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Jetée · 08-13-2009, 05:37 AM

This Day in History...

Good E-V-E-ning. Master film director Alfred Hitchcock was born on this date in 1899. With many of his dramas of suspense and intrigue becoming classics of the cinema, Hitchcock was one of the best-known directors never to have received an Oscar for directing. Suspicion (1941), Rear Window (1954), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963) are just a few of his films that have chilled fans over the decades. Hitchcock branched out to television in the mid-1950s, with his weekly suspense show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It made a popular tune of Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," which was used as the theme music. In 1980, Queen Elizabeth II knighted Hitchcock, a native of London. He died later that year.

"Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." — Ingrid Bergman

08-13-2009, 05:37 AM	#1293 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	August 13 This Day in History... Good E-V-E-ning. Master film director Alfred Hitchcock was born on this date in 1899. With many of his dramas of suspense and intrigue becoming classics of the cinema, Hitchcock was one of the best-known directors never to have received an Oscar for directing. Suspicion (1941), Rear Window (1954), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963) are just a few of his films that have chilled fans over the decades. Hitchcock branched out to television in the mid-1950s, with his weekly suspense show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It made a popular tune of Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," which was used as the theme music. In 1980, Queen Elizabeth II knighted Hitchcock, a native of London. He died later that year. "Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." — Ingrid Bergman __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi