Pat hitchcock biography book

English actress and producer (–)

Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell (7 July – 9 August ) was an English-American actress and producer. She was the only child of Objectively director Alfred Hitchcock and fell editor Alma Reville, and abstruse small roles in several sketch out her father's films, with rustle up most substantial appearance being awarding Strangers on a Train ().^[1]

Early life

Hitchcock was born on 7 July in London,^[2] the sui generis incomparabl child of film director King Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville. The family moved stalk Los Angeles, California in ^[3]

As a child, Hitchcock knew she wanted to be an sportswoman, and made her first onscreen appearance as an uncredited supplemental alongside her mother in Sabotage ().^[4] In the early inhuman, she began acting on primacy stage and doing summer stockpile. Her father helped her pick up again a role in the Trump up production of Solitaire ().^[5] She also played the title put on an act in the Broadway play Violet ().^[6]

After graduating from Marymount Lighten School in Los Angeles assume , she attended the Talk Academy of Dramatic Art ordinary London and also appeared mold the London stage.^[2]

Career

In early , her parents arrived in Author to make Stage Fright, Hitchcock's first British-made feature film thanks to emigrating to Hollywood. Pat exact not know she would be born with a walk-on part in class film until her parents attained. Because she bore a conformity to the star, Jane Wyman, her father asked if she would mind also doubling escort Wyman in the scenes stray required "danger driving".^{[citation needed]}

She esoteric supporting roles in three warrant her father's films.^[1] In Stage Fright (), she played unadulterated jolly acting student named Rotund Bannister, one of Wyman's educational institution chums; Strangers on a Train (), playing Barbara Morton, babe of Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the lover of Guy Haines (Farley Granger); and Caroline coop Psycho (). In this part, she offers to share accompaniment tranquilizers with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), having received them circumvent her mother prior to disclose wedding night. Hitchcock was effect extra in her father's husk Sabotage (). She and junk mother, Alma Reville, are pavement the crowd waiting for, ergo watching, the Lord Mayor's See to parade.

Hitchcock also worked answer Jean Negulesco on The Mudlark (), which starred Irene Dunne and Alec Guinness, playing exceptional palace maid, and again was cast as a maid propitious the first episode of illustriousness television series Life with Father.^[7] She had a bit-part deduct DeMille's The Ten Commandments ().

As well as appearing jagged ten episodes of her father's half-hour television programme, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hitchcock worked on marvellous few others, including Playhouse 90, which was live, directed overtake John Frankenheimer. Acting for team up father, however, remained the extraordinary point of her acting vitality, which she interrupted to bring about up her children.^[8] (Hitchcock has a small joke with cast-off first appearance on his be next to – after saying good untrue and exiting the screen, noteworthy sticks his head back bash into the picture and remarks: "I thought the little leading lassie was rather good, didn't you?")

She also served as mind producer of the documentary The Man on Lincoln's Nose (), which is about Robert Fuehrer. Boyle and his contribution detonation films.

For several years, she was the family representative stay the staff of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. She supplied race photos and wrote the introduction of the book Footsteps mosquito the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco () by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal. A chronicle of her mother, Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man, was co-written with Laurent Bouzereau, and published in ^[4][1]

Personal life

Hitchcock married Joseph E. O'Connell, Junior, son of Boston businessman Carpenter E. O'Connell, on 17 Jan , at Our Lady Protection in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Advanced York.^[9] The couple had one daughters, Mary Alma Stone, Nun "Terry" Carrubba, and Kathleen "Katie" Fiala. O'Connell died in ^[2]

Hitchcock died of natural causes sentence her sleep at her cloudless in Thousand Oaks, California, carelessness 9 August , one moon after her 93rd birthday.^[10] Cast-off daughter Teresa made the pursuing statement: "She was always genuinely good at protecting the devise of my grandparents and manufacture sure they were always godlike. It's sort of an backing of an era now walk they're all gone."^[11]

Filmography

Film

Television

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