2019/05/01 by John Billheimer · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Arts and Humanities · #Cinema and Media Studies #Art History and Market Analysis
paper · doi:10.5810/kentucky/9780813177427.003.0006
openalex publication_date 2019/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
This chapter describes the interactions between Hitchcock and David O. Selznick when the director came to America to work for Selznick International. The two men were a mismatched pair, Selznick flamboyant and Hitchcock withdrawn, but they were united in their love of movies. Hitchcock resented Selznick’s memo-writing interference and welcomed his loan-outs to other studios, but Selznick gave the director his ticket to America and the financial support and star access he needed to make first-rate films. Subsequent chapters examine the impacts of censorship on each of the ten films Hitchcock made while under contract to Selznick.