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	The Biography Channel - Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alma was working as an editor’s assistant and script girl when she met Hitchcock at Famous Players-Lasky studio in London.
		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.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /new_site/biography.php?id=981 (353 words)

	Alma Reville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alma Reville (August 14, 1899 – July 6, 1982 in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California) was an actress, assistant director and the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while working as an assistant director on one of his first films.
		Alma worked on many films, but eventually began to work exclusively (many times uncredited) with her husband.
		As her husband had done, she eventually became a naturalized citizen of the USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alma_Reville (178 words)

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		Alma's mother, Lucy, had lived for a time at Robin Hood Terrace, Nottingham, before marrying Matthew Reville in 1891 at the Castle Gate Meeting House, a non-conformist chapel.
		At the same time that young Alfred Hitchcock was venturing into local cinemas, Lucy Reville took her daughter to the cinema at weekends and holidays and the young girl became keenly interested in films.
		Alma soon showed that she had a good ear for dialogue and a keen eye for editing out flaws in the final film.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /sherwoodtimes/hitch.htm (429 words)

	Alma Hitchcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alfred Hitchcock's companion for 54 years, Alma Hitchcock wed Hitch December 2 1926, she was his assistant in virtually every production from then on.
		In François Truffaut's book-length interview with Hitchcock, Hitchcock mentions several times, that Alma was his harshest critic, and had a great eye for finding out inconsistencies in the rough cut.
		Alma and Hitchcock had a daughter Patricia, who had minor roles in Strangers on a Train, and Psycho.
	www.hitchcock.tv /people/alma.html (123 words)

	Alma Reville Hitchcock: the woman behind a big man. New book, Hitch and Alma, by Robert Schoen
		His most poignant and telling tribute to Alma is perhaps the role of Detective Oxford's unnamed wife in Frenzy, who figures out that the anti-hero suspect Richard Blainey couldn't possibly be the "neck tie murderer" way before her husband comes to the same conclusion.
		Under her maiden name Alma Reville, she earned a story credit in no less than sixteen of his films for story adaptation or screenplay collaboration.
		Alma became his collaborator and sounding board in every sense, with a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for scrutinizing a film's final version for flaws so minor they escaped Hitchcock's own notice, and that of his top notch crew.
	members.tripod.com /~hitchandalma/Alma.htm (762 words)

	They worked together on several films including Anglo-
		Alma converted to Roman Catholicism and the couple were married at Brompton Oratory, Knightsbridge on 2 December 1926.
		From this time forward Alma was the ultimate arbiter of the story for a Hitchcock film, her opinion of the final cut essential, the last to see a film before distribution and the last to give an opinion on a scene or narrative.
		Of the British films Hitchcock directed up to 1939, Alma was usually credited with the screenplay or continuity and if Alma was on set, Alfred would often confer on the details of a certain shot or line of dialogue.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /sherwoodtimes/british.htm (790 words)

	Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in Nottingham, England on August 14, 1899, Alma Reville was only a few hours younger than the boy who would grow up to be her husband.
		As a young girl Alma had few friends, but was always close to her family.
		Their union was one that lasted their lifetime and even in death Alma still had her memories of the man she loved and always would love.
	www.bookreviewcafe.com /alma-hitchcock.php (242 words)

	Hitch and Alma
		As privately as Hitch and Alma lived together, they were often seen in public as a devoted couple.
		As quietly as Alma stayed in the background of her husband's accomplishments, there is mounting evidence that she was in fact his most important collaborator, often suggesting literary works that eventually became Hitchcock films.
		George Bernard Shaw once autographed an original play manuscript given to the director, by dedicating it: "To Alma Reville's husband." Now Patricia O'Connell is planning a biography on her mother, so that the world can fully know Alma's great contribution to the Hitchcock legacy.
	members.tripod.com /~hitchandalma/perfectEnglish.htm (337 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Reville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It's Nicholas Reville and Holmes Wilson, whose home base effort to tweak the industry is at http://www.DownhillBattle.org.
		What we're doing is allowing people to collect their own histories," said David Reville, the director of StoryCorps, which hopes to open booths in several...
		The author also pays tribute to the director's wife, Alma Reville, who worked on the scripts of nearly all his movies, often unpaid and often without taking...
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/R/Reville.shtml (196 words)

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		The story and dialogue between Hitchcock, Alma, his mother Emma, and his cinematic collaborators are all figments of the author's imagination, largely supported by information found in the many books on Hitchcock's life and art.
		Usually working from a novel, play, or short story that intrigued him, he would envision and block out every aspect of characterization and visual plot with the credited screenwriter during extended story conferences, before a single word of the screenplay was committed to paper.
		In 1997, their daughter Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell endowed University of Southern California with the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Chair at the School of Cinema-Television, dedicated to the recognition of her mother's important contribution to Hitchcock's cinema.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=206 (710 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Wandsworth Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An American author is hoping residents of East Twickenham will be able to help him research the life of Alma Hitchcock, wife of director Alfred.
		Alma Reville lived in Sandycombe Road before marrying Alfred in 1926 and worked at the Twickenham film studios as a cutter and editor.
		If you remember Alma contact Mary Troath at 106 Graham Road, London E8 1BX or phone 0171 254 2912.
	www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=65812 (254 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock Biography (2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Between 1920 and 1922 Hitchcock provided the title designs for several movies, while at the same time a young woman named Alma Reville was working for at the same studios, as an editor.
		They were aware of each other, though Hitch had never asked her out because her position had been considered superior to his.
		Alma was another member of the crew, as both the continuity girl and the editor.
	www.tdfilm.com /biography2.html (457 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Pleasure Garden (1927 film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Assistant director: Alma Reville (whom Hitchcock soon married)
		In the entertainment industry, a producer is generally in charge of, or helps to coordinate, the financial, legal, administrative, technological, and artistic aspects of a production.
		Assistant director is a movie term for an assistant to the director whose duties include tracking the progress of filming versus the production schedule, and preparing call sheets.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Pleasure-Garden-%281927-film%29 (599 words)

	Filmography - The Thirties
		Scr: Alma Reville and Walter Mycroft based on the novel and stage play "Enter Sir John" by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson.
		Scr: Alma Reville, Alfred Hitchcock and Rodney Ackland based on a novel and stage play by Jefferson Farjeon.
		Scr: Alma Reville, Alfred Hitchcock and Val Valentine from an original story by Dale Collins.
	hitchcock.bitis.dk /us/sider/tredive.html (726 words)

	ALMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Search the ALMA Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the ALMA Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named ALMA at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/A/ALMA.htm (73 words)

	H2G2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While working at the Lasky studios he met the red-headed young editor and continuity supervisor Alma Reville.
		He was shy with her at first, but when he was given the role of assistant director on Woman to Woman Hitchcock asked her to edit the film, and so began a romance that was to become a lifetime affair.
		Alma eventually became Alfred's wife [Apparently Hitch wouldn't marry Alma until he was 'on the same grade'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A2984051?s_id=11 (181 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Alfred Hitchcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was hired as an assistant director for the production company run by Michael Balcon and Victor Saville in 1923, where he met Alma Reville, a petite film editor whom he married three years later.
		Reville would remain Hitchcock's collaborator and confidante for the remainder of his life.
		After starting to write scripts, Hitchcock was sent to work on a German-British co-production at the UFA studios, famous home of the German Expressionist cinema, which would eventually reveal its influence in his own work.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200547 (893 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the success of The Lodger, Hitchcock began his first efforts to promote himself in the media, and hired a publicist to cement his growing reputation as one of the British film industry's rising stars.
		In 1926, he was to marry his assistant director Alma Reville.
		Alfred Hitchcock died from renal failure in his Bel Air, Los Angeles, home at the age of 80 and was survived by his wife Alma Reville, and their daughter, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock (4362 words)

	Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man
		Filled with fascinating personal anecdotes, Alma Hitchcock is also Pat Hitchcock's story-that of a young girl growing up in Hollywood, and her own on-set experiences in such films as Psycho and Strangers on a Train.
		I have been waiting for someone to write a book that would recount the huge contribution that Alma Reville Hitchcock made to the films for which she received little or no credit.
		I have been eager for someone to write a bio of Alma Hitchcock who is said to have been an even greater cinematographer than her husband.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0425190056.html (609 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions \| 1999 \| Alfred Hitchcock
		Screenplay by Charles Bennett, Alma Reville (adaptation), Ian Hay (dialogue) and Helen Simpson (additional dialogue), based on the novel The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad.
		Wilder worked on the script--along with Hitchcock, Reville (his frequent collaborator), and Benson--about an adoring niece (Wright) who destroys her uncle (Cotten).
		Screenplay by Whitfield Cook and Alma Reville (adaptation), based on a novel by Selwyn Jepson.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/1999/hitchcock/film_listings4.html (2281 words)

	festival 1997 / english
		Even before her years of collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, Alma had been successful in the film industry as a screenwriter, dialogue author, director's assistant, film editor, scriptgirl and Girl Friday.
		When Alfred Hitchcock first entered the business (as a director's assistant and set designer), Alma Reville had already been commanding respect for four years - a true professional who was able to handle the demanding tasks of scripting, cutting and continuity to perfection.
		During the 1930s and 1940s, Alma Reville - along with cameraman Bernard Knowles, producer Michael Balcon and film editors Charles Frend - made up the highly successful team at British Gaumont responsible for such classics as The 39 Steps and The Secret Agent.
	www.femmetotale.de /ftalt/fest1997_e.htm (2702 words)

	ONLIPIX - Great names pictures : HIT
		Group photo 1 (in 1936, with wife Alma REVILLE)/2 (young, with wife Alma REVILLE)/3 (with wife Alma REVILLE)/4 (in 1957, with Kim NOVAK -"Vertigo")/5 (with Grace KELLY)/6 (with Cary GRANT)/7 (ca 40 years old)/8/9 (with Ingrid BERGMAN)/10 (in 1948, with Ingrid BERGMAN)
		HITCHCOCK (Alma, born REVILLE, wife of Alfred HITCHCOCK)(1900-1982)
		HITCHCOCK (Patricia, daughter of Alfred and Alma HITCHCOCK)
	www.onlipix.com /personages/hit.htm (263 words)

	Biography for Alfred Hitchcock (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to many people who knew Hitchcock, he couldn't stand to even look at his wife, Alma Reville, while she was pregnant.
		Alma Reville and Hitch had one daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, who appeared in several of his movies: Stage Fright (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951) and Psycho (1960)
		He almost never socialized when not shooting films, with most of his evenings spent quietly at home with his wife Alma Reville.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000033/bio (3347 words)

	Alma Reville
		She was raised near her father's workplace, Twickenham Film Studios, so it seemed only natural that she herself would begin working there at 15 as a rewind girl in the cutting rooms.
		Thus began a working relationship that would last until his death, even though they did not marry until 1936.
		In addition to her formal professional duties, Reville also provided the great director with invaluable constructive criticism, functioning as his 'ultimate authority,' throughout his long career.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P164179 (171 words)

	SVHS - Alfred Hitchcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His pretty little wife, Alma Reville Hitchcock, a talented film editor, and his daughter, Patricia, lived with him.
		On August 31, 1940, Alfred and Alma Hitchcock purchased a two hundred acre tract, known as "Heart o' the Mountains", from Bruce and Helen Cornwall.
		On other weekends that summer, Alfred, Alma and their cook drove from Los Angeles to their retreat; the cook in the back seat, Alma at the wheel and Alfred in e front passenger seat.
	www.svchamber.org /svhistory/history/hitchcock.htm (1108 words)

	Alma Hitchcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alma Reville rencontra Alfred Hitchcock sur le tournage de son deuxième film, Woman to woman en 1922 (la danseuse blessée, en français), dont elle était la script-girl et monteuse.
		Deux scènes de la vie d'Alfred et Alma, chez eux au début de leur rencontre et lors de l'anniversaire du cinéaste pendant le tournage de L'ombre d'un doute
		Hitchcock, dont la vie sentimentale fut excessivement sage pour le milieu du cinéma, resta fidèle à Alma jusqu'à sa mort en 1980.
	hitchcock.alienor.fr /alma.html (97 words)

	Laurent Bouzereau - Biography and Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By the early 1920s, Alma Reville had been involved in the film industry for a number of years, when she was hired to edit the film debut of an upstart film director named Alfred Hitchcock.
		The two became close, marrying soon after, and she eventually ended up collaborating on most of her husband's films.
		This biography, co-written by her daughter, positions Alma Hitchcock as an artist independent of her husband, and explores her extensive work both on his films and on those of others.
	www.biblio.com /author_biographies/2361091/Laurent_Bouzereau.html (119 words)

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		It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.
		Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence.
		Genres: Thriller Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett Alma Reville Josephine Tey (novel) Composer: Louis Levy Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles Cast: Frank Atkinson Clive Baxter Pamela Bevan Pamela Carme.....................Christine Albert Chevalier Mary Clare.......................Erica's Aunt George Curzon....................Guy Derrick De Marney................Robert Tisdall William Fazan Gerry Fitzgerald Richard George Anna Konstam John Longden.....................Det. Insp.
	www.textfiles.com /media/hitchcock.txt (9344 words)

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