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 From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (n��e Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedren, who ran a general store, and is of Swedish, Norwegian, and German descent. Tippi was working as a New York fashion model when she married her first husband, former actor and later advertising executive Peter Griffith, in 1952 (married until 1961). She gave birth to her only child, future star Melanie Griffith, on August 9, 1957. Alfred Hitchcock discovered Tippi, the pretty cover girl, while viewing a commercial on NBC's Today (1952) show. He put her under personal contract and cast her in The Birds (1963). In a cover article about the movie in Look magazine (Dec. 4, 1962), Hitchcock praised her; he also told the Associated Press: "Tippi Hedren is really remarkable. She's already reaching the lows and highs of terror". Her performance in the film earned her both the Golden Globe award and the Photoplay award as Most Promising Newcomer. Her next film was playing the title role in Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), where she played a challenging and difficult role of a frigid, habitual thief. The film wasn't as big a hit as "The Birds," and it would take years before she won well-deserved admiration for her work. The professional relationship with Hitchcock ended with mutual bitterness and disappointment during the filming of "Marnie." That year, she married her agent, Noel Marshall (married until 1982). Charles Chaplin cast her in a supporting role in his final film A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), which flopped. Thereafter, Tippi and her husband Marshall collected big cats and other wildlife for the film Roar (1981), which they starred in and produced. The film took 11 years and $17 million to make, but it only made $2 million worldwide. Nevertheless, the film was a turning point in her life; she became actively involved in animal rights, as well as a wide variety of humanitarian and environmental causes. She married her third husband, businessman Luis Barrenecha, in 1985 but divorced him seven years later. In 2002, she became engaged to veterinarian Martin Dinnes, but after six years and no wedding, the couple called it quits. Tippi has devoted much time and effort to charitable causes: she is a volunteer International Relief Coordinator for "Food for the Hungry". She has traveled worldwide to set up relief programs following earthquakes, hurricanes, famine and war, and has received numerous awards for her efforts, including the Humanitarian Award presented to her by the Baha'i Faith. As for animal causes, she is founder and president of The Roar Foundation. Onscreen, she continues to work frequently in films, theater and TV. She appeared in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), finally bringing to the big screen the last screenplay written by the late Edward D. Wood Jr. in 1974 (and featuring Wood regulars Maila Nurmi and Conrad Brooks, just about the only surviving members of Wood's stock company). She also enjoyed playing comedic roles, such as an abortion rights activist in Alexander Payne's satire Citizen Ruth (1996) and slapping Jude Law in I Heart Huckabees (2004). Tippi's contributions to world cinema have been honored with Life Achievement awards in France at The Beauvais Film Festival Cinemalia 1994; in Spain, by The Fundacion Municipal De Cine in 1995; and at the Riverside International Film Festival in 2007. In 1999, Tippi was honored as "Woman of Vision" by Women in Film and Video in Washington, D.C., and received the Presidential Medal for her work in film from Hofstra University. She enjoys spending time with her daughter and grandchildren: Alexander Bauer, Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas.
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From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (n��e Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedren, who ran a general store, and is of Swedish, Norwegian, and German descent. Tippi was working as a New York fashion model when she married her first husband, former actor and later advertising executive Peter Griffith, in 1952 (married until 1961). She gave birth to her only child, future star Melanie Griffith, on August 9, 1957. Alfred Hitchcock discovered Tippi, the pretty cover girl, while viewing a commercial on NBC's Today (1952) show. He put her under personal contract and cast her in The Birds (1963). In a cover article about the movie in Look magazine (Dec. 4, 1962), Hitchcock praised her; he also told the Associated Press: "Tippi Hedren is really remarkable. She's already reaching the lows and highs of terror". Her performance in the film earned her both the Golden Globe award and the Photoplay award as Most Promising Newcomer. Her next film was playing the title role in Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), where she played a challenging and difficult role of a frigid, habitual thief. The film wasn't as big a hit as "The Birds," and it would take years before she won well-deserved admiration for her work. The professional relationship with Hitchcock ended with mutual bitterness and disappointment during the filming of "Marnie." That year, she married her agent, Noel Marshall (married until 1982). Charles Chaplin cast her in a supporting role in his final film A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), which flopped. Thereafter, Tippi and her husband Marshall collected big cats and other wildlife for the film Roar (1981), which they starred in and produced. The film took 11 years and $17 million to make, but it only made $2 million worldwide. Nevertheless, the film was a turning point in her life; she became actively involved in animal rights, as well as a wide variety of humanitarian and environmental causes. She married her third husband, businessman Luis Barrenecha, in 1985 but divorced him seven years later. In 2002, she became engaged to veterinarian Martin Dinnes, but after six years and no wedding, the couple called it quits. Tippi has devoted much time and effort to charitable causes: she is a volunteer International Relief Coordinator for "Food for the Hungry". She has traveled worldwide to set up relief programs following earthquakes, hurricanes, famine and war, and has received numerous awards for her efforts, including the Humanitarian Award presented to her by the Baha'i Faith. As for animal causes, she is founder and president of The Roar Foundation. Onscreen, she continues to work frequently in films, theater and TV. She appeared in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), finally bringing to the big screen the last screenplay written by the late Edward D. Wood Jr. in 1974 (and featuring Wood regulars Maila Nurmi and Conrad Brooks, just about the only surviving members of Wood's stock company). She also enjoyed playing comedic roles, such as an abortion rights activist in Alexander Payne's satire Citizen Ruth (1996) and slapping Jude Law in I Heart Huckabees (2004). Tippi's contributions to world cinema have been honored with Life Achievement awards in France at The Beauvais Film Festival Cinemalia 1994; in Spain, by The Fundacion Municipal De Cine in 1995; and at the Riverside International Film Festival in 2007. In 1999, Tippi was honored as "Woman of Vision" by Women in Film and Video in Washington, D.C., and received the Presidential Medal for her work in film from Hofstra University. She enjoys spending time with her daughter and grandchildren: Alexander Bauer, Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas.
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During a 1975 trip to Hope Village a Vietnamese refugee camp, she met with a group of women who had recently fled the takeover of South Vietnam by the armed forces of Communist leader Ho Ch�� Minh. In an effort to introduce them to the US workforce, she soon discovered that the women were fascinated by her manicure. Hedren then arranged for her manicurist Dusty Coots Butera, with the help of a local cosmetology school, to teach the group of 20 women the art of the perfect manicure. Once the women were licensed, Hedren would personally scout nail technician openings in salons and secure jobs for her students. Some of the original 20 women, after graduating, taught the nail trade to other immigrants. This would lead to an explosion in Vietnamese working as nail technicians.At the end of shooting Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), she discovered that the big cats used in the production had no place to go and would likely languish in small cages. This prompted her to obtain a parcel of land on her own to establish a home with a natural setting for retired big cats. She named it Shambala and it exists to this day.Alfred Hitchcock saw her in a 1961 commercial aired during the Today (1952) show and cast her in The Birds (1963). In the commercial for a diet drink, she is seen walking down a street and a man whistles at her slim, attractive figure, and she turns her head with an acknowledging smile. In the opening scene of The Birds (1963), the same thing happens as she walks toward the bird shop. This was an inside joke by Hitchcock.Sienna Miller played her in the cable movie The Girl (2012), which dealt with Tippi's three years with Sir Alfred Hitchcock. She told Miller to play her as strong, since she rejected Hitchcock's advances, even though this meant the end of her career as a leading lady. She said she was happy with Miller's portrayal.Found it touching when Sir Sean Connery, her leading man from Marnie (1964), publicly said that she was underrated while almost everyone in Hollywood was overrated.Mother of Melanie Griffith.In the biographical movie The Girl (2012), she (played by Sienna Miller) explained to Sir Alfred Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones) that "Tippi" is a nickname for "Tupsa", meaning "little girl" or "sweetheart".She met with Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville for the final time in London, England, in 1966 while she was filming Charles Chaplin's last film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). They took her to tea at Claridge's. The atmosphere was tense because she knew Hitchcock was upset that she had been cast in what was expected to be a huge film, and he was unable to hide his bitterness.Named one of her house cats after Sir Sean Connery, her co-star in Marnie (1964).Of all her films, Marnie (1964) continues to be her favorite, because of the complex title character. This is even more telling, considering all the problems that reportedly took place during the filming, which spelled the end of her professional relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, as well as the mixed critical reception and the indifferent box-office results upon the film's release.Is a huge fan of Johnny Depp and named one of her house cats after him. Even though she hasn't met him, her then son-in-law Antonio Banderas acted with him in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), and her granddaughter Dakota Johnson appeared in two films with him, 21 Jump Street (2012) and Black Mass (2015).She was the daughter of Carl Bernard Hedren (1893-1979), a store owner, and Dorothea Henriette Eckhardt (1899-1994), a school teacher. Both were born and raised in Minnesota. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish, her grandfather from Vinsater, Jarbo, Dalsland and her grandmother from Finnatorp, Norra Ving, Vastergotland. Her mother was of German and Norwegian descent.Requested Alfred Hitchcock to give her the fur coat she wore in The Birds (1963), and he graciously gave it to her but charged it to the production company. She stopped wearing fur after she became an animal rights activist.Her performance as Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963) is ranked #86 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.She was supposed to play the leads in Bedtime Story (1964) (opposite David Niven and Marlon Brando), Mirage (1965) (opposite Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (opposite Oskar Werner), but Hitchcock told the directors and producers that she wasn't available to work with them. Shirley Jones, Diane Baker, and Julie Christie eventually played the parts she was considered for.Director Alfred Hitchcock unsuccessfully pursued a relationship with her during the filming of Marnie (1964).In her memoir, she claimed that Marlon Brando wanted to have an affair with her during A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), but she turned him down, since she was married. She wrote that he didn't hold the rejection against her. Many years later, she named one of her house cats after him.Became friends with writer William Peter Blatty in the early 1970s and named one of her lions Billy after him. He gave her a copy of his unpublished novel "The Exorcist" and she was so absorbed reading it that she woke up her then-husband, an agent Noel Marshall, in the middle of the night and told him that he should represent Blatty in publishing the novel and the film adaptation. She took the photo of the author for the first edition novel's back jacket. The 1971 novel became a bestseller and Marshall would be credited as 'Executive Producer' for the film adaptation, also titled The Exorcist (1973), and he was supposed to receive 15% of the profits. When the film became a blockbuster, Blatty refused to give him the agreed-upon share of profits, since he never signed the written contract, but only initiated it. Marshall sued and the lawsuit dragged on for several years, eventually resulting in an out-of-court settlement. These were trying years for Hedren and Marshall, since they needed the money to feed the big cats for their film Roar (1981), the financial stress would result in their divorce. Many years later Blatty ran into Hedren at a party and said "Hi". She walked away without acknowledging him.Appeared under the direction of three Oscar winners: Charles Chaplin, John Schlesinger and Alexander Payne. She was also directed by Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton, but he left her scenes in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) on the cutting room floor. Alfred Hitchcock, who directed her twice, received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy Awards.Presides over The Roar Foundation, an animal preserve outside of Los Angeles, California.Participated in panel at University of Illinois on "Hitchcock, Women and Terror". (October 2001)Responding to a fan inquiry, she commented on Facebook in May 2017 that she's still in touch with Sean Connery. In December 2017, in a joint interview with her daughter Melanie Griffith, granddaughter Dakota and Dakota's father Don Johnson, "The Hollywood Reporter" publication asked her who her first celebrity crush was, and she replied, "Sean Connery".In most of her films (and in all of her films before 1982 except Tiger by the Tail (1970), her character's name starts with an M: Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963), Marnie Edgar in Marnie (1964), Martha Mears in A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), Marla Oaks in Satan's Harvest (1970), Mary Kingstreet in Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), Margaret Tenhausen in The Harrad Experiment (1973), Madelaine in Roar (1981), Marcia Stevens in Inevitable Grace (1994), Maylinda Austed in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), Martha in The Darklings (1999), Michelle Labner in Searching for Haizmann (2003), Mary in DarkWolf (2003), Mary Jane in I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Minnie in Dead Write (2007).Was engaged to veterinarian Martin Dinnes for a long time. In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that the engagement ended because of the strain caused by their difference of opinion on declawing big cats. He believed in declawing them, while she believed that shouldn't be declawed. She was upset when she felt that he urged people to dismiss her stand on an issue she felt passionate about, and he was upset with her that she overreacted. They stopped being a couple.Her first television commercial was for a cigarette brand in the early 1950s. She learned to smoke for the commercial, because she felt viewers would know if she was faking this. Her smoking habit lasted for 15 years until her daughter, Melanie Griffith--then 10 years old--came to her after a school health lecture and begged her to stop. In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that her primary reason for quitting was because smoking ages one's physical appearance.Operates an exotic-animal sanctuary, which prompted her testimony in February 2005 in Riverside (CA) Superior Court. She made a complaint regarding animal cruelty by a tiger rescuer and was told by the US Department of Agriculture that there were not enough inspectors to respond to her complaint. She eventually made room for a lion rather than have it go to the rescuer. She stated she felt like she was walking through a trash dump.One of her favorite sweet treats is Marnie's red velvet cake, which she named after her character from the film of the same name Marnie (1964). She graciously provided the recipe for this three-layer cake to a website called high-societea.com, which specializes in articles on tea and accompanying treats.The one special project that's been passed down three generations in her family is J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose". She was originally set to star in the film adaptation for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1964, and she was heartbroken that the film was never made, because she and Hitchcock had a falling out. She gave the play to her daughter Melanie Griffith, when she was a child, who also loved it. When Melanie grew up, she also wanted to play the title character with her then-husband Antonio Banderas as director, but after their production company, Greenmoon Productions, released flop movies like Crazy in Alabama (1999) and The Body (2001), financing collapsed for the project. As of 2018, Melanie's daughter Dakota Johnson is the right age to play Mary Rose, but the studios have long ago decided that the project wasn't commercial, so a film with her is also unlikely.Spent the better part of a decade depressed over the fact she wasn't starring in any major movies. To cut off the source of her discontent, she canceled her subscription to all the trade magazines.Lobbying for passage of Shambala Wild Animal Protection Act.Turned down a cameo role in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) that starred her daughter Melanie Griffith, because she had just done a cameo in another film of Melanie's, Pacific Heights (1990), and didn't want to appear in all of her daughter's films, only on special occasions.In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that the executives at Universal Studios wanted to submit her name for Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Marnie (1964), but the film's director Alfred Hitchcock blocked it as a retaliatory measure for turning down his sexual advances. The Academy later awarded Hitchcock an honorary Oscar, and over the years Hedren's co-stars from Hitchcock's films and screen-test (Sean Connery, Jessica Tandy, Martin Balsam) won Oscars. The Academy has refused to give Hedren an honorary Oscar, in spite of her humanitarian work and animal rights activism.Her producer Jerome Epstein from A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) wrote how Charles Chaplin loved working with her, because she was "completely professional" and "very relaxed". Jerome also became a huge fan of her, and that he loved to listen to her speaking voice, since it was "throaty, sensual and musical".Attended the London premiere of the hit movie Alfie (1966). She sat right next to director Lewis Gilbert when she fainted during the infamous abortion scene. (March 29, 1966)Former mother-in-law of Steven Bauer, Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas.Met President John F. Kennedy once, when he was on vacation, as she was, in the south of France. In her memoir, she claimed that he wanted to spend the night with her but she declined since they were both married to other people. Several years later she was driving to her horse-riding lesson in preparation for her role in Marnie (1964), when she learned about the President's assassination. She said that she was "stunned, and very angry", that the assassination could have happened.Turned down the starring role in Eye of the Cat (1969) which was later played by Gayle Hunnicutt.It took her and her husband six years to build up their ranch from nothing and gather some 100 big cats, two elephants and numerous birds, most coming from films after being finished with.Claims that she never had affairs with any of her leading men.In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that she lost her sense of smell and taste, as a result of her fainting in a hospital and hitting her head, while still married to her second husband. She said she has to rely on other people's judgment to make sure she's not in any danger.Her second husband, Noel Marshall, was said to have a violent temper. In 1982, she got a restraining order forbidding him from coming within 20 feet of her home.Bridget Fonda, who played her daughter in the straight-to-cable film Break Up (1998), gushed to her about how she had seen Marnie (1964) "a million times".Has three grandchildren: Alexander Bauer (born 1985), Dakota Johnson (born 1989), and Stella Banderas (born 1996).Attended the funeral of Suzanne Pleshette. (January 23, 2008)Sean Baker considered casting her and her real-life granddaughter Dakota Johnson in Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.Tippi Hedren and Norman Lloyd are the only performers who worked with both British geniuses of the silent era, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Charles Chaplin.Many have paid small homages to her over the years. Michael O'Donoghue, one of the writers of the original Saturday Night Live (1975), praised its star Jane Curtin when he said she had "an icy Tippi Hedren quality" about her. An sitcom episode titled Night at the Awards (1981) that aired in 1981 has Lenny and Squiggy admiring a beautiful blonde and saying to each other, "That's Tippi Hedren." A Louis Vuitton ad campaign in 2006 paid tribute to Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock with a modern-day interpretation of the deserted railway station opening sequence of Marnie (1964). Her 1963 publicity picture from The Birds (1963) was the cover for Jean-Pierre Dufreigne's book, "Hitchcock Style" (2004). Naomi Watts has stated that her character interpretation in Mulholland Drive (2001) was influenced by the look and performances of Hedren and Kim Novak in Hitchcock films. Watts and Hedren later acted in I Heart Huckabees (2004) but didn't share any scenes onscreen. Off-screen, the film's director David O. Russell introduced them both, and Watts has said about Hedren, "I was pretty fascinated by her then because people have often said that we're alike." She had dressed up as Hedren's title character from "Marnie" for a photo shoot for the March 2008 issue of "Vanity Fair". In the same issue, Jodie Foster dressed up as Hedren's character, Melanie Daniels, from "The Birds". January Jones said that she "takes it a compliment of sorts" when compared to Grace Kelly and Hedren for her role in Mad Men (2007). T��a Leoni said that her character in the film The Smell of Success (2009) is made up to look like Hedren.Dropped out of House of Good and Evil (2013) at the last minute because of illness. Her role was recast with Marietta Marich.After their falling-out on the set of Marnie (1964), director Alfred Hitchcock tried to mend fences with Hedren with the intention of casting her alongside Paul Newman in Torn Curtain (1966). They had business lunches on June 30, August 19 and December 16, 1964, but Hedren was definite about never wanting to work with him again. The role of Sarah Sherman ultimately went to Julie Andrews.Younger sister of Patricia "Patty" Davis (born 1926), who gave birth to five children of her own. She named one of them Tipper, in honor of Tippi. |
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From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (n��e Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedre |
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During a 1975 trip to Hope Village a Vietnamese refugee camp, she met with a group of women who had recently fled the takeover of South Vietnam by the armed forces of Communist leader Ho Ch�� Minh. In an effort to introduce them to the US workforce, she soon discovered that the women were fascinated by her manicure. Hedren then arranged for her manicurist Dusty Coots Butera, with the help of a local cosmetology school, to teach the group of 20 women the art of the perfect manicure. Once the women were licensed, Hedren would personally scout nail technician openings in salons and secure jobs for her students. Some of the original 20 women, after graduating, taught the nail trade to other immigrants. This would lead to an explosion in Vietnamese working as nail technicians.At the end of shooting Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), she discovered that the big cats used in the production had no place to go and would likely languish in small cages. This prompted her to obtain a parcel of land on her own to establish a home with a natural setting for retired big cats. She named it Shambala and it exists to this day.Alfred Hitchcock saw her in a 1961 commercial aired during the Today (1952) show and cast her in The Birds (1963). In the commercial for a diet drink, she is seen walking down a street and a man whistles at her slim, attractive figure, and she turns her head with an acknowledging smile. In the opening scene of The Birds (1963), the same thing happens as she walks toward the bird shop. This was an inside joke by Hitchcock.Sienna Miller played her in the cable movie The Girl (2012), which dealt with Tippi's three years with Sir Alfred Hitchcock. She told Miller to play her as strong, since she rejected Hitchcock's advances, even though this meant the end of her career as a leading lady. She said she was happy with Miller's portrayal.Found it touching when Sir Sean Connery, her leading man from Marnie (1964), publicly said that she was underrated while almost everyone in Hollywood was overrated.Mother of Melanie Griffith.In the biographical movie The Girl (2012), she (played by Sienna Miller) explained to Sir Alfred Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones) that "Tippi" is a nickname for "Tupsa", meaning "little girl" or "sweetheart".She met with Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville for the final time in London, England, in 1966 while she was filming Charles Chaplin's last film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). They took her to tea at Claridge's. The atmosphere was tense because she knew Hitchcock was upset that she had been cast in what was expected to be a huge film, and he was unable to hide his bitterness.Named one of her house cats after Sir Sean Connery, her co-star in Marnie (1964).Of all her films, Marnie (1964) continues to be her favorite, because of the complex title character. This is even more telling, considering all the problems that reportedly took place during the filming, which spelled the end of her professional relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, as well as the mixed critical reception and the indifferent box-office results upon the film's release.Is a huge fan of Johnny Depp and named one of her house cats after him. Even though she hasn't met him, her then son-in-law Antonio Banderas acted with him in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), and her granddaughter Dakota Johnson appeared in two films with him, 21 Jump Street (2012) and Black Mass (2015).She was the daughter of Carl Bernard Hedren (1893-1979), a store owner, and Dorothea Henriette Eckhardt (1899-1994), a school teacher. Both were born and raised in Minnesota. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish, her grandfather from Vinsater, Jarbo, Dalsland and her grandmother from Finnatorp, Norra Ving, Vastergotland. Her mother was of German and Norwegian descent.Requested Alfred Hitchcock to give her the fur coat she wore in The Birds (1963), and he graciously gave it to her but charged it to the production company. She stopped wearing fur after she became an animal rights activist.Her performance as Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963) is ranked #86 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.She was supposed to play the leads in Bedtime Story (1964) (opposite David Niven and Marlon Brando), Mirage (1965) (opposite Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (opposite Oskar Werner), but Hitchcock told the directors and producers that she wasn't available to work with them. Shirley Jones, Diane Baker, and Julie Christie eventually played the parts she was considered for.Director Alfred Hitchcock unsuccessfully pursued a relationship with her during the filming of Marnie (1964).In her memoir, she claimed that Marlon Brando wanted to have an affair with her during A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), but she turned him down, since she was married. She wrote that he didn't hold the rejection against her. Many years later, she named one of her house cats after him.Became friends with writer William Peter Blatty in the early 1970s and named one of her lions Billy after him. He gave her a copy of his unpublished novel "The Exorcist" and she was so absorbed reading it that she woke up her then-husband, an agent Noel Marshall, in the middle of the night and told him that he should represent Blatty in publishing the novel and the film adaptation. She took the photo of the author for the first edition novel's back jacket. The 1971 novel became a bestseller and Marshall would be credited as 'Executive Producer' for the film adaptation, also titled The Exorcist (1973), and he was supposed to receive 15% of the profits. When the film became a blockbuster, Blatty refused to give him the agreed-upon share of profits, since he never signed the written contract, but only initiated it. Marshall sued and the lawsuit dragged on for several years, eventually resulting in an out-of-court settlement. These were trying years for Hedren and Marshall, since they needed the money to feed the big cats for their film Roar (1981), the financial stress would result in their divorce. Many years later Blatty ran into Hedren at a party and said "Hi". She walked away without acknowledging him.Appeared under the direction of three Oscar winners: Charles Chaplin, John Schlesinger and Alexander Payne. She was also directed by Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton, but he left her scenes in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) on the cutting room floor. Alfred Hitchcock, who directed her twice, received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy Awards.Presides over The Roar Foundation, an animal preserve outside of Los Angeles, California.Participated in panel at University of Illinois on "Hitchcock, Women and Terror". (October 2001)Responding to a fan inquiry, she commented on Facebook in May 2017 that she's still in touch with Sean Connery. In December 2017, in a joint interview with her daughter Melanie Griffith, granddaughter Dakota and Dakota's father Don Johnson, "The Hollywood Reporter" publication asked her who her first celebrity crush was, and she replied, "Sean Connery".In most of her films (and in all of her films before 1982 except Tiger by the Tail (1970), her character's name starts with an M: Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963), Marnie Edgar in Marnie (1964), Martha Mears in A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), Marla Oaks in Satan's Harvest (1970), Mary Kingstreet in Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), Margaret Tenhausen in The Harrad Experiment (1973), Madelaine in Roar (1981), Marcia Stevens in Inevitable Grace (1994), Maylinda Austed in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), Martha in The Darklings (1999), Michelle Labner in Searching for Haizmann (2003), Mary in DarkWolf (2003), Mary Jane in I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Minnie in Dead Write (2007).Was engaged to veterinarian Martin Dinnes for a long time. In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that the engagement ended because of the strain caused by their difference of opinion on declawing big cats. He believed in declawing them, while she believed that shouldn't be declawed. She was upset when she felt that he urged people to dismiss her stand on an issue she felt passionate about, and he was upset with her that she overreacted. They stopped being a couple.Her first television commercial was for a cigarette brand in the early 1950s. She learned to smoke for the commercial, because she felt viewers would know if she was faking this. Her smoking habit lasted for 15 years until her daughter, Melanie Griffith--then 10 years old--came to her after a school health lecture and begged her to stop. In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that her primary reason for quitting was because smoking ages one's physical appearance.Operates an exotic-animal sanctuary, which prompted her testimony in February 2005 in Riverside (CA) Superior Court. She made a complaint regarding animal cruelty by a tiger rescuer and was told by the US Department of Agriculture that there were not enough inspectors to respond to her complaint. She eventually made room for a lion rather than have it go to the rescuer. She stated she felt like she was walking through a trash dump.One of her favorite sweet treats is Marnie's red velvet cake, which she named after her character from the film of the same name Marnie (1964). She graciously provided the recipe for this three-layer cake to a website called high-societea.com, which specializes in articles on tea and accompanying treats.The one special project that's been passed down three generations in her family is J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose". She was originally set to star in the film adaptation for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1964, and she was heartbroken that the film was never made, because she and Hitchcock had a falling out. She gave the play to her daughter Melanie Griffith, when she was a child, who also loved it. When Melanie grew up, she also wanted to play the title character with her then-husband Antonio Banderas as director, but after their production company, Greenmoon Productions, released flop movies like Crazy in Alabama (1999) and The Body (2001), financing collapsed for the project. As of 2018, Melanie's daughter Dakota Johnson is the right age to play Mary Rose, but the studios have long ago decided that the project wasn't commercial, so a film with her is also unlikely.Spent the better part of a decade depressed over the fact she wasn't starring in any major movies. To cut off the source of her discontent, she canceled her subscription to all the trade magazines.Lobbying for passage of Shambala Wild Animal Protection Act.Turned down a cameo role in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) that starred her daughter Melanie Griffith, because she had just done a cameo in another film of Melanie's, Pacific Heights (1990), and didn't want to appear in all of her daughter's films, only on special occasions.In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that the executives at Universal Studios wanted to submit her name for Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Marnie (1964), but the film's director Alfred Hitchcock blocked it as a retaliatory measure for turning down his sexual advances. The Academy later awarded Hitchcock an honorary Oscar, and over the years Hedren's co-stars from Hitchcock's films and screen-test (Sean Connery, Jessica Tandy, Martin Balsam) won Oscars. The Academy has refused to give Hedren an honorary Oscar, in spite of her humanitarian work and animal rights activism.Her producer Jerome Epstein from A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) wrote how Charles Chaplin loved working with her, because she was "completely professional" and "very relaxed". Jerome also became a huge fan of her, and that he loved to listen to her speaking voice, since it was "throaty, sensual and musical".Attended the London premiere of the hit movie Alfie (1966). She sat right next to director Lewis Gilbert when she fainted during the infamous abortion scene. (March 29, 1966)Former mother-in-law of Steven Bauer, Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas.Met President John F. Kennedy once, when he was on vacation, as she was, in the south of France. In her memoir, she claimed that he wanted to spend the night with her but she declined since they were both married to other people. Several years later she was driving to her horse-riding lesson in preparation for her role in Marnie (1964), when she learned about the President's assassination. She said that she was "stunned, and very angry", that the assassination could have happened.Turned down the starring role in Eye of the Cat (1969) which was later played by Gayle Hunnicutt.It took her and her husband six years to build up their ranch from nothing and gather some 100 big cats, two elephants and numerous birds, most coming from films after being finished with.Claims that she never had affairs with any of her leading men.In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that she lost her sense of smell and taste, as a result of her fainting in a hospital and hitting her head, while still married to her second husband. She said she has to rely on other people's judgment to make sure she's not in any danger.Her second husband, Noel Marshall, was said to have a violent temper. In 1982, she got a restraining order forbidding him from coming within 20 feet of her home.Bridget Fonda, who played her daughter in the straight-to-cable film Break Up (1998), gushed to her about how she had seen Marnie (1964) "a million times".Has three grandchildren: Alexander Bauer (born 1985), Dakota Johnson (born 1989), and Stella Banderas (born 1996).Attended the funeral of Suzanne Pleshette. (January 23, 2008)Sean Baker considered casting her and her real-life granddaughter Dakota Johnson in Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.Tippi Hedren and Norman Lloyd are the only performers who worked with both British geniuses of the silent era, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Charles Chaplin.Many have paid small homages to her over the years. Michael O'Donoghue, one of the writers of the original Saturday Night Live (1975), praised its star Jane Curtin when he said she had "an icy Tippi Hedren quality" about her. An sitcom episode titled Night at the Awards (1981) that aired in 1981 has Lenny and Squiggy admiring a beautiful blonde and saying to each other, "That's Tippi Hedren." A Louis Vuitton ad campaign in 2006 paid tribute to Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock with a modern-day interpretation of the deserted railway station opening sequence of Marnie (1964). Her 1963 publicity picture from The Birds (1963) was the cover for Jean-Pierre Dufreigne's book, "Hitchcock Style" (2004). Naomi Watts has stated that her character interpretation in Mulholland Drive (2001) was influenced by the look and performances of Hedren and Kim Novak in Hitchcock films. Watts and Hedren later acted in I Heart Huckabees (2004) but didn't share any scenes onscreen. Off-screen, the film's director David O. Russell introduced them both, and Watts has said about Hedren, "I was pretty fascinated by her then because people have often said that we're alike." She had dressed up as Hedren's title character from "Marnie" for a photo shoot for the March 2008 issue of "Vanity Fair". In the same issue, Jodie Foster dressed up as Hedren's character, Melanie Daniels, from "The Birds". January Jones said that she "takes it a compliment of sorts" when compared to Grace Kelly and Hedren for her role in Mad Men (2007). T��a Leoni said that her character in the film The Smell of Success (2009) is made up to look like Hedren.Dropped out of House of Good and Evil (2013) at the last minute because of illness. Her role was recast with Marietta Marich.After their falling-out on the set of Marnie (1964), director Alfred Hitchcock tried to mend fences with Hedren with the intention of casting her alongside Paul Newman in Torn Curtain (1966). They had business lunches on June 30, August 19 and December 16, 1964, but Hedren was definite about never wanting to work with him again. The role of Sarah Sherman ultimately went to Julie Andrews.Younger sister of Patricia "Patty" Davis (born 1926), who gave birth to five children of her own. She named one of them Tipper, in honor of Tippi. |
| Trademarks: |
An unaffected, icy mid-period "Hitchcock blond"
Seductive deep voice |
| Quotes: |
[on Alfred Hitchcock] To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.
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[on 3/1/05, when asked which is her favorite of the Alfred Hitchcock films she starred in] I think Marnie (1964). They were both so different that it's kind of hard to figure out which, but The Birds (1963) was sort of a chase. All of the Hitchcock films have a mystery to them and that sort of thing, but the personality of Marnie was so intriguing. She was really - poor Marnie.
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My advice to anyone contemplating acting as a profession is to be independently wealthy or have another vocation as a backup. [Melanie Griffith] and [Antonio Banderas] are well set, but most actors make a pittance.
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For years, directors and producers came up to me and said they'd wanted me for a role, but [Alfred Hitchcock] wouldn't allow it. The worst was when I found out that Fran?ois Truffaut had wanted to cast me. I'd never heard a word about it. That one hurt.
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[on being offered the title role in Marnie (1964) by Alfred Hitchcock] I was stunned. I was amazed that he would offer me this incredible role and that he would have that kind of faith in me . . . I thought Marnie was an extremely interesting role to play and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. |
| Salaries: |
Marnie (1964) - $600 per week
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The Birds (1963) - $500 per week |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer |
| Others works: |
(1989) Book: "Superstars and Their Moms".
(10/99) Exhibited some of her wildlife photography in group show in New York City, along with Jack Palance's landscapes and Phyllis Diller's decorative vases.
(1985) Book (with Theodore Taylo |
| Spouse: |
Luis Barrenechea (February 15, 1985 - 1992) (divorced)Noel Marshall (September 27, 1964 - November 30, 1984) (divorced)Peter Griffith (October 24, 1951 - 1961) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Melanie Griffith |
| Parents: |
Bernard Carl Hedren
Dorothea Henrietta Eckhardt |
| Relatives: |
Dakota Johnson (Grandchild)
Alexander Bauer (Grandchild)
Stella Banderas (Grandchild) |
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