Posted on 08/16/2012 10:41:16 AM PDT by 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.”
The actress, who is portrayed by Sienna Miller in the new film, held nothing back as she recalled the time she spent with the movie mogul behind some of Hollywood’s top thrillers.
Hedren told film executives and fans, “We are dealing with a brain here that was an unusual genius, and evil, and deviant, almost to the point of dangerous, because of the effect that he could have on people that were totally unsuspecting.”
“The Girl” supports Hedren’s claims that Hitchcock attempted to steal a kiss from his leading lady on the set of “The Birds,” and then put her in harm’s way by insisting she work with live birds for several days.
The actress said, “He ruined my career but he didn’t ruin my life. If this had happened today I would be a very rich woman.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
Remember Jack Woltz, the fictional Movie Producer in The Godfather who found the horses head? In the original novel, he was portrayed as bedding child actresses, they cleaned it up a bit in the movie to imply he went after adult starlets.
The story I heard about Travolta is that he wasn’t born gay, but had to submit to the casting couch, and out of that guilt, became gay to rationalize what he was forced to do....I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was the case.
Remember when George Takei “married” his gay partner?
Someone photo shopped him wearing a wedding veil and taking the place of the gremlin when Shatner pulled back the curtain. Hilarious.
I was looking for that pic the other day, can’t find it. Maybe it was deemed “too insensitive” and scrubbed from the ‘net.
Isn’t her 50 years of Not Guilty about to expire???
It's interesting to see how many ex-TZ actors appeared in Star Trek episodes.
Forced? or Willing to? There is a big difference, and I have a tiny suspicion it still happens today.
Even for intern roles in Washington
Hmmm. George Soros was raised as an Esperanto speaker...
Shatner had a number of good roles in films. He played Alexei in “The Brothers Karamazov” opposite Yul Brynner; also, he played Spencer Tracy’s aide in “Judgment at Nuremberg; and he was the priest in “Seven Samurai”. I may be one of the few people who liked “Incubus”, curse or no.
Shatner had a number of good roles in films. He played Alexei in “The Brothers Karamazov” opposite Yul Brynner; also, he played Spencer Tracy’s aide in “Judgment at Nuremberg; and he was the priest in “Seven Samurai”. I may be one of the few people who liked “Incubus”, curse or no.
He threw live birds at her for 3 days to film the attic scene. She had a nervous breakdown. He made her film anyway. That completely zoned out thing she did at the end of the movie, that wasn’t acting, that’s what was left of her sanity.
He was a brilliant director, but she’s by no means the first person to point out that he was willing to be extremely abusive to get what he wanted, both on and off camera.
Not guilty Ack! Ack ack!
I don’t have any details, but I remember that Vera Miles was supposedly close to a breakdown while filming The Wrong Man. Kim Novak said she was put through the wringer filming Vertigo. I think. It’s been a while since I was reading about that era of film.
Actually her case would be helped a lot by the fact that he used live birds, live birds scratch people, poop, and get injured or killed. The danger to both her and the birds would get him crushed in today’s Hollywood.
For a guy who reportedly had little patience for method actors he was also very fond of making his actors suffer when the character was supposed to suffer. Kind of a weird guy.
Careful. I live in Phoenix, a city with a so-called colony of people who are retired or who commute to work in the business in Los Angeles. Over the years, I’ve come to understand what a horrible, vile man he was. From people who knew him. I think you owe Ms. Hedren a huge apology.
Alot of people would argue that Hitchcock absolutely was not the best director ever, and I would be one of them.
Start your list with Sidney Lumet and keep going... Hitchcock is no doubt in the top ten, but he ain’t at the top. Probably fifth or sixth, IMHO.
The Sight & Sound magazine poll takes place once every ten years. The most recent poll placed Vertigo at the top, followed by Citizen Kane.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time
They poll 846 film critics, programers, academics and distributors.
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