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Making of the Birds.indd 1 12/03/2013 12:42 Making of the Birds.indd 2 12/03/2013 12:42 kamera b o o k s kamerabooks.com Making of the Birds.indd 3 12/03/2013 12:42 TONY LEE MORAL BY THE SAME AUTHOR Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie, Revised Edition (2013) Alfred Hitchcock’s Movie Making Masterclass (2013) kamera b o o k s Making of the Birds.indd 4 12/03/2013 12:42 TONY LEE MORAL THE MAKING OF HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS kamera b o o k s Making of the Birds.indd 5 12/03/2013 12:42 First published in 2013 by Kamera Books an imprint of Oldcastle Books, PO Box 394, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 1XJ Copyright © Tony Lee Moral 2013 Series Editor: Hannah Patterson The right of Tony Lee Moral to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of the publishers. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-84243-954-8 (print) 978-1-84243-955-5 (epub) 978-1-84243-956-2 (kindle) 978-1-84344-155-7 (pdf) 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Typeset in Univers by Elsa Mathern Printed and bound in the Czech Republic The extract from The Birds reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of The Chichester Partnership Copyright © Daphne du Maurier 1952 by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Making of the Birds.indd 6 12/03/2013 12:42 For Kitty Making of the Birds.indd 7 12/03/2013 12:42 Making of the Birds.indd 8 12/03/2013 12:42 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, Taylor & Faust and Steven Kravitz of the Alfred J Hitchcock Trust for giving me permission to quote and publish from the Hitchcock Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, and also to the library staff, especially Barbara Hall and Kristine Krueger. Letters, certain information regarding The Birds and Marnie, and other material from Evan Hunter’s memoir Me and Hitch have been used with the kind permission of the author’s estate ©1997. I also thank Anita Hunter and sons Richard and Mark for sharing memories of Evan, husband and father. Thank you to the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Centre at Boston University and Dragica Hunter for giving me access to Evan’s files. Of the actors who worked on The Birds, I thank Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright and Shari Lee Bernath for sharing their memories. From the Hitchcock crew I thank Robert Boyle, Jim Brown, John ‘Bud’ Cardos, Helen Colvig, Virginia Darcy, Hilton Green, Norman Lloyd, Marshall Schlom, Ted Parvin, Harold Michelson and Rita Riggs. I owe a big debt of gratitude to Peter Bogdanovich who so generously allowed me to publish excerpts of his series of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock. Thanks also to Laura Truffaut for kindly allowing me to quote from her father François Truffaut’s seminal book on Hitchcock. I am also very grateful to Bill Krohn for generously sharing his roundtable discussion on The Birds involving Bob Boyle, Albert Whitlock and Harold Michelson, originally published in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1982. 9 Making of the Birds.indd 9 12/03/2013 12:42
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