The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 4

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Film History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 62 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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0:50.0	This tied in rather nicely to Selznick's plans for Hitchfrog.
0:54.0	Deciding that the trials of filming Rebecca were still a little too raw,
0:58.2	Selznick again chose to sell the services of his star director, this time to RKO Studios,
1:04.4	who jumped at the chance.
1:09.2	Under the terms of Selsnick's deal, RKO would own Hitchcock for a year, during which time
1:14.6	he would be expected to direct two films for them.
1:17.6	Again, Hitchcock would be paid a weekly wage, which was now increased to $2,750 a week.
1:23.6	And again, Selsnick would receive a 100% profit on this.
1:28.9	Hitchcock could have bristled, but the thought of controlling his own production without
1:32.9	the interference of Selznick was compensation enough. The project he and Lombard chose to work
1:38.3	on together was, of all things, a screwball comedy written by Norman Krasner, entitled
1:43.9	Mr and Mrs Mrs. Smith.
1:45.5	Is that your wife?
1:46.4	Uh-huh.
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