As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and
director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades.
Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy
and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of
commercial and critical successes with one of the greats of cinema,
Alfred Hitchcock. In this memoir, Coleman describes working on such
classics as The Big Clock, Carrie, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom
the Bell Tolls, and Roman Holiday. Coleman also provides vivid
portraits of the many celebrated stars he worked with, including
Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly,
Alan Ladd, Ray Milland, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQueen, and Jimmy
Stewart, as well as some of the greatest directors of the era,
including Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and
William Wyler. Above all, Coleman discusses for the first time his
long working relationship with Hitchcock during the director's most
creatively fertile period. Coleman provides fresh insights into the
making of some of Hitchcock's most celebrated films including Rear
Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, and
North By Northwest. He also discusses his work on Alfred Hitchcock
Presents, the director's long running television series. Not only
an historical record of several important and dynamic periods in
Hollywood, this memoir offers intimate insight about Hitchcock and
other legendary filmmaking notables. Featuring many stories that
would have been lost were it not for this book, The Man Who Knew
Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir is sure to be of interest to film
students, film buffs, and in particular to anyone fascinated by the
master of suspense. Illustrated with photos. Published in hardcover
as The Hollywood I Knew: A Memoir, 1916-1988 (0-8108-4120-7)
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