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03388aam a22004698i 4500 001 C3EE7DCA18C911EFA32E7E3A4FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240523010028 008 231106s2023 miu db 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023048589 020 $a 9798885798044 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 041 $a eng 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 10 $a PN1998.3.H58 $b L43 2023 082 $a 791.4302 100 1 $a Leamer, Laurence, $e Author $0 (DLC)n 80104585 245 10 $a Hitchcock's blondes : $b the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession / $c Laurence Leamer. 250 $a Large print. 263 $a 2403 264 1 $a Farmington Hills : $b Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 340 $n Large print $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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. 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. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now. 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. 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. After all, "his" blondes (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone. 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"--. $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Hitchcock, Alfred, $d 1899-1980 $0 (DLC)n 79027022 650 0 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $0 (DLC)sh 85088027 650 0 $a Motion picture producers and directors $0 (DLC)sh 85088067 650 0 $a Motion picture industry $0 (DLC)sh 85088047 650 0 $a History $0 (DLC)sh 85061212 650 0 $a Twentieth century $0 (DLC)sh 85139020 650 0 $a Entertainers $0 (DLC)sh 85044098 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $0 (DLC)sh 85067484 650 7 $a Large print $2 local $0 (local)tlcaut2006084287205800 651 0 $a United States $0 (DLC)n 78095330 651 0 $a Great Britain $0 (DLC)n 79023147 655 7 $a Large print books $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20240523010232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C3EE7DCA18C911EFA32E7E3A4FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search