The following is a list of all of Hitchcock’s published writings that I have either located or seen cited, excluding the brief prefaces to the many volumes of horror and mystery stories that came out under his name. I interpret the category of “Hitchcock’s published writings” fairly broadly to include not only items that came out under his name but also those that quote him extensively. I do not attempt to list all interviews with Hitchcock or all items that quote him briefly, however substantively; Jane Sloan’s Alfred Hitchcock: A Guide to References and Resources, while not complete, is a useful guide to these. But I do call attention to a few substantive writings not listed by Sloan.
Entries appear chronologically by date of publication. When original publishing information is not available, or if an item not reprinted in this volume is extremely rare and hard to locate, I include the location of the microfilm, microfiche, or clipping file where I examined it. BFI fiche refers to the British Film Institute Hitchcock clippings file on microfiche; Herrick Library refers to the Hitchcock Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; MOMA refers to the Hitchcock clippings folders at the Film Study Center of the Museum of Modern Art; and NYPL refers to the New York Public Library clippings file. A • before an item indicates that it is included in this volume.
•“Gas.” The Henley: Social Club Magazine of the Henley Company Ltd. I, no. 1 (1919).
•“Films We Could Make.” London Evening News, November 16, 1927. Listed by Sloan, 345, as “Americans: A Letter,” following Spoto’s citation, 113–114, 599.
“The Talkie King Talks.” London Evening News, June 25, 1929.
“How a Talking Film Is Made.” Film Weekly, November 18, 1929, 16–17.
“Two English Film Producers on British Girls We Want for the Talkies.” Daily Mail, March 10, 1930. [MOMA clipping file.]
•“How I Choose My Heroines.” In Who’s Who in Filmland, by Langford Reed and Hetty Spiers, xxi–xxiii. London: Chapman and Hall, 1931.
•“Are Stars Necessary?” Picturegoer, December 16, 1933, 13.
•Watts, Stephen. “AH on Music in Films.” Cinema Quarterly (Edinburgh) 2 (Winter 1933–1934): 80–83. [Interview.]
“Half the World in a Talkie: A Chat with Alfred Hitchcock.” London Evening News, March 5, 1934. [BFI fiche no. 9.]
•“Stodgy British Pictures.” Film Weekly, December 14, 1934, 14.
•“If I Were Head of a Production Company.” Picturegoer, January 26, 1935, 15.
•Buchanan, Barbara J. “Women are a Nuisance.” Film Weekly, September 20, 1935, 10. [Interview.]
•“Why Thrillers Thrive.” Picturegoer, January 18, 1936, 15.
•“My Screen Memories: I Begin with a Nightmare,” written in collaboration with John K. Newnham. Film Weekly, May 2, 1936, 16–18. [Five-part series, including the following 4 items.]
•“My Screen Memories: The Story Behind ‘Blackmail.’” Film Weekly, May 9, 1936, 7.
•“My Screen Memories: My Strangest Year.” Film Weekly, May 16, 1936, 28–29.
•“My Screen Memories: Making ‘The Thirty-nine Steps.’” Film Weekly, May 23, 1936, 28–29.
•“My Screen Memories: My Spies.” Film Weekly, May 30, 1936, 27.
•“Close Your Eyes and Visualize!” Stage 13 (July 1936): 52–53. [Also printed with slight changes as “I Make Suspense My Business,” on BFI fiche no. 10; no source given.]
•“More Cabbages, Fewer Kings.” Kinematograph Weekly, January 14, 1937, 30. [Also printed with slight changes in Kine Weekly, April 1937.]
•“Search for the Sun.” New York Times, February 7, 1937, X, 5. [Also printed as “Why British Countryside Is Not Filmed,” Film Pictorial, December 5, 1936.]
•“Life Among the Stars.” London News Chronicle, March 1, 1937. [Five-part series, including the following 4 items; on BFI fiche nos. 9 and 10.]
•“Life Among the Stars: Nita Naldi, Vamp.” London News Chronicle, March 2, 1937.
•“Life Among the Stars: One Scene that Made a Girl a Star.” London News Chronicle, March 3, 1937.
•“Life Among the Stars: Handcuffed, Key Lost!” London News Chronicle, March 4, 1937.
•“Life Among the Stars: How I Make My Films.” London News Chronicle, March 5, 1937.
•“Much Ado About Nothing.” The Listener, March 10, 1937, 448–450.
•“Direction.” In Footnotes to the Film, ed. Charles Davy, 3–15. New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. [Also printed as “My Own Methods,” Sight & Sound, Summer 1937.]
•“Directors Are Dead.” Film Weekly, November 20, 1937, 14.
•“Director’s Problems.” The Listener, February 2, 1938, 241. [Also printed in Living Age 354 (April 1938): 172–174.]
•“Nova Grows Up.” Film Weekly, February 5, 1938, 5.
•Perkoff, Leslie. “The Censor and Sydney Street.” World Film News, March 1938, 4–5. [Interview.]
•“Crime Doesn’t Pay.” Film Weekly, April 30, 1938, 9.
Benedetta, Mary. “Britain’s Leading Film Director Gives Some Hints to the Film Stars of the Future.” [Evening Standard?], July 14, 1938. [Interview; BFI fiche no. 10.]
•Williams, J. Danvers, “The Censor Wouldn’t Pass It.” Film Weekly, November 5, 1938, 6–7. [Interview.]
•“Some Aspects of Direction.” National Board of Review Magazine XIII, no. 7 (October 1938): 6–8. [MOMA clipping folder.]
•Williams, J. Danvers. “What I’d Do to the Stars.” Film Weekly, March 4, 1939, 12–13. [Interview.]
•Lecture at Columbia University, lecture, March 30, 1939. [Typescripts at Herrick Library and MOMA Film Study Center.]
•“Old Ruts Are New Ruts.” Hollywood Reporter 54, no. 28 (October 28, 1939, 9th Anniversary Issue).
Introduction. In Intrigue: Four Great Spy Novels of Eric Ambler, by Eric Ambler, vii–viii. New York: Knopf, 1943.
Hitchcock, Alfred, and Harry Sylvester. “Lifeboat.” Collier’s, November 13, 1943, 16–17, 52–54, 56–58. [Story.]
“The Film Thriller.” In Film Review 1946–1947, ed. F. M. Speed, 22–23. London: McDonald & Co., 1947.
“The Hitch Touch,” Band Wagon, July 1946, 27–28. [BFI fiche no. 10.]
Clayton, David. “Hitchcock Hates Actors.” Filmindia, July 1947. [Interview.]
“The First British Talkie.” In The Elstree Story, 80–82. London: Clerke & Cockeran/Associated British Picture Corp., 1948.
•“Let ’Em Play God.” Hollywood Reporter 100, no. 47 (October 11, 1948, 18th Anniversary Issue).
•“My Most Exciting Picture.” Popular Photography, November 1948, 48–51, 96, 98, 100, 103–104.
•“The Enjoyment of Fear.” Good Housekeeping 128 (February 1949): 39, 241–243.
•“Production Methods Compared.” Cine-Technician 14, no. 75 (November–December 1948): 170–174. [Printed also in American Cinematographer 30, no. 5 (May 1949), and in Hollywood Directors 1941–76, ed. Richard Koszarski, 156–161. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.]
•“Master of Suspense: Being a Self-Analysis by Alfred Hitchcock.” New York Times, June 4, 1950, II, 4.
•“Core of the Movie—The Chase.” New York Times Magazine, October 29, 1950, 22–23, 44–46. [Interview.]
“Death in the Crystal Ball.” Coronet 29 (December 1950): 38.
“The Role I Liked Best. . . .” Saturday Evening Post, December 12, 1950. [4 brief paragraphs on his role in Lifeboat.]
“The Wise Man of Kumin.” Coronet 30, no. 2 (June 1951): 38–39.
Preface, Cahiers du Cinema, no. 39 (October 1954): 11–13. [Preface written for a collection of detective stories.]
“The Chloroform Clue: My Favorite True Mystery.” American Weekly, March 22, 1953, 18–20. [NYPL clipping file.]
“My Five Greatest Mysteries.” Coronet 38 (September 1955): 75–77.
•“The Woman Who Knows Too Much.” McCall’s 83 (March 1956): 12, 14.
“H Speaking.” Cosmopolitan 141 (October 1956): 66–67.
“How I’d Worry the Kremlin.” This Week Magazine, November 11, 1956, 8–9.
“The Man Who Knew Too Much.” In Films of the Year 1955–56, ed. Peter Noble, 33–35. London: Express Books, 1956.
•“Murder—With English on It.” New York Times Magazine, March 3, 1957, 17, 42.
“The Great Hitchcock Murder Mystery.” This Week Magazine, August 4, 1957, 8–9, 11.
“Why You Need Thrills and Chills.” This Week Magazine: The National Sunday Magazine, September 22, 1957, 2. [NYPL clipping file, “Not Dated” folder. According to the introductory blurb, this is abridged from his introduction to an anthology, This Week’s Stories of Mystery and Suspense.]
“Hitchcock in the Lion’s Den.” This Week Magazine, October 26, 1958, 22, 24.
“AH and his fan mail,” New York Herald Tribune, January 6, 1959, 2, 14.
“Alfred Hitchcock.” Films and Filming 5, no. 10 (July 1959): 7, 33.
•“Would You Like to Know Your Future.” Guideposts Magazine 14, no. 8 (October 1959): 1–4.
•“Why I Am Afraid of the Dark.” Arts: Lettres, Spectacles, no. 777, June 1–7, 1960, 1, 7. In French: “Pourquoi j’ai peur la nuit.”
•“Elegance Above Sex.” Hollywood Reporter 172, no. 39 (November 20, 1962, 32nd Anniversary Issue).
•“A Redbook Dialogue: AH and Dr. Fredric Wertham.” Redbook 120 (April 1963): 71, 108, 110–112.
•“Hitchcock on Style.” Cinema (Beverly Hills) 1, no. 5 (August/September 1963): 4–8, 34–35.
“Hitchcock Came to College.” Hollywood Reporter 178, no. 1 (November 19, 1963, 33rd Anniversary Issue). [Reprinted in Hurley, 304–308.]
Wheldon, Huw. “Hitchcock on His Films.” The Listener, August 6, 1964, 189–190. [Interview.]
• “Award-Winner Hitchcock Performs Brilliantly.” Morning Telegraph, March 12 and 13, 1965. Herb Stein’s column reprints the talk. [See “The Real Me,” listed below, August 9, 1966, which uses material from here.]
Foreword. In The Filmgoer’s Companion, ed. Leslie Halliwell, 7. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1965.
“Hitchcock and the Dying Art: His Recorded Comments.” Film, no. 46 (Summer, 1966). [Reprinted in Film, no. 79 (November 1979): 25–28.]
“The Real Me (The Thin One).” Daily Express, August 9, 1966, n.p. [BFI clipping file/microfiche.]
“Hitch.” Take One (Montreal) 1, no. 1 (September/October 1966): 14–17. [Reprinted in LaValley as “I Wish I Didn’t Have to Shoot the Picture.”]
•“Hitchcock Talks About Lights, Cameras, Action.” American Cinematographer, May 1967, 332–335, 350–351.
“Director Hitchcock Tells Young Film Directors How Easy It Is.” Making Films in New York 2–4 (August 1968): 38. [Reprinted from interview in Action 3, no. 3 (May–June 1968): 8; also reprinted in Directors in Action, ed. Bob Thomas, 26–31. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1973.]
•“It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s . . . The Birds,” Take One 1, no. 10 (1968): 6–7.
“Rear Window.” Take One 2, no. 2 (1968): 18–20. [Reprinted in LaValley, 40–46.]
•“Film Production.” In Encyclopaedia Britannica (1968), vol. 15, pp. 907–911. [First printed in 1965 edition; partially reprinted in “Symposium,” Arts in Society 4 (Winter 1967): 66–68; at BFI.]
•“In the Hall of Mogul Kings.” Times (London), June 23, 1969, 33.
“Hitch.” Films in London 1, no. 7 (October 19/October 25, 1969): 6–7. [Quotations from a transcript of a John Player celebrity lecture Hitchcock gave at the National Film Theatre; interviewer: Bryan Forbes.]
Batdorf, Emerson. “Let’s Hear It for Hitchcock: The Definitive Interview with Movie-Maker Doing Most of the Talking.” Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, February 1, 1970. [BFI, fiche no. 8.]
“On Suspense and Mystery.” Harper’s Bazaar 104, no. 70 (July 1971). [A long quotation from another source on these familiar topics.]
“Your Fears Are My Life.” Reveille, September 23–September 29, 1972. [Fiche at Herrick Library.]
“AH: The German Years.” Action, January–February 1973, 23–25. [Interview.]
•“Address to the Film Society of Lincoln Center.” Film Comment 10, no. 4 (July–August 1974): 34–35.
“Alfred Hitchcock Cooks His Own Goose.” Harper’s Bazaar 109 (December 1975), 132–133.
•“Hitchcock at Work.” Take One 5, no. 2 (1976): 31–35.
Foreword. In The Flicks, or Whatever Became of Andy Hardy by Charles Champlin. Pasadena: Ward Ritchie Press, 1977. [Reprinted in The Movies Grew Up 1940–1980, by Charles Champlin. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.]
•“Surviving.” Sight & Sound 46 (Summer 1977): 174–176. Interview with John Russell Taylor.