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SIMON & SCHUSTER
Rockefeller Center
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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.
Its only a movie : Alfred Hitchcock, a personal biography / Charlotte Chandler.
p. cm.
Includes index
Filmography: p.
1. Hitchcock, Alfred, 18991980. 2. Chandler, Charlotte. 3. Motion picture producers and directorsGreat BritainBiography. I. Title.
PN1998.3.H58 C53 2005
791.430233092dc22 2004052559
ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-709-6
ISBN-10: 1-84739-709-3
www.simonsays.co.uk
With special appreciation
P at Hitchcock-OConnell, 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 Mommja, Thom Mount, Dieter Mueller, Reggie Nalder, Ronald Neame, Paul Newman, Arthur Novell, Eileen OCasey, Maureen OHara, 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, Franois 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 Cinmathque Franaise, 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 Athne 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
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
The Selznick Years
Rebecca to The Paradine Case
Transatlantic Interlude
Rope to Stage Fright
The Golden Years
Strangers on a Train to Psycho
The UniversalInternational Years
The Birds to Family Plot
I REMEMBER INGRID BERGMAN coming up to me in a terrible state, Alfred Hitchcock told me. Worried, miserable, high-strung, romantic, idealistic, sensitive, emotional. Dear Ingrid. She took life very seriously, and fiction even more seriously. She said, her voice pregnant with feeling, almost trembling, Hitch, theres something I must ask you about my part. I dont feel it. I cant find my motivation
I said to her, Ingrid, fake it. Its only a movie.
That seemed to satisfy her, but then, a few weeks later, Ingrid was back standing to the side, shyly waiting for me to be free. I turned to beckon her over. It was interesting, because Ingrid is many things, but shy isnt one of them. I asked her what was bothering her.
Oh, Hitch, Ive been thinking
I thought, Oh, dear. I said, Please go on.
She did. I couldnt have stopped her.
Ive been feeling that what I do isnt worthwhile. Movies. Being an actress. Im not doing enough to help people. Of all the worthwhile things you can do with your life, I feel I should be doing something more.
Well, Ingrid, I said, have you thought about going to a hospital and emptying bedpans?
When the actors were taking themselves too seriously, Hitchcock told me, I hoped the light touch would give them some perspective. I found it rather successful. There was only one person on whom my little diversionary technique didnt work.
Whenever I found myself getting overwrought over problems with one of my films, I would say to myself, Remember, its only a movie. It never worked. I was never able to convince myself.
M Y DEAREST DREAM , Alfred Hitchcock said to me, would be to walk into an ordinary mens store on the street and buy a suit, off the rack.
There are, I suppose, many men who would envy me having the finest tailors to make my bespoke suits of the best material, but my own dream would be to buy a suiton sale.
Now, I have pretty much given up my hope of losing enough weight, which I dont think will ever happen, but that is not the problem. The real problem is not my size, but my shape.
Even sex is embarrassing for a person who looks the way I do. There werent enough light bulbs to turn off.
If I had been given the choice in life, I would have looked like Cary Grant on whom everything looked good, and I would have indulged some fashion fantasies, a 39 Steps raincoat, tossed on, a beige cashmere cardigan thrown casually around my shoulders, or better yet, tied around my waistif I had one.
Some writers say that Cary Grant was my fantasy alter ego. Silliness. When I look into my mirror, I dont see Cary Grant. I look into my mirror as little as possible, because the person who looks back at me has always seemed something of a stranger who doesnt look at all the way I feel. But, somehow, he kept getting into my mirror.
When Alfred Hitchcock showed me his home on Bellagio Road in Bel Air, California, in the mid-1970s, I had the opportunity to see his astounding wardrobe. Most remarkable was not the quantity of suits, nor the quality, all of the finest fabric, but that they seemed to be the same suit, repeated many times.
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