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Alma Reville is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Continuity, Editor and Other British born on 14 august 1899 at Nottingham (United-kingdom)

Alma Reville

Alma Reville
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Birth name Alma Lucy Reville
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 august 1899 at Nottingham (United-kingdom)
Death 6 july 1982 (at 82 years) at Bel Air (USA)

Alma Lucy Reville, Lady Hitchcock (14 August 1899 – 6 July 1982) was an English assistant director, screenwriter, and editor. She is best known for her work with Alfred Hitchcock, whom she married in 1926.

Biography

Alma Reville a commencé à travailler dans le cinéma à l'âge de 15 ans. C'est en 1920, au British Film Industry, qu'elle rencontre son futur mari. Ils travaillent ensemble pendant plusieurs années aux studios londoniens de la Paramount Pictures. Elle se convertit au catholicisme peu avant son mariage avec Hitchcock qui a lieu le 2 décembre 1926. Elle est la mère de Patricia Hitchcock.

Elle apparaît au générique des films de son mari, et, à l'occasion, d'autres réalisateurs, notamment Maurice Elvey pour les scénarios des films Sally in Our Valley (1932) et The Water Gipsies (1932). Elle demeure toutefois une scénariste attitrée de plusieurs œuvres de son mari, dont Soupçons (1941), L'Ombre d'un doute (1943), Le Procès Paradine (1947), bien qu'après Le Grand Alibi (1950), elle ne soit plus créditée au générique des films qu'il réalise.

Best films

Suspicion (1941)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Michael Balcon
Michael Balcon
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Pen Tennyson
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alma Reville (39 films)

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Actress

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, 1h54
Directed by Stig Björkman
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Alicia Vikander, Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating73% 3.6930053.6930053.6930053.6930053.693005
Nommée sept fois aux Oscars, Ingrid Bergman y fut récompensée trois fois. Elle fut une des actrices les plus talentueuses de l’âge d’or du cinéma hollywoodien et ses rôles dans des films comme CASABLANCA (1942), HANTISE (1944) et SONATE D’AUTOMNE (1978) sont inoubliables. En partant d’archives privées et d’interviews de ses enfants, ce film dresse un portrait personnel et offre aux spectateurs un aperçu de la vie exceptionnelle d’une jeune Suédoise qui devint l’une des plus célèbres actrices des États-Unis et du monde.
Hitchcock/Truffaut, 1h19
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Bob Balaban, Mathieu Amalric, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, David Fincher
Roles Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.6485253.6485253.6485253.6485253.648525
Le documentaire retrace la genèse du célèbre livre de Truffaut et des entretiens qu'il a enregistré avec Alfred Hitchcock dans les studios Universal en 1962.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 1h15
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, Ivor Novello, Reginald Gardiner, Eve Gray, Alfred Hitchcock
Roles Woman Listening to Wireless (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.647123.647123.647123.647123.64712
The film begins with the screaming visage of a young blonde woman, framed against a sheet of glass, her golden hair illuminated. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known as "The Avenger", who targets young blonde women on Tuesday evenings.

Director

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 1h15
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, Ivor Novello, Reginald Gardiner, Eve Gray, Alfred Hitchcock
Rating72% 3.647123.647123.647123.647123.64712
The film begins with the screaming visage of a young blonde woman, framed against a sheet of glass, her golden hair illuminated. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known as "The Avenger", who targets young blonde women on Tuesday evenings.

Scriptwriter

Stage Fright, 1h50
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about television
Actors Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike
Roles Adaptation
Rating69% 3.49743.49743.49743.49743.4974
Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) is an aspiring actress at RADA. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend (and crush), actor Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd), the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress/singer, Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). Via a flashback he says Charlotte visited him after killing her husband; she was wearing a bloodstained dress. Jonathan claims he went back to her house for another dress, but was seen by Charlotte's cockney dresser, Nellie Goode (Kay Walsh). He escaped the police and needs help.
The Paradine Case, 2h5
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore
Roles Adaptation
Rating64% 3.2471453.2471453.2471453.2471453.247145
Maddalena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) is a very beautiful and enigmatic young foreign woman, currently living in London, who is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband, a retired military man, at their grand home in the Lake District. It is not clear whether she is a grateful and devoted wife who has been falsely accused, or whether she is instead a calculating and ruthless femme fatale.
Lifeboat
Lifeboat (1944)
, 1h36
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull
Rating75% 3.7982753.7982753.7982753.7982753.798275
Several British and U.S. civilians, service members and merchant marines are stuck in a lifeboat in the North Atlantic after their ship and a U-boat sink each other in combat. Willi (Walter Slezak), a German survivor, is pulled aboard and denies being the U-boat's captain. During an animated debate, Kovac (John Hodiak) demands the German be thrown out to drown. However, the others object, with Stanley (Hume Cronyn), wealthy industrialist Rittenhouse (Henry Hull) and columnist Connie Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), who speaks German, succeeding in arguing that he be allowed to stay. Porter, initially alone in the boat, had managed to bring her luggage with her, and her primary concern at first is a run in her stocking. She is thrilled at having filmed the battle between the two vessels, but her movie camera is the first in a series of her possessions to be lost overboard in a succession of incidents.
Shadow of a Doubt, 1h48
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Serial killer films
Actors Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Hume Cronyn, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers
Rating77% 3.897743.897743.897743.897743.89774
Charlotte "Charlie" Newton is a bored teenager living in the idyllic town of Santa Rosa, California. She receives wonderful news: her mother's younger brother (her namesake), Charlie Oakley, is arriving for a visit. Two men appear, supposedly working on a national survey. One takes a photo of Uncle Charlie, who demands the roll of film because "no one takes my photograph." The younger surveyor, Jack Graham, asks young Charlie out, and she guesses that he is really a detective. He explains that her uncle is one of two suspects who may be the "Merry Widow Murderer". Charlie refuses to believe it at first, but then observes Uncle Charlie acting strangely. The initials engraved inside a ring he gave her match those of one of the murdered women. During a family dinner he reveals his hatred of rich widows, comparing them to fat animals deserving to be slaughtered.
Suspicion
Suspicion (1941)
, 1h39
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Rating72% 3.648193.648193.648193.648193.64819
Handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets dowdy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train, and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After a lavish honeymoon and returning to an extravagant house, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job, no income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and was intending to try to sponge off her father. She talks him into getting a job, and he goes to work for his cousin, estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll).
Jamaica Inn, 1h48
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Basil Radford
Rating62% 3.1473153.1473153.1473153.1473153.147315
Jamaica Inn is the headquarters of a gang of wreckers led by the innkeeper Joss Merlyn (Leslie Banks). The wreckers are responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons to cause ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast. Then they kill the surviving sailors and steal the cargo from the wrecks.
Young and Innocent, 1h20
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Derrick De Marney, Nova Pilbeam, Percy Marmont, Basil Radford, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Rating67% 3.3974653.3974653.3974653.3974653.397465
Christine Clay (Pamela Carme), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy (George Curzon), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast. Christine slaps him several times across the face, but he hardly reacts, choosing instead to depart without a word.
Sabotage
Sabotage (1937)
, 1h16
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester, Matthew Boulton, Stanley James Warmington
Rating69% 3.497153.497153.497153.497153.49715
Suddenly, London goes dark and loses all of its electricity. There is commotion at a cinema, with people demanding their money back. The owner of the cinema, Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), enters through a back entrance to the living quarters above, and pretends to have been asleep and not know anything of the blackout. His wife, Mrs. Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) comes to get him and is surprised to see him, but he informs her that he had been sleeping the entire time. He instructs his wife to return the money to the customers -- against her protests -- because he has "some money coming in." As the money is about to be disbursed to the customers downstairs, the lights go back on. It is revealed that sand was put in the boilers as an act of sabotage on London's electricity grid.