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Veteran Stage and Screen Actor Lisa Banes Dies at 65 After Hit-and-Run

Veteran Stage and Screen Actor Lisa Banes Dies at 65 After Hit-and-Run A mainstay of the New York stage, she also acted in films, including “Gone Girl.” She died 10 days after she was struck by a scooter as she was crossing a street in Manhattan.

Lisa Banes, whose stage and screen career spanned four decades, died on Monday at the age of 65. Her death comes 10 days after she was struck by a hit-and-run driver in New York City, according to police.

“We are heartsick over Lisa’s tragic and senseless passing,” Banes’s manager, David Williams, told People. “She was a woman of great spirit, kindness, and generosity, and dedicated to her work, whether on stage or in front of a camera and even more so to her wife, family, and friends.”

Williams told the outlet that Banes had succumbed to “a traumatic brain injury and was unable to recover” while at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital. Banes had the right of way at an Amsterdam Avenue crosswalk when she was hit by a scooter or motorcycle, the New York Post reported, citing police. Per the Associated Press, the New York Police Department said the driver did not stop and that no arrests in the case have been made. Williams told the AP he believed that the Los Angeles–based Banes was on her way to visit her alma mater, Juilliard.

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Born in Ohio, Banes acted in several films throughout her career, including as Tom Cruise’s love interest in 1988’s Cocktail and the mother of Rosamund Pike’s Amy in 2014’s Gone Girl. She also appeared on TV shows such as The Orville, Nashville, China Beach, and Masters of Sex. Banes made her Broadway debut in Neil Simon’s 1988 play Rumors. She then booked roles in the 1998 musical High Society and the 2010 revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. Tributes from her collaborators, including Seth MacFarlane and Dana Delany, poured in on Twitter.

“I am brokenhearted to share that Lisa, my beautiful wife and my love, passed away last night,” Banes’s wife Kathryn Kranhold said in a statement to Deadline. “We appreciate the love, support and prayers from all of you across the country. Lisa was listening.”

“I am brokenhearted to share that Lisa, my beautiful wife and my love, passed away last night,” Banes’s wife Kathryn Kranhold said in a statement to Deadline. “We appreciate the love, support and prayers from all of you across the country. Lisa was listening.”

Known for her wry humor and confident, elegant presence, Ms. Banes appeared in more than 80 television and film roles, as well as in countless stage productions, including on Broadway.

She found quick success in the theater after coming east from Colorado Springs in the mid-1970s and studying at the Juilliard School in New York.

In 1980, when the Roundabout Theater revived John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger,” with Malcolm McDowell in the lead role as the angry Jimmy Porter, she played his overstressed wife.

“Lisa Banes has a remarkably effective final scene,” Walter Kerr wrote in The New York Times, “on her knees in anguish, face stained with failure, arms awkwardly searching for shape and for rest.”

The next year, at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn., she was in a production of the James M. Barrie comedy “The Admirable Crichton,” playing a daughter in an upper-crust British family that becomes shipwrecked on a deserted island.

“As Lady Mary,” Mel Gussow of The Times wrote in his review, “Lisa Banes has a regal disdain. Gracefully, she plays the grande dame, and with matching agility she becomes a kind of Jane of the jungle, swimming rivers and swinging on vines — a rather far-fetched transformation, brought off with panache by this striking young actress.”

Off Broadway roles kept coming. Later in 1981 she and Elizabeth McGovern had the lead roles in Wendy Kesselman’s “My Sister in This House” at Second Stage Theater. In 1982, at Manhattan Theater Club, she was the sister Olga in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” part of a starry cast that included Dianne Wiest, Mia Dillon, Jeff Daniels, Christine Ebersole and Sam Waterston.

In 1984, when Ms. Banes was in the midst of a run in Wendy Wasserstein’s comedy “Isn’t It Romantic” at Playwrights Horizons, The Times named her one of 15 stage actresses to watch. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance in that play.

Her Broadway debut came in the 1988 Neil Simon comedy “Rumors,” and she returned to Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” (1995), the Cole Porter musical “High Society” (1998) and a revival of Noël Coward’s “Present Laughter” (2010).

One of her most recent stage appearances was in 2018 at the Huntington Theater Company in Boston, where she played one of the two lead roles in the premiere of Eleanor Burgess’s “The Niceties,” a drama that pitted her seemingly progressive lesbian professor against a young Black college student, played by Jordan Boatman.

Don Aucoin, reviewing the production in The Boston Globe, praised their performances, saying that “both find the nuances in their characters, conveying the occasional cracks within their seeming certitude.”

As Ms. Banes established herself in the theater, Hollywood also came calling. Her first film role was in 1984 in “The Hotel New Hampshire,” Tony Richardson’s adaptation of the John Irving novel, and she began turning up frequently on television, including in regular roles on “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” in the early 1990s and, more recently, “Royal Pains,” “Nashville” and the outer space comedy “The Orville.”

“Her stage presence, magnetism, skill and talent were matched only by her unwavering kindness and graciousness,” Seth MacFarlane, the creator and star of “The Orville,” said on Twitter.

On the movie screen, she played Tom Cruise’s arrogant older girlfriend in “Cocktail” in 1988 and the acerbic mother of a missing woman in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” (2014), with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

Lisa Lou Banes was born on July 9, 1955, in Cleveland. Her father, Ken, worked in advertising, and her mother, Mary Lou (Shalenhamer) Banes, was a model.

Lisa grew up in Colorado Springs, where she focused on acting early. Her first paying job, she told The Gazette of Colorado Springs in 2014, was as a cast member at a dinner theater in nearby Manitou Springs.

“They served liquor,” she said. “I’m pretty sure I lied about my age because I was only 15 and you had to be 16.”

In addition to Ms. Kranhold, Ms. Banes is survived by a brother, Evan Sinclair, and her stepmother, Joan Banes.

In the 10 days after her accident, actors and playwrights who had worked with Ms. Banes expressed their support and shock at what happened.

Ms. Burgess, who wrote “The Niceties,” said she had been with Ms. Banes shortly before she was struck by the scooter and described her as a “brilliant, vibrant, wonderful woman.”

Correction: June 15, 2021 An earlier version of this obituary misstated the surname of an actress who appeared with Ms. Banes In the 1982 Manhattan Theater Club production of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters." She is Christine Ebersole, not Ebersol.

Her death, at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, was confirmed by the New York Police Department, which said she had been struck by the scooter June 4 as she was crossing Amsterdam Avenue near West 64th Street in Manhattan.

The operator of the scooter had driven through a red light before crashing into Banes and then fled, said Sgt Edward Riley, a police spokesperson. Riley said Tuesday that no arrests had been made.

Banes lived in Los Angeles and had been in New York visiting friends, her wife, Kathryn Kranhold, said.

Known for her wry humour and confident, elegant presence, Banes appeared in more than 80 TV and film roles, as well as in many stage productions, including on Broadway.

She found quick success in the theatre after coming east from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the mid-1970s and studying at The Juilliard School, in New York.

In 1980, when the Roundabout Theatre revived John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger,” with Malcolm McDowell in the lead role as the angry Jimmy Porter, she played his overstressed wife.

“Lisa Banes has a remarkably effective final scene,” Walter Kerr wrote in The New York Times, “on her knees in anguish, face stained with failure, arms awkwardly searching for shape and for rest.”

The next year, at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, she was in a production of James Barrie's comedy “The Admirable Crichton,” playing a daughter in an upper-crust British family that becomes shipwrecked on a deserted island.

“As Lady Mary,” Mel Gussow of The Times wrote in his review, “Lisa Banes has a regal disdain. Gracefully, she plays the grande dame, and with matching agility she becomes a kind of Jane of the jungle, swimming rivers and swinging on vines — a rather far-fetched transformation, brought off with panache by this striking young actress.”

Off-Broadway roles kept coming. Later in 1981, she and Elizabeth McGovern had the lead roles in Wendy Kesselman’s “My Sister in This House” at Second Stage Theater. In 1982, at Manhattan Theatre Club, she was sister Olga in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” part of a starry cast that included Dianne Wiest, Mia Dillon, Jeff Daniels, Christine Ebersole and Sam Waterston.

In 1984, when Banes was in the midst of a run in Wendy Wasserstein’s comedy “Isn’t It Romantic” at Playwrights Horizons, The Times named her one of 15 stage actresses to watch. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance in that play.

Her Broadway debut came in the 1988 Neil Simon comedy “Rumors,” and she returned to Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” (1995), the Cole Porter musical “High Society” (1998) and a revival of Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” (2010).

One of her most recent stage appearances was in 2018 at the Huntington Theater Company in Boston, where she played one of the two lead roles in the premiere of Eleanor Burgess’ “The Niceties,” a drama that pitted her seemingly progressive lesbian professor against a young Black college student, played by Jordan Boatman.

Don Aucoin, reviewing the production in The Boston Globe, praised their performances, saying that “both find the nuances in their characters, conveying the occasional cracks within their seeming certitude.”

As Banes established herself in the theater, Hollywood also came calling. Her first film role was in 1984 in “The Hotel New Hampshire,” Tony Richardson’s adaptation of the John Irving novel, and she began turning up frequently on television, including in regular roles on “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” in the early 1990s and, more recently, “Royal Pains,” “Nashville” and the outer space comedy “The Orville.”

“Her stage presence, magnetism, skill and talent were matched only by her unwavering kindness and graciousness,” Seth MacFarlane, creator and star of “The Orville,” said on Twitter.

On the movie screen, she played Tom Cruise’s arrogant older girlfriend in “Cocktail” in 1988 and the acerbic mother of a missing woman in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” (2014), with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

Lisa Lou Banes was born July 9, 1955, in Cleveland. Her father, Ken, worked in advertising, and her mother, Mary Lou (Shalenhamer) Banes, was a model.

Lisa grew up in Colorado Springs, where she focused on acting early. Her first paying job, she told The Gazette of Colorado Springs in 2014, was as a cast member at a dinner theater in nearby Manitou Springs.

“They served liquor,” she said. “I’m pretty sure I lied about my age because I was only 15 and you had to be 16.”

In addition to Kranhold, Banes is survived by a brother, Evan Sinclair, and her stepmother, Joan Banes.

In the 10 days after her accident, actors and playwrights who had worked with Banes expressed their support and shock at what happened.

Burgess, who wrote “The Niceties,” said she had been with Banes shortly before she was struck by the scooter and described her as a “brilliant, vibrant, wonderful woman.”

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National Examiner, January 25

Cover: Secret Dawn Wells took to the grave: her affair with Bob Denver of Gilligan’s Island 

Page 2: Best and Worst Celeb Tippers -- Katherine Heigl, Amy Schumer, Drew Barrymore, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Johnny Depp, Jay-Z 

Page 3: Charlie Sheen, Ben Affleck, Sean Penn, Sharon Stone, Naomi Campbell, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg took the 2020 Tip Challenge 

Page 4: Goldie Hawn’s movie roles 

Page 6: Melissa Gilbert who played Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie says if there’s one piece of unfinished business that emerged from the show it’s that she’d like to punch former co-star Shannen Doherty -- Shannen was only 12 when she joined the Little House cast for the show’s ninth and final season playing Jenny Wilder but in a couples therapy session with her first husband Bo Brinkman it came out that Shannen at 22 had bagged Bo in bed 

Page 7: Country star Dolly Parton may be 75 year old but that doesn’t stop her from leaping out of bed at 3 a.m. every morning -- she’s a very very very early riser and she goes to bed pretty early but she’s up and down

* Tom Hanks has been in countless movies and TV shows but his most important role in life has been as a father of four and he has tips for how to do it right 

Page 8: If you’ve soured on feeding canned dog food to your precious pooch you’re not alone -- plenty of owners are switching over to healthy people-food diets for their pets but it’s essential to get guidance from your veterinarian 

Page 9: Most of your kitty’s diet should be a nutritionally complete cat food but you can give them a treat from your plate every once in a while -- you just need to know how to choose feline-friendly snacks with nutrients they need and which they should NEVER eat -- check with your veterinarian 

* Why animals creep into our dreams -- we all dream about animals from time to time and here are some of the most common creatures of our nights and what they could be trying to tell us 

Page 10: On his 21st birthday Matt Goodman raised a glass to his late father who had left behind the money to buy his son’s first beer 

Page 11: Your Health -- the stark truth is that sleeping naked is good for you 

Page 12: Top Guns -- these Hollywood stars were fastest on the draw -- James Garner, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Burt Lancaster, Roy Rogers 

Page 13: Kevin Costner, Yul Brynner, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne 

Page 14: Dear Tony, America’s Top Psychic Healer -- a lesson from COVID-19 which is work on mentally healing ourselves, Tony predicts Miley Cyrus will struggle to overcome many of her self-destructive habits, finding strength through religion and she will be back on the hit parade come summer 

Page 15: If you and your partner fight a lot here’s a great idea to grasp: holding each other’s hand is the key to better conflict resolution 

Page 16: Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton might be royals but they’re raising their children just like any other parents and family is their first priority and Will and Kate are rarely apart from their three kids Prince George and Prince Charlotte and Prince Louis 

Page 18: Maggie the shelter stray was twice unlucky when two potential forever homes kicked her to the curb but now she’s found her true calling as a beloved K-9 officer 

Page 19: A homeless man in Atlanta put his life on the line to rescue every single cat and dog from a blazing inferno at an animal shelter 

Page 20: Cover Story -- a three-hour tour that turned into a three-season laugh-fest on Gilligan’s Island made Dawn Wells a star and she took the show’s juiciest secrets to her grave including a red-hot affair with co-star Bob Denver -- Dawn who died of complications related to COVID-19 at age 82 hid a crazy sexy side which she kept under wraps because it was the exact opposite of the squeaky-clean image se presented to the world as farm girl Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island 

Page 22: This Michigan teen is a top Elvis Presley impersonator even performing in Las Vegas and the only one with Down syndrome 

Page 24: Texas firefighters were hailed as heroes after they rescued a four-year-old boy who had fallen down a well 

Page 25: Here’s the dirt on soil-free gardening 

Page 26: Nice Work If You Can Get It -- celebs shell out stupid money for stupid jobs -- Rod Stewart travels with a room-darkening team, Lady Gaga hates to sleep alone and her personal assistant had to get in bed with her on nights when Gaga was solo, Larry Ellison likes to play basketball on his yacht and employs a person who job it is to circle it in a boat and retrieve stray balls from the ocean, Mariah Carey has a woman who stands beside her at all times holding a drink, Snoop Dogg pays a professional blunts roller, Prince Charles has a personal dresser, Justin Bieber’s entourage includes someone to hold his drink and another to hold his slice of pizza, Sean Combs has an assistant whose only job is to carry around an umbrella for him 

Page 28: Burt Lancaster was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars acting in more than 70 movies during a four-decade-long career but he was also a silly practical joker says his daughter Joanna Lancaster one of the actor’s five children 

Page 30: Legendary actress and dancer Ann-Marget will be 80 years old in April but she’s still stepping out and making movies -- you’re not dead when you reach a certain age said the star who shot to fame when she famously dated Elvis Presley when they made Viva Las Vegas in 1964 

* Candice Bergen running wild and free at age 74 -- she recently became a first-time grandmother and is selling her hand-designed merchandise online 

* What is Marie Osmond doing during the pandemic? She bought a Harley motorcycle and so did her husband Steve and they love to go riding together -- the twosome also take walks and see their kids and grandkids and stay busy and have fun 

Page 42: All Washed Up -- surprising facts about bathing and showering 

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Ellen DeGeneres goes for a spin in California (picture), Chrissy Teigen and John Legend take their kids Luna and Miles to watch planes make the tricky landing at St. Barts’ airport (picture), Joan Collins claims she once gave Bobby Kennedy the brush off because neither of them was single at the time, George Clooney can’t bear the thought of his early film Grizzly II seeing the light of day but it is set to be released later this year, Barry Gibb the last living member of The Bee Gees says life was incredibly hard after losing his brothers and bandmates Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb who died in 2012 and 2003, Ray Liotta and Jacy Nittolo engaged, Bob Seger paid tribute to saxophonist Alto Reed a longtime member of his Silver Bullet Band who lost his life to colon cancer 

Page 45: Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla show off their walking sticks outside their home at Birkhall in Scotland (picture), Tori Spelling gets some puppy love from one of their pet pooches in L.A. with help from hubby Dean McDermott (picture), Megan Fox has moved on with Machine Gun Kelly and her estranged husband Brian Austin Green isn’t moping solo -- he vacationed in Hawaii with Sharna Burgess of Dancing with the Stars, British photographer David Bailey is dishing on his storied career in his memoir -- he claims sloshed Elizabeth Taylor tried to swipe his camera and his first impression of ex-wife Catherine Deneuve was that she was short and a bit on the fat side, Phyllis McGuire who shared the stage with her late siblings Dorothy and Ruby as the McGuire Sisters died in her lavish Las Vegas home -- she found fame through her voice and infamy through her relationship with Sin City mobster Sam Giancana 

Page 46: Good-hearted sheriff’s deputies surprised a woman with a vehicle after they kept getting calls about her walking along the highway in the freezing cold each morning 

Page 47: These UN Ambassadors use star power to help -- Emma Watson, Danny Glover, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne, Mia Farrow, Katy Perry, Alyssa Milano 

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On This Day...

On this day in 1952, legendary actor Charlie Chaplin, who had departed New York for London with his family aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth the day before, publicly had his re-entry permit to the United States revoked by Attorney General James P. McGranery. Chaplin, a British citizen, had built virtually his entire career to that point in the United States, but a series of scandals and innuendos that he was a member of the Communist Party tainted his reputation. For the next two decades, Chaplin lived in Switzerland, having severed all ties to the United States.

Charlie Chaplin became one of the film industry’s first great superstars in the 1920s and 1930s. During this time, Chaplin made a number of silent films which are still considered among the hundred best movies ever made. In 1940, Chaplin crowned his career with the release of his first sound film, The Great Dictator. Considering the time in which it was made, The Great Dictator remains today an astonishingly profound indictment of fascism and nationalism when the horrors of both were barely apparent to the rest of the world. The satire was a critical success, and was also Chaplin’s most commercially successful film. Chaplin’s career was at its zenith.

In 1941-42, Chaplin had a brief affair with actress Joan Barry. The dalliance became public knowledge in the months after Chaplin ended the relationship, when Barry began stalking Chaplin, leading to her being arrested twice. Around the same time, Barry announced she was pregnant and filed a paternity suit against Chaplin, who insisted the child was not his. After two trials, in which much of Chaplin’s personal life was put into public record leading to many frenzied gossip columns, Chaplin was determined by the court to be the father of Barry’s daughter. He was ordered to financially support the child until her 21st birthday. The torrid nature of the proceedings amplified when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who disliked Chaplin, took advantage of the paternity suit and announced that the FBI was investigating Chaplin for alleged violations of the Mann Act. Hoover’s allegation was that Chaplin had impregnated Barry after transporting her across state lines, essentially charging him with sex trafficking. There was scant evidence to support the charge and the jury acquitted Chaplin in that regard. Chaplin’s reputation, however, was badly scarred. Chaplin exacerbated the entire situation still further when, at the age of 54, he married his 18 year protege, Oona O’Neil. The once-highly praised actor was now thought of as a lecherous old man.

The end of World War II led to a rapid deterioration in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The erstwhile wartime allies grew suspicious of the each other’s geopolitical intentions and abilities. This period, which I’ve written about before, is called the Red Scare, and lasted much of the 1940s and 50s. During this time, thousands of American citizens were investigated by the FBI for any statements or actions that appeared to show a connection to communism, the Soviet Union, or any other “progressive” ideas. The House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joe McCarthy saw themselves as the scourge of anyone who, in their eyes, participated in movements that sought to undermine the capitalist society of the west.

It was in this climate that Charlie Chaplin released his first post-war film, Monsieur Verdoux. The film marked the first time Chaplin did not feature in his role of The Tramp. Instead, it was a black comedy about a poor French bank teller who supports a lavish lifestyle by marrying women of means and then murdering them. The film was taken as a criticism of western values and of the capitalist system. Chaplin said as much and this, along with previous statements criticizing national policies which lead to war, brought him to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI again. Monsieur Verdoux received somewhat muted critical praise and was a domestic box office bust because it was deemed anti-American.  While he was despondent over the film’s failure, he refused to disassociate himself from its message, calling it the “most clever film I ever made.”

With his reputation still sullied by the Joan Barry affair, Chaplin’s apparent association with anti-western ideals further undermined his career. Chaplin was even briefly investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, though he was never called to testify. Throughout the late 1940s, the FBI continued to investigate Chaplin, intending to seize on any opportunity to have him deported. For his part, Chaplin denied he was a communist, but refused to cooperate with either HUAC or the FBI, declaring that their actions trampled on civil liberties.

In 1952, Chaplin’s studio released his next film, Limelight. The film focused on a once popular vaudeville actor coming to terms with his fading popularity. Though it was filmed entirely in Hollywood, it was set in London. Because of this, Chaplin decided to hold the premiere across the Atlantic, in his native Britain. Though Chaplin had lived in the United States for four decades, and his wife Oona was an American citizen, he personally never sought citizenship. Upon leaving the country, he would have to apply for re-entry with immigration officials. Realizing the opportunity, the Attorney General, at Hoover’s urging, declared on September 19, the day after Chaplin departed New York City, that any application for reentry would be denied. This decision was allegedly supported by evidence of communist collusion in Chaplin’s FBI file, though this assertion is now known to be false and no such evidence exists.

Chaplin accepted the circumstances and moved with his family to Switzerland. His wife, Oona, renounced her American citizenship and become a British citizen. Chaplin closed his studio, liquidated his American estate, and sold his share in United Artists studios. Chaplin would not step foot in the United States for two decades. In 1972, he was invited to Hollywood to receive an honorary Academy Award. Chaplin reluctantly agreed. When he stepped on the stage at the Academy Awards on April 10, 1972, Chaplin received a 12-minute standing ovation, his reputation as one of the American film industry’s finest actors and producers completely resurrected.

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Alfred Hitchcock and his Birds

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Behind the camera, his pendulous lips exhaling bad breath and extraordinarily obscene jokes in a lugubrious Cockney accent, stood the corpulent figure of Alfred Hitchcock, acknowledged as cinema’s master of murder, mayhem and suspense.

In front of the camera, poised, elegant, remote, and seemingly unattainable, reclined the exquisitely beautiful Tippi Hedren, his latest star, and the last in a long line of ice-cool blonde screen goddesses with whom Hitchcock had become fixated during his 40-year career.

Hedren, a former model, was then 34 — more than 30 years his junior. She had a six-year-old daughter — now the movie star Melanie Griffith — and was about to marry a second husband, her agent Noel Marshall.

But Hitchcock, in spite of knowing this, had become dangerously obsessed with Hedren, behaving as the ultimate Svengali. He had started to bombard her with crude sexual overtures, and had ruthlessly sought to control every aspect of her life, off the screen as well as on it.

The flare-up that occurred that day had been a long time coming. After their second film together — the psychological thriller Marnie, in which she starred opposite Sean Connery — Hedren was nominated for the Photoplay Award as the most promising new actress of the year.

She asked Hitchcock’s permission to travel to New York to appear on The Tonight Show, where the award was to be presented. But Hitchcock could not bear the prospect of her departure, even for two days. He abruptly refused permission for her to go, telephoning the network on her behalf to reject the award and cancel her appearance.

For two years, Hedren had preserved an iron self-control in her dealings with the great director, refusing ever to rise to his sexual advances.

But that day, unable to contain herself any longer, all the pent-up emotion poured forth as she exploded, screaming at Hitchcock and allegedly calling him ‘a fat pig’ in front of the assembled crew on the set. Hitchcock froze. ‘She did what no one is permitted to do,’ he complained bitterly. ‘She referred to my weight.’

Furious, Hedren demanded to be released from her exclusive contract with Hitchcock.

From that moment, he brutally excised her from his life, threatening to ruin her career and declining even to address her personally, except through intermediaries. He never again uttered her name, referring to her only as ‘that girl’.

This astonishing saga is the subject of a 90-minute BBC2 television drama, The Girl, starring Sienna Miller as Hedren and Toby Jones as Hitchcock, with Imelda Staunton as Hitchcock’s wife, Alma, and Penelope Wilton as his loyal assistant, Peggy Robertson. This is a few years old now (about 4), but still worth a viewing.

Miss Hedren, now 82, is the artistic adviser on the film. Her ‘one reservation’, she says, ‘is that I worry they will not portray me as strong a character as I was — and still am. I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock.

‘He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.’

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, the son of a Catholic greengrocer, was born in the East End suburb of Leytonstone in 1899.  His father, William, was a strict disciplinarian who took to sending his son to the local police station with a note explaining that he had been ‘naughty’.

On arrival, a custody sergeant known to the family would lock the boy in a cell for five or ten minutes before releasing him. The clanging of the door, Hitchcock always insisted, used to cause him ‘dread’, and gave him a lifelong fear of arrest, jails and policemen. It also evidently appealed to his sense of drama.

His mother, Emma, was sharp-tongued and exacting. She compelled her son to stand at the foot of her bed and recite his daily activities — something he later referred to as his ‘evening confession’.

For years afterwards, he bitterly resented his mother’s tyranny, and close friends suspected that whenever he had one of his heroines murdered or violated on screen, he was mentally attacking his mother.

His marriage in 1926 to the film editor and screenwriter Alma Reville was to prove sexless. With the exception of one isolated occasion when they somehow succeeded in conceiving their daughter, Patricia — an experience in which he would admit to finding the ‘mechanics unpleasant’ — Hitchcock would remain celibate for the rest of his days.

By way of explaining this to friends,  he would insist that he was  ‘sexually impotent’.

His love life and more extreme sexual fantasies thereafter were played out on screen through his celluloid heroines, rather than in reality. And as the years passed, the line between that reality and his darker fantasies, arising out of his own desperate frustrations, often became invisible.

From adolescence onwards, Hitchcock’s principal obsession was with blonde women. Significantly, his wife, who had reddish hair, did not belong to that category.

His first screen blonde was the West End musical comedy star known only by her first name, June.

Her natural hair colour was light brown. But when he cast her as the threatened heroine in his silent version of a thriller called The Lodger in 1927, about a Jack-the-Ripper-type serial killer who enjoyed slicing up golden girls on foggy nights near London Bridge, Hitchcock insisted that his leading lady had to be blonde.

To her outrage, June found herself compelled to wear a blonde wig, the curls on which Hitchcock meticulously arranged personally. ‘By the end of the first week,’ she complained, ‘I looked like Harpo Marx.’

His second British blonde was the bisexual Joan Barry, mother of Henrietta Tiarks, Duchess of Bedford. As the young wife in Rich And Strange, Barry was filmed by Hitchcock in a water tank swimming with her husband, played by Henry Kendall.

Barry stands astride, daring him to swim between her legs. When he does so, she suddenly locks his head between her thighs until bubbles rise from his mouth. As he surfaces, he splutters: ‘You almost killed me that time.’

Barry responds: ‘Wouldn’t that have been a beautiful death?’

To Hitchcock’s infinite regret, the scene — perfectly capturing his lust for, and fear of, the alluring blonde — was killed by the censors.

The biggest star Hitchcock directed in the new talkie era was the reigning sex symbol of the day, Jessie Matthews. But Matthews, though teeming with sex appeal, was brunette and had no sexual message for Hitchcock.

She was also too powerful a box-office asset for Hitchcock to be able to  impose his will on her, and she abruptly rejected his suggestion that she should adopt ‘a mincing operetta style’ in Waltzes From Vienna.

When he tried to insist, the head of the studio, Sir Michael Balcon, ordered him to desist, fearing that Matthews would walk off the picture and away from the studio. Hitchcock never forgave her snub to his authority, and was still hostile to her 40 years later.

Much more to his taste was the crystal-cool blonde Madeleine Carroll, star of The 39 Steps. But like his other blondes, Carroll fell victim to Hitch’s sexual fantasies. His fascination with bondage was satisfied on the first day of shooting by handcuffing Carroll to her co-star Robert Donat, whom she had never met before.

He then pretended to have lost the keys, leaving them shackled together in embarrassing discomfort and proximity for most of the day — a predicament they then also had to act out in the film.

A streak of ruthless sadism began to characterise Hitchcock’s dealings with his leading ladies. His first Hollywood blonde, Joan Fontaine, playing the shy second Mrs de Winter in the 1940 film Rebecca, was deliberately isolated by him.

‘He would constantly tell me that no one thought I was any good except himself,’ she said. He then undermined her by saying that her co-star, Laurence Olivier, disliked her and that she was liable to be replaced.

The much earthier Swedish blonde, Ingrid Bergman, tried to arouse Hitchcock’s dormant sexuality, but left him utterly humiliated when he proved physically incapable of responding to her overtures. He was hopelessly infatuated with her, a situation that caused tensions in his marriage to Alma.

Bergman, a warm-hearted, highly-sexed woman who was genuinely fond of him, believed him to be starved of affection and tried to remedy this, but his repressed libido could not be aroused, even by her.

Hitchcock’s perfect prototype of the screen blonde was undoubtedly Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco.

He was not deceived by her sedate, ladylike and refined facade. He would dine out with glee on her convoluted love life during the filming of Dial M For Murder, in which her frenzied struggle against strangulation had distinct sexual overtones.

‘That Gryce!’ he would declare in his sibilant Cockney. ‘She fucked everyone! Why, she even fucked little Freddie (Frederick Knott), the writer!’

American Kim Novak was another blonde whom Hitchcock bent to his will.

‘Before filming started on Vertigo,’ records one of his biographers, ‘he invited her to his house and chatted about everything except the movie — art, food, travel, wine — all the things he thought she wouldn’t know much about. He succeeded in making her feel like a helpless child, ignorant and untutored, and that’s just what he wanted — to break down her resistance. By the end of the afternoon, he had her right where he wanted her, docile and obedient.’

Janet Leigh also became a blonde sex object for the director. In the notorious shower scene in Psycho, the blade of the knife was employed to convey the impression of violent rape and sexual invasion.

As one of his screenwriters, Arthur Laurents, remarked: ‘He lived in the land of kink. Perverse sex, kinky sex, that fascinated him . . . essentially he was a voyeur.’ And then, one day in 1961, while watching a TV commercial for a diet drink, Hitchcock glimpsed his greatest blonde obsession of all, Tippi Hedren.

Putting her under exclusive contract at $500 a week — Poverty Row pay by Hollywood standards — he chose her clothes, her make-up, her jewellery, her coiffure, advised on what she should eat, whom she should see, and how she should live.

‘She’s already reaching the lows and highs of terror,’ he announced in 1962, and it was almost an understatement.

As the distraught heroine of The Birds, she was assured by Hitchcock that only mechanical birds would be used, instead of which Hedren endured five days of prop men, protected by thick leather gloves, flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her, with their beaks clamped shut with elastic bands.

When one of the birds gouged her cheek, narrowly missing her eye, Hedren collapsed on the set, crying hysterically. A physician ordered a week’s rest, during which she was assailed by ‘nightmares filled with flapping wings’.

Small wonder, as she increasingly realised the full extent of Hitchcock’s domination of her, that in panic she finally rebelled and broke free from him.

He kept her on salary, holding her to her contract for two years, during which he refused all other requests for her services, including one from the acclaimed French director, Francois Truffaut, an offer of which Hitchcock never even informed her.

In 1967, after finally breaking free by accepting Charlie Chaplin’s invitation to appear in his film, A Countess From Hong Kong, Hedren grudgingly agreed to have tea with the Hitchcocks at Claridge’s.

The idea was a peacemaking bid by Alma, but it proved to be a strained and tense occasion on  which Hitchcock could barely  conceal his bitterness towards her. There are those who believe  he never recovered from the blow to his pride that Hedren’s defection inflicted. He made only four further films after Marnie — Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot — none of them vintage Hitchcock.

By 1980, when he was belatedly knighted, he had utterly withdrawn into himself, was declining  food, refusing to get out of bed,  and staring coldly at the very few visitors he received. He died on April 29, 1980, three months short of his 81st birthday.

If Tippi Hedren, through his egomania, lost her chance of major stardom, at least in the end she won back her freedom and reasserted her independence from a tortured and tormented genius.

There’s something eerie about sitting almost alone in a large cinema. It’s as though something has happened somewhere else and you are the only one who doesn’t know.

by Helena Bryanlith