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Nathalie "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American supermodel and actress. She was discovered by Alfred Hitchcock who saw her while she was doing a diet drink commercial. He was looking for an actress who looked like Grace Kelly. Hedren appeared in The Birds and Marnie for Hitchcock.
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Tippi Hedren (born January 19 , 1930 in New Ulm , Minnesota ) is an American actress. She was discovered by Alfred Hitchcock who saw her while she was doing a diet drink commercial. He was looking for an actress who looked like Grace Kelly . Hedren appeared in The Birds and Marnie for Hitchcock.
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From working for (Best Director) Alfred Hitchcock, to a movie written by (Worst Director) Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota girl of Scandinavian descent, has had a distinctive career. She was working as a New York fashion model when she married her first husband, actor and producer Peter Griffith, in 1952 (married until 1961). She gave birth to her only child, future star Melanie Griffith, born on August 9, 1957. Alfred Hitchcock discovered Tippi, the pretty cover girl, while viewing a commercial on NBC's "Today" (1952). He put her under personal contract and cast her in The Birds (1963). In a cover article about the movie in Look magazine (Dec.
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Blonde actress/model Tippi Hedren lists the year of her birth as 1935, which means that she would have been 14 or 15 when she appeared fleetingly in her first film, The Petty Girl (1950). Hedren did not resurface on the movie scene again until 1963, when she was "discovered" by Alfred Hitchcock. The official story is that Hitchcock wanted to mold Hedren into a new Grace Kelly; rumors persist that his interest in the actress went way beyond professional, and that he made a few clumsy advances towards her on the set. Whatever the case, Hedren starred in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964). She was criticized for being too impassive in the former film and too expressive in the latter, though it isn't fair to pick on her for the shortcomings of the script and direction. Hedren was under contract not to Hitchcock but to his home studio of Universal; ... she was obliged to appear in a 1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre episode and in director Charlie Chaplin's A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), acquitting herself nicely in both instances.
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Blonde actress/model "Tippi Hedren" lists the year of her birth as 1935, which means that she would have been 14 or 15 when she appeared fleetingly in her first film, "The Petty Girl" (1950). Hedren did not resurface on the movie scene again until 1963, when she was "discovered" by "Alfred Hitchcock". The official story is that Hitchcock wanted to mold Hedren into a new "Grace Kelly"; rumors persist that his interest in the actress went way beyond professional, and that he made a few clumsy advances towards her on the set. Whatever the case, Hedren starred in Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) and "Marnie" (1964). She was criticized for being too impassive in the former film and too expressive in the latter, though it isn't fair to pick on her for the shortcomings of the script and direction.
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Hedren was born in New Ulm, Minnesota to a Swedish father and a German-Norwegian mother. Her father gave her the moniker "Tippi" even though her birth name is Nathalie Kay Hedren. "My father thought Nathalie was a little bit much for a brand new baby," Hedren remembered at a 2004 screening of The Birds. Tippi comes from the Swedish nickname "Tupsa" or "sweetheart".
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