Tony Lee - The Making of Hitchcocks the Birds

Thank you to Patricia Hitchcock OConnell, Taylor & Faust and Steven Kravitz of the Alfred J Hitchcock Trust for giving me permission to quote and publish from the Hitchcock Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, and also to the library staff, especially Barbara Hall and Kristine Krueger.

Letters, certain information regarding The Birds and Marnie, and other material from Evan Hunters memoir Me and Hitch have been used with the kind permission of the authors estate 1997. I also thank Anita Hunter and sons Richard and Mark for sharing memories of Evan, husband and father. Thank you to the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Centre at Boston University and Dragica Hunter for giving me access to Evans files.

Of the actors who worked on The Birds, I thank Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright and Shari Lee Bernath for sharing their memories. From the Hitchcock crew I thank Robert Boyle, Jim Brown, John Bud Cardos, Helen Colvig, Virginia Darcy, Hilton Green, Norman Lloyd, Marshall Schlom, Ted Parvin, Harold Michelson and Rita Riggs.

I owe a big debt of gratitude to Peter Bogdanovich who so generously allowed me to publish excerpts of his series of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock. Thanks also to Laura Truffaut for kindly allowing me to quote from her father Franois Truffauts seminal book on Hitchcock. I am also very grateful to Bill Krohn for generously sharing his roundtable discussion on The Birds involving Bob Boyle, Albert Whitlock and Harold Michelson, originally published in Cahiers du Cinma in 1982.

The Edith Head sketches were provided with the kind permission of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and thank you to Valeri Furst for allowing me to publish from the Claudia Franck collection of letters at the Academy.

Permission to access and quote from The Birds files in the Penguin archives was granted by Penguin Books Ltd. Biographical information on Daphne du Maurier was provided by her son Kits Browning, biographer Richard Kelly and Ann Willmore. Thank you to Stephen Vagg who so generously shared his research on Rod Taylor. For those crew members who have long passed away, I have relied on interviews from Kyle Counts excellent article on the making of the film, which appeared in Cinefantastique in 1980.

For the chapter on Remi Gassmann I thank the University of California, Irvine. I also thank MOMA and its past and present employees Eileen Bowser, Joanne Koch, Jo-Ann Ordano, Jim Watters, Charles Silver and Laurence Kardish, for help with Hitchcocks proposed screening of The Birds. Thanks to Universal Studios, both the marketing and legal departments, for their support in this project.

Other people I owe thanks to include Craig Barron, Emily Boyle, Nora Brown, Dave DeCaro, Syd Dutton, Irene Halsman, Steve Hare, Don Iwerks, Robert Kapsis, Daniel Raim, Bill Taylor, Lillian Michelson, Norma Shepherd, Steven C Smith, Marc Wanamaker and June Whitlock. Also the residents of Bodega Bay including John Bressie, Glenice Carpenter, Paul & Karen Bianchi, Leah Taylor and Michael Fahmie.

Permission to publish the photographs in the book was provided by the Chichester Partnership, Penguin, Richard Hunter, James O Mason, the Estate of Robert F Boyle, Deutsches Filminstitut, June Whitlock, Lillian Michelson, Norma Shepherd, the Alfred J Hitchcock Trust, Jerry Ohlinger Movie Materials Store, the Motion Picture & Television Fund, Universal Pictures/TCD and the Bison Archives/Marc Wanamaker. For the authors photo op with Brann the Raven, I thank Marie Mann Photography, Jo Sarsby Management and Lloyd & Rose Buck.