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Hitchcock's blondes, the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession, Laurence Leamer

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Hitchcock's blondes

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Laurence Leamer

the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession

"An engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated not just on the dark, twisty tales that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didnt much care if they were the rarest human specimen a natural blond as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths to which he went to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the womens stories have never been the focus of this narrative, until now. In Hitchcocks Blondes, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented directors career from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday, and beyond. Through the experiences of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren the women who starred in fourteen of Hitchcocks most notable films and who bore the brunt of his fondness and sometimes fixation we can finally start to see the enigmatic man himself. After all, zhisy blondes (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions, and desires, as well as anyone." --, Inside front jacket flap