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====Marriage==== [[File:Hitch Gets Hitched.jpg|thumb|Hitchcock and Reville on their wedding day, [[Brompton Oratory]], 2 December 1926]] On 2 December 1926, Hitchcock married the English screenwriter [[Alma Reville]] at the [[Brompton Oratory]] in [[South Kensington]].{{sfn|Spoto|1999|p=5}} The couple honeymooned in Paris, [[Lake Como]] and St. Moritz, before returning to London to live in a leased flat on the top two floors of 153 [[Cromwell Road]], Kensington.{{sfn|McGilligan|2003|pp=89β90}} Reville, who was born just hours after Hitchcock,{{sfn|Hitchcock O'Connell|Bouzereau|2003|p=15}} converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, apparently at the insistence of Hitchcock's mother; she was baptised on 31 May 1927 and confirmed at [[Westminster Cathedral]] by Cardinal [[Francis Bourne]] on 5 June.<ref>{{harvnb|Hitchcock O'Connell|Bouzereau|2003|p=48}}; {{harvnb|Spoto|1999|pp=92β93}}</ref> In 1928, when they learned that Reville was pregnant, the Hitchcocks purchased "Winter's Grace", a [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] farmhouse set in eleven acres on Stroud Lane, [[Shamley Green]], Surrey, for Β£2,500.<ref>{{harvnb|Spoto|1999|p=115}}; {{harvnb|Hitchcock O'Connell|Bouzereau|2003|p=55}}; {{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Ross |title=Alfred Hitchcock: A long way from the Bates Motel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/period-property/3360983/Alfred-Hitchcock-A-long-way-from-the-Bates-Motel.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=13 April 2008|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227193225/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/period-property/3360983/Alfred-Hitchcock-A-long-way-from-the-Bates-Motel.html|archive-date=27 December 2017}}</ref> Their daughter and only child, [[Pat Hitchcock|Patricia (Pat) Alma Hitchcock]], was born on 7 July that year.{{sfn|Hitchcock O'Connell|Bouzereau|2003|pp=59β60}} Pat died on 9 August 2021 at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Pat Hitchcock, 'Strangers on a Train' Actress and Daughter of Alfred Hitchcock, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pat-hitchcock-dead-alfred-daughter-1234995917/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=10 August 2021 |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref> Reville became her husband's closest collaborator; [[Charles Champlin]] wrote in 1982: "The Hitchcock touch had four hands, and two were Alma's."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Champlin |first1=Charles|author-link=Charles Champlin |title=Alma Reville Hitchcock, The Unsung Partner |work=Los Angeles Times |date=29 July 1982}}</ref> When Hitchcock accepted the [[AFI Life Achievement Award]] in 1979, he said that he wanted to mention "four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter, Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville."<ref>{{cite web|title=Alfred Hitchcock Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979|website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5VdGCQFOM&t=3m14s|access-date=11 February 2023 |date=16 April 2009}}</ref> Reville wrote or co-wrote on many of Hitchcock's films, including ''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]'', ''[[Suspicion (1941 film)|Suspicion]]'' and ''[[The 39 Steps (1935 film)|The 39 Steps]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Reville [married name Hitchcock], Alma Lucy |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-109643?d=%2F10.1093%2Fodnb%2F9780198614128.001.0001%2Fodnb-9780198614128-e-109643&p |access-date=29 April 2024 |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref>
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