Ross Eric Gibson explores the Santa Cruz Secrets of legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
After four years in British film-making, Alma Revelle had made a name for herself as an accomplished screenwriter and editor. When she joined Islington Studios, London, in 1921, she noticed a young man carrying a package of “intertitles” under his arm: the film captions he designed for silent movies. He always paid her no notice, going about his daily business. She was used to the disdain some had for women in the workplace. Two years later in 1923, she was called into this man’s office.
Yet this was balanced with Hitch and Alma’s puckish sense of humor, and delight in playing pranks. On screen, these pranks became the “MacGuffin” , and the “twist,” as when things seem normal, until unmasked. Thus, his villains were usually likable, reflective of the wave of Fifth Columnists secretly undermining democracy.
Alma often drove the nine hours up from L.A. on a Thursday, for a family weekend. Then in 1947, J.J. Graham opened the “Sky Park Airport” in Scotts Valley, at which point Hitchcock often flew up. In 1955, Sky Park came under the management of Capitola Airport owners Russell and Esther Rice. They remembered stars from Hitchcock films arriving as guests, such as Hume Cronyn, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, etc. Alma usually would cook a meal and Hitch would choose the wine.
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