The Man Who Knew Hitchcock
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The Man Who Knew Hitchcock

A Hollywood Memoir

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The Man Who Knew Hitchcock

A Hollywood Memoir

About this book

As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of commercial and critical successes with one of the greats of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock.

In this memoir, Coleman describes working on such classics as The Big Clock, Carrie, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Roman Holiday. Coleman also provides vivid portraits of the many celebrated stars he worked with, including Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Alan Ladd, Ray Milland, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQueen, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as some of the greatest directors of the era, including Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler.

Above all, Coleman discusses for the first time his long working relationship with Hitchcock during the director's most creatively fertile period. Coleman provides fresh insights into the making of some of Hitchcock's most celebrated films including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. He also discusses his work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the director's long running television series.

Not only an historical record of several important and dynamic periods in Hollywood, this memoir offers intimate insight about Hitchcock and other legendary filmmaking notables. Featuring many stories that would have been lost were it not for this book, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir is sure to be of interest to film students, film buffs, and in particular to anyone fascinated by the master of suspense.

Illustrated with photos.

Published in hardcover as The Hollywood I Knew: A Memoir, 1916-1988 (0-8108-4120-7)

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Cliff Yards, West Virginia
  9. Chapter 2 Bluefield, West Virginia
  10. Chapter 3 Florida
  11. Chapter 4 Hollywood
  12. Chapter 5 Wolf Song
  13. Chapter 6 Fighting Caravans
  14. Chapter 7 Skippy
  15. Chapter 8 A Climb up the Ladder
  16. Chapter 9 The Last Outpost
  17. Chapter 10 Desert Gold
  18. Chapter 11 Poverty Row
  19. Chapter 12 The Outlaw
  20. Chapter 13 I Met Him in Paris
  21. Chapter 14 The Outlaw—Again
  22. Chapter 15 The Light That Failed
  23. Chapter 16 Reap the Wild Wind
  24. Chapter 17 Safeguarding Military Information
  25. Chapter 18 Beau Geste
  26. Chapter 19 For Whom the Bell Tolls
  27. Chapter 20 Five Graves to Cairo
  28. Chapter 21 China
  29. Chapter 22 Here Come the Waves and Blue Skies
  30. Chapter 23 Frenchman’s Creek
  31. Chapter 24 The Emperor’s Waltz
  32. Chapter 25 Calcutta
  33. Chapter 26 A Shoddy Tale
  34. Chapter 27 California
  35. Chapter 28 Copper Canyon
  36. Chapter 29 The Big Clock
  37. Chapter 30 The Great Gatsby
  38. Chapter 31 Red, Hot and Blue
  39. Chapter 32 Submarine Command
  40. Chapter 33 Branded
  41. Chapter 34 Carrie
  42. Chapter 35 Roman Holiday
  43. Chapter 36 Forest Lakes, Colorado
  44. Chapter 37 Rear Window
  45. Chapter 38 To Catch a Thief
  46. Chapter 39 The Trouble with Harry
  47. Chapter 40 The Man Who Knew Too Much
  48. Chapter 41 More Tales of The Man Who Knew Too Much
  49. Chapter 42 The Wrong Man
  50. Chapter 43 Flamingo Feather
  51. Chapter 44 Vertigo
  52. Chapter 45 No Bail for the Judge
  53. Chapter 46 North by Northwest
  54. Chapter 47 A Career Decision
  55. Chapter 48 Whispering Smith
  56. Chapter 49 Checkmate
  57. Chapter 50 Posse from Hell
  58. Chapter 51 Battle at Bloody Beach
  59. Chapter 52 An Unhappy Interlude
  60. Chapter 53 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  61. Chapter 54 Nevada Smith
  62. Chapter 55 Maya
  63. Chapter 56 Every Time a Heart Beats
  64. Chapter 57 Topaz
  65. Index