Director Alfred Hitchcock is admired as one of the best creative minds at cinema's annals. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock ladies were trendy, beautiful and preferably blond. 1 such celebrity was an unknown fashion model awarded her major break when Hitchcock's wife watched on a TV commercial, Tippi Hedren. Delivered to Universal Studios, while the manager, at the summit of the career, quickly throw her to star in his second feature, Hedren was shocked, 1963's The Birds. Little did Hedren understand that terrifying and as ambitious because the production would be to take, the film's element wound up originating from behind the camera.