Number 13 (film) her, Alfred Hitchcock's uncle John Hitchcock had also provided funds. Greet's generosity was something the director never forgot, and she appeared in more Hitchcock films than any other performer (other than Leo G. Carroll, who also appeared in six Hitchcock films): "The Ring" (1927), "The Manxman" (1929), "Murder!" (1930), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934), "Sabotage" (1936), and "Jamaica Inn" (1939). Number 13 (film) In 1922, Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody). Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger were to star as husband and wife. The story
Else Brems Else Brems Else Brems (1908–1995) was a Danish contralto opera singer who is remembered in particular for her interpretations of "Carmen", a role she performed not only in Denmark but in Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, Stockholm and London. The daughter of the concert singer Anders Lauridsen Brems (1877–1974) and the pianist Gerda Emilie Rasmussen (1880-1967), Else was born in Copenhagen on 16 July 1908. She was raised in a musical family. Her maternal grandfather, Peter Rasmussen, was an organist and composer, her uncle Alfred Rasmussen a French hornist, and her father, initially a clarinettist, later became known as a singer, premiering