Melanie Griffith was a child of Hollywood.

Her mother, Tippi Hadron, was one of Alfred Hitchcock's blonde leading ladies.

She's best known for Hitchcock's thriller The Birds.

They're coming! They're coming!

When Hitchcock discovered Tippi Hadron, she was a fashion model.

It was 1961. She was recently divorced with a four-year-old child,

a little girl named Melanie Griffith.

Hitchcock saw Hadron in a commercial for a diet drink called Seigo.

We have found gold with Seigo and he said to his people at Universal, find the girl.

Hitchcock signed Tippi Hadron to a seven-year contract,

but while filming her second movie with him, she wanted out of her deal.

Hitchcock was hitting on her, and really that's putting it politely.

Sexually harassing her is more accurate.

You know what? It really was so upsetting to me that he would pull that card.

Hadron struggled to get good parts after refusing to work with Hitchcock.

One of the roles she landed came in 1973 in a movie called The Herod Experiment.

Hadron's daughter, Melanie Griffith, was 14 then.

She had a small part in the film. She was an extra.

By the time Melanie signed on to Bonfire, she was 33.

She'd been in 18 movies and lots of TV.

She also had a seven-month-old baby girl, Dakota Johnson.

Dakota Johnson became an actress like her mother and her grandmother.

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