Tippi Hedren: Hitchcock Ruined My Career | HPL
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Jacob talks with actress Tippi Hedren about her volatile relationship with 'Birds' director Alfred Hitchcock, why she calls him 'evil,' and why after enduring such an abusive experience she went to his funeral anyway.
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I was just waiting for Hitchcock's ghost to make a cameo in the background.
☠️ Ah fuck came here to remember the lovely actress but your comment!!!!
LOL!
@@cl759 Happily she lives.
Ty Grey LOL! Wouldn’t that be great!
Funny😂
She looks really good for her age. And what about her voice? It hasn't changed a bit! She still sounds like a woman in her 30s!
That's the same thing I realized as soon as I heard her speak.
Right it’s weird lol wow
Idk about 30s. Definitely 50s or 60s, but not 30s. That’s absurd to even say. However, she looks incredible, and she looks even better now at 92. She had an excellent rhytidectomy (facelift) somewhere between age 82 and age 86. She looks phenomenal before, but she looks unbelievably youthful and beautiful today. She will be 93 years old this Thursday, 19 January.
Hitchcock may have had his demons, but you have to admit, they transferred VERY well to film....
Of course. That doesn’t mean he did not do a great deal of damage. Talent never excuses an evil abuse of power , never excuses it. That said, her work with him was her best but since she was never allowed or able to do anything else - who knows what could have been⁉️ Many actresses were under contract and treated this way and worse by all accounts. The greatness of Bette Davis and others like her is THEY were not defeated. Hedren seems unable to speak in one voice about the abuse. ; She makes excuses for that dark side. Something is missing from her narrative. IDT: The Girl is that important. It’s too little, too late. Courage in the face of tyranny and mean spirited sexual obsession would have been important!
@@jeanettesdaughter Glad you got all that tripe off your chest. The only "damage" Hitchcock ever did was to his waistline. Considering he was one of the great artists of the 20th century (and is the only reason anyone ever heard of Tippi Hedren), that is a tin price to pay.
@mja91352 yeah.... assaulting women in the back of his cars doesn't mean anything
Tippi Hedren seems like a classy lady
She did a great job as Marnie. One of my favourite film
From everything I've read it appears that Hitch truly was an obnoxious imperious stalker. Hedren says he ruined her career and that is likely true. But, on the other hand, she likely would not have had a career if it wasn't for the tubby prevert.
I have read every book about Hitchcock, and none gives an substance whatsoever that he was "an obnoxious imperious stalker." Instead of the Internet, try having books delivered to your room in mommy's basement.
after watching the video I understand why people disliked the video.
She still praises him, that shows class.
ss... There nothing classy about a broad making a man a scapegoat for her own ego which really ended her career. Hitchcock was a horrible man but he sold her contract which is what she wanted after he discovered her by the way and hired her despite the studio not wanting the job to go to some actress who had only done commercials beginning her career. What did she do continued to say no to projects the studio wanted her to thinking she was to good for that and basically ending her own career cause who wants to deal with a self absorbed ego maniac who thinks she better then the people paying her.
ss... She didn't praise him... She said he was evil and that he had a dark side. She also acknowledged that he was effective at what he did professionally speaking. That is the difference between a person's profession and who they really are. It is definitely possible to have that dichotomy. He made some great movies AND he had a dark side ( to put it nicely). In today's vernacular ... he was a creep. Women are still dealing with such today .... ie. Bill Cosby.
JellyBabie1984 fuck you
She did praise his abilities as a director.
tomasv26, No, fuck YOU.
A friend of mine lives near Bodega Bay - where they filmed The Birds. They had a conference to celebrate the film a few years back and she was invited. He said she was downright nasty. She was rude and a real snob. She wouldn't sign autographs; complained when they wanted selfies with her. After awhile, everyone left her alone.
Ohhhhh
Well, nobody said she wasn't an asshole, too.
Come on, Primo Magazine, someday you'll be 90 and just not have the stamina either!
@@MegaLivingIt I don't she was 90 back then; but Biden's age...in her early 80s...maybe younger.
She's old and all that sounds exhausting.
Actually Tippi Hedren was born in 1930 so she is 83 years old. Even though Tippi has had a facelift she looks way better for her age than her daughter Melanie Griffith.
Agreed, less is more when it comes to plastic surgery.
she is 91
Why are you pontificating about their looks like this? Pathetic. This is why women feel like they have to have work done. Shameful comment.
Is she still alive?
@@blond_slut Sure
She was fantastic in Birds and looks phenomenal today!
It was said back then that critics during that time gave her horrible reviews, apparently, the audience also didn't like her performance in any Hitchcock film which is sad.
But she was very good
Just mindless haters, don't pay attention to them
@@assiaelmabrouki5552 you sound fat and ugly 😅
Exactly. It was the movie-goer's response to her performances that "ruined" her career. Not Hitchcock holding her to her contract. Ali was sidelined for years in the prime of his boxing career. When he finally came back he proved that he was, indeed, one of the greatest to ever do it.
I don't think she was a particularly good actress.
She wasn't up to the role in Marnie.
I wonder what Pat Hitchcock thinks of Tippi. I remember they were on Larry King together, along with Janet Leigh and Eva Marie Saint.
Was Pat his daughter?
@@autobug2 Yes
I don't think I could attend someone's funeral who, "ruined my career" That's a very strong statement to make, besides she was in her 30s when the contract expired, a lot of time left to act if you love acting. There's a few things that seem to be missing here.
Yes, like talent...
For a woman.... that's a deah sentence foe acting.
She hated "The Birds" but pretty much made a sequel with her new husband and daughter starring many Tigers. Called ROAR. It took almost ten years to make and was one of the biggest bombs ever, when released.
I am really sure this happens in reality because, I went through the same situation with someone in the past. It is horrible, confusing and totally miserable to be in this situation. People who help you somehow and later abuse you because of that.
I'm so sorry for what you've been through. i hope you're doing better now! :(
I saw her in person up close at a fund raiser for her animal sanctuary around the time this was posted. She was actually much more beautiful in person than she appears here and very sweet. I got her autograph on a program and she was very gracious when she signed it.
Toby Jones was great as Hitch and Sienna Miller did a fantastic job. She nailed Tippi Hedren's voice. She is much better an actress then she gets credit for.
Yes! She also does a great job as Edie Sedgwick!
@@chrisitl What is the movie, I'll look for it.
It surprises me that so many people accept Hedren's version of events without considering the possibility that they might not be true.
“Believe all women” 🙄
What also surprises me is that your comment isn’t the top comment. But then again, currently our world is ruled by f3mcels and man hating feminist “believe all women no matter what, even if it’s a false allegation” types.
FWIW - (1) all the film crew denied her allegations as being improbable or impossible; (2) It's a Photoplay Magazine awards event, not "The Tonight Show".
Hitchcock was a great guy................great sense of humour.
Did you watch the video
First of all, Hitchcock made her career. No doubt about it. Whether he also ruined it, is debatable, but understandable from Hedren's point of view. I rather think what really ended her career was lack of acting talent. She's also right that Hitchcock had a dark side. He was obviously a creative genius which Hedren always acknowledged, but he was also a very manipulative director who went to great lengths to get what he wanted on the screen which some actors rightfully considered ruthless or even sadistic.
You can't get away with contradicting yourself. Hitchcock prevented her from moving forward with her career for the life of the contract.. 7 years. Also, you don't know what your talking about.. see her act in the " Birds "? She was brilliant!
@@joelluongo7419 No...she really wasn't. It's a good Hitchcock film...but I have ALWAYS felt that she is the least interesting actor in the film. She simply wasn't that great an actor. Her blaming him for ruining her career is a joke.
I tend to think of Alfred Hitchcock as a bit of a hack, whose films wouldn’t have been so well known if he wasn’t such a prolific self promoter. The only one that I always enjoy is North by Northwest
You are describing a demonic creature
@@eaaivazianare you also a abuser demon
News flash: Well-known director makes a pass at young starlet! Miss Hedren has made a career of talking about how Hitchcock destroyed her career.
very different theme : Tippi Hedren's aging process is excellent.
Imo, show looks better in this interview than in the early 60s.
People are so fascinated by celebrities.....singers, authors, actors, directors, etc. You see their work and you like their work but you don't know them. You don't know who they are or were.
Wow. I just watched The Birds for the 1st time last night. Trip I'm seeing this today. Wild.
Was Tippi gorgeous in that movie or what?
I apologize. I thought they had a consensual affair.
That being said, according to Wikipedia, two female actresses who knew Hitchcock (Eva Marie Saint and Kim Novak) dispute his portrayal in The Girl as a sexual predator. It's really unfortunate that Hedren came out with these accusations AFTER Hitchcock died because we can't hear his side of the story. Justice, after all, requires that both sides of a story are heard. It might be prudent to reserve judgement in such a case.
🙄🙄🙄
If you listened, they referred to "The Girl" several times. This was a BBC feature starring Toby Jones as Hitch, Sienna Miller as Tippi and Imelda Staunton as Alma, released last year. I don't know if Tippi was paid or consulted, but that explains the timing of this interview.
$600 / week is now worth $4,688. So he paid her today's equivalent of $243,000 / year not to work.
@SpectroMan He tried , and she refused him.
Two hundred forty three thousand dollars a year not to work, after Marnie when other film producers such as Truffaut who then wanted TH to star in their films for millions of dollars a film were flatly told by AH that TH was "unavailable." In that statement, he lied ... maliciously nipped her fledgling supernova career in the bud. A Cerberus in a manger. All to punish this talented beauty for being sexually repelled by him. No normal young person wants to sleep with those 36 or more years their elder.
Not to mention the money she made from her movies with Hitch. I don't know the story of what Hitchcock supposedly did.
Greg LaPointe TH was worth much more and could have earned millions a year but AH refused to allow her to be free to do shoots. EXTORTION.
@@denniskwahl this is not much money For such a Big actress. Even pornactress get more money
Back then any director would object to the lead player flying coast to coast before a film was finished... It is said she threw a temper tantrum and called him humiliating names.
Its hilarious to see that some of you actually believe that a talented actress can extend her fame and be successful when a powerful, influential and well known person like Hitchcock set his mind to ruin her career. How naive can you be? Its film industry of all things!
You are right, Most of these commenters haven't spent one day on a film set
+Ainchase Ishmael .. So you think holding her to the exclusive contract she willingly signed, paying her $600 per week, ruined her career? You're as nutty as this self-centered drama queen (wanting to walk off the set during filming, delaying everything, just to accept an award).
Exactly.
The casting couch was a real thing and it affected probably countless actresses in these times. Exploitation and manipulation were real occurrences for women in the industry. Just by hearing of the pain of women like Rita Hayworth and Natalie Wood made me realize that not everything that glitters, is gold.
There's very little reason for people to cry that Tippi is lying about her experiences. What would be the point? She is a woman in her 80s and her career is long since over.
Victoria Grace
Without Hitchcock she wouldn't have had a career
She's not in her 70s, she's in her 80s.
now 100s!
7/20: she'll be 90 this year!
elchoya100 She’s 90 years old
I love Tippi but I think it's poor form to do an expose and assassinate a man's character after he's dead and can't defend himself. One side of the story. Some said 'why would she lie now, nothing to gain'. Seriously? ?? Book sales, money, interviews like this would have been paid to appear. And the damage it does to Hitchcock surviving family....his grandkids are watching stuff like this. She's an actress so appearing genuine doesn't make it true, she ACTS for a living!!. I have no idea either way but we'll never know because she stayed silent until he was dead and couldn't refute what she said...maybe she threw herself at him hoping to get more roles, maybe she was obseesed with him, he was revered as a genuius ??? There's a feasible narrative for both sides. Assassinating someones character when they're dead is a cheap shot and cowardly Imo!
Agree 100%!
There is all kinds of evidence to support her such as recollections of those that were on the set during the filming of Marnie.
What about any damage that he may have done to his own family when he was still alive?
I'm sure the interview ruffled a few feathers in the Hollywood flock.
She wouldn't have a career if it weren't for him.
wrong. She probably would have had an amazing career if it wasn't for him.
@@andyd3447 nah,she is mean
and that gives him the right to be a creepy pig to her? he sexually harassed her, i dont care what he did for her, that isnt an excuse for him to abuse her like that.
no she isnt mean, she is speaking up about him sexually abusing him, stop making her the bad one.
took her that long. didn't see it coming. absurd. every scene she filmed was telling her what a psycho Hitch was.
When was this interview ?
Lol before he discovered her she was in commercials
This is called wisdom and enlightenment.
Can't do nothing but respect her for this. To be able to separate the good and the dark takes a mind beyond imagination.
Wow 🙏🏾
This is called self-promotion.
You're assuming that the dark stories are true.
$600 a week then is around $5,047.11 a week in today's money. Gosh that's a lot of wonga.
She can talk about both sides of him but the interviewer only wants the bad stuff for his ratings. Lousy interview. Classy and beautiful lady.
I mean...a lot of us are only tuning in to hear about the bad stuff. The interviewer knows what he’s doing
@@pennisss9433 And didn't the Interviewer also ask about the positive effects, of the relationship?
Hitchcock made her career.
I checked her IMDB entry. Her only role before "The Birds" was an uncredited role in an obscure movie called "The Petty Girl" (yes, I spelled it correctly.) Even after he supposedly threatened to ruin her career, she continued to get close to top billing in Hitchcock's movies. Her career didn't seem to decline until after her contract was up. Then, fifteen years after her contract with Hitchcock ended, Hitchcock cast her in the 1985 pilot episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." How's that for ruining her career?
Having worked for someone who was obsessed with me and treated me very similarly to how Hitchcock treated Hedren, I totally believe her story.
Well, of course you do. You are acting out of connective empathy having gone through the same thing. However, that doesn't always make it true, so without evidence or proof, just be careful what you say.
You must've been some looker in your day!
Me too.
@Brandon Greenleaf Why would anyone, female or male, "wish" to be the obsession target of someone they are not attracted to, dislike and/or detest, especially a power figure in one's field who could derail your career and so life aspirations? At the least, It disrupts one's control of one's own life and is a noxious nuisance variable.
@@Syklonus 🤡
Same unique voice and charms.
Yeah that voice. No other actress has that sound. It's like a cat.
A stunning lady for 82
She’s Actually 90 years old
$600 a week for 7 years in the 1960s - that’s about $2000 in today’s money. Boy, I wish someone would abuse me.
There's a calculator for working out inflation and you are way out try 12500.
Marnie!!! Marnie!!! Actually, Tippie's most awesome film.
I met Tippi a few years back, she was kind , and delightful, even shared fond memories of working with Hitchcock, if she felt that way about him then why was she peddling autographed pictures with him in them? Or praise him.
Clearly if someone abused her that way she wouldn't sell out for a few dollars.
I admire her she tells the truth... his work was phenomenal ... But she has always stated because of that contract and his behavior she was stopped in her acting career. He still had control of her for years. But he didn't break her.
$600 a week back then is probably around $2500 today. Depending on where you live.
There's a calculator for doing that and you are way out, try 12500 more like.
@@markfindlay8636 Well that was a guess Mark but I took a sec to look it up and you're more off than me Pal. Way, way more. Lol
The consensus online puts it right at $5143 today. I was off $2643 and you were off by $7367.
You wanna just start all over Pal?
@@bellmeisterful apologies l used pounds Sterling instead of dollars in the inflation calculator.
@@markfindlay8636 Oh haha. That explains it
To clear this up ... $600 in 1960 would be just over 5,000 today
$600 a week? That's twice what I make in 2016
Yeah no doubt! Her career may have been over but damn! That's still a decent amount of casheesh
I’m sure some of that $600 was hush money to try and discourage her from speaking once she wasn’t under contract ( probably also why he wanted to keep her under contract for as long as possible) money talks at the end of the day
Yeah and about 1,000th of what movies stars are getting
I could still be well off on $600 weekly here in 2020
Transtremm. but you’re no Tippi !
I'm a guy, and she has sour grapes coming out of her ears. Her popularity faded quickly. He adored Ingrid Bergman, Eva Marie Saint, And Vera Miles. And they adored him. They did not have to sleep with him.
She was and she is lovely ! : )
He ruined her career by keeping her under contract and continuing to pay her? She signed a contract and was trying to not follow it. What did she expect? Artists take their work very seriously, especially geniuses like Hitchcock. A lot of actors would have been grateful to be under contract with him and to do what was asked of them for the art.
Jay M he was sexually harassing her badly on a daily basis, hired people to follow her everywhere, had her handwriting analyzed, and stalked her while she was under contract. What did you expect ?
@@tmp1111 i dont belive that at all
@@SRBOMBONICA86 men don’t usually believe woman. Thus, the me too movement
@Jay M 🤡
@@tmp1111 The MeToo is full of liars who should be put in prison for false accusations.
I have so much respect for Tippi Hedren, completely open and honest, she isn't mired in the media bullshit
Give me a break, fella. Read above. Tippi should get together with the Clintons and parse a few words and subject themselves to the same softball media cross-exam she got her.....I mean this is absurd, hilarious, and sad, and fools all the folks who didn't live through that Hitchcock/Hollywood casting couch era. Go put a pair of big-boy pants on, but try not to cry, Serge. God, gag me with a spoon.
@@tonytrabort4939 You believe she's a liar?
@@XJ0461C It was Hollywood in the 50's and 60's.... you had to be alive back then to understand. Different era; different moraise; different zeitgeist. It was permissible and tolerated. She and the other actress complainants made out like bandits financially. You can't trust this epidemic of Me Too liars and embellishment experts. It's all self-serving; the accused are all dead and have no ability to fight back or confront witnesses; and other people who may have been a witness or able to corroborate are either dead or not available or senile/medically compromised. Under a law and order society, this is called due process, sonny. Hearsay is hearsay; it is worth as much as that deposit you made in your toilet bowl this morning.....get it? What, are you a dunce?
Is she being honest?
This is pretty wild considering the plot line of marnie which is literally about a single mom’s daughter’s trauma and tippi was a single mother at the time
Janet Leigh said he made a pass at every leading lady except her, because he respected her so much. That's a lot of leading ladies.
Barbara Harris too.
Marnie was a great and underrated movie by far and beyond!
I agree. And though I'm far from a fan of Hedren, I think she's actually not half bad in it.
Her leading man was a young Sean Connery too.
Watch what you sign is the golden rule
Well, since he is dead there is no reason for her to pull her punches: Clearly she cared about him and respected him. The real tragedy was, because he was not able to treat her with due respect, they were unable to be the lifelong friends they *should* have been. Learn from Hitch how NOT to do it. Love for both of them.
She didn't treat him with respect she called him a fat pig when she had a tantrum when he wouldn't let her hold up shooting for a two day break. She is a liar.
Why did Hitchcock ruined her carrer? From "Marnie" (1964) up to 1980 (the year Hitch died) she was cast in other movies: "A Countess from Hong Kong" (1967), Tiger by the Tail (1970), Satan's Harvest (1970), Mr. Kingstreet's War (1971), The Harrad Experiment (1973), Where the Wind Dies (1976)...
yeah,but in supporting roles not leading roles;
So? Work is work to an actor. Real actors are ones who are just happy to play the part they are best suited for. Some of the best actors are the ones you don't notice because that's their job.
Tippi Hedren has really blossomed into a stunningly gorgeous girl. She could easily grace the fashion catwalks today or become a covergirl to any of those magazines. This girl just keeps looking better and better as she ages. Age really does soften a gal's features. Great actress! Go girl! Go!
are you 115?
She's attractive but I wouldn't call her a girl at her age.
@@porterhouse_ I think your comment should be for the op, not me.
@@thepermman 😂😂😂
Well, she looks good and well put together FOR HER AGE. Let's not get carried away. The ravages of age are real.
Miss Hedren was a beautiful talented young lady....and in her day 7 years could be the length of their career.....30 was considered over..
The problem with her "he ruined my career" accusation is that she was only tied to her contract for seven years. If she was really worth anything as an actress then this should have been of little consequence as she was still quite young. Yet after Hitchcock she did nothing of note to compare to The Birds or Marnie so you have to conclude that she would have had no career beyond the one he gave her.
Keyser Soze Ruining someone's career may easily go beyond binding them to a seven year contract. An authority in the film industry like Hitchcock, with connections and power, could easily have blackballed her so that no one would hire her. Don't be naive.
So many people in this comment section scolding others of being naive when all they have is one person's word for it. How come there is no proof of anything she says? And people who therefore question her stories are the naive ones? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
I don't think that way. She became world famous because of him and even if he didn't blacklist her she was already a type cast girl.
So I figure that she was a legend that could rest on her achievements for life.
People defending him only proves her point. It has been exceedingly documented that he was a monster a lot of the time. He even had real birds strapped to her for 8-9 hrs to get one shot. Finally at the end of the day one bird scratched dangerously close to her eye and she finally broke down and cried. I don't blame her for speaking up.
And then she jumped at the chance to be with him night and day all over again to make her next film... funny that.
Brent Fabian Rayburn I don't think you understand what a molester is
Unknown Television Commercial Model: Hitchcock Gave Me My Career. Her granddaughter continues to publicly perpetuate the professional victimization. If Hitchcock torpedoed her career, how was she hired by Chaplin for a (supporting) role? Hitchcock worked with his wife & daughter for years, he worked repeatedly with great stars like Bergman & Kelly, he actually helped future Princess Grace become a star, Kelly had the talent to support a career which Hedren apparently did not. Eva Marie Saint wanted to work with her North By Northwest director again in Marnie, it would have been so much better a movie had Hitchcock hired an actual actress. Saint joked Hitchcock was her only Sugar Daddy, as he personally supervised her wardrobe preparation for NXNW. In a half century career, have there been any other complaints about him? Hedren has joined the ranks of Crawford, Davis, Turner & Allen juniors as professional for profit victim$. Mrs. Johnny Depp tried & failed.
The other side is you should thank him for making you a star
He ruined her career, that wouldn't have started without him. I call it a draw, besides, Hitchcock couldn't have prevented her staring in other films if their producers, directors really wanted her. He wasn't god.
You clearly don’t know what an exclusivity clause in a contract is…
@@mishlake1 So you know the details of the contract? Interesting. Share it with us and explain, why she starred in lots of other movies after Marnie. Thanks.
@@bigblockjalopy You got it!
She didn't star in another major motion picture until 1970... *seven years after her first picture with Hitchcock was released and nine years after she entered into and exclusive contract with him. The contract term was seven years in length...*
She did a walk-on cameo in a small film and two minor tv appearances in her downtime, while she waited out the contract, but she did not *star* in another major motion picture until 1970. They had to wait two years to release Tiger by the Tail...hmm I wonder why.
Mind you, this was at the height of her career and her critical acclaim, and to be put on ice at such a critical moment meant her end as a competitive star. Her career never recovered...which was Hitchcock's stated goal. Without this blip, she would have most likely been on her way to an Academy Award.
Are you not aware of the notoriously abusive practices of Hollywood and the studio system? You're only more than half a century late. The exclusivity clause in the contract was the primary way that executives could control players. It was so bad that it made news whenever a big star would rebel or attempt to break contract as in *Warner Brothers Pictures Inc v Nelson [1937],* in which Bette Davis most famously flew to England to make a picture after being forced to do flop after flop by Jack Warner and Warner Bros INC. She couldn't take it any more and attempted to make a film with another employer without the approval of Jack Warner, and she was sued. She lost the case and was forced to return to work until her contract expired. That's called effective control over someone's career, hon.
Exclusivity meant you could only work for one employer unless you were traded or loaned out. If you refused to do a picture, one thing they could do and that they frequently did do was suspend you for the amount of time it took to make the picture. Then they tacked that time onto the original length of contract thus effectively holding your career hostage. This is common knowledge, and google is free. This system got so bad that eventually Olivia de Havilland fought and was finally able to win the battle that Davis and other actors had tried to before her. This set the precedent of the seven year limit, which you can observe in the case of Ms. Hedren.
Tippi Hedren was on her way to becoming one of the top actresses in Hollywood, "the next Grace Kelly," they called her. After Marnie, she never made another critically acclaimed film again, which is the point. Hitchcock let her do just three appearances in projects that no one remembers today or probably even then, and even after the contract expired, she never found comparable success.
Since you're too lazy, incapable, or unwilling to look for yourself:
www.lawteacher.net/cases/warner-bros-v-nelson.php
th-cam.com/video/jsKGXFuXbbo/w-d-xo.html
Hitch The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock By John Russell Taylor p.16 + p.207
@@mishlake1 So, because she didn't have success afterwards, it was Hitchcocks fault? Good one. She starred in a major movie with Brando/Loren, etc in 1967. 7 years? If she could have, she would have, she didn't.
And once again, Hitchcock made her. Without Hitch, nobody would even know her name. Period
@@bigblockjalopy Maybe you don't know what a bit-part is, but let me help you understand...a walk-on cameo is quite literally the *OPPOSITE* of a "starring" role. Nobody is arguing that Hitch did not make Tippi famous, but to say that he did not have exclusivity, and therefore total control over her career, for the duration of her contract (at the peak of her career) is either a LIE or total ignorance.
Still a beauty, better than her daughter who ruined her face with those damn plastic surgeries...
God, Tippi was beautiful in the Birds. So soft and feminine. She is 82 here, 89 in 2019.
Don married a doll in Melanie, but god she aged and he said to hell with her.
Wait are you talking about her daughter that had to have facial reconstruction due to having half her face ripped off by a lion?
So true.
Half of these Hollywood people are made of plastic anyway. I.e Synthetic material...As is Hollywood.
Durins Bane excuse me but they have the money, they can do whatever they want with it and i really dont think it’s anyone’s business
600 dollars per week for seven years of not working in those days didn't leave her destitute at least.
How ungrateful Hedren is! Hitchcock put her on the map, she should NEVER forget that!
I was in Bodega Bay (where the Birds were filmed) this weekend. Hedren comes up there every 4th of July weekend to sell her autographed picture ($45!!!) to fans. How dare she criticize Hitchcock! She's all about $$$ and has no respect for the Great Master!
45 bucks for a picture of that old bat, or a picture when she was younger.i wouldnt give a penny for a photo you can copy on your computer.dont want to waste a glossy paper on her,rather have marilyn monroe or liz taylor they are million times better than that hasbeen!
Who’s the interviewer? Thanks, in advance.
She's beautiful
So you say.
Contradicting to love working with and not at the same time. Possibly the best understanding of how most find work in every day society. Fascinating and very interesting. I believe Alfred must of known how brilliant of an actor this amazing woman is. Afraid of loosing her.
Bette Davis kept saying that all a woman has to do is say “No” (and learn to remain friends after that, if needed). Davis knew what she was talking about. Katherine Hepburn was the same background and could have said the same thing. Think of women like that, one or two generations before, and cut the crap !
Only, those women knew what they wanted, and that they could only get it with very hard work. Movie making in Hollywood was never a place to seek protection, even for a man. Everyone knows that. So, what’s her point ?
Hedren worked a lot, afterwards, in spite of what she claims, doing B movies, horror movies, thus the sort of stuff she would probably like to be forgotten now. What makes her think she then could do better than that ?
Hitch had an eye for these things (he had made Rebecca, after all). No real star has ever been fooled the way Hedren was. It takes a narcissistic personality opposite a twisted mind to make an abuse of authority possible (although it could never reach a sexual goal here : Hitchcock’s wife was the brains in their family !).
It’s good enough Hedren was cast in two of his films, although you can’t become a actor just because you are pretty, as Cecil B. DeMille once stated, which makes a huge gap between Hedren and someone like Marylin Monroe (the second being beautiful AND very clever ... but that’s another - really sad - story).
By the way, Sean Connery was not that pleased with her kind of “talent” either (in Marnie). Both movies (The Birds and Marnie) still work thanks to their director, not their actors. Hitchcock art was never about actors. And Davis would have understood that, because, at least, she had discipline.
Moreover, Hedren talks about a dead man.
You don’t solve a problem when people are no longer around.
Have some guts, be a woman (or a man), or drop dead : that’s what show business is about, in Hollywood.
I don’t believe in people ruining other people’s life. You’re only letting them behave the way they do. So don’t complain if they went to far (especially years afterwards, when it’s become irrelevant and ridiculous). Get a shrink and leave us alone, instead !
Who the hell are you to even pretend you know what she is talking about. Hitchcock was very strange ,and had many psychological problems. Everybody knows that. Why don't you, if you're such an expert?
Perhaps that was one of the reasons why Bette did not like Joan Crawford. Joan slept with anyone and everyone in order to further her career, and Bette would never have respected that.
I adore Hitch and without a doubt he was a genius. But genius straddles the good and the dark and Hitch knew about darkness.
She went to his funeral to make sure this monster was dead
Perfectly said!!
I hope you're joking. She said she separated the artist from the man.
Htichcock MADE her career. She is only remembered for "The Birds." He didn't ruin it at all. Without him in the first place, she would have no story to tell. He made her famous is a classic thriller, period.
Alan Logan so why isn't Hitchcock himself acting a lead character in his movies if it was he who was a bigger star? LOL! He wasn't because he needed a good looking woman. So those women made Hitch and gave him his career.
Alan 🤡🤡
Hmmm. And why did she sign a seven year contract? She behaves as if she didn’t have a choice.
It was normal back then. Most actors and actresses were not ok with contracts but if they wanted to work they had to sign a contract.
lmao it was the thing to do back then no other choice for actors even the great great ones
Many actors ans actress had to sign this kind of contract with studios. Many directors to. And it is a nightmare when you finally want to break it. You cant leave... you have to wait. It still works this way. 😖 Cuz you represent a lot of money. And studios dont want you to leave.
The point is SHE DIDN'T i don't think you saw the movie, he totally tried to get her into bed since the time she started working with him, even though he was married, but she refused him constantly that's why she left in the end.
I’m so annoyed at his interviewer . He tries to get her to say something positive after she shares something terrible which is a tactless way to change the subject and silence her. Then he tells her what she is doing is very important. I LOVE how she said “Well, it is vert important.” Like, I know, my guy.
What's up with the editing??? It's terrible!
She IS classy.
There are some people who dispute Hedren's claims, including Eva Marie Saint and Kim Novak (see Wikipedia article "Tippi Hedren"). I'm going to reserve judgement since I just don't know.
She said evil? lol that's very strong...
In the actual records it shows that Alfred Hitchcock sold her contract which still had several years left on it to Universal Pitchers more than a year after they last work together. It was Univeral who would go on to tear up her contract because they tried casting her in projects that she refused to do & from their perspective they fired her cause they got tired of paying someone $600 a week who didn't want to work. So essential She destroyed her own acting career that one should not had been non existent a few years before.
The assistant director on Marnie said that Alfred Hitchcock was domineering & like a dictator towards Tipi Hedren & was obsessive but not in a romantic way but in trying to turn her into what he ultimately began to think she was not. A great actress. This caused understandable friction that boiled over into an huge argument in which she insulted him, calling him fatso. An area he was extremely sensitive about. After that he would no longer work with her & eventual sold her contract to Universal.
I know this is an old comment, but...
That's interesting, do you have a source for this?
@Fryx Ur First I've heard of that description.
-Hmmm, hey do you remember Tippi Hedren from some film??
-Oh, yes, I watched her in The Birds, Marnie....... Ehm....hmmm....ehhhmmm...
-But these films are only Hitchcock's films..
-Well, yes...
Roar 1981 with Melanie Griffith.
This was really amazing for Tippi Hedren because she came out about the abusive even before the "me too" movement of 2017, five years before, that's real courage right there, not just for her but all the others that were abused in Hollywood.
Lachlan W go girl!
I like Tippi a lot and I consider (not alone) Hitch as a great director. So this puts me in a bind.
alexalex13131 Human beings are complex figures. Most of the times we can't really pick a side, there are no sides really, it's an unrealistic, fairytale idea. There's just what happens between people.
+Juan Gonzalez Well said! You are thinking, which is great.
Ralph Dratman :)
I admire Tippi Hedren for not allowing someone like Hitchcock to behave that way with her. After she is a human being not a rag to wipe your hands on. Good For her!
Hitch likely made her famous though. Without him she may never had had the fame she had in the first place. He noticed her modeling.
@@brookehanley3659 so? what one earth are you trying to say Brooke?
I don't admire the fact that you've assumed Hitchcock is guilty.
*Correct me if i'm wrong here, but it takes two to sign a contract, no?*
That's a pretty glib remark.
As the Hitchcock written contract fraudulently did not provide that a condition of her continued employment as an actress would be also to service him sexually as a prostitute, then this fraudulently nondisclosed "latent defect," upon its later repugnant manifestation in fact during the film productions ought retroactively void the entire contract in toto as "unconscionable," thus unenforceable.
Standup woman Tipi Hedren, being able to separate respect for the artist Hitchcock and the dark, flawed, destructive person Hitchcock. And interesting that the master of suspense and dark drama would live out the genre in his own life. Just watched The Birds again. Love those mid-century movies, especially Hitchcock.
I totally believe her.
Other actresses have also come forward.
@@brookehanley3659 Other actresses? They are all dead.
@@PrimoMagazine Have come forward. In the past?? Get it??
@@brookehanley3659 He also came forward to say that some actresses and actors were dimwits. Classic incompetents. One actress was so bad that he gave up and took camera shots of her face - told her to go home - and then had a stand-in for body and hand shots. There are always two sides to a story.
I don't.
mother of melanie griffith and grand mother of dakota johnson . small world lol
I have to ask, was Alfred alive when she came out with these allegations? And if so, did he ever reply to them?
Thank you
Hitchcock was savagely inappropriate with her in a frightening, diabolical way. She was / is remarkable 🔳🟧🟥⬜️⬜️⬜️🟫✨️✨️✨️
He was the best director in film history, it’s sad he did the things he did
Allegedly.
Hitchcock worked with some of the most beautiful leading ladies in Hollywood over many, many decades. With the exception of Hedren not ONE of them says the director was anything other than professional. Compare that lack of corroboration with other men in the industry who have been accused of sexual assault by multiple victims. It is more probable to conclude that Hedren is spreading falsehoods than that she was, over the course of Hitchcock's entire career, his one and only target of sexual exploitation.
@@termsofusepolice There certainly isn't sufficient evidence to condemn Hitchcock as some people have done.
Strong woman for speaking out. Thank you too for loving the animals Ms. Hedren. We support you.
She has 80 actress credits to her name. I wish someone would ruin my career
I'm not. I didn't state myself clearly. What I meant was, she's always said she'd been sexually harassed by Hitchcock and he ruined her career over it. I meant she's always been open about this.
She has spoken about this before. If someone did this to me, I wouldn't have gone to his funeral; no matter how many people she met through him, or the parties she went to.
Maybe the allegations are false?