“The lower lip definitely states that all actors are cattle—including the authorǃ”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Handwritten note accompanying Hitchcock's sketched self-portrait; as seen in—and addressed to the author of— "Melodrama Maestro" http://www.mediafire.com/view/uvl045zkpces0io/MELODRAMA_MAESTRO.jpg by Hume Cronyn, in McClean's (1 November 1944).

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British filmmaker 1899–1980

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