Alfred Hitchcock York when Hitchcock saw her, in October 1961, in an NBC television ad for Sego, a diet drink: "I signed her because she is a classic beauty. Movies don't have them any more. Grace Kelly was the last." He insisted, without explanation, that her first name be written in single quotation marks: 'Tippi'. In "The Birds", Melanie Daniels, a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a bird shop; Jessica Tandy plays his possessive mother. Hedren visits him in Bodega Bay (where "The Birds" was filmed) carrying a pair of lovebirds as a gift. Suddenly waves of birds
The Rani (Doctor Who) the Tetraps in her TARDIS. In "Dimensions in Time", for scenes set inside the Rani's TARDIS, the Doctor's console from the original series was set inside a TARDIS console room mock-up constructed for a recent fan convention as the Rani's original console room for the series had already been destroyed. The Rani (Doctor Who) The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". She was played by Kate O'Mara. The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an amoral scientist who considers everything secondary to her research; she has been known to enslave entire planets