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Alfred Hitchcock is renowned for his fascination with beautiful blonds. His camera frames and delights in them. Yet, the true object of his love was his dark wife, Alma Reville.

Looking at the photographs of the couple now Hitchcock is always in the forefront but Alma’s eyes shine out with the intelligence and calm that made her Hitchcock’s soul mate. Formally listed under her maiden name as a story consultant in the credits of 16 of her husband’s films, Alma is thought to have been Hitchcock’s constant professional collaborator. Informally she advised him on almost all his productions, assisting in finding stories and fine-tuning the results. William Rothman, one of best critical authors on Hitchcock, believes the influence of their marriage is key to the understanding of all the great director’s films.

Alma was working as an editor’s assistant and script girl when she met Hitchcock at Famous Players-Lasky studio in London. They married in 1926 and travelled to Lake Cuomo for their honeymoon, a place to which they returned with frequency through out their marriage.

Cinema was the couple’s passion. A talented editor, Alma worked on British films with directors like Berthold Viertel and Maurice Elvey though her main focus was her husband’s work. She was particularly good at revising dialogue and spotting inconsistencies in his plots.

Portraits of Alma occur in at least three of Hitchcock’s films. First in “The Paradine Case” Hitchcock parodies his weakness for blonds and lauds his wife’s calm response. In the film, Gay the wife of an attorney sees that her husband is infatuated by his stunning and guilty client, but trusts that he will see his way past this misguided obsession.

In “I Confess”, Hitchcock articulates the power of the desire to provide a better life for his wife. And in “Frenzy” a murder mystery, it is the detective’s wife who deduces that the chief suspect could not possibly be responsible for the death, long before her bubbling husband arrives at the same conclusion.

Hitchcock and Alma were a devoted couple in public and in private and he was forever ready to acknowledge her brilliance.

Alfred Hitchcock & Alma Reville biography



George Bernard Shaw once autographed an original play manuscript given to the director, by dedicating it: "To Alma Reville's husband.
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Alma's scripts:

Shadow of a Doubt (1991) (TV) (earlier screenplay)


Suspicion (1987) (TV) (1941 screenplay)


Stage Fright (1950) (adaptation)


Paradine Case, The (1947) (adaptation)
It's in the Bag! (1945)
... aka Fifth Chair, The (1945) (UK)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Suspicion (1941)


Jamaica Inn (1939) (continuity)
Young and Innocent (1937) (uncredited)
... aka Girl Was Young, The (1938) (USA)
Secret Agent (1936) (uncredited)
... aka Laugh Track: Secret Agent (2003) (USA: video title (redubbed comic version))
Passing of the Third Floor Back, The (1935)
Forbidden Territory (1934)
Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
... aka Strauss' Great Waltz (1935) (USA)
Nine Till Six (1932)
Number Seventeen (1932)
... aka Number 17 (1932) (USA)
Water Gipsies, The (1932)
... aka Water Gypsies, The (1932)
Outsider, The (1931)
Sally in Our Alley (1931)
Skin Game, The (1931) (story)
Rich and Strange (1932)
... aka East of Shanghai (1932) (USA)
Juno and the Paycock (1930) (scenario)
... aka Shame of Mary Boyle, The (1930) (USA)
Murder! (1930)


Romance of Seville, The (1929)
After the Verdict (1928)
Constant Nymph, The (1928)
First Born, The (1928)
Ring, The (1927) (adaptation) (uncredited)

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