Alma Lucy, Lady Hitchcock (August 14, 1899, Nottinghamshire, England – July 6, 1982, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California) was an assistant director, screenwriter and editor. She was the second daughter of Edward and Lucy Reville.
She is best known as the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s. She converted to Roman Catholicism before their ...
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Alma Lucy, Lady Hitchcock (August 14, 1899, Nottinghamshire, England – July 6, 1982, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California) was an assistant director, screenwriter and editor. She was the second daughter of Edward and Lucy Reville.
She is best known as the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s. She converted to Roman Catholicism before their marriage.
They married on 2 December 1926 at Brompton Oratory in London. Alma became his collaborator and sounding board, with a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for scrutinizing a film's final version for continuity flaws so minor they escaped Hitchcock's own notice and that of his crew. It was Reville who noticed Janet Leigh inadvertently swallowed after her character's fatal encounter with Norman Bates' "mother" in Psycho (1960), necessitating an alteration to the negative.
Cinema was the couple’s passion. A talented editor,...
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