Alfred Hitchcock, said Geoffrey Macnab in the London Independent. The director, then in his 60s, groomed the young Hedren for stardom and gave her the leading role in his 1963 classic, The Birds.

Alfred Hitchcock ... reflected on, as Hitchcock would try to shape their performance by subjecting the characters to varying degrees of torment. The leading lady of The Birds and Marnie, Tippi ...