Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Alfred Hitchcock on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Willoughby
bromide print, 1964
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"Some films are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake."

Alfred Hitchcock by Philippe Halsman, 1962
"With his uniform of dark suits, his Victorian manner, he was a relic in his own time. Only Mickey Mouse cut a more distinctive profile."
- @parul_sehgal

Popsie Randolph
Tony Randall & Alfred Hitchcock dining together in New York, November 19, 1962
C'mon, Hitch! Cast Tony in one of your movies!

Alfred Hitchcock whispers direction to Vera Miles during the filming of The Wrong Man, 1957
📷 Elliott Erwitt

Bud Fraker's shot of Alfred Hitchcock under a looming VistaVision camera, 1954. He was making his first film using the new wide-screen format, To Catch a Thief.

Herb Caen, Hitchcock, and the war with the Union Square pigeons, April 1, 1963
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“Get thee to Ernie’s,” Hitchcock said, kicking at the birds gently. “I’ll see you under glass at 7.”

Tippi Hedren & Director Alfred Hitchcock in The Birds, 1962
📷 Philippe Halsman
A great photo & a great film, but a real-life horror story for Hedren.

For Alfred Hitchcock's birthday today, one of his best portraits, by Irving Penn, 1947
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Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Dunne
Cambridge, 1966
"The eerie swell of Bernard Herrmann’s scores, the clinking stir of a martini, the immersive, transportive shots that blurred the boundary between our world and theirs."
- @monaawadauthor

"When, several years after its release, I mentioned how delightfully satiric I felt North by Northwest was, he recalled with an annoyed incredulity that the critic for The New Yorker had referred to the movie as 'unconsciously funny'."
- Peter Bogdanovich
📷 Kenny Bell

Alfred Hitchcock by Tony Evans, 1964
"He was at his most exciting, most riveting, describing sequences he planned to shoot -- so vividly that you could see the scenes, shot for shot, as he took you through them."
- Peter Bogdanovich

Alma shoots Hitch. Was there a more photogenic film director? He always knew where the camera was.

There were two very good still photographers on the set of Rear Window: Bud Fraker & Phil Stern. A film about a photographer deserves good coverage. Besides the technical requirements, I'm sure Hitch wanted to document his own filmmaking process. So many lenses!

Alfred Hitchcock with Claude Jade on the set of Topaz, 1969
Hitch seems uncomfortable here. Photographer Harry Benson has picked up a different power dynamic than the one we're used to between the director & his actresses.

Alfred Hitchcock by Ara Güler, 1974
"Even if the disciples can lay claim to rivaling the virtuosity of the maestro, they will surely lack the emotional power of the artist."
- François Truffaut

A great Alfred Hitchcock story, told beautifully by Peter Bogdanovich
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I love these silhouette shots of Alfred Hitchcock & Cary Grant on the set of Notorious, 1946. The still photographer on the set was the great Robert Capa; I think we can safely credit these to him.

Robert Capa gives us a film set perspective we don't often see: on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, 1946.

One of the greatest of movie set photographs, by Robert Capa: Ingrid Bergman & Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Notorious, 1946. It's been suggested that Capa's love affair with Bergman was the genesis of a Hitchcock film made 8 years later: Rear Window.

Alfred Hitchcock by David Montgomery, 1976
"The director was intrigued by technical challenges, in making things work. He had a profound knowledge of all aspects of moviemaking, & wrote the production section for the Encyclopedia Britannica."
- Peter B. Flint