![]() Then I came back to do Mrs Miniver because Billy Wilder had asked me, and by then, Mr Goldwyn had signed me. and I went back to New York to do a play. Teresa Wright I'd come out to California to do "The Little Foxes". I thought it was very well cast, right down to the last person. It's one of my favourites because I loved all the people in it. Then he and Sally Benson and my mother worked on the screenplay. Patricia Hitchcock After Thornton Wilder left to join the army, my father brought in Sally Benson, who had just written a play in New York called "Junior Miss", which was a big hit. This is something Hitch hadn't gotten from American artists before, and I think it meant a lot to him. He was very open, very easy to work with and very respectful. On top of which, Thornton Wilder did not bring an ego to the project. Thornton Wilder's input, since he was American, since it was about a small town, since Thornton Wilder wrote the great small-town American play, Our Town, that contributes to Hitchcock's fondness of it. It was set in America, as opposed to " Suspicion" or " Rebecca". Peter Bogdanovich " Shadow of a Doubt" was really the first American Hitchcock. The original idea was brought to him by Gordon McDonell, who was married to Margaret McDonell, who worked at Selznick. I remember my father and Thornton Wilder and my mother working together on the movie. Patricia Hitchcock This was my father's favourite movie, because he loved the thought of bringing menace into a small town. The following people appear in the transcript: ![]() ![]() Transcript for the documentary Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film (2000), based on the subtitle track from a DVD.
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