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Hitchcock and Selznick
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This chapter describes the interactions between Hitchcock and David O. Selznick when the director came to America to work for Selznick International. The two men were a mismatched pair, Selznick flamboyant and Hitchcock withdrawn, but they were united in their love of movies. Hitchcock resented Selznick’s memo-writing interference and welcomed his loan-outs to other studios, but Selznick gave the director his ticket to America and the financial support and star access he needed to make first-rate films. Subsequent chapters examine the impacts of censorship on each of the ten films Hitchcock made while under contract to Selznick.
Title: Hitchcock and Selznick
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This chapter describes the interactions between Hitchcock and David O.
Selznick when the director came to America to work for Selznick International.
The two men were a mismatched pair, Selznick flamboyant and Hitchcock withdrawn, but they were united in their love of movies.
Hitchcock resented Selznick’s memo-writing interference and welcomed his loan-outs to other studios, but Selznick gave the director his ticket to America and the financial support and star access he needed to make first-rate films.
Subsequent chapters examine the impacts of censorship on each of the ten films Hitchcock made while under contract to Selznick.
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