"the fantasy genre, some bordering on science fiction, the stories were ""largely overlong and not too original."" The Birds and Other Stories The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier, originally published in 1952 as The Apple Tree by Gollancz in the United Kingdom. It includes ""The Birds,"" which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. The anthology was published in the United States as Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday and then has been republished under the current name, ""The Birds and Other Stories"". Reviewing"
"of ""The Birds"" was documented by the writer in his 1997 autobiography ""Me and Hitch"", which contains a variety of correspondence between the writer, director and Hitchcock's assistant, Peggy Robertson. Hunter began working on the screenplay in September 1961. He and Hitchcock developed the story, suggesting foundations such as the townspeople having a guilty secret to hide, and the birds an instrument of punishment. He suggested that the film begin using some elements borrowed from the screwball comedy genre then have it evolve into ""stark terror"". This appealed to Hitchcock, according to the writer, because it conformed to his love"
"Luis Borges' short story ""25th August, 1983"", ""Double Take""'s narrative plot is based on a fictional encounter Alfred Hitchcock has with an older version of himself. Whilst on set of his 1962 film ""The Birds"", Hitchcock calls a twelve-minute break in order to answer a phone call in one of the universal studio buildings. After a foreboding encounter with a security guard, Hitchcock finds his way into a room similar to the tearooms in both the Chasen's hotel in Los Angeles and the Claridge's hotel in London. Here, Hitchcock and his doppelgänger meet. The ensuing conversation between the two is"
"Kim Novak (who starred in one of Hitchcock's films) and Nora Brown (widow of one of Hitchcock's close friends) disputed the film's version of events. The film is a partially fictionalised account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. In 1961, Hitchcock notices Hedren in a television commercial for a diet drink. He wants to turn her into the next Grace Kelly, with whom he had worked extensively during the 1950s. Hedren passes her screen test and is groomed for the starring role in Hitchcock's latest film, ""The Birds""; the director instructs her about her dress and appearance."
"Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 ""The Birds"", loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, which tells the tale of sudden attacks on people by violent flocks of birds. Ken Loach's admired 1969 ""Kes"", based on Barry Hines's 1968 novel ""A Kestrel for a Knave"", tells a story of a boy coming of age by training a kestrel. Parasitoids have inspired science fiction authors and screenwriters to create disgusting and terrifying parasitic alien species that kill their human hosts, such as in Ridley Scott's 1979 film ""Alien"". Plants too, both real and invented, play many roles in literature and"
"novel into French and sent it to a publisher in Paris, who she learned was also Ms. du Maurier's [publisher] only after ""Rebecca"" became a worldwide success. The novels have identical plots and even some identical episodes."" Author Frank Baker believed that du Maurier had plagiarised his novel ""The Birds"" (1936) in her short story ""The Birds"" (1952). Du Maurier had been working as a reader for Baker's publisher Peter Davies at the time he submitted the book. When Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, based on du Maurier's story, Baker considered, but was advised against, pursuing costly litigation"
"preservation by the United States National Film Registry: ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), ""Psycho"" (1960), and ""The Birds"" (1963). In 2012 Hitchcock was selected by artist Sir Peter Blake, author of the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" album cover, to appear in a new version of the cover, along with other British cultural figures, and he was featured that year in a BBC Radio 4 series, ""The New Elizabethans"", as someone ""whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in"
"The Short Night The Short Night was a film planned by British-American director Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). The project was originally announced in the late 1960s at the time of ""Topaz"" and Hitchcock scouted locations in Finland. A romantic suspense thriller with espionage elements, the script was based on both a same-titled novel by Ronald Kirkbride, and the non-fiction book documenting the case of real-life double agent George Blake titled ""The Springing of George Blake"" by Sean Bourke, the motion picture rights to both of which Hitchcock acquired. Hitchcock commissioned screenplays by James Costigan and frequent collaborator Ernest Lehman, both of"
"Henreid. It aired in April 1957. Later in 1959, Hitchcocks production company called on Hunter to adapt a story called ""Appointment at Eleven"", originally written by Robert Turner. After its initial screening Hunter and Hitchcock met for the first time. Two years later in September 1961, Hitchcock asked Hunter to write the screenplay for ""The Birds"". The remainder of the book details not only their working relationship, but also the friendship that developed as well as the mutual respect they had for one another. Me and Hitch Me and Hitch is a 1997 book that chronicles the relationship between writer"
"actress he brought from relative obscurity to star in his 1963 film ""The Birds"". Hitchcock becomes infatuated with his leading lady; when she rebuffs his advances, he subjects her to a series of traumatic experiences during the filming of ""The Birds"". Hitchcock's obsession with Hedren continues when she stars in his next production, ""Marnie"". Hedren grows increasingly uncomfortable with his attentions, and decides that she needs to escape the situation. However, she cannot work elsewhere because of her exclusive contract with Hitchcock; this effectively ends her Hollywood career. ""The Girl"" made its television debut in the United States on 20"
"birds; in 2009 the number was estimated to be closer to 40 per cage. On August 18, 1961, the ""Santa Cruz Sentinel"" reported that thousands of crazed sooty shearwaters were sighted on the shores of North Monterey Bay in California, regurgitating anchovies, flying into objects, and dying on the streets. The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller ""The Birds"", a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man. The film is now ranked among the American Film Institute's"
"and was asked by Hitchcock to play the leading role in his upcoming film ""The Birds"". ""I was so stunned. It never occurred to me that I would be given a leading role in a major motion picture. I had great big tears in my eyes"", Hedren later recalled. ""The Birds"" (1963) was Hedren's screen debut. Hitchcock became her drama coach, and gave her an education in film-making as she attended many of the production meetings such as script, music or photography conferences. Hedren said, ""I probably learned in three years what it would have taken me 15 years to"
"Norman Lloyd, Henry Bumstead and Robert F. Boyle actively involved. The Short Night The Short Night was a film planned by British-American director Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). The project was originally announced in the late 1960s at the time of ""Topaz"" and Hitchcock scouted locations in Finland. A romantic suspense thriller with espionage elements, the script was based on both a same-titled novel by Ronald Kirkbride, and the non-fiction book documenting the case of real-life double agent George Blake titled ""The Springing of George Blake"" by Sean Bourke, the motion picture rights to both of which Hitchcock acquired. Hitchcock commissioned screenplays"
"titles inform the viewer that Hitchcock and Hedren never worked together again, and ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"" are considered his last classic films. ""The Girl"" is based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book, ""Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies"", which examines the relationships between Alfred Hitchcock and the female stars of his films. Spoto wrote that Hitchcock attempted to turn Tippi Hedren (star of ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"") into his perfect woman, choosing the clothes and lipstick he thought she should wear. Hedren told Spoto that Hitchcock fantasised about running off with her. Details of a film examining"
"The Birds II: Land's End The Birds II: Land's End is a 1994 American made-for-television horror film and a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic ""The Birds"" (1963) starring Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, James Naughton and Tippi Hedren in a minor role different from the one she played in the original Hitchcock film. The original music score was composed by Ron Ramin. ""The Birds II: Land's End"" premiered on Showtime on March 14, 1994. The plot of the sequel is very similar to the original. Biology teacher and Somali Civil War veteran, Ted, his wife, and children move to a summer"
"York when Hitchcock saw her, in October 1961, in an NBC television ad for Sego, a diet drink: ""I signed her because she is a classic beauty. Movies don't have them any more. Grace Kelly was the last."" He insisted, without explanation, that her first name be written in single quotation marks: 'Tippi'. In ""The Birds"", Melanie Daniels, a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a bird shop; Jessica Tandy plays his possessive mother. Hedren visits him in Bodega Bay (where ""The Birds"" was filmed) carrying a pair of lovebirds as a gift. Suddenly waves of birds"
"the top 10 foreign films selected by the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. Hitchcock also received the Association's Director Award for the film. It also won the Horror Hall of Fame Award in 1991. ""The Birds"" received mixed reviews upon its initial release. Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" was positive, calling it ""a horror film that should raise the hackles on the most courageous and put goose-pimples on the toughest hide."" Crowther was unsure whether the birds were meant to be an allegory because ""it isn't in Mr. Hitchcock's style to inject allegorical meanings or social significance in"
"a scroll saying that when Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"" (1963) was released, audiences laughed at the notion of birds revolting against humanity, but when an attack perpetrated by birds occurred in 1975, no one laughed. This is followed by a precredits sequence of a tomato rising out of a woman's garbage disposal. Her puzzlement turns into terror as the tomato draws her into a corner. Following the credits, the police investigate her death. One officer discovers that the red substance with which she is covered is not blood, but tomato juice. A series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes occurs"
"his autobiography ""I Follow but Myself"" Baker stated that it bore some resemblance to ""The Terror"" by Arthur Machen (first published 1917). When Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" was released in 1963, ostensibly based on a short story ""The Birds"" (1952) by Daphne du Maurier, Baker considered pursuing litigation against Universal Studios. but eventually decided against doing so because legal counsel considered that the works were substantially different. The opinion states: ""The treatment of the general idea of attacks by birds in the two works is as different as it could be."" Du Maurier denied that she had taken the idea"
"Birds"". According to Hedren, he offered her the role of Marnie during filming of ""The Birds"". Hedren told writer Moral that she was ""amazed"" that Hitchcock would offer her this ""incredible role"", calling it a ""once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"". In 2005, more than 40 years after the film's release, Hedren declared in an interview that ""Marnie"" was her favorite of the two films she made with Hitchcock, because of the intriguing, complex, challenging character that she played. Male lead Sean Connery had been worried that being under contract to Eon Productions for both James Bond and non-Bond films would limit his career"
"for Best Director at the Academy Awards. Three years later he directed horror film ""The Birds"" starring Tippi Hedren. The following year he reunited with Hedren on the film ""Marnie"" which also starred Sean Connery. In recognition of his career, Hitchcock garnered the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Fellowship Award, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. He received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to acknowledge his film and television achievements. In"
"Me and Hitch Me and Hitch is a 1997 book that chronicles the relationship between writer Evan Hunter and director Alfred Hitchcock, beginning with their meeting in the summer of 1959 through April 1963. It focuses upon their successful collaboration on ""The Birds"", and their ill-fated collaboration on ""Marnie"". Prior to their initial meeting, Hunter was approached by a Hitchcock representative from Shamley Productions because they were interested in purchasing one of his short stories, ""Vicious Cycle"" for adaptation for the popular ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" television program. The teleplay was written by Bernard Schoenfeld and it was directed by Paul"
"the early 1800s, the Reverend Edward Hitchcock came across a set of what appeared to him to be giant bird tracks. These later turned out to be reptile tracks, however they nonetheless inspired him to write a poem entitled ""The Sandstone Bird"" involving the reanimation of a great sandstone bird by a female mystic. Later published in ""The Knickerbocker"" by Hitchcock, under the pseudonym Poetaster, this is widely believed to have been the first ichnological poem. Eric Kaufman, a professor of politics commented in his paper on ""American Naturalistic Nationalism"" that the ""naturalistic aesthetic first took root among writers in"
"as a book in 1967 (the ""hitchbook"", as Truffaut called it), and the footage was released as a documentary in 2015. Truffaut sought the interview because it was clear to him that Hitchcock was not simply the entertainer the American media made him out to be. It was obvious from his films, Truffaut wrote, that Hitchcock had ""given more thought to the potential of his art than any of his colleagues"". He compared the interview to ""Oedipus' consultation of the oracle"". The film scholar Peter William Evans writes that ""The Birds"" (1963) and ""Marnie"" (1964) are regarded as ""undisputed masterpieces""."
"blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see ""Family Plot""). The Pleasure Garden (film) The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him."
"""Her writings on education ... are highly persuasive, just as some of her essays on the perils of regulating pornography and the puritanical excesses of the women's movement radiate a fierce common sense... Unfortunately, Ms. Paglia has a way of undermining her more interesting arguments with flip, hyperbolic declarations"". In 1998, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", the British Film Institute commissioned Paglia to write a book about the film. The book interprets the film as ""in the main line of British Romanticism descending from the raw nature-tableaux and sinister femme-fatales"
"first choice to play the title role, Grace Kelly, by then Princess Grace of Monaco, withdrew from the project when the citizens of Monaco objected to her appearing in a film, especially as a sexually disturbed thief. Also, when Kelly married Prince Rainier in 1956, she had not fulfilled her contract with MGM, which could have prevented her from working for another studio. As a consequence of Kelly's departure from the film, Hitchcock put it aside to work on ""The Birds"" (1963). After completing ""The Birds"", Hitchcock returned to the Winston Graham adaptation. Evan Hunter, who had written the screenplay"
"expect: McBain novels had a consistent writing style, while Hunter novels were more varied. Under the Hunter name, novels steadily appeared throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, including ""Come Winter"" (1973) and ""Lizzie"" (1984). Hunter was also successful as screenwriter for film and television. He wrote the screenplay for the Hitchcock film ""The Birds"" (1963), loosely adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1952 novelette. In the process of adapting Winston Graham's novel ""Marnie"" (1961) for Hitchcock, Hunter and the director disagreed on the rape scene, and the writer was sacked. Hunter's other screenplays included ""Strangers When We Meet"" (1960),"
"Captains Corp., aged 16–17. In the summer of 1961 hundreds of birds attacked the town. Most of the birds were sooty shearwaters, a normally non-aggressive species that rarely comes to shore. Alfred Hitchcock was a regular visitor to nearby Santa Cruz and read about this episode. He went on to direct a film—""The Birds""—based on the idea of hundreds of birds attacking humans. The reason for this attack remained unknown for over 25 years until it was discovered that the birds had been affected by domoic acid, a toxin produced by red algae. The Capitola Classic was a skateboarding event"
"Ethel Griffies Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975 in London) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. She is perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). Griffies was the daughter of actors Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts. Taken onstage at the age of three, she continued to act for the next 86 years. Griffies married actor Walter Beaumont in 1900, and he died in 1910. In 1914, she married actor Edward Cooper, who predeceased his wife"
"was the elderly ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). She also performed in Billy Liar 1963 the same year as The Birds. Ethel Griffies Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975 in London) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. She is perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"" (1963). Griffies was the daughter of actors Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts. Taken onstage at the age of three, she continued to act for the next"
"life and imagination, it's undeniably lively and provocative."" Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock"
"""Peeping Tom"" (1960) by Michael Powell, is a progenitor of the contemporary ""slasher film"", though Alfred Hitchcock cemented the subgenre with ""Psycho"" released also in the same year. Hitchcock, considered to be the ""Master of Suspense"" didn't set out to frighten fans the way many other traditional horror filmmakers do. Instead, he helped pioneer the art of psychological suspense. As a result, he managed to frighten his viewers by getting to the root of their deepest fears. One of his most frightening films besides ""Psycho"" is ""The Birds"" (1963), where a seemingly idyllic town is overrun by violent birds. France"