Tippi Hedren

[Janatrude]

Did her career go downhill after Marnie? Did Hitchcock make good on his threat
if she didn't come across?
It seems she ought to be something of a heroine in the campaign against sexual
harrassment. Did anyone ever ask for her opinion on the sexual harrassment
issue?
Thanks.

[ANDREW K NELSON]

Miss Hedren wasn't much into acting before Hitch and things haven't changed
since. She works occasionally (surprisingly often) for an actress linked to
such a "classic" era of cinema. Other than TV movies, her most recent role
was in 1996's "Citizen Ruth" with Laura Dern. As for sexual harrassment,
she seemed to have taken the high road and ignored it (although she could
have easily spoken out) I think she is just steering away from the
spotlight.

Janatrude <jana...@aol.com> wrote in message
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[Stuart C. Hyke]

BTB--are you aware that Tippi is Melanie Griffiths' Mommy?

[Bill Warren]

>From: jana...@aol.com (Janatrude)

>Did her career go downhill after Marnie? Did Hitchcock make good on his
>threat
>if she didn't come across?

don't believe Donald Spoto's claims

[AAnder8443]

In article <20000318115114...@ng-bd1.aol.com>,
bill...@aol.com.exx (Bill Warren) writes:

>don't believe Donald Spoto's claims

Why not?

[AAnder8443]

[Bill Warren]

>From: aande...@aol.com (AAnder8443)

>bill...@aol.com.exx (Bill Warren) writes:
>
>>don't believe Donald Spoto's claims
>
>Why not?

Because some people have denied them pretty strongly. Take them with more than
a few grains of salt.

[Mike]

I'm a little surprised at this post. I was under the impression that
Hitchcock was a pretty tame guy. I think it was on Biography where
they hinted he was more or less impotent with his wife and not a very
sexual person. Did I miss something? Not that it matters--his work is
the best representation of his life anyway, it just surprised me to
read this...

On 18 Mar 2000 04:19:55 GMT, jana...@aol.com (Janatrude) wrote:

>Did her career go downhill after Marnie? Did Hitchcock make good on his threat
>if she didn't come across?

[JimD.]

Hitchcock claimed that he abstained from sex with Alma
after they came to America in 1939. That's a little
different from impotency, I believe. Anyway, Donald Spoto
claims, in DARK SIDE OF GENIUS, that during the making of
MARNIE Hitchcock sexually propositioned Tippi Hedren in her
trailer and she rebuffed him. I heard Spoto speak at the
NYU conference last October and he restated this claim,
adding that Tippi Hedren backs him up. She (Hedren) was
supposed to be at a screening of THE BIRDS at the
conference, but was unable to attend because her sister was
sick and she couldn't get there from L.A.

Who knows what really happened? Who cares about the
tabloid stuff? You're right, what we're left with is the
director's work and, ultimately, that is what keeps people
interested in Hitchcock.

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[stephanSE]

Last year you could see on Swedish television two films about A H.
1 HITCH-ALFRED, THE AUTEUR and HITCH, ALFRED THE GREAT, both brittish and
made 1999. In one of them Tippi appears and says that, as he was under
contract even after THE BIRDS, he had to loan her out. Several tried, but
the answer was: not available. Tim Kirby made both films.
stephanSE
JimD. <jdavi5007...@aol.com.invalid> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:1c884ba0...@usw-ex0110-076.remarq.com...

[Will Dockery]

On Saturday, March 18, 2000 at 4:00:00 AM UTC-4, Janatrude wrote:
> Did her career go downhill after Marnie? Did Hitchcock make good on his threat
> if she didn't come across?
> It seems she ought to be something of a heroine in the campaign against sexual
> harrassment. Did anyone ever ask for her opinion on the sexual harrassment
> issue?
> Thanks.

Oh, no! Now even Alfred Hitchcock is being given the Bill Cosby-Trump-Clinton routine, accused using his fame to sexually abuse young chicks:

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/2041857/it-was-perverse-ugly-alfred-hitchcock-sexually-assaulted-me-actress-tippi

"...American actress Tippi Hedren alleges in a new autobiography that Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted and intimidated her while they were working together in the 1960s... Hedren, plucked from obscurity by Hitchcock to star in his 1963 masterpiece The Birds, alleges that the director became obsessed with her..."

“It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly.”, Hedren says.

"She says Hitchcock once threw himself on top of her and tried to kiss her in the back of his limousine... another incident when the director cornered her on set one day and asked her to touch him. The British filmmaker, who died in 1980, expressed his love for her but became increasingly aggressive as she kept her distance..."

But, of course, Alfred Hitchcock never struck me as any kind of angel..