Biting the beak that feeds her: 'Birds' Actress Tippi Hedren Says Hitchcock Cost Her an Oscar

Someone should Melanie out of her gilded cage

Hedren with a bird

'Birds' Actress Tippi Hedren Says Hitchcock Cost Her an Oscar Nomination | Rope of Silicon:

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Hedren does not provide any proof that Hitchcock stepped on her Oscar chances in Marnie.  She is living proof though of what this "dreadful" man did to her--gave her a second act to a career that wouldn't have had the first act without him.