ALFRED HITCHCOCK
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This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo appearances in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.
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This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo appearances in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.
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00:30Despite being dead for over a quarter of a century,
00:32English director Alfred Hitchcock still reigns supreme
00:36as cinema's master of suspense.
00:39He directed his first silent film,
00:41The Pleasure Garden, in 1925.
00:43And by 1929, while other directors were still struggling
00:46with the challenges of using sound,
00:48Hitchcock was already experimenting with it.
00:51In his first talkie, Blackmail,
00:53he distorts a conversation
00:54so that all the paranoid killer hears is the word knife.
00:58Knife.
01:03Knife!
01:06His first acknowledged masterpiece, The 39 Steps,
01:09set up a theme of the innocent, ordinary man
01:12thrown into an extraordinary set of circumstances
01:14that he doesn't understand,
01:16which Hitchcock repeated throughout his career.
01:18His first Hollywood film, Rebecca, in 1940,
01:21won him his only Oscar for Best Picture.
01:23Based on Daphne du Maurier's novel,
01:25it stars Joan Fontaine as the second Madame de Winter.
01:28He attributed the popularity of his scary films
01:31to our perverse appetite for fear.
01:33At what they call the midway of a fairground,
01:37you'll find places on each side of you
01:40where you pay money to be scared,
01:43whether it's the roller coaster or the switchback
01:46or the haunted house or the whip.
01:49People go on these things, you see, to enjoy fear.
01:54Another psychological thriller, Rope, made in 1948,
01:58was an extraordinary technical achievement.
02:00Shot in seven unedited takes of ten minutes each,
02:03it followed the dastardly exploits of a murderous gay couple.
02:09The 1950s saw the emergence of the so-called
02:11frigid blonde beauty in Hitchcock's films.
02:14Famously disgusted by his own looks,
02:16he cast the period's most handsome leading men,
02:19such as James Stewart and Cary Grant,
02:21to star opposite the likes of Grace Kelly,
02:23Kim Novak and Eva Marie Saint
02:25in films like Rear Window and North by Northwest.
02:29He made his next popular shocker in 1963, The Birds.
02:33The film marked the big-screen debut
02:36of his favourite frigid blonde, Tippi Hedren,
02:39whom he'd spotted in a diet drink commercial.
02:41In one of the film's most terrifying scenes,
02:44where his leading lady is being attacked by killer crows,
02:47Tippi was said to have endured live birds
02:49being hurled at her by prop men for a week,
02:52during which she became hysterical and collapsed.
02:55Her jittery denials of mistreatment
02:57at the hands of the director rang a little false.
03:00Is Mr Hitchcock a difficult man to work with?
03:02Not at all. I've never heard him raise his voice or temperament.
03:09He has no great show of temperament whatsoever.
03:12He's wonderful to work with.
03:13The man himself did little to quell rumours
03:15that he had little consideration for his stars.
03:18I've always said that acts are a cattle, actually.
03:22But at least the birds do as they're told.
03:26Two months after he was knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1980,
03:29Sir Alfred Hitchcock died of renal failure in his ballet home.
03:33And at a Universal Studios ceremony in 1999,
03:36leading ladies Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren
03:39turned out to unveil a bronze bust
03:41and paid tribute to the master of suspense.
03:44And very often we would be at the same dinner party,
03:47and if you were lucky enough to be at his table,
03:49which we very often were,
03:51you had the best time because he was charming
03:54and witty and entertaining.
03:57And he was not at all the persona that he loved to have people think of.
04:02He was a showman.
04:04I mean, he deliberately had that image.
04:07He put forth that image because he was a showman.
04:10He was Barnum, you know.
04:12Sir Alfred, I promise you, you will never be forgotten.
04:16Your works, your talent,
04:18will be entertaining audiences from here to eternity.
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