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
Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann is a play written by David Knijnenburg which examines the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock and musical composer Bernard Herrmann. By combining a talent for self-promotion and producing films that were popular, Alfred Hitchcock became one of the greatest directors of motion pictures. No less of a talent in the world of musical composition, Bernard Herrmann was a child prodigy who had worked with Orson Welles before finding a collaboration with Hitchcock on "The Trouble with Harry", ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", "The Wrong Man", "North by Northwest", "Vertigo", ""Psycho"", "The Birds"