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...learn how Hitchcock manipulates his cameras to make the indelible image of Norman Lloyd appearing to fall from the Statue of Liberty in Saboteur, and that many of the stage actors that worked with him, including Lawrence Olivier, Judith Anderson, and John Gielgud, originally disapproved of his stiff directing methods, but were later grateful for working with him on something so lasting...
...book also sheds light on some of the infamous rumors circulating around Hitchcock. He apparently never left Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat handcuffed together for a whole day while shooting The 39 Steps, nor his daughter Pat suspended on a ferris wheel in the dark for hours on the set of Strangers on a Train. It does appear however that he said, “Actors are cattle,” though he denies it, and that there was a great deal of tension between him and Tippi Hedren after filming The Birds and Marnie together...
...charming as such anecdotes are, they leave the reader unsatisfied. It seems that Chandler was so intent on staying in the good graces of her interviewees that she never contradicts them or pushes them further than they wished. For example, Hedren’s daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, describes Hitchcock as “a motherfucker” because of how he treated Hedren. Chandler quotes the line, gold to any reporter, but never explores why it was said...
...treats Hitchcock as an almost saintly figure, prone to occasional disagreements with his cast, but never in the wrong. Nor is the allegation that Hitchcock was a homosexual—he has been quoted elsewhere as saying he would have been “a poof” had he not met his wife—ever mentioned, let alone addressed...
...almost entirely unedited. When Chandler’s prose does appear, it is often only to insinuate her intimacy with the glitzy figures she is quoting. Chandler is a skilled reporter, but many comments appear that should never have made it onto the page at all. The fact that Hitchcock drew out each of his shots beforehand may be interesting the first time we hear it, but not the fifth. It adds nothing...