The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 3

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Film History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of episodes, hear all about Hitchcock's beginnings, his triumphs and failures, the battles that raged behind the scenes, the people that helped him become the most iconic director of all time, and the darkness inside him that emerged from time-to- time, to cause damage to himself and to those closest to him.... To become a patron of the show, and to unlock every single story, sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.5	A clear horizon.
1:06.8	Nothing to worry about.
1:11.6	The head of the British contingent in Hollywood was C. Aubrey Smith.
1:21.6	He'd begun life as a cricketer, playing for Sussex and Cambridge University,
1:25.6	but in 1896 he changed paths and turned actor,
1:31.1	cutting an imposing figure on the London stage with his grand height and fabulously large moustaches.
1:39.3	In 1931, he was snapped up by Hollywood, along with a whole host of other talent from Britain,
1:45.2	and at the age of 68, found himself in high demand as the screen's archetypal elder statesman.
1:54.5	In 1932, he founded the Hollywood Cricket Club and created a cricket pitch using imported British grass
2:02.9	so that he and his fellow expatriates could meet and carry on the finest of British traditions
2:08.6	in the company of like-minded English gentlemen. Its members included Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce,
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