| Alma Reville | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alma Lucy Reville August 14, 1899 England |
| Died | July 6, 1982 (aged 82) Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California |
| Spouse(s) | Alfred Hitchcock (1926-1980) |
Alma Lucy Reville, Lady Hitchcock (August 14, 1899, England – July 6, 1982, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California) was an assistant director, screenwriter and editor. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Bel Air is a wealthy and prominent faux-gated residential community in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles California, United States. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Bel Air is a wealthy and prominent faux-gated residential community in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles California, United States. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an
She is best known as the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American Motion picture company formed in 1916 from the merger of Famous Players Film Company and the Jesse London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. She converted to Roman Catholicism before their marriage.
They married on 2 December 1926 at Brompton Oratory in London. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is an oratory Oratory_(worship, popularly but incorrectly known as the Brompton Oratory, is a London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Alma became his collaborator and sounding board, with a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for scrutinizing a film's final version for continuity flaws so minor they escaped Hitchcock's own notice, and that of his top-notch crew.
Cinema was the couple’s passion. A talented editor, Alma worked on British films with directors like Berthold Viertel and Maurice Elvey though her main focus was her husband’s work. Berthold Viertel ( June 28, 1885 - September 24, 1953) born in Vienna, Austria was a Screen writer and Maurice Elvey ( November 11 1887 - August 28 1967) the most prolific Film director in British history, helmed nearly 200 She was particularly good at revising dialogue and spotting inconsistencies in his plots.
The Hitchcocks had one daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, born July 7, 1928. Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell (born July 7, 1928, London, UK) is a British -born American actress and Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Patricia made a few movies, then retired to marry Joseph O'Connell, nephew of Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal William O'Connell. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston ( Latin: Archidioecesis Bostoniensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell ( December 8, 1859 &ndash April 22, 1944) was Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church The couple married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 1952. St Patrick's Cathedral is a decorated Neo-Gothic -style Catholic Cathedral in North America The City of New York
Reville died of natural causes at the age of 82, two years after Hitchcock's death.
She had suffered from breast cancer some years before her death, but made a full recovery from the illness. Breast cancer is a Cancer that starts in the cells of the Breast in women and men
In 2003, Patricia published Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man, co-written with Laurent Bouzereau.
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