Watch The Girl online free on WeStream

Discussion

The Girl

Alfred Hitchcock is regarded as one of cinema's finest creative brains. Hitchcock's starring females were cool, pretty, and preferably blonde, and he was known for his psychological thrillers. Tippi Hedren, a little-known fashion model who got her big break after Hitchcock's wife saw her in a TV commercial, was one of these actresses. Hedren was surprised when the filmmaker, at the height of his career, promptly cast her in his next feature, 1963's The Birds, after bringing her to Universal Studios. Hedren had no idea that the most difficult component of the film would come from behind the camera, as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot.

Read full

Genres: