1. Alma Reville was the wife of film director Alfred Hitchcock.
18 Facts About Alma Reville
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Alma Reville collaborated on scripts for her husband's films, including Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion, and The Lady Vanishes, as well as scripts for other directors, including Henrik Galeen, Maurice Elvey, and Berthold Viertel.
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The family moved to London when Alma Reville was young, as her father gained a job at Twickenham Film Studios.
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Alma Reville often visited her father at work and eventually obtained a job there as a tea girl.
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The first film Alma Reville worked on with Hitchcock was Woman to Woman, with Alma Reville as film editor, and Hitchcock as art director and assistant editor.
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Hitchcock and Alma Reville married on 2 December 1926 at Brompton Oratory in London after Alma Reville converted to Roman Catholicism from Protestantism, apparently at the behest of Hitchcock's mother.
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Alma Reville was baptized on 31 May 1927 and confirmed at Westminster Cathedral by Francis Cardinal Bourne on 5 June.
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Alma Reville co-wrote The Constant Nymph, the first film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy, directed by Adrian Brunel.
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In 1929, Alma Reville co-wrote After the Verdict, directed by Henrik Galeen and A Romance of Seville, directed by Norman Walker.
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Alma Reville continued to work with some other directors, including Phil Rosen in 1934, Berthold Viertel in 1935 and Richard Wallace in 1945.
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Alma Reville focused primarily on preparing and adapting her husband's scripts, including those for Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Suspicion and Saboteur.
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Alma Reville worked with her husband on many more scripts in Hollywood.
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Alma Reville collaborated with Joan Harrison on the script of Suspicion, which was completed on 28 November 1940.
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Alma Reville had a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for scrutinising a film's final version for continuity flaws so minor they had escaped the notice of the director or the crew.
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Alma Reville died on 6 July 1982, at the age of 82, two years after her husband.
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Alma Reville was cremated and had her ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
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Alma Reville was portrayed by Imelda Staunton in The Girl, and Helen Mirren in Hitchcock.
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In 1999, on the 100th anniversary of her birth, a plaque to Alma Reville was unveiled in Nottingham, near the site of her birth, as part of the British Film Institute's "Centenary of Cinema" celebrations.