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Tippi Hedren
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Actor Born: January 19, 1931 in Lafayette, MN Biography:Blonde actress/model "Tippi Hedren" lists the year of her birth as 1935, which means that she would have been 14 or 15 when she appeared fleetingly in her first film, "The Petty Girl" (1950). Hedren did not resurface on the movie scene again until 1963, when she was "discovered" by "Alfred Hitchcock". The official story is that Hitchcock wanted to mold Hedren into a new "Grace Kelly"; rumors persist that his interest in the actress went way beyond professional, and that he made a few clumsy advances towards her on the set. Whatever the case, Hedren starred in Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) and "Marnie" (1964). She was criticized for being too impassive in the former film and too expressive in the latter, though it isn't fair to pick on her for the shortcomings of the script and direction. Hedren was under contract not to Hitchcock but to his home studio of Universal; thus, she was obliged to appear in... Full Biography
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