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Tippi HEdren

She was one of a long line of ice-cool blondes – including Joan Fontaine, Madeleine Carroll, Grace Kelly and Kim Novak – with whom Hitchcock became fixated during his 40-year career.

“To be the object of someone’s obsession is horrible,” she said. “It was a form of stalking. He had my handwriting analysed, he had me followed, and it was as if I was being engulfed by him.”

He was particularly fond of reciting dirty limericks and crude jokes on set. “Some of them were terribly filthy and I didn’t want them in my head,” she said.

Locked her in an attic full of birds because she didnt give in to his sexual advances

tried to get help from Hitchcocks wife but she just ignored Tippi

Hitchock refused to release her from her contract but did not cast her in anything else therefore runing her career