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
Jessica Biel remake of the 1990 science fiction movie "Total Recall" alongside Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale. She portrayed actress Vera Miles in the biographical film "Hitchcock", based on Stephen Rebello's book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho". She also appeared in "Playing for Keeps" with Gerard Butler. Biel starred in the thriller film "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2013. In April 2008, Biel began working on the political satire "Nailed", with Jake Gyllenhaal. The film centers around a woman who accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head, then