If you ever want to assemble an all-time all-star all-blond team, you might want the late British film director Alfred Hitchcock as your general manager.
The question is whether the blonds would want him.
“Hitch” knew his blondes.
They were even called “Hitchcock Blonds.”
Grace Kelly in “To Catch a Thief,” “Dial M for Murder” and “Rear Window.”
Kim Novak in “Vertigo.” Eva Marie Saint in “North by Northwest.” Janet Leigh in “Psycho.”
Ingrid Bergman in “Spellbound” and “Notorious.” Tippi Hedren in “The Birds” and “Marnie.”
The British director Hitchcock made them stars, or bigger stars.
This week, however, an uncomfortable question that’s been floating around for the past 30 years resurfaces: What price did they have to pay?
Hedren, for one, says it was degrading harassment.
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Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest.’
On Saturday night at 9, HBO premieres “The Girl,” a new film based on her disturbing reflections about Hitchcock’s brutish conduct while filming “The Birds” and “Marnie” on set.
Sienna Miller plays Hedren, Toby Jones plays Hitchcock.
By Hedren’s account, Hitchcock developed an uncomfortable obsession that grew into unwelcome sexual advances. When she declined to work with him on a third film, she says, “He ruined my career” by refusing to let her work with other directors.
The larger question here, of course, is whether Hitchcock, who died in 1980 at the age of 81, behaved in a boorish and cruel way to all his blonds.
Hedren concedes she has little evidence of that — except that his behavior toward her didn't feel like a random aberration.
“We are dealing with a brain here that is genius and evil,” she said. “Deviant almost to the point of dangerous because of the effect that he can have on people that are totally unsuspecting.”
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