Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock had intended to film "Marnie" first, and in March 1962 it was announced that Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco since 1956, would come out of retirement to star in it. When Kelly asked Hitchcock to postpone "Marnie" until 1963 or 1964, he recruited Evan Hunter, author of "The Blackboard Jungle" (1954), to develop a screenplay based on a Daphne du Maurier short story, "The Birds" (1952), which Hitchcock had republished in his "My Favorites in Suspense" (1959). He hired Tippi Hedren to play the lead role. It was her first role; she had been a model in New
Renée Taylor released in 2009. Taylor also appeared on Fran Drescher's latest show "Happily Divorced" as the best friend of Fran's mother. In 2011, Taylor was cast in the short-lived Fox cartoon "Allen Gregory", in which she voiced the character of Principal Gottlieb. In 2013, she starred in the "Tyler Perry" film "" as Ms. Waco Chapman, the owner of Chapman drug company. In 2016, Taylor starred in the Netflix movie "The Do-Over" with Adam Sandler as the role of Mrs. Kessler and in the TV show "Rock in a Hard Place". Recently, Taylor appeared in the 2017 film "How To Be