The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White (best finance books of all time TXT) 📕

His Leading Ladies. London: Arrow, 2009. Kindle.

Stearns, Peter. Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Stein, Jean. West of Eden: An American Place. London: Jonathan Cape, 2016.

Steinbeck, Elaine, and Robert Wallsten, eds. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. London: Penguin, 2001.

Strachan, Alan. Secret Dreams: The Biography of Michael Redgrave. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.

Taylor, John Russell. Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock. London: Bloomsbury Reader, 2013. Kindle.

Thomson, David. The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

Tomkins, Calvin. Duchamp: A Biography. London: Pimlico, 1996.

Tripp, June. The Glass Ladder. London: William Heinemann, 1960.

Truffaut, François. Hitchcock. London: Faber & Faber, 2017.

Vincent, David. The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832–1998. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Walker, Michael. Hitchcock’s Motifs. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

White, Edward. The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014.

White, Jerry. London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People. London: Vintage Books, 2008.

_____. Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War. London: Bodley Head, 2014.

Wilde, Oscar. De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings. London: Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

Wood, Robin. Hitchcock’s Films Revisited. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Wright, Jonathan. God’s Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power—A History of the Jesuits. London: Doubleday, 2005.

Youngkin, Stephen D. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

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TEXT CREDITS

Jay Presson Allen, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. Courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby. Manuscript from Patrick McGilligan Collection, University of Wisconsin. Used with permission of Brooke Allen.

Robert Benchley quote used by permission (of the Estate of Robert Benchley, Nat Benchley, Executor).

William F. Blowitz, memo to colleagues at Universal Pictures, 19 March 1962. Used with permission of John Blowitz, for the William F. Blowitz Estate.

Whitfield Cook, “Happy Ending” and “Her First Island,” unpublished short stories, and entries from 1 April 1945, 20 September 1948, 1 October 1948, 7 October 1948, and 9 October 1948, Whitfield Cook diary. From the Whitfield Cook Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates and the Estate of Whitfield Cook.

Doris Day, Oral History transcript. Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection.

David Freeman, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. © David Freeman, courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby. Manuscript from Patrick McGilligan Collection, University of Wisconsin.

Dolly Haas, Oral History transcript. Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection.

Gilbert Harrison, spoken notes at the end of his audio recording of his interview with Alfred Hitchcock (for Harrison’s biography of Thornton Wilder), 4 January 1980, Gilbert A. Harrison papers relating to Thornton Wilder, 1956–1985, Beinecke Library, Yale University. Used with permission of the Estate of Gilbert A. Harrison.

Harold Hayes, letter to Hitchcock, 1963. Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Margaret Herrick Library. Used with permission of the author’s estate.

Tippi Hedren, Oral History transcript. Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection.

Alfred Hitchcock, audio recording of Gilbert Harrison’s interview with Alfred Hitchcock for a biography of Thornton Wilder. Gilbert A. Harrison papers relating to Thornton Wilder, 1956–1985, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Used with permission of the Estate of Gilbert A. Harrison and Alfred J. Hitchcock Trust.

Alfred Hitchcock, letter to Richard Condon, 12/8/1964. From the Richard Condon Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Used with permission of Alfred J. Hitchcock Trust.

Transcript of Alfred Hitchcock’s interview with Peter Bogdanovich, 1962. Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Margaret Herrick Library. Used with permission of Peter Bogdanovich and Alfred J. Hitchcock Trust.

Unpublished material by Alfred J. Hitchcock and Alma Reville used with permission of Alfred J. Hitchcock Trust.

Excerpts from Hitchcock by François Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott. Copyright © 1983 by Francis Truffaut and Editions Ramsay. English translation copyright © 1984 by Francois Truffaut; copyright renewed © 1995 by Eva Truffaut, Josephine Truffaut, and Laura Truffaut-Wong. Reprinted with the permission of the publishers Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. All rights reserved.

Evan Hunter, letter to Scott Meredith, 9/30/61. From the Evan Hunter Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Used with permission of the author’s estate.

Evan Hunter, letter to unknown, 10/27/61. From the Evan Hunter Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Used with permission of the author’s estate.

Ernest Lehman quoted in William Baer, Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters (Westport, CT, and London: Praeger), 2008. Republished with permission of ABC-CLIO, from Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters by William Baer, copyright 2008; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

Norman Lloyd, Oral History transcript. Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection.

Ronald Neame, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. Courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby. Manuscript from Patrick McGilligan Collection, University of Wisconsin.

John O’Riordan, “Interview with Alfred Hitchcock,” The Ignatian, 1973. Used with permission from St Ignatius College, London.

Marcella Rabwin, interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. Courtesy BBC / Tim Kirby, and used with permission of the Estate of Marcella Rabwin.

Alma Reville, letter to Whitfield Cook, 8/23/1949. From the Whitfield Cook Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Used with permission of Alfred J. Hitchcock Trust.

Transcripts from interviews with Peggy Robertson, Eva Marie Saint, and Robert Boyle. Material courtesy of the Academy’s Oral History Projects department. Copyright © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Samuel Taylor interviewed by Tim Kirby for Reputations, BBC. Manuscript from Patrick McGilligan Collection, University of Wisconsin.

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iv Hitchcock, 1972 (Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

4 William Hitchcock and son, c. 1900 (Courtesy of BFI National Archive)

12 Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AF Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)

21 Children in The Birds (TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy Stock Photo)

33 Hitchcock, 1955 (Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo)

43 Still from The Lodger (Gainsborough / Kobal / Shutterstock)

44 Janet Leigh in Psycho (Allstar Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo)

56 Hitchcock and Alma Reville,