Who was the female star of the Alfred Hitchcock directed films The Birds and Mamie?
"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"
"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"
"Madge Brindley Madge Brindley (October 15, 1901 – August 28, 1968) was a British repertory and film actress. She was born, Doreen Ilse Johnson in Bedford Park, London, England. She was an actress, known in later life for her character parts, usually as loud and aggressive matronly women. She began her acting career in 1925 with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the play The Farmers Wife. She is best known for her film parts in The Spider and the Fly (1949), Alice in Wonderland (1946) and Hobson's Choice (1954), The Ladykillers (1955) and A Kid for Two Farthings (1956). She"
"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"
"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"
"to supporting appearances in ""The Valley of Decision"" (1945), ""The Green Years"" (1946, as Cronyn's daughter), ""Dragonwyck"" (1946) starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price and ""Forever Amber"" (1947). Over the next three decades, her film career continued sporadically while she found better roles on the stage. Her roles during this time included """" (1951) opposite James Mason, ""The Light in the Forest"" (1958), and a role as a domineering mother in Alfred Hitchcock's film, ""The Birds"" (1963). On Broadway, she won a Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"""
"he was Alfred Hitchcock, the great and famous director, and I was Tippi Hedren, an inexperienced actress who had no clout"". She decided she could not quit her contract because she was afraid to be blacklisted and unable to find work. Hedren's own daughter, Melanie Griffith, remembered that while Hedren was doing ""The Birds"", she thought Hitchcock was taking her mother away from her. ""Suddenly, I wasn't allowed even to visit my mom at the studio"". During the filming of ""Marnie"", Hedren found Hitchcock's behavior toward her increasingly difficult to bear as filming progressed. ""Everyone–I mean everyone–knew he was obsessed"
"Tippi Hedren Nathalie Kay ""Tippi"" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress, animal rights activist and former fashion model. A successful fashion model from her twenties, appearing on the front covers of ""Life"" and ""Glamour"" magazines among others, Hedren became an actress after she was discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. She received world recognition for her work in two of his films, the suspense-thriller ""The Birds"" in 1963, for which she won a Golden Globe, and the psychological drama ""Marnie"" in 1964. Hedren has appeared in over eighty films and"
"Madeleine Carroll Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success she was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning a then staggering $250,000 in 1938. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935). She is also noted for abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz, to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced and maimed by the war. Carroll was born at"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"blonde women include Tippi Hedren in ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie""; Dany Robin in ""Topaz""; Barbara Leigh-Hunt in ""Frenzy""; Janet Leigh in ""Psycho""; Grace Kelly in ""Rear Window"", ""To Catch a Thief"", and ""Dial M for Murder""; Eva Marie Saint in ""North by Northwest""; and Kim Novak in ""Vertigo"". As a former silent film director, Hitchcock strongly preferred to convey narrative with images rather than dialogue. Hitchcock viewed film as a primarily visual medium in which the director's assemblage of images must convey the narrative. Examples of imagery over dialogue are in the lengthy sequence in ""Vertigo"" in which Scottie silently"
"Billie Bird Billie Sellen (February 28, 1908 – November 27, 2002), better known professionally as Billie Bird, was an American actress and comedian. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, Bird was discovered at the age of eight while living at an orphanage. As a child, she worked in vaudeville, and later in theater/cabaret before moving on to television and films. She is credited with an appearance in a 1921 film ""Grass Widowers"", but it is not clear if this is accurate. Otherwise, she broke into films in 1950, later making a brief, uncredited appearance in ""The Odd Couple"" as a chambermaid. Her"
"Laurie Bird Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American film actress and photographer. She appeared in three films during the 1970s. Two of them were directed by Monte Hellman. She was romantically involved with Hellman and Art Garfunkel; committing suicide in the latter's apartment by taking an overdose of Valium. Bird inspired one of Tim Kinsella's novels. Bird's mother died when she was three. Her father was an electrical engineer. She had two elder brothers. Her strict father restricted her social life and she fled home multiple times. In response, her father had an arrest"
"with Sandra."" In February 1961, she succeeded Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan Macy opposite 14-year-old Patty Duke's Helen Keller in ""The Miracle Worker"". Her early screen credits include ""The Geisha Boy"", ""Rome Adventure"", ""Fate Is the Hunter"", and ""Youngblood Hawke"", but she was best known at that time for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's classic suspense film ""The Birds"". She worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film ""Nevada Smith"", was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy ""If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"" opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner"
"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"
"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."
"94 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Billie Bird Billie Sellen (February 28, 1908 – November 27, 2002), better known professionally as Billie Bird, was an American actress and comedian. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, Bird was discovered at the age of eight while living at an orphanage. As a child, she worked in vaudeville, and later in theater/cabaret before moving on to television and films. She is credited with an appearance in a 1921 film ""Grass Widowers"", but it is not clear if this is accurate."
"was also inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film ""The Birds."" ""The Birds"" starred actress Tippi Hedren, who appeared in Nguyen's earlier film ""Julie and Jack."" ""Birdemic"" includes footage of that appearance, playing on a television. The movie contains several anti-war statements. On the DVD commentary, the director explained that one early inspiration for the movie was the anti-war movie ""Apocalypse Now"", and that at the end of the movie the birds stopped their attack because they wanted to have peace, and to give humans a second chance to help the environment. He said that as production continued, he became more"
"Captivated by Hedren's Nordic looks, Hitchcock becomes infatuated with her. While filming ""The Birds"", he makes physical advances to her in the back of a limousine but she rebuffs him and escapes through the back door. In retaliation for her rejection, Hitchcock exposes Hedren to terrifying encounters with birds. A mechanical bird breaks the apparently shatterproof glass of a telephone booth during filming, scratching Hedren's face with splintering glass. After arriving on set to shoot a scene where Hedren's character (Melanie Daniels) is trapped in an attic with aggressive birds, she discovers that Hitchcock has ordered the mechanical birds to"
"died on August 28, 1968 in Brighton, East Sussex, England in a road accident aged 66. Madge Brindley Madge Brindley (October 15, 1901 – August 28, 1968) was a British repertory and film actress. She was born, Doreen Ilse Johnson in Bedford Park, London, England. She was an actress, known in later life for her character parts, usually as loud and aggressive matronly women. She began her acting career in 1925 with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the play The Farmers Wife. She is best known for her film parts in The Spider and the Fly (1949), Alice in Wonderland"
"Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco"" by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal, which was published in 2002. In 2003, she published ""Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man"", co-written with Laurent Bouzereau. Pat Hitchcock Patricia Alma O'Connell (née Hitchcock; born 7 July 1928), commonly known as Pat Hitchcock, is an English actress and producer. She is the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of his films, starting with ""Stage Fright"" (1950). Hitchcock was born in London in 1928, the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville."
"a pass at anybody or act strange to anybody."" Louise Latham, who played Hedren's mother in ""Marnie"", dismissed claims of Hitchcock's predatory nature in ""Broadcast"" magazine: ""I find some of the allegations hard to believe ... I wasn't aware of her being hassled on the set."" Nora Brown (widow of James H. Brown, first assistant director on ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie"", who knew Hitchcock for several years) said that her husband would not have endorsed ""The Girl""s interpretation of events and the film's portrayal of Hitchcock would have saddened him. Gwyneth Hughes interviewed James Brown as part of her background"
"within a comfortable and intimate environment rather than an office. Alma, Lady Hitchcock, a breast cancer survivor, died at the age of 82, two years after her husband's death. She was cremated, and her ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean. She was portrayed by actresses Imelda Staunton in ""The Girl"" (2012), and Helen Mirren in """"Hitchcock"""" (2012). Staunton was nominated for a BAFTA and a Primetime Emmy for her performance, while Mirren was nominated for BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG awards for her performance. Screenwriter ""The Constant Nymph"", 1928. ""The First Born"", 1928. ""After the Verdict"", 1929. A ""Romance of"
"names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier was loosely based on that of the actor Gerald du Maurier, who was a friend of Hitchcock. Hitchcock later adapted three novels written by du Maurier's daughter Daphne du Maurier: ""Jamaica Inn"", ""Rebecca"" and ""The Birds"". Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the film as a man walking past the murder victim's house. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead. The German language version of the film, ""Mary"", was shot simultaneously on the same set with German speaking actors. Miles Mander reprised"
"""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"
"with Katharine Cornell (who won for the female lead in ""Antony and Cleopatra"") and Judith Anderson (for the latter's portrayal of Medea) in a three-way tie for the award. Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, ""The Birds"" (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in ""The Gin Game"" (1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn). Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the original acting company of the Guthrie Theater. In the mid-1980s she had a career revival. She appeared with Cronyn in the Broadway"
"Biller designed the sets and costumes to emulate the style of classic Hollywood films, and collaborated closely with her cinematographer M. David Mullen, who is an expert on period cinematography and who has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, to create the hard lighting style characteristic of such films. For the driving scenes, rear projection photography was used to give glamor to the lead actress, and in tribute to the opening of the Hitchcock film ""The Birds"". The actors also played their parts in a classic presentational acting style, with lead actress Samantha Robinson receiving accolades for her stylized"
"""truth"" beyond one possible solution to the puzzles of her life and work."" Laurie Bird Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American film actress and photographer. She appeared in three films during the 1970s. Two of them were directed by Monte Hellman. She was romantically involved with Hellman and Art Garfunkel; committing suicide in the latter's apartment by taking an overdose of Valium. Bird inspired one of Tim Kinsella's novels. Bird's mother died when she was three. Her father was an electrical engineer. She had two elder brothers. Her strict father restricted her social life"
"Jane Darwell Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard, October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than one hundred major motion pictures spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"", for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Disney's musical family film, ""Mary Poppins"". Darwell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."
"warrant issued in her name and she was put in an institution for neglected girls. She did her schooling from Jamaica High School. Described by Hollywood columnist Dick Kleiner as ""look[ing] like an innocent Hayley Mills,"" Bird appeared in just three films: ""Two-Lane Blacktop"" (1971), ""Cockfighter"" (1974), and a small role as girlfriend to Paul Simon's character in the romantic comedy ""Annie Hall"" (1977), from Woody Allen. While researching for the film, screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer met her and recommended her name to Hellman while he was looking for actresses for the same movie. In ""Two-Lane Blacktop"" she played a hitchhiker"