Did Alfred Hitchcock have a crush on Tippi Hedren?

Did Alfred Hitchcock have a crush on Tippi Hedren?

At one point, when they were both in the back of a limousine, the director lunged at Hedren and tried to kiss her. In another encounter, during the filming of “Marnie,” Hitchcock asked the actress to touch him and shared romantic fantasies with her. After she rebuffed him, he chilled toward her.

Did a family live with a lion in 1971?

Back in 1971, actress Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall, and their actress daughter, Melanie Griffith, brought a full-grown male lion into their residential home in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

How many birds died in the making of The Birds?

Hitchcock estimates that over 3,000 actual birds were used in making the film, although the studio also spent around $200,000 on mechanical birds.

Did Hepburn have Parkinsons?

A. Katharine Hepburn’s ailment, recently discussed on television by her niece Katharine Houghton, was not Parkinson’s disease, but a progressive yet treatable neurological disorder called essential tremor. Ms. Hepburn’s was referred to as familial tremor, the inherited form.