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 Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2005 by Charlotte Chandler All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 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: 978-1-84739709-6 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 Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction I. The Early Years Hitch Hitch and Alma II. The British Films Cub Director The Pleasure Garden to The Lodger Great British Hope Downhill to Waltzes from Vienna British Star The Man Who Knew Too Much to Jamaica Inn III. Hollywood The Selznick Years Rebecca to The Paradine Case Transatlantic Interlude Rope to Stage Fright The Golden Years Strangers on a Train to Psycho The Universal–International Years The Birds to Family Plot IV. The Last Years The Short Night to The End Alfred Hitchcock—A Complete Filmography Index