 244

  Washington Post, 176

  Wasserman, Lew, 62, 97–98, 204, 246

  Weinstein, Harvey, 102

  Welles, Orson, 194, 239, 244

  Wells, H. G., 228

  Wertham, Frederic, 30, 32

  Westminster Cathedral, 278

  When Babies Quarrel (film), 13

  White, Jerry, 271

  White Shadow, The (film), 84–85, 215

  Wild Bunch (film), 51

  Wilde, Oscar, 37–38, 50, 62, 135–36, 138–39, 156, 280, 292

  Wilder, Thornton, 74–76, 75, 77n, 162–63, 277–78

  Williams, John, 41

  Wills, Colin, 47

  Woman Alone, The (film), see Sabotage

  Woman to Woman (film), 59, 83, 194

  women:

  AH’s alleged affairs with, 103, 176

  AH’s complex relationship to, 81–109

  AH’s controlling and grooming of, 82, 94–104, 141, 146–47, 151, 172, 222–23

  on AH’s filmmaking team, 86

  as AH’s main audience, 85–86, 87, 91–94

  AH’s views on, 89–93, 97, 166, 175, 229

  women, in AH’s films:

  blonde, 29, 40, 89–90, 95–98, 184, 274

  exploitation of, 107–9

  feminism, 106–9

  good girls/bad girls, 85, 104–7

  sexuality of, 21, 23, 85, 87, 95, 105

  strength and resilience of, 108–9, 291

  untamed, danger to, 84–85, 104–7, 227, 288, 291

  Women Who Made the Movies, 180

  Wonacott, Edna May, 172

  Wood, Robin, 49, 105, 107

  Woodcock, Reynolds, 96–97

  Woolf, C. M., 57

  Woolrich, Cornell, 65, 71

  World Health Organization, 270n

  World War I, 1, 23–26, 32, 38, 45, 255

  World War II, 38, 46, 76, 189–90, 267

  Wreck of the Mary Deare, The (Innes), 66

  Wreck of the Mary Deare, The (unmade film), 66–67

  Wright, Teresa, 107, 161, 162

  Writing Screen Plays (Stannard), 69

  Wrong Man, The (film), 95, 163, 202, 215, 244, 277, 287–88

  W.T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Company, xi, 7, 24, 58, 211, 212, 233

  Wyman, Jane, 91

  Wyndham, John, 228

  York, Duke and Duchess of, 52

  Young and Innocent (film), 44–45, 70, 163

  Zanuck, Darryl F., 110

  ALSO BY EDWARD WHITE

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  Frontispiece: Hitchcock and “Hitchcock,” May 1972.

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  Title: The twelve lives of Alfred Hitchcock : an anatomy of the master of suspense / Edward White.

  Description: First edition. | New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2020042546 | ISBN 9781324002390 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781324002406 (epub)

  Subjects: LCSH: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899–1980. | Motion picture producers and directors—

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