The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 8

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Film History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Picture a hash brown.
0:07.4	Yep.
0:08.4	There it is.
0:10.2	Right there.
0:11.6	Would you look at that?
0:13.3	A golden oval of crispy deliciousness.
0:16.4	From where?
0:17.5	Well, you already know.
0:20.3	Breakfast, done properly.
0:23.1	Serve until 11 a.m.
0:24.8	Hollywood is yours. To unlock the secret history of Hollywood, simply go to Patreon.com
0:31.9	slash Atterboy's Secret or follow the link in the show notes of this episode.
0:37.6	With the world's press proclaiming Hitchcock to be at the top of his form, he began to cast
0:42.1	around for his follow-up. For a little while, he toyed with the idea of directing the wages
0:47.0	of fear, but unlike his secret negotiations with Patricia Highsmith, his name was leaked to
0:52.9	author George Orno, and the price suddenly
0:55.2	became too high. Location shooting in the jungle didn't much appeal to Hitchcock anyway, and the job
1:01.2	fell to Henri Georges-Cluso. Still, Hitchcock always willing to take a holiday at the expense of his
1:07.4	studio, looked through his acquired properties to see if he owned anything that
1:11.7	would take him to exotic clients. But before he could lose himself too much to his next project,
1:17.7	Patricia had some news. During the late summer, while on vacation through Europe, she had met
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