Tippi Hedren 'The Birds' interviewed by San Francisco Film Museum

[@lynnsmithershubbard1896]

greetings from San Francisco--I also go to Bodega Bay and also stay at the Inn at the Tides!!!!

[@Moamg]

She DOES look WONDERFUL! I love her.

[@emmceeee]

What diplomacy, beauty, strength, intelligence and class! In every interview I've seen in which she discusses "The Birds" she has never spoken ill of Hitch. But it is THERE; He treated her like crap! "Marnie" is an unsung masterpiece of psycho-sexual drama, too! (Hitch had a few issues! ;P) Thanks for this.

[@comalaism]

She is a beautiful woman inside and out. She has an ageless quality so much so that it is hard to take your eyes off of her when she is on screen. A timeless beauty.

[@SaucyWench7]

I love her voice. She still has that cool- butter won't melt in her mouth-voice.

[@SeattleBlythe]

Ms. Hedren is the definition a "classy woman"...I have always loved her and missed her high profile presence in te film industry after her Hitchcock era.

[@jagdishacharya1438]

Not classy woman this Tippi, trassy third class wear out, didn't had guts to stand up against Sir. Alfred Hitchcock, but after his death, now digging his grave to bring sins of legend director.

[@analogasmr]

@kchansen1366 That's cool! Thanks for this little tidbit and you definitely tell that she's sincere here. Jessica Tandy's role in this movie is always overlooked by people, but she was amazing.

[@MarkHolman]

Happy Be-lated to my hero! Love to you dear lady of the Bay!

[@vivienmerchant]

Extraordinary. The Swedish must have marvellous genes! Obviously she is an older lady, so beautiful and with such class. Overlooked that she is an actress of great talent and intelligence and for a director -Hitchcock- with no real interest in actors except that they should be good, genius as he was. I am so glad Ms Hedren goes back to Bodega Bay. That film is a dream-like masterpiece dismissed by some simply because it was a technical tour de force. It has silence and a remarkable pattern.

[@georgettewood8894]

She must still deeply care for him as she wears his gift 🎁 on her lapel. A real Beauty.

[@formattester6]

a beautiful lady inside and out.

[@RC3928]

She's also a genuinely NICE person too!

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Good insight into Alma Hitchcock's being "the consummate editor". It was told that Alma did not care for a scene in Vertigo, to which Alfred later replied, "She hated the movie."

[@vivicruz1975]

Wow. Thats a hot 80 year old.

[@LarryOfilms]

That's why she said he intentionally chose a unknown actress like her so he can get away with it.

[@JohanR888]

she's wearing the birds brooch that The Hitchcocks bought her.

[@claramills104]

amazing strong woman very admired x

[@iramoon7729]

♥️

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Like the birds pendant/earrings she is wearing.

[@MrImiller07]

Did Hitchcock give any thought or consideration to the potential danger to Tippi Hedren' physical safety or well being in the event that any of the live birds who were thrown at her face and body over a five day period had lunged at her eyes or damaged her cornea causing a permanent vision impairment? Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, et al would never have tolerated the risk of cosmetic injury or physical damage.

[@michaelhuck]

There is another point. Tippi Hedren was the produer of ROAR. She herself, her children, her husband and 70 other cast members had been hurt horribly during the shooting of Roar.Hedren and her daughter had been bitten in the head and face, the cameraman had been scalped by a Lion. Hedren had been scratched by a bird on the cheek in The Birds. In Roar there had been injuries much more horrible. Strange she talks in every interview how horrible it was for her when Hitchcock threw birds at her and she totally forgets to mention all the horribly injuires on the set of ROAR where she had been the responsible producer. Melanie Griffith had been bitten by a lion in her face andher head and was so terrified she left production but later after talking to Hedrens husband she returned again on the set. I really think Hedren is a fascinating person and actress and she did a great job in The Birds and Marnie but as a producer of ROAR she acted ruthless. Hitchcock stopped filming the attic scene after a bird hurt Hedren on the cheek. Hedren went on filming ROAR after people had been bitten in their faces and their head by lions!

[@mb9607]

She is probably the most beautifull women over 80 years old

[@frisco21]

I've watched a number of interviews of Ms Hedren, and it quickly became apparent that she has composed a sort of "default monologue" that she gives whenever she is interviewed, especially when the topic comes around to Alfred Hitchcock, which of course it always does. The words she uses from one interview to another are practically identical ("Marty Balsam was flown out from New York to be my leading man"). I don't mean this observation to be a criticism, just an insight into how celebrities handle interviews in which the same questions are repeated, over and over again. It must be a challenge for her to make that monologue sound fresh and spontaneous after delivering it so many times.

[@Jasper7182009]

... like you, Frisco 21, I have watched many interviews of Tippi Hedren. And I find her interviews always refreshing and insightful. Ms. Hedren is incredibly intelligent and composed. Monologue is not a word I would use In describing Ms. Hedren’s narratives. Far, far from it. You must admit, she was in one of the great Alfred Hitchcock movies. But I have never once seen her flinch or act as if she were tired of the questions regarding the movie and regarding Mr. Hitchcock. And she’s always respectful of Mr. Hitchcock, unless she is asked specifically about his obsession with her and even then she is careful with her words. She has said that she can separate Alfred Hitchcock the movie maker, the director, from the Alfred Hitchcock who was obsessed with her. I admire her.

[@frisco21]

@@Jasper7182009...you appear to have misunderstood the thrust of my comments. Far from being critical of Ms Hedren, I was complimenting her --- or, attempting to, clumsily! --- for her polished ability to appear fresh and spontaneous in responding to questions that have been asked of her probably thousands of times. (Her primary fame comes from only two films, which is a rather limited pool from which to formulate "new" and "original" questions). Like you, I admire her both for her talent as an artist, as well as her personal honesty and integrity. If she occasionally falls into the understandable trap of repetitiveness in her response to questions, she can be forgiven for the reasons I've already stated. In _every respect,_ Tippi Hedren is a class act.

[@JT-rx1eo]

The reason for the solo trip up the stairs to the bird-infested attic was morbid curiosity. That was what Hitch meant by "because I said so".

[@islabonita6304]

💝💝💝

[@MrImiller07]

Hitchcock sounds like he patterned the James Stewart character in "Vertigo" after himself: a man who was sexually obsessed with his leading lady and sought to control her and mould her in his image. To a degree, this occurred with Grace Kelly as well. It would be interesting to interview Sean Connery, Hedren's co-star in "Marnie" and Rod Taylor, her leading man in "The Birds" to ascertain whether they witnessed Hitchcock's mistreatment of Ms. Hedren.

[@photo161]

What Hitchcock subjected Tippi Hedren to in order to get his scene right is simply scurrilous and absolutely unacceptable. Period And he was the one who was always saying, " it's only a movie." ...only a movie, and yet he was willing to put Ms. Hedrine at risk of incurring a possible career ending physical injury, or worse in order to be certain to fulfill every possible demand of something as relatively inconsequential as "...only a movie." ? I have never been able to watch that scene in it's entirety, never. And yet I have enjoyed the film enormously, without the total gruesomeness of that "essential" scene. No, I think it was Hitchcock blithly indulging his power in order to gratify his penchant for sadism.

[@jagdishacharya1438]

Fella, Sir. Alfred Hitchcock was legend & best director to the core of perfection for his movies, did Mr. Hitchcock had present day S. F. X. Technology while filming the epic "Birds".? Just rewind your mindset to 50s & 60s era of film technology.

[@Yowzoe]

Your response has no relationship to the above comment. You have a classic bootlicking, authoritarian mindset: H. was a legend, so he could do no wrong. I bet you admire Putin as well.

[@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753]

Tippi, you were great in "The Birds" and you did what you had to do to get away from Hitchock in the end. We now know what men with power did to women and we also know that Hitchcock's wife was complicit in what he did to certain blond women. Now we have the #Metoo movement.

[@MyKeetje]

Mama of Melanie Griffith - a beautifull woman!!

[@2Ryled]

battles! Probably wanted someone that didn't have a lot of contacts in Hollywood so he was free to bully her.

[@lynnpeppa1]

yes, that would put creedence to her allegations

[@symphonyman4409]

I love you 💋

[@vivienmerchant]

The forthcoming BBC film about the relationship between Ms Hedren and Hitchcock will, I hope bring the work of this actor into focus. Sienna Miller is very lovely but I don't think comes anywhere near close.