By Damien Gayle 'Hitchcock disguised as Molly': The director before he was famous, wearing a figure-hugging dress on the tennis court in Shoreham-by-Sea Scroll down for video It could have been the inspiration for Norman Bates. Or perhaps it's just a case of Hitchcock holiday japes. Whatever the story behind these remarkable pictures, they show the Psycho director in an entirely different light to the troubled genius whose legacy has been sullied by his reputation for cruelty. The previously unpublished album is believed to have belonged to director Graham Cutts, for whom the young Alfred Hitchcock worked as an assistant early in his film career.
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Incredible collection put up for sale by book dealer Christian White
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It shows Hitchcock as a young assistant director just beginning his career
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Candid pictures date from the early- to mid-1920s
Cross-dressing killer @placeholder was later to become one of the director's most-famous characters in the 1960 movie Psycho, a film which has come to define Hitchcock's style of psychological horror.