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Tall, beautiful, refined, "cold" and elegant blonde; characteristic of the films of Alfred Hitchcock a female type, finally took shape in the 1950s and became one of the symbols as the creativity of the director and the classic Hollywood cinema.





The image of "Hitchcock Blonde," which enjoyed a sincere love of the director, is present in almost half of his films. Over the years, the role of heroines, consistent with this, the game such as the actress:

Grace Kelly


Kim Novak


Tippi Hedren


Janet Leigh


Ingrid Bergman and actresses


For years, Hollywood was dominated by unspoken tradition, according to which the heroine of the film conditionally divided into "light" and "dark", depending on the color of their hair - for this reason the vast majority of American movie stars of the first two-thirds of the XX century were blondes .

He [Hitchcock] liked blondes and could not understand women who do not bleach your hair in exchange for the privilege of working with him. - Joseph Cotten
Classical "Hitchcock blonde" - is certainly a woman, combines, in the words of François Truffaut, "external coldness" and "inner glow". In his heroines Hitchcock wanted to see the repressed desire - which is why, according to him, he never offered the roles of Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot

The director believed that the role of the "cold" Blondes are best suited Englishwoman, as well as Scandinavian and northern Germans.

Hitchcock heroine, along with accentuated femininity, often exhibit qualities such as resourcefulness, determination and independence, no yielding to male characters.

The image of "Hitchcock Blonde" try on many actresses. Sharon Stone recalled that by agreeing to star in the controversial film "Basic Instinct", she carefully read the script and immediately bought a suit in the style of Grace Kelly, "because I realized that there needed Hitchcock Blonde," and then asked the hairdresser to give her a haircut like the heroine of "Windows in a court».



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