Trivia

1. Hitchcock wanted to use Vera Miles for Vertigo but she became pregnant. Vera was replaced by Kim Novak. Hitchcock: “She couldn’t resist her Tarzan of a husband, Gordon Scott. She should have taken a Jungle Pill!”
--Source: Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews, Page 123

2. James Stewart was very interested in starring in North by northwest, begging Hitchcock to let him play Thornhill. Hitch claimed that Vertigo ’s (1958) lack of financial success was because Stewart looked too old.
--Source: Hitchcock, Page 323

3. While filming Psycho (1960) Hitchcock tested the scare factor of various versions of the Mother corpse prop, by placing them on various days in Janet Leigh’s dressing room. Leigh: “[Hitchcock] liked teasing me because I’m a good audience, and he loved scaring me”.
--Source: Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Page 76

Hitchcock became a bit obsessed by his leading ladies. He once told friends that Ingrid Bergman refused to leave his bedroom until he made love to her. Bergman: “Some people really believed his story. I never got angry when it came back to me...I loved him, but not his way.”
--Source: Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, Page 1

Hitchcock forcibly French-kissed Karen Black (Fran) on the set of Family Plot (1976). Black: “I think he was probably born an exuberant spirit, and that's why he French-kissed me. He just felt like it.”
--Source: Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, Page 0

Hitchcock liked one of the Vertigo sets so much, he asked the designer to build a room like that at his Bellagio road home.
--Source: It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography, Page 244

A famous Hitchcock quote is “Actors are cattle”. But Hitch denied to have said that: “My actor friends know I would never be capable of such a thoughtless, rude, and unfeeling remark; that I would never call them cattle. What I probably said was that actors should be treated like cattle”
--Source: Hitchcock on Hitchcock : Selected Writings and Interviews, Page 56

Hitchcock and censorship: The chief British censor wore glasses with one opaque lens, Hitchcock once recalled, and whenever an offending piece of film approached, I said, “Mr. Wilkinson ... He turned his head toward me, and the objectionable scene went by on the screen without his seeing it.”
--Source: Hitchcock and Selznick, Page 70

MacGuffins were objects or devices which Hitchcock invented and used to drive the plot. They were inconsequential and could be forgotten once they had served their purpose.
--Source: Hitchcock, Page 138

James Stewart: “A script clerk is a completely frustrated person with Hitchcock because Hitch really doesn't care what people say, he looks at it visually and if the thing makes sense to him, that's it.
--Source: Film Makers Speak: Voices of Film Experience, Page 444

Alfred wanted to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s. The film Malice in Wonderland was going to be a thriller. But Walt Disney saw Psycho (1960) and "that was the end of that"
--Source: Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters, Page 73

Hitchcock’s Notorious was being advertised as the film with the longest screen kiss in the history of the cinema. Cary Grant kissed Ingrid Bergman two and a half minutes, broken only by some words necessary to satisfy the 30-second contact limit imposed by the censors.
--Source: Cary Grant : The Biography, Page 378

Alfred has a star on Hollywood Boulevard.It’s located between Wilcox and Whitley avenues.

Hitch appears on a 32 cent U.S. postage stamp, in the legends of Hollywood series.

Alfred never won a best director Oscar. However, he was awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at the 1967 Oscars.

The role of Robert Rusk in Frenzy (1972) was originally offered to Michael Caine. After Caine declined the role Hitchcock never spoke with Caine again. “Well not too many people turn down Hitchcock, but I felt very strongly about the scenes where he slices up women.”
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Hitchcock remembered something different: “You could not have that part played by Caine and a lesser actor as your leading man, you’d have to balance them out. Otherwise you’d give the story away the moment Caine came on the screen”
--Source: Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews, Page 112