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Tippi Hedren: ‘Hitchcock Was a Dangerous Deviant’
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Posted on 08/16/2012 10:41:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Ohioan

Like many women of that age, she could be using the term “steal a kiss” instead of going into detail and getting graphic about what the activity actually was.


21 posted on 08/16/2012 11:29:17 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: nickcarraway

I’m afraid it’s not clear how attempting to steal a kiss is a terrible crime. In my view, that’s not even harassment. And how does working with birds for several days endanger one’s safety? Absurd. This woman has just publicly made a fool of herself.


22 posted on 08/16/2012 11:29:27 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: greene66

Can’t remember who, but one of the old time actors told of going to dinner with Hitchcock on Hollywood or Sunset Blvd in the heyday of the great restaurants in that area. Hitchcock ordered a large steak supplemented by a 5 course meal with a great dessert.

When the coffee came, the director instructed the waiter, to do it all again from the beginning.

Sounds like an Orsen Welles bit.


23 posted on 08/16/2012 11:29:41 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: nickcarraway

One mustn’t forget how many of these women of rather modest acting ability were willing to bed anyone who might advance their careers.


24 posted on 08/16/2012 11:30:20 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: CaribCarter

Pretty blondes are a dime a dozen in Hollywood. She was a mediocre actress. These claims sound no differnt than any other man in a power position back in the 50’s and 60’s.
In comparison to Roman Polanski he sounds like a gentleman.

She will be remember as an sctress that was in 1-2 good films. Hitchcock will be remmebered as the best director EVER. In fact his movie Vertigo was just voted as the best movie EVER.


25 posted on 08/16/2012 11:31:11 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: AU72

Shatner also had his own series before Trek, a fairly adult lawyer show called “For The People.” Not to mention, he was busy and making the rounds, guesting on virtually all the big-name drama shows.


26 posted on 08/16/2012 11:34:38 AM PDT by greene66
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To: nickcarraway

It was well known at the time that Tippi Hedron hated Hitchcock. What’s not to hate? Now, if he had had Burt Lancaster’s looks, maybe he wouldn’t have been such a dangerous deviant.


27 posted on 08/16/2012 11:35:11 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans!)
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To: greene66

Shatner also did the famous Twilight Zone airplane gremlin story before it was in the movie.


28 posted on 08/16/2012 11:44:07 AM PDT by AU72
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To: nickcarraway

To add a little something, I was recently listening to a conversation that Veronica Cartwright (who was a young girl in “The Birds”) was having, about how she asked Hitchcock on the set about why he was filming something the way that he was, and she stated that he nicely explained the reasoning. I don’t believe he was an ogre. There would be a long documented history if he had been. I think he had some issues with pretty women (whom he obviously couldn’t attract), and it made him a little misogynistic. Nothing much more than that.


29 posted on 08/16/2012 11:48:27 AM PDT by greene66
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To: nickcarraway

Poor thing. Most actresses would love to have such a “ruined” 60 year career and be able to pass down the legacy another two generations.


30 posted on 08/16/2012 11:53:05 AM PDT by bgill
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To: AU72
I was thinking “The Devils Rain” Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, and a cameo by John Travolta. Horribly great movie. Shatner at his very over the top best.
31 posted on 08/16/2012 11:53:05 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Yaelle
Come on, we all know women were forced to submit to casting couch stuff to get roles back then.

Just back then? If anything, it's much worse today.

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32 posted on 08/16/2012 11:56:42 AM PDT by Antoninus (Sorry, gone rogue.)
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To: edcoil
The casting couch is alive and well.

And there are many nearly pathologically ambitious wannabe's of both sexes and all persuasions who are more than willing to submit if it means possibly snagging a role. Maybe it was all innocence some time in the distant past, but not since the 1920s at least.

33 posted on 08/16/2012 11:57:04 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: greene66

At least Hitchcock didn’t go after little girls like Roman Polanski.


34 posted on 08/16/2012 12:02:35 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway
Actress Tippi Hedren has exposed her “The Birds” and “Marnie” director Alfred Hitchcock as a “dangerous deviant” who “ruined” her career in a shocking new HBO panel discussion held to promote upcoming biopic “The Girl.”

I don't see how Hitchcock "ruined her career". She will always be known because she happened to star in two Hitchcock films. A lot of actors and actresses should be so lucky.

Some time ago, I read Donald Spoto's The Dark side of Genius. Hitchcock did have a "dark side", but it was basically sublimated and only barely makes an appearance in his films. He may have had some secret "deviant" desires, but they were kept in check. If all you can say is that he attempted to kiss a pretty actress and was rebuffed, you don't really have much. As to whether the scene with live birds was a deliberate attack; that's debatable. She could have refused to do the scene.

I'm a huge Hitchcock fan; but I do not consider The Birds or Marnie to be among Hitch's best work. However, each film has some interesting sequences; and both have superb casts. IMO, Psycho was his last truly great film. All the films he made after that show a lessening of his genius, IMO.

35 posted on 08/16/2012 12:02:45 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: EDINVA

True. Recall that there were a LOT of seemingly innocent terms that are used as insider codes. Like the term “confirmed bachelor” being code for homosexuals like Rock Hudson.


36 posted on 08/16/2012 12:07:44 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Yaelle
"back then"

You can bet, all things being equal when it comes to talent and looks, the actress with superior swallowing talent still gets the role.

What a delight it was losing sleep, yesterday, to get a chance to watch 24 hours of Lillian Gish on TCM, watching highlights of her 75 years in Hollywood.

They don't make 'em like that any more.

37 posted on 08/16/2012 12:10:31 PM PDT by Prospero
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To: Dr. Sivana
Take a tip from William Shatner, who was reduced to doing local Canadian grocery store ads after the original Star Trek. Stick around. Don't quit. You could be the next Suzanne Sommers!

The other tip Shatner epitomizes is, "Don't take yourself too seriously."

38 posted on 08/16/2012 12:12:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AU72; edcoil
A Hollywood bio I read had a paragraph about a young actor being told he got the part, but only if he slept with the director. He told his [gay] agent "I'm not gay." The agent retorted "You're an actor right? Act like you're gay."

It's kind of funny because the agent was also the first to represent (and name) Rock Hudson, and had to teach Hudson how not to be so effeminate in order to get past the first line of studio talent screeners.

39 posted on 08/16/2012 12:13:05 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: woodbutcher1963
In fact his movie Vertigo was just voted as the best movie EVER.

Really? By whom? Better than Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Casablanca?

Hitchcock was a great director. I would not call him the greatest. Like a great character actor, his range is limited.
40 posted on 08/16/2012 12:13:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I love to hear you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."-Del Shannon)
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