Hitchcock's blondes : the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession
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Williams Public Library - Non-Fiction
791.43 LEAMER, LAURENCE
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791.43 LEAMER, LAURENCE
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Bergman, Ingrid, -- 1915-1982.
Blondes in motion pictures
Carroll, Madeleine, -- 1906-1987.
Grace, -- Princess of Monaco, -- 1929-1982.
Hedren, Tippi.
Hitchcock, Alfred, -- 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hitchcock, Alfred, -- 1899-1980 -- Relations with women.
Leigh, Janet.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Novak, Kim.
Saint, Eva Marie, -- 1924-
Tripp, June, -- 1901-1985
Blondes in motion pictures
Carroll, Madeleine, -- 1906-1987.
Grace, -- Princess of Monaco, -- 1929-1982.
Hedren, Tippi.
Hitchcock, Alfred, -- 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hitchcock, Alfred, -- 1899-1980 -- Relations with women.
Leigh, Janet.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Novak, Kim.
Saint, Eva Marie, -- 1924-
Tripp, June, -- 1901-1985
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Book
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323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index.
Description
Bestselling author of Capote’s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story.
Alfred Hitchcock was fixated—not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest , Rear Window , and other classic films didn’t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen—a natural blonde—as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now.
In Hitchcock’s Blondes, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director’s career—from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday and beyond. Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren—who starred in fourteen of Hitchcock’s most notable films and who bore the brunt of his fondness and sometimes fixation—we can finally start to see the enigmatic man himself. After all, “his” blondes (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone.
From the acclaimed author of Capote’s Women comes an intimate, revealing, and thoroughly modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed…and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Leamer, L. (2023). Hitchcock's blondes: the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession . G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Leamer, Laurence. 2023. Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Leamer, Laurence. Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Leamer, Laurence. Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023.
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