Mysterious Facts about Alfred Hitchcock

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Hitchcock was revolted and afraid of eggs. He found the pus-color of the yolks to be unwholesome. He used this fear as a framework for his movie, Verteggo.

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While in Germany, Alfred Hitchcock learned a lot from director F.W. Murnau, of Nosferatu fame. Mostly about embroidery and concrete foundation repair… not much about directing, though.

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In his lifetime, Alfred Hitchcock owned four Sealyhams, a dog comprised primarily of matted hair and dryer lint…

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Hitchcock’s movie Blackmail was released both as a talkie and a silent movie, making it the first talkie in the U. K. Sadly, a riot broke out at one screening when the audience was shown the wrong version and panicked, thinking they’d gone deaf.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville, wrote multiple Hitchcock screenplays, including The 39 Steps. She originally titled it, The 43 Steps but they had to take some of the steps out due to prewar budget cuts.

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Before releasing Psycho, Hitchcock tried to buy up all copies of the Robert Bloch book upon which the movie was based, with limited success… but way more successful than Cecil B. DeMille was in buying up all the books upon which The Ten Commandments was based.

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Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for one of his movies; he won a “special Oscar” but it turned out to be made of foil-wrapped chocolate.

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Hitchcock made the conscious decision to hire gay actors to portray the gay pair of murderers in his movie, Rope. In this vein, to portray a psychotic in the movie Psycho, he hired Anthony Perkins.

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One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movies was Smokey and the Bandit. He even tried to hire Burt Reynolds to star in his comedy, The Family Plot. The director changed his mind when it turned out all Reynolds was capable of was smirking and chewing gum…

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The term “MacGuffin” was often used by Hitchcock to indicate a driver of the plot that, in the end, turned out to be unimportant. Examples include: The Maltese Falcon, the “lost Ark” and Julie Andrew’s breasts…