Last Girl builds to a shattering conclusion you won't soon forget. Spoto was the first person Hedren told her story to. "[26], Other actresses have spoken about the close attention Hitchcock paid to details of the leading ladies' characters and appearances in his films, but they said that no harassment was involved. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement'". A mechanical bird breaks the supposedly shatterproof glass of a telephone booth during filming, scratching Hedren's face with splintering glass. [31] Further on, she was asked if Hitchcock was “OK up until then” and “easy to work with”, to which Hedren replied “Yes, yes [...] It was a perfect situation”,[31] implying that their relationship was amicable and professional at least until the end of the production of ‘Marnie’. 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There was no Hitchcock in the director's chair to make it the utterly compelling psychological drama that it could have been. On the day of its UK television premiere, David Millward of The Daily Telegraph quoted Eva Marie Saint, Doris Day and Kim Novak (who worked with Hitchcock); all refuted Hedren's account of him. Captivated by Hedren's Nordic looks, Hitchcock becomes infatuated with her. Bill. She only managed to get out the words 'Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren' before I was already shouting 'yes yes yes!' Molly is the eldest of five kids with little future, a difficult father and a mother who always wanted more for her. He had an eye for the specifics of the character. Hitchcock refuses Hedren's request for time off to attend the Photoplay Awards in New York City (where she is nominated for the Most Promising Actress award), and tells her he will require her to make herself sexually available to him on demand if her career is to continue. 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