Editing Alfred Hitchcock (section)

====''The Birds''====
{{further|The Girl (2012 TV film)|Tippi Hedren#Sexual harassment}}
[[File:The Birds trailer (1963).webm|thumb|left|Trailer for ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'' (1963), in which Hitchcock discusses humanity's treatment of "our feathered friends"]]
The film scholar Peter William Evans wrote that ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'' (1963) and ''[[Marnie (film)|Marnie]]'' (1964) are regarded as "undisputed masterpieces".{{sfn|Evans|2004|p=}} Hitchcock had intended to film ''Marnie'' first, and in March 1962 it was announced that Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco since 1956, would come out of retirement to star in it.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Alden |first1=Robert |title=Princess Grace Will Star in Hitchcock Movie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/20/archives/princess-grace-will-star-in-hitchcock-movie-she-accepts-her-first.html |work=The New York Times |date=20 March 1962|access-date=11 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612213711/https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/20/archives/princess-grace-will-star-in-hitchcock-movie-she-accepts-her-first.html|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> When Kelly asked Hitchcock to postpone ''Marnie'' until 1963 or 1964, he recruited [[Evan Hunter]], author of ''The Blackboard Jungle'' (1954), to develop a screenplay based on a [[Daphne du Maurier]] short story, "[[The Birds (story)|The Birds]]" (1952), which Hitchcock had republished in his ''My Favorites in Suspense'' (1959). He hired [[Tippi Hedren]] to play the lead role.<ref>{{harvnb|McGilligan|2003|pp=611–613}}; {{harvnb|MacDonald|2012|p=36}}</ref> It was her first role; she had been a model in New York when Hitchcock saw her, in October 1961, in an NBC television advert for [[Sego (diet drink)|Sego]], a diet drink:{{sfn|Moral|2013|p=15}} "I signed her because she is a classic beauty. Movies don't have them any more. Grace Kelly was the last." He insisted, without explanation, that her first name be written in single quotation marks: 'Tippi'.{{efn|Thomas McDonald (''The New York Times'', 1 April 1962): "Starring in the film are Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy and 'Tippi' Hedren. Hitchcock signed Miss Hedren, a New York model, to a contract after having seen her in a television commercial. He insisted that she enclose her first name in single quotation marks, but would not explain why."<ref name=McDonald1April1962>{{cite news |last1=McDonald |first1=Thomas |title=Watching 'Birds': Happy Hitchcock Films Terror-Ridden Tale |url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/040162hitch-birds-making.html |work=The New York Times |date=1 April 1962|access-date=3 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204193415/http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/040162hitch-birds-making.html|archive-date=4 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Spoto|2008|p=245}}}}

In ''The Birds'', Melanie Daniels, a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner ([[Rod Taylor]]) in a bird shop; [[Jessica Tandy]] plays his possessive mother. Hedren visits him in [[Bodega Bay, California|Bodega Bay]] (where ''The Birds'' was filmed)<ref name=McDonald1April1962/> carrying a pair of [[lovebird]]s as a gift. Suddenly waves of birds start gathering, watching, and attacking. The question: "What do the birds want?" is left unanswered.{{sfn|Rothman|2014|p=203}} Hitchcock made the film with equipment from the Revue Studio, which made ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''. He said it was his most technically challenging film, using a combination of trained and mechanical birds against a backdrop of wild ones. Every shot was sketched in advance.<ref name=McDonald1April1962/>

An [[HBO]]/[[BBC]] television film, ''[[The Girl (2012 TV film)|The Girl]]'' (2012), depicted Hedren's experiences on set; she said that Hitchcock [[Tippi Hedren#Allegations of sexual harassment|became obsessed with her]] and sexually harassed her. He reportedly isolated her from the rest of the crew, had her followed, whispered obscenities to her, had her handwriting analysed and had a ramp built from his private office directly into her trailer.<ref>{{harvnb|Spoto|1999|pp=451–452, 455–457, 467–468, 472–473}}; {{harvnb|Spoto|2008|pp=250–251, 264}}</ref><ref name=Goldman5October2012>{{cite news |last=Goldman |first=Andrew |title=The Revenge of Alfred Hitchcock's Muse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/the-revenge-of-tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcocks-muse.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 October 2012|access-date=5 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623181500/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/the-revenge-of-tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcocks-muse.html|archive-date=23 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Diane Baker]], her co-star in ''Marnie'', said: "[N]othing could have been more horrible for me than to arrive on that movie set and to see her being treated the way she was."{{sfn|Spoto|2008|p=265}} While filming the attack scene in the attic{{snd}}which took a week to film{{snd}}she was placed in a caged room while two men wearing [[evening glove|elbow-length protective gloves]] threw live birds at her. Toward the end of the week, to stop the birds' flying away from her too soon, one leg of each bird was attached by nylon thread to elastic bands sewn inside her clothes. She broke down after a bird cut her lower eyelid, and filming was halted on doctor's orders.{{sfn|Spoto|1999|pp=457–459}}