The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 6

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Film History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 66 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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0:47.7	The work on the German concentration camp's factual survey had further cemented the
0:52.1	friendship and respect between Alfred Hitchcock and
0:54.4	Sidney Bernstein.
0:56.0	Hitchcock disappointed that the Bernstein film was to be shelved, but nevertheless
1:00.7	understanding of the reasons why, returned to America changed by what he'd seen.
1:08.8	For many months, he was a more subdued figure, a little more withdrawn than he had been.
1:16.7	Filming began on Notorious in October of 1945 and lasted until early 1946.
1:23.7	Selznick, running a little low on money at the time, had sold the project to RKO for $800,000
1:30.3	and 50% of the profits, and Hitchcock relished the chance to be his own producer, even though
1:35.9	Selznick still bombarded him daily with helpful suggestions via lengthy memos.
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