Key books: Dan Auiler, Hitchcock’s Notebooks (Avon Books, 1999); David Freeman, The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock (Overlook Press, 1999); Sidney Gottlieb, ed., Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2003); Sidney Gottlieb, ed., Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews (University of California Press, 1995); Robert E. Kapsis, Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation (University of Chicago Press, 1992); Bill Krohn, Hitchcock at Work (Phaidon, 2000); Albert J. LaValley, ed., Focus on Hitchcock, (Prentice-Hall, 1972); Leonard J. Leff, Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987); Dennis McDougal, The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood (Crown, 1998); Jane E. Sloan, Alfred Hitchcock: The Definitive Filmography (University of California Press, 1993); David Thomson, Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick (Knopf, 1992).
Especially: Donald Spoto’s The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (Little, Brown, 1983), John Russell Taylor’s Hitch (Pantheon, 1978), and François Truffaut’s Hitchcock (Simon & Schuster, 1967). This book started in part as an effort to take stock of all the new Hitchcock findings of the last twenty years. But every Hitchcockian—fan, scholar, or biographer—must begin with, draw from, and repeatedly reference these three groundbreaking books. The Truffaut interview is frequently cited in the text, and especially with actors or writers who have died, or no longer grant interviews, I have also often quoted people from the Taylor and Spoto books.
Every book project has its special angels who prod it along with encouragement and insights. Bill Fagelson was a researcher whom I learned to trust not only in the vast Harry Ransom Humanities Research Library, but in the equally forbidding Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles. Charles Barr, whose own English Hitchcock (Cameron & Hollis, 1999) is indispensable, read drafts and traded views. Anthony Slide and David Thomson did likewise in the United States, with similar patience. Bill Krohn did not see me as a rival, though he is one of the leading Hitchcock scholars with his own important book and continues writing on the Hitchcock films. J. Lary Kuhns sweated blood over the filmography, and overflowed with information and opinions on every film. Mary Troath in London is an author’s dream of an intelligent, tireless researcher, and, thank you, Mary, she even kept a tab when funds ran low. John Baxter in Paris again and again came to my rescue. I feel blessed by the support of my long time agent, Gloria Loomis. Calvert Morgan Jr. took this book from St. Martin’s Press to Regan Books at HarperCollins, for which I am grateful; he also took the subject to heart, and the manuscript to hand, shaping it, with his always discerning editing, into a better life story.
ALSO BY PATRICK MCGILLIGAN
Cagney: The Actor as Auteur
Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff
George Cukor: A Double Life
Jack’s Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson
Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
Clint, the Life and Legend: A Biography of Clint Eastwood
EDITED BY PATRICK MCGILLIGAN
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Blacklist (with Paul Buhle)
Six Scripts by Robert Riskin
Film Crazy: Interviews with Hollywood Legends
Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s
Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1960s
Backstory 4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s
(forthcoming)
TELEVISION CREDITS
Only the episodes directed by Hitchcock are listed.
1955-56 SEASON
Revenge
As director and producer. Broadcast: October 2, 1955. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Samuel Blas. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Frances Bavier.
(With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley Productions, 25 mins.)
Breakdown
As director and producer. Broadcast: November 13, 1955. Sc: Francis Cockrell and Louis Pollock, from a story by Louis Pollock. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley, Harry Shannon, Lane Chandler, James Edwards, Murray Alper, Aaron Spelling.
(With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
The Case of Mr. Pelham
As director and producer. Broadcast: December 4, 1955. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Anthony Armstrong. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr. Cast: Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey, Justice Watson. (With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
Back for Chrismas
As director and producer. Broadcast: March 4, 1956. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by John Collier. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr. Cast: John Williams, Isobel Elsom, A. E. Gould-Porter, Lily Kemble-Cooper. (With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
1956–57 Season
Wet Saturday
As director and producer. Broadcast: September 30, 1956. Sc: Marian Cockrell, from a story by John Collier. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, John Williams, Tita Purdom, Kathryn Givney, Jerry Barclay.
(With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
Mr. Blanchard’s Secret
As director and producer. Broadcast: December 23, 1956. Sc: Sarett Rudley, from a story by Emily Neff. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Mary Scott, Robert Horton, Meg Mundy, Dayton Lummis. (With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
One More Mile to Go
As director and producer. Broadcast: April 7, 1957. Sc: James P. Cavanagh, from a story by George F. J. Smith. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: David Wayne, Louise Larabee, Steve Brodie, Norman Leavitt.
(With Joan Harrison for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
1957-58 SEASON
Four O’Clock
As director and producer. Broadcast: September 30, 1957. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Cornell Woolrich. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: E. G. Marshall, Nancy Kelly, Richard Long.
(With Joan Harrison for Suspicion, Shamley, 50 mins.)
The Perfect Crime
As director and producer. Broadcast: October 20, 1957. Sc: Stirling Silliphant, from a story by Ben Ray Redman. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Vincent Price, James Gregory.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
Lamb to the Slaughter
As director and producer. Broadcast: April 13, 1958. Sc: Roald Dahl, from his story. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Allan Lane, Harold J. Stone.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
A Dip in the Pool
As director and producer. Broadcast: June 1, 1958. Sc: Robert C. Dennis and Francis Cockrell, from a story by Roald Dahl. Ph: John F. Warren.
Cast: Keenan Wynn, Louise Platt, Philip Bourneuf, Fay Wray, Doreen Lang.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
1958-59 SEASON
Poison
As director and producer. Broadcast: October 5, 1958. Sc: Casey Robinson, based on a story by Roald Dahl. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Wendell Corey, James Donald, Arnold Moss.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
Banquo’s Chair
As director and producer. Broadcast: May 3, 1959. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Rupert Croft-Cooke. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: John Williams, Reginald Gardiner, Kenneth Haigh.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
1959-60 SEASON
Arthur
As director and pr
oducer. Broadcast: September 27, 1959. Sc: James P. Cavanagh, from a story by Arthur Williams. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court, Robert Douglas, Patrick Macnee.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
The Crystal Trench
As director and producer. Broadcast: October 4, 1959. Sc: Stirling Silliphant, from a story by A. E. W. Mason. Ph: John F. Warren.
Cast: James Donald, Patricia Owens, Werner Klemperer, Patrick Macnee.
(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
Incident at a Corner
As director and producer. Broadcast: April 5, 1960. Sc: Charlotte Armstrong, from her novel. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Vera Miles, George Peppard, Paul Hartman, Bob Sweeney, Leora Dana, Philip Ober.
(Joan Harrison, Shamley, for Ford-Startime, 50 mins.)*
1960-61 SEASON
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat
As director and producer. Broadcast: September 27, 1960. Sc: Halsted Wells, from a story by Roald Dahl. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Audrey Meadows, Les Tremayne, Sally Hughes, Stephen Chase.
(Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
The Horseplayer
As director and producer. Broadcast: March 14, 1961. Sc: Henry Slesar, from his story. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Claude Rains, Ed Gardner, Kenneth MacKenna.
(Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
1961-62 SEASON
Bang! You’re Dead
As director and producer. Broadcast: October 17, 1961. Sc: Harold Swanton, from a story by Margery Vosper. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: Steve Dunne, Biff Elliott, Lucy Prentiss, Billy Mumy, Juanita Moore.
(Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Shamley, 25 mins.)
1962-63 SEASON
I Saw the Whole Thing
As director and producer. Broadcast: October 11, 1962. Sc: Henry Slesar, from a story by Henry Cecil. Ph: Benjamin H. Kline.
Cast: John Forsythe, Kent Smith, Evans Evans, Billy Wells, Claire Griswold, Philip Ober, William Newell.
(Joan Harrison for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Shamley, 50 mins.)
* “Incident at a Corner” is the only Hitchcock-directed television show filmed in color.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the following:
UNPUBLISHED BOOKS
Cedric Belfrage, A Gent in Hollywood, courtesy of Mary Belfrage, from the Cedric Belfrage papers, Tamiment Library, New York University; Charles Bennett, The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Memoirs of Screenwriter-Laureate Charles Bennett ed. John Charles Bennett, courtesy of John Charles Bennett; Colin Belfrage, All Is Grist (unpublished version), courtesy of Bernard Lewis.
EXCERPTS
David Freeman, The Last Days of Hitchcock, copyright © 1984, quoted with permission of the author; Evan Hunter, Me and Hitch, copyright © 1997, excerpted by arrangement with the author; Ernest Lehman, professional papers and North by Northwest.
ORAL HISTORIES
Sidney Gilliat, courtesy of Caroline Brown (née Gilliat) and Edward Russell, BECTU Collection, London; Samson Raphaelson, courtesy of Joel Raphaelson, from the Samson Raphaelson Collection, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Robert Boyle and Peggy Robertson, courtesy of Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
CORRESPONDENCE AND JOURNALS
Robert Benchley, used by permission of his estate, Nathaniel Robert Benchley, Executor, from the Robert Benchley papers, Special Collections, Boston University; James Bridie, courtesy of James Mavor; Whitfield Cook (5-Year Journal, 1945-1949), Special Collections, Boston University; Marlene Dietrich, courtesy of the Berlin Kinemathek; Ben Hecht papers, courtesy of The Newberry Library, Chicago; Brian Moore, with the permission of the estate of Brian Moore, and courtesy of the Brian Moore fonds, Special Collections, University of Calgary Library, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin; V. S. Pritchett letters, courtesy of Oliver Pritchett; Myron Selznick papers, courtesy of Daniel Selznick, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin; Edward R. Stettinius papers, courtesy of Wallace Stettinius and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; Thornton Wilder, courtesy of A. Tappan Wilder, and the Thornton Wilder Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Individuals: John Baxter; Claire Brandt (Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee); Ned Comstock (Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California); Sidney Gottlieb; Michael Rhodes (family photos); David Oliver (Henley’s); Esmé Surman (American scrapbook); Betty and Louisa Ware (Shoreham photos). Organizations: Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee; Special Collections, Boston University; Getty Images; Time-Life; Photofest; Vestry House Museum; Hitchcock Annual; and the author’s personal collection. Endpapers: Getty Images.
The author welcomes corrections. Special thanks to eagle-eyed readers W. C. Clogston, David Freeman, Dean Goodman, J. Lary Kuhns, John Kennedy Melling, Ken Mogg, Hubert Niogret, and Mary Troath, who spotted typos and mistakes in the hardcover biography. We have endeavored to correct known errors for this paperback edition.
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NOTES
Only key sources not listed in Sources are noted.
ONE: 1899-1913
Hitchcock talked about his boyhood with Fred Jones in “The Master of the Macabre, Who Is 70 Today, Talks to Fred Jones …” in the Guardian (Aug. 23, 1969), in “Alfred Hitchcock: ‘This Age of Violence is Nothing New’ ” in the Sunday Express (April 24, 1966), and with Hugh Whelon for “Alfred Hitchcock on His Films,” in the Listener (Aug. 6, 1964). “A smartly dressed …” is the reminiscence of a cousin quoted in The Alfred Hitchcock Quote Book by Laurent Bouzereau (Citadel, 1993). He recalled being an altar boy in “Tourists in Quebec Throng to See Hitchcock Make Movie” by Marjory Adams in the Boston Globe (Sept. 16, 1953). He reminisced about growing up with Dick Cavett on The Dick Cavett Show (broadcast in 1972), and with Tom Snyder on the Tomorrow show (broadcast in 1973). The Faithful Companions of Jesus’ pamphlet “Good Example Does Much Good” described their religious order and Howrah House, while the Vestry House Museum pamphlet “Alfred Hitchcock: From Leytonstone to Hollywood” by Nigel Sadler and Victoria Coxon supplied local color. I have also cited Raymond Fielding, “Hale’s Tours: Ultrarealism in the Pre-1910 Motion Picture” in the Smithsonian Journal of History (winter 1968-69) and Charles Musser (in collaboration with Carol Nelson), High-Class Moving Pictures: Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition, 1880-1920 (Princeton University Press, 1991). The correspondence and a transcript of Hitchcock’s filmed address to the Westcliff Cine Club is in the Margaret Herrick Library.
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