It's Only a Movie

Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography

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Alfred Hitchcock never wrote an autobiography and IT'S ONLY A MOVIE is as close to one as we will ever have. Drawn from years of interviews with Hitchcock his friends and the actors who worked with him on such classics as THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and REAR VIEW WINDOW, Charlotte Chandler has created a rich, complex, affectionate and honest picture of the man and his milieu. Chandler interviewed many of the stars who appeared in his films, among them Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, James Stewart, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Michael Redgrave, Sir John Gielgud, Tippi Hedren, James Mason, Kim Novak, Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. IT'S ONLY A MOVIE is a rich, affectionate and honest look at the life of the master of suspense who made cinematic history.
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  • Simon & Schuster | 
  • 368 pages | 
  • ISBN 9780743279734 | 
  • March 2005
$17.99 List Price

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My dearest dream," Alfred Hitchcock said to me, "would be to walk into an ordinary men's store on the street and buy a suit, off the rack.


"There are, I suppose, many men who would envy me having the finest tailors to make my bespoke suits of the best material, but my own dream would be to buy a suit -- on sale.


"Now, I have pretty much given up my hope of losing enough weight, which I don't think will ever happen, but that is not the problem. The real problem is not my size, but my shape.


"Even sex is embarrassing for a person who looks the way I do. There weren't enough light bulbs to...

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