Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four, playing their positions carefully and conserving energy, were hoary holdovers from the salad days of U.S. polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...Wolff, however," Tesreau said, "decided to call Theodore Gaudreau, captain of the campus police. Gaudreau ordered Cirrotta removed to the infirmary from which he was later taken to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, where he died at about 4 a.m. Saturday during an emergency operation on his head...
...action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect. But the picture loses sight of the fact that all the intimate details of a psychoanalysis are apt to be more interesting to the patient...
...jazz group that gave a concert in Lowell House last Sunday with open tonight's meeting with a half-hour session. After the showing of "The 39 Steps," an Alfred Hitchcock movie, all 42 candidates for the Smoker committee will be introduced. Stunts and speeches for the nominees will finish out the evening...
...played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since, A Royal Scandal (1945), was an indifferent picture that won her good reviews as Catherine the Great...