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It was little surprise that Alfred Hitchcock and Carrie Grant appealed to each other.

Both came from working-class beginnings in England.

Both shared a similar sense of offbeat humour.

Both men felt slightly awkward in social situations

and were doing all day good in life to rise above the shadows of their past.

Both had been emotionally shaped by mother-related trauma.

And both were extraordinarily fond of licorice all sorts.

Hitchcock was a mere five years older than Carrie Grant.

And while their physical differences may have been at odds,

their shared personality traits

saw to a rare sense of kinship almost from the first moment of their meeting.

Hitchcock had for some time been searching for a screen avatar,

a leading man who represent him in the romance and adventure he created on screen.

Desperately unhappy with his appearance,

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