The Man Who Knew Hitchcock

Herbert Coleman

doi:10.5771/9781461706922

Summary

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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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-5912-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-0692-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 383
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
Chapter 1: Cliff Yards, West Virginia No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 2: Bluefield, West Virginia No access Pages 7 - 8
Chapter 3: Florida No access Pages 9 - 10
Chapter 4: Hollywood No access Pages 11 - 22
Chapter 5: Wolf Song No access Pages 23 - 28
Chapter 6: Fighting Caravans No access Pages 29 - 32
Chapter 7: Skippy No access Pages 33 - 36
Chapter 8: A Climb up the Ladder No access Pages 37 - 40
Chapter 9: The Last Outpost No access Pages 41 - 44
Chapter 10: Desert Gold No access Pages 45 - 48
Chapter 11: Poverty Row No access Pages 49 - 52
Chapter 12: The Outlaw No access Pages 53 - 56
Chapter 13: I Met Him in Paris No access Pages 57 - 62
Chapter 14: The Outlaw―Again No access Pages 63 - 66
Chapter 15: The Light That Failed No access Pages 67 - 70
Chapter 16: Reap the Wild Wind No access Pages 71 - 80
Chapter 17: Safeguarding Military Information No access Pages 81 - 82
Chapter 18: Beau Geste No access Pages 83 - 90
Chapter 19: For Whom the Bell Tolls No access Pages 91 - 104
Chapter 20: Five Graves to Cairo No access Pages 105 - 108
Chapter 21: China No access Pages 109 - 112
Chapter 22: Here Come the Waves and Blue Skies No access Pages 113 - 116
Chapter 23: Frenchman's Creek No access Pages 117 - 120
Chapter 24: The Emperor's Waltz No access Pages 121 - 124
Chapter 25: Calcutta No access Pages 125 - 128
Chapter 26: A Shoddy Tale No access Pages 129 - 130
Chapter 27: California No access Pages 131 - 134
Chapter 28: Copper Canyon No access Pages 135 - 136
Chapter 29: The Big Clock No access Pages 137 - 138
Chapter 30: The Great Gatsby No access Pages 139 - 142
Chapter 31: Red, Hot and Blue No access Pages 143 - 146
Chapter 32: Submarine Command No access Pages 147 - 148
Chapter 33: Branded No access Pages 149 - 150
Chapter 34: Carrie No access Pages 151 - 156
Chapter 35: Roman Holiday No access Pages 157 - 168
Chapter 36: Forest Lakes, Colorado No access Pages 169 - 170
Chapter 37: Rear Window No access Pages 171 - 182
Chapter 38: To Catch a Thief No access Pages 183 - 192
Chapter 39: The Trouble with Harry No access Pages 193 - 210
Chapter 40: The Man who Knew too Much No access Pages 211 - 216
Chapter 41: More Tales of the Man who Knew too Much No access Pages 217 - 224
Chapter 42: The Wrong Man No access Pages 225 - 234
Chapter 43: Flamingo Feather No access Pages 235 - 242
Chapter 44: Vertigo No access Pages 243 - 266
Chapter 45: No Bail for the Judge No access Pages 267 - 276
Chapter 46: North by Northwest No access Pages 277 - 286
Chapter 47: A Career Decision No access Pages 287 - 292
Chapter 48: Whispering Smith No access Pages 293 - 298
Chapter 49: Checkmate No access Pages 299 - 302
Chapter 50: Posse from Hell No access Pages 303 - 306
Chapter 51: Battle at Bloody Beach No access Pages 307 - 314
Chapter 52: An Unhappy Interlude No access Pages 315 - 318
Chapter 53: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour No access Pages 319 - 322
Chapter 54: Nevada Smith No access Pages 323 - 340
Chapter 55: Maya No access Pages 341 - 348
Chapter 56: Every Time a Heart Beats No access Pages 349 - 354
Chapter 57: Topaz No access Pages 355 - 374
Index No access Pages 375 - 383