Remember Hitchcock’s The Birds? Scary film, even for an old one. Tonight Tippi Hedron gets to tell her story. She was the dainty blonde girl who was tortured and nearly pecked to death by demonic birds in a coastal town, At 82, Hedron tells us that despite the fact he was evil, Hitchcock ruined her career but not her life:
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — After a private screening of HBO’s “The Girl” held for Tippi Hedren, her friends and family, including daughter Melanie Griffith, the reaction was silence.
Make that stunned silence, as the room took in the film’s depiction of a scorned, vindictive Alfred Hitchcock physically and emotionally abusing Hedren during production of “The Birds.”
“I’ve never been in a screening room where nobody moved, nobody said anything,” Hedren recounted. “Until my daughter jumped up and said, ‘Well, now I have to go back into therapy.'”
Hedren, 82, as polished and lovely as she was taking her turn as a rarified “Hitchcock blonde” in “The Birds” (1963) and “Marnie” (1964), tells the story with a casual smile.
Tonight HBO premiers The Girl which is the story of Hedron’s life with Hitchcock. it runs from 8:10-9:45 and then is repeated on the various stations throughout the evening.
So many of those with special talents and gifts like Alfred Hitchcock seemed so twisted.
