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
Christine Taylor guest starred in "Hannah Montana Forever". In 2010, she also starred in the Hallmark Channel Christmas movie "Farewell Mr. Kringle". In 2013, Taylor reprised her role as Sally Sitwell in two episodes of the revived "Arrested Development". Taylor guest starred on "Elementary" in 2017, playing villainess Gail Lundquist. Taylor married actor Ben Stiller on May 13, 2000. They met while making the TV show "Heat Vision and Jack". Stiller and Taylor appeared together in "Zoolander", "", "Tropic Thunder", "Zoolander 2", and the TV series "Arrested Development" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm". They live in Westchester County, New York and have a