She had a small supporting role in Charles Chaplin’s box office and critical flop A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, and then had leads in a handful of long-forgotten movies, such as R.G. Hedren had no luck after she rid herself of her Hitchcock ties. He was a great director – and he destroyed it all by his behavior when he got me alone.” “Yet, at the same time, I loathed him for his off-set behavior and the way he came on to me sexually. “I admired Hitch tremendously for his great talent and still do,” Hedren told London’s Daily Mail.
Tippi Hedren once told The Times of London that Alfred Hitchcock – for whom she starred in The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), and with whom she had an exclusive contract – “kept me under contract, kept paying me every week for almost two years to do nothing” after she refused his sexual advances.
