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1926 (Kobal / Shutterstock)

68 Hitchcock, 1942 (Gjon Mili / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)

75 Alfred Hitchcock and Thornton Wilder (J. R. Eyerman / Getty Images)

88 Alma Reville and Hitchcock, 1938 (Bettmann / Getty Images)

92 Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman (ScreenProd / Photonstop / Alamy Stock Photo)

93 Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and Irene Ives (AF Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)

101 Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren (ScreenProd / Photonstop / Alamy Stock Photo)

113 Hitchcock, 1960 (Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo)

125 Hitchcock, 1943 (John Florea / The Life Picture Collection / Getty Images)

131 Hitchcock at the 21 Club, Manhattan, 1956 (John Rawlings / Conde Nast Collection / Getty Images)

138 Hitchcock c. 1926 (Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

144 Hitchcock and Cary Grant (Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

157 Hitchcock, 1957 (Photo by Maxwell Frederic Coplan. Courtesy of David Coplan Schneider)

162 Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt (Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo)

167 The Hitchcocks on their wedding day, December 2, 1926 (Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

173 Alfred, Alma, and Patricia Hitchcock (Peter Stackpole / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)

185 Hitchcock on the set of To Catch a Thief (Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo)

188 James Stewart in Rear Window (cineclassico / Alamy Stock Photo)

203 Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS / Photofest)

214 Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Revue / Shamley / Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock)

220 Alfred Hitchcock at Screen Directors Guild award dinner (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)

231 Hitchcock, publicity photo for The Birds (cineclassico / Alamy Stock Photo)

238 Hitchcock and Anny Ondra on the set of Blackmail (STUDIOCANAL Films Ltd)

257 Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman in London (Kurt Hutton / Picture Post / Getty Images)

262 Hitchcock in Blackmail (TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy Stock Photo)

272 Hitchcock in London, 1972 (Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo)

283 Hitchcock and Carol Lynley, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo)

294 Hitchcock on the set of Family Plot (Entertainment Images / Alamy Stock Photo)

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to photographs. Page numbers beginning with 303 refer to endnotes.

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ABC, 62, 270n

Academy Awards, 69n, 70, 82, 95, 110, 126, 193, 218, 242n, 267

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 192

Ackland, Rodney, 156, 215–16, 246

Ackroyd, Peter, 136

acting, AH’s knowledge of and opinions on, 95, 110, 151, 156, 188, 189, 203, 207–9, 241

actors:

AH’s abuse of, 6, 82, 87–88, 98–99, 107–8, 221

AH’s conflicts with, 30, 95, 142, 151, 209–10

AH’s lack of sympathy for, 111, 116, 241

AH’s positive relationships with, 90, 110, 128, 142, 145, 210, 217, 316

AH’s reticence with, 30, 209

AH’s views of, 95, 145, 151, 207–10, 241

Acuna, Frank, 140

advertising, AH’s innovative use of, 228–35

advertising industry, AH’s early work in, xi–xii, 7, 233

Aherne, Brian, 126

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (book series), 18

Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (television series), 63, 202

“Final Vow, The,” 282

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, 18, 178

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (television series), 12, 17–18, 47, 62-63, 86, 94, 115, 132, 178, 285–86

AH’s appearances on, 32, 132, 202–7, 212, 226, 268

“Bang! You’re Dead,” 6

“The Case of Mr. Pelham,” 150

“Lamb to the Slaughter,” 112n

“Mr. Blanchard’s Secret,” 32

“Revenge,” 95

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to Be Murdered By (record album), 45

Alfred Hitchcock’s Fireside Book of Suspense, 200

Alfred Hitchcock Show, The (radio program), 62

Allardice, James, 218

Allen, Jay Presson, 87, 106

Allen, Richard, 91

All Fall Down (film), 95

Allgood, Sara, 287

Always Tell Your Wife (film), 27

Ambler, Eric, 116

American Beauty (Banner), 96–97

American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, 177

Americanism: A World Menace, 260

American Red Cross, 50

Anderson, Paul Thomas, 96–97

Andrews, Julie, 255–56

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 195, 244

Art of Alfred Hitchcock, The (Spoto), 199

Atkinson, G. A., 260

Auber, Brigitte, 102

Auiler, Dan, 246

Avenger, the (char.), 40, 41, 42, 89, 155, 230

Avenging Conscience (film), 11

Aventure Malgache (film), 47

Bailey, Eileen, 256

Balcon, Michael, 27–28, 52, 57, 70, 81, 83, 206, 212, 258–59, 266

Balestrero, Christopher Emmanuel, 163

Balestrero, Rose, 163

Ballantyne, John (char.), 20, 23

Balliett, Whitney, 215

Bankhead, Tallulah, 76, 111

Banner, Lois, 96–97

Barr, Charles, 69–70, 169, 251

Barrie, J. M., 1, 11, 15

Barthes, Roland, 140

Bartlett, Adelaide, 35, 183

Bartlett, Edwin, 35, 183

Bass, Saul, 63–64, 250

Bates, Norman (char.), 3, 29, 38, 40, 41, 182–83, 210, 277

cross-dressing by, 22, 158

Baudelaire, Charles, 150

Baxter, Anne, 9, 285

Bazin, André, 54, 288

BBC, 50, 233, 260

Beardsley, Aubrey, 37

Beatles, The, 262–63

Beau Brummell (film), 140

Beckham, David, 252

Beeson, Paul, 193

Beethoven, Ludwig van, AH compared to, 248

Bel Geddes, Barbara, 91

Belton, John, 186–87

Benchley, Robert, 191–92

Bennett, Arnold, 168

Bennett, Charles, 70–71, 81, 176, 221, 263

Benton, Sally, 162

Bergman, Ingmar, 195

Bergman, Ingrid, 20, 85, 111, 256, 270

AH’s interactions with, 30–31, 90, 95, 99, 128, 172, 175, 207

in Notorious, 85, 92, 109, 219, 282

Bernays, Edward, 227

Bernstein, Sidney, 47–48, 133, 159, 227, 258

Beville, Dickie, 223

Bicycle Thief, The (film), 195

Bidisha, 106

“Birds, The” (du Maurier), 227

Birds, The (film), 7, 13, 21, 64, 71, 146, 211, 227, 269, 313

Hedren in, 97–98, 102, 151

humor in, 211, 240

innovative artistry of, 98, 191, 240–44, 248

lesbian subtext in, 156

publicity for, 230, 231, 232

themes and symbols in, 14, 20–22, 25, 79–80, 163, 291

Black, Karen, 210

Blackguard, The (film), 28, 34, 107

Blackmail (film), 70, 83, 190, 211n, 212

innovative techniques in, 237, 238

London’s influence on, 233, 252, 254, 261, 262

themes in, 14–15, 34–36, 52, 81, 290

Bloch, Robert, 29

Blowitz, William F., 230

Blow-Up (film), 195

Blue Danube, The (Strauss), 81

Bogdanovich, Peter, 49–50, 119, 151, 169, 194, 200

Bon Voyage (film), 47

Booth, John Wilkes, 37

Boxall, H. G., 235

Boyle, Robert, 7, 197, 240–42, 245

Brady, Ian, 15

Bridie, James, 133

British Documentary Film Movement, 264–65

British Film Institute, 84, 201

British International Pictures (BIP), 52

British Ministry of Information, 47

British Museum, 83

Broken Blossoms (film), 256

Brooks, Mel, 216

Brothers Grimm, 14

Brown, Hugh, 191

Brummell, Beau, 135–38, 140, 149, 156

Brunel, Adrian, 260

Buchan, John, 31, 178

Buchanan, Barbara J., 107

Buchanan, John, 11

Burford, Roger, 166n

Burford, Stella, 166n

Burks, Robert, 186, 193, 240, 241–42, 245

Cahiers du Cinéma, 53–54

Callow, Simon, 279

Camden Town Murder paintings (Sickert), 42

Canning, Victor, 65–66

Cardiff, Jack, 193, 236

Careers for Women, 83

Carroll, Madeleine, 89, 165, 182

AH’s alleged cruelty toward, 87, 107–8, 221

Carson, Johnny, 99

Cassini, Oleg, 127

Catholicism, influence on AH of, 5, 253, 277–95, 282

Cézanne, Paul, xiv, 195

Chabrol, Claude, 54, 216

Champagne (film), 52, 164, 215, 235–37

Champlin, Charles, 256, 273

Chandler, Raymond, 77–78, 86

Chaplin, Charlie, 83, 268

Chesterton, G. K.,