Happy 122nd Birthday Alfred Hitchcock
Waldina
English - August 13, 2021 14:27 - 15 minutes - 7.23 MBArts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today is the 122nd birthday of Alfred Hitchcock.
My mother first introduced my sister and me to Alfred Hitchcock via the movies Psycho and Rear Window (we watched them after school quite often), she taught us to look for his cameos at the beginning of the films. I am not exactly sure what age, I feel like I have always known him and I went on to read a Hardy Boys type of mysteries called “Three Investigators” that Hitchcock wrote the introductions to and even loved the old reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV. I have gone on to love both of those movies and have added The Trouble with Harry, Lifeboat, North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, The Birds, Strangers on a Train, and The Man Who Knew Too Much to my list of favorite Hitchcock films. How can you not fall in love with North by Northwest? The color of the film, the cut of the clothes, the architecture, train travel. The Trouble with Harry is so absurdly clever and Shirley MacLaine is absolute perfection. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://waldina.com/2021/08/13/happy-122nd-birthday-alfred-hitchcock/
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