Bestselling author of Capote\'s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his Legendary movies at the center of the story.
From the acclaimed author of Capote\'s Women comes an intimate, revealing, and thoroughly modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed...and the private toll that fixation took on the Women in his orbit..
After all, his blondes (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone.
Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren--who starred in fourteen of Hitchcock\'s most notable films and who bore the brunt of his fondness and sometimes fixation--we can finally start to see the enigmatic man himself.
In Hitchcock\'s Blondes, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight Legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director\'s career--from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday and beyond.
But the Women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now.
The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these Women would become the stuff of movie legend.
The director of North by Northwest , Rear Window , and other classic films didn\'t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen--a natural blonde--as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera.
Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies.
Bestselling author of Capote\'s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his Legendary movies at the center of the story
