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Alfred Hitchcock’s Scotts Valley Hideaway

2016 Articles, Christina Morgan Cree, Movies, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Christina Morgan Cree

Alfred Hitchcock came to California in 1939 to film his first American production, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1940) starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Most people know he lived near Hollywood in Bel Air with his wife, Alma, and daughter, Pat, and it is well known the he found inspiration in and around the Bay Area as a backdrop location for several of his films.

Alfred Hitchcock: With All Due Respect

2012 Articles, Movies, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Kathleen Kaska

Film directing in the 1930s was a series of peaks and valleys for British-born Alfred Hitchcock. By 1939, the Master of Suspense had directed twenty-three films in his homeland; but with success came frustration. He was under contract with British International Pictures, and forced to accept film projects that were not to his liking. Many were simply adaptations of novels and plays, and his creativity was stifled by restrictions placed upon him by studio executives.