The director hired the likes of Dorothy Parker, Raymond Chandler, Thornton Wilder and John Steinbeck to punch up his scripts, and tried to get both Ernest Hemingway and Vladimir Nabokov to write for him. Hitchcock teamed with legendary Hollywood actors like Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Jimmy Stewart, but he also enlisted the help of talents from outside the film world. He worked with famous painters and literary figures. Hitchcock and Salvador Dali (Credit: PhotoQuest/Getty Images)Ħ. Among other contributions, she was responsible for persuading Hitchcock to consider using composer Bernard Herrmann’s now-famous string score for the shower murder scene in the film “Psycho.”
Reville moved further behind the scenes as Hitchcock’s career progressed, but she continued to consult on key script, casting and editing decisions well into the 1960s. As a young director, he was even known to look over to Reville after each take and ask, “Was it all right?” before moving on to the next shot. Reville later served as a writer, script supervisor, editor and assistant director on dozens of Hitchcock’s early films, and he came to value her opinion above all others.
The two married in 1926 after working together at the London brach of a production company called Famous Players-Lasky. Hitchcock worked with many of the top talents in Hollywood, but his most trusted advisor was almost certainly his wife, Alma Reville.
Hitchcock and Alma Reville (Credit: RDA/Getty Images)Ģ.