It's Only a Movie, An Alfred Hitchcock Biography

404 Pages·2005·1.68 MB·English

by  Chandler

Also by Charlotte Chandler
Nobody’s Perfect: Billy Wilder—A Personal Biography
I, Fellini
The Ultimate Seduction
Hello, I Must be Going: Groucho and His Friends

SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Copyright © 2005 by Charlotte Chandler
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Book design by Ellen R. Sasahara
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandler, Charlotte.
It’s only a movie : Alfred Hitchcock, a personal
biography / Charlotte Chandler.
p. cm.
Includes index
Filmography: p.
1. Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899–1980. 2. Chandler, Charlotte.
3. Motion picture producers and directors—Great Britain
—Biography. I. Title.
PN1998.3.H58 C53 2005
791.4302’33’092—dc22 2004052559
ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-709-6
ISBN-10: 1-84739-709-3
www.simonsays.co.uk
Acknowledgments
With special appreciation
Pat Hitchcock-O’Connell, Alma Reville Hitchcock,
Chuck Adams, and Bob Bender.
With appreciation
Michael Accordino, Jan Anderson, Judith Anderson,
Claudio Angelini, Enrica Antonioni, Michelangelo
Antonioni, Amelia Antonucci, Dennis Aspland, Linda
Ayton, Diane Baker, Roy Ward Baker, Charles Bennett,
Marcella Berger, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Bernstein,
Robert Boyle, David Brown, Kevin Brownlow, Henry
Bumstead, Bob Calhoun, Jack Cardiff, Fred Chase, Larry
Cohen, Herbert Coleman, Wilkie Cooper, Rusty
Coppleman, Warren Cowan, Henri-Georges Clouzot,
Hume Cronyn, George Cukor, Tony Curtis, Georgine
Darcy, Marlene Dietrich, Karin Dor, Mitch Douglas, Lisa
Drew, Jean-Louis Dumas, Laura Elliott, C. O. “Doc”
Erikson, Ray Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Rudi Fehr,
Jean Firstenberg, Henry Fonda, Joan Fontaine, Barry
Foster, Joe Franklin, John Emmanuel Gartmann, Bob
Gazzale, Anthony Gentile, John Gielgud, Lillian Gish,
Milton Goldman, Elliott Gould, Farley Granger, Cary
Grant, Hilton Green, Dick Guttman, Dolly Haas, Robert
Haller, Peter Handford, Curtis Harrington, Robert A.
Harris, Harry Haun, Edith Head, Tippi Hedren, Audrey
Hepburn, Bernard Herrmann, Arthur Hiller, Thurn
Hoffman, John Houseman, Evan Hunter, Peter Johnson,
James Katz, Howard G. Kazanjian, Fay Kanin, Grace
Kelly, Theodore Kheel, Alexander Kordonsky, Martin
Landau, John Landis, Ted Landry, Fritz Lang, Bryan
Langley, Henri Langlois, Robert Lantz, Arthur Laurents,
Ernest Lehman, Johanna Li, Janet Leigh, Norman Lloyd,
Joshua Logan, Sirio Maccioni, Shirley MacLaine, Karl
Malden, Groucho Marx, James Mason, Mary Merson,
Ray Milland, Ruth Anna Millman, Laurent Momméja,
Thom Mount, Dieter Mueller, Reggie Nalder, Ronald
Neame, Paul Newman, Arthur Novell, Eileen O’Casey,
Maureen O’Hara, Laurence Olivier, Robert Osborne,
Jerry Pam, Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Vlada Petric,
Jay Presson Allen, Dan Price, Michael Redgrave, Claude
Reininger, Robert Rosen, David Rosenthal, Eva Marie
Saint, Sandra Seacat, Daniel Selznick, Peter Shaffer,
Sidney Sheldon, Sylvia Sidney, Martin E. Segal, Walter
Slezak, John Springer, June Springer, Jeff Stafford,
Michael Starr, Gary Stevens, James Stewart, Roy
Thinnes, Richard Todd, François Truffaut, John Vernon,
King Vidor, Lew Wasserman, Cheryl Weinstein, Billy
Wilder, Emlyn Williams, Paul Wilson, Teresa Wright,
Jane Wyman.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the
American Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, the
British Film Institute, the Cinémathèque Française, Film
Forum (New York), The Film Society of Lincoln Center,
the Italian Cultural Institute, New York, The Leytonstone
Alfred Hitchcock Society, the Museum of Modern Art,
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
the Plaza Athénée Hotel (Paris), The Potsdam Museum,
The Royal Lancaster Hotel (London), the Savoy Hotel
(London), Turner Classic Movies, UCLA Department of
Theater, Film, and Television.
To Hitch