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...decided to win her over with a Blockbuster movie that would show her what this baby could do. "How's about a Hitchcock," suggested my wife, "or a nice Doris...
...reason to suspect foul play. Unsatisfied, the Madduxes hired Bob Stevens, a retired FBI man working as a private detective in Tyler. Stevens hooked up with another retired G-man, J.R. Pearce, in Philadelphia. What they uncovered, in a year of spadework, was a story for Hitchcock...
...reason to suspect foul play. Unsatisfied, the Madduxes hired Bob Stevens, a retired FBI man working as a private detective in Tyler. Stevens hooked up with another retired G-man, J.R. Pearce, in Philadelphia. What they uncovered, in a year of spadework, was a story for Hitchcock...
...Hitchcock also sought the balance provided by humor in his personal life - as the show illustrates with family videos and photos. In a publicity picture from 1962, Hitchcock's wife Alma opens the refrigerator to find the director's head sitting on the back of the top shelf. Alma barely hides her laugh as she stares down at the dish. In home movies with his daughter, Patricia, he comes across as a normal dad, playing with baby toys...
...exhibition closes with a focus on one of Hitchcock's last films, The Birds. The horizontal flight path of one of the birds in Georges Braque's Blackbirds is mirrored in the angle that Philippe Halsman, a still photographer on the film's set, uses in the photo of a bird flying past co-star Tippi Hedren. Despite the apparent tranquility of René Magritte's The Deep Waters, the proportionally larger-than-life bird resting next to a clothed statue of a woman is as menacing as the crow perched on Hedren's arm in another Halsman photo...