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Hedren made a cameo appearance as [[Marlon Brando]]'s estranged wife in the shipboard comedy ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' (1967). |
Hedren has since appeared in nearly 50 films, though most of them have been low-budget independent features and TV movies. She made a cameo appearance as [[Marlon Brando]]'s estranged wife in the shipboard comedy ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' (1967). Other credits include ''[[Pacific Heights (1990 film)|Pacific Heights]]'' (1990), ''[[Citizen Ruth]]'' (1996), and ''[[I Heart Huckabees]]'' (2004). On television, she has appeared in episodes of ''[[The 4400]]'' and ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' in 2006. She was also a cast member of the night-time soap opera ''[[Fashion House]]'' in 2006. In 2009, she appeared in the [[Lifetime]] movie ''[[Tribute (2009 film)|Tribute]]'', which starred the late actress [[Brittany Murphy]] in one of her last roles. |
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Tippi Hedren | |
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Born | Nathalie Kay Hedren January 19, 1930 New Ulm, Minnesota, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1950–present |
Spouse(s) | Peter Griffith (1952–61) Noel Marshall (1964–82) Luis Barrenechea (1985–95) |
Children | Melanie Griffith |
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930[1][2]) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is primarily known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds and Marnie (in which she played the title role), and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre (320,000 m2) wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983.
Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, who share credits on several productions, notably Pacific Heights (1990).
Early life
Hedren was born in New Ulm, Minnesota, in 1930, the daughter of Dorothea Henrietta née Eckhardt) and Bernard Carl Hedren.[3] Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Sweden, and her maternal ancestry is German and Norwegian.[4] Her father ran a small general store in the small town of Lafayette, Minnesota and gave her the nickname "Tippi." "My father thought Nathalie was a little bit much for a brand new baby," Hedren explained at a 2004 screening of The Birds.
As a teenager, Hedren took part in department store fashion shows. Her parents relocated to California while she was still a high school student. When she reached her 18th birthday, she bought a ticket to New York and began a professional modeling career. Within a year she made her film debut (minus dialogue) as a Petty Girl model in The Petty Girl (1950) musical comedy, although in interviews she refers to The Birds (1963) as her first film.[5]
Career
Discovery
Hedren had a successful modeling career from 1950 to 1961, appearing on covers of national magazines, such as Life magazine.[6] She was discovered by Hitchcock, who was watching The Today Show when he saw Hedren in a commercial for Sego, a diet drink. Hitchcock was looking for an actress who possessed something of the sophistication, self-assurance and cool-blonde sex appeal of Grace Kelly, with whom he had made three films.
Hitchcock put Hedren through a then-costly $25,000 screen test, doing scenes from his previous films, such as Rebecca, Notorious and To Catch a Thief with actor Martin Balsam. He signed her to a multi-year exclusive personal contract, something he had done in the 1950s with Vera Miles. Hitchcock's plan to mold Hedren's public image went so far as to carefully control her style of dressing and grooming. [citation needed] Hitchcock insisted for publicity purposes that her name should be printed only in single quotes, 'Tippi'. The press mostly ignored this directive from the director, who felt that the single quotes added distinction and mystery to Hedren's name. In interviews, Hitchcock compared his newcomer not only to her predecessor Grace Kelly but also to what he referred to as such "ladylike", intelligent, and stylish stars of more glamorous eras as Irene Dunne and Jean Arthur. Later, Hedren indicated that she didn't want to be known as the next Grace Kelly but rather as the first Tippi Hedren.[citation needed]
The Birds and Marnie
Hitchcock directed Hedren in her debut film, The Birds. For the final attack scene in a second-floor bedroom, filmed on a closed set at Universal-International Studios, Hedren had been assured by Hitchcock that mechanical birds would be used. Instead, Hedren endured five solid days of prop men, protected by thick leather gloves, flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her (their beaks clamped shut with elastic bands). Cary Grant visited the set and told Hedren, "I think you're the bravest lady I've ever met." In a state of exhaustion, when one of the birds gouged her cheek and narrowly missed her eye, Hedren sat down on the set and began crying.[7] A physician ordered a week's rest, which Hedren said at the time was riddled with "nightmares filled with flapping wings". In 1964 Hedren received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female, tied with Elke Sommer and Ursula Andress.[8]
That same year she co-starred with Sean Connery in a second Hitchcock film, Marnie (1964), a romantic drama and psychological thriller from the novel by Winston Graham.[9] She recalls it as her favorite of the two for the challenge of playing an emotionally battered young woman who travels from city to city assuming various guises in order to rob her employers.[10] On release, the film was greeted by mixed reviews and indifferent box-office returns. Although Hitchcock continued to have Hedren in mind for several other films after Marnie, the actress declined any further work with him. Other directors who wanted to hire her had to go through Hitchcock, who would inform them she was unavailable. "It grew to be impossible. He was a very controlling type of person, and I guess I'm not about to be controlled", said Hedren. When Hedren tried to get out of her contract, she recalls Hitchcock telling her he'd ruin her career. "And he did: kept me under contract, kept paying me every week for almost two years to do nothing." [11]
By the time Hitchcock sold her contract to Universal and she was fired for refusing work on one of its television shows, Hedren's career had stalled after just two films.[12]
On April 13, 2011, at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, Hedren stated in an interview with Turner Classic Movie‘s Ben Mankiewicz that because she refused Hitchcock’s sexual advances, Hitchcock effectively stunted her career.
Other work
Hedren has since appeared in nearly 50 films, though most of them have been low-budget independent features and TV movies. She made a cameo appearance as Marlon Brando's estranged wife in the shipboard comedy A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). Other credits include Pacific Heights (1990), Citizen Ruth (1996), and I Heart Huckabees (2004). On television, she has appeared in episodes of The 4400 and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2006. She was also a cast member of the night-time soap opera Fashion House in 2006. In 2009, she appeared in the Lifetime movie Tribute, which starred the late actress Brittany Murphy in one of her last roles.
Influence
A Louis Vuitton ad campaign in 2006 paid tribute to Hedren and Hitchcock with a modern-day interpretation of the deserted railway station opening sequence of Marnie. In interviews, Naomi Watts has stated that her character interpretation in Mulholland Drive (2001) was influenced by the look and performances of Hedren in Hitchcock films.[13] Watts and Hedren later acted in I Heart Huckabees (2004) but didn't share any scenes together onscreen. Off-screen, the film's director David O. Russell introduced them both, and Watts has said about Hedren, "I was pretty fascinated by her then because people have often said that we're alike."[1] Watts dressed up as Hedren's title character from Marnie for a photo shoot for March 2008 issue of Vanity Fair.[2] In the same issue, Jodie Foster dressed up as Hedren's character, Melanie Daniels from The Birds.[14]
Another issue of Vanity Fair referred to January Jones's character in Mad Men as "Tippi Hedren's soul sister from Marnie".[3] The New York Times television critic earlier had echoed the same sentiment in his review of Mad Men.[15] January Jones said that she "takes it a compliment of sorts" when compared to Grace Kelly and Hedren.[16] Actress Tea Leoni said that her character in the film Manure (2009) is made up to look like Hedren.[17]
Shambala Preserve
In 1981, Hedren produced Roar, an 11-year project that ended up costing $17 million and starring dozens of African lions. "This was probably one of the most dangerous films that Hollywood has ever seen", remarked the actress. "It's amazing no one was killed." During the production of Roar, Hedren, her husband at the time, Noel Marshall, and daughter Melanie were attacked by lions; Jan de Bont, the director of photography, was scalped. She later co-wrote the book Cats of Shambala (1985) about the experience. [citation needed] Roar made only $2 million worldwide. Hedren ended her marriage to Marshall a year later in 1982. The film directly led to the 1983 establishment of the non-profit Roar Foundation and Hedren's Shambala Preserve, located at the edge of the Mojave Desert in Acton, California between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Los Angeles. Shambala currently houses some 70 animals, including African lions, Siberian and Bengal tigers, leopards, servals, mountain lions and bobcats. Hedren lives on the Shambala site and conducts monthly tours of the preserve for the public. Hedren took in and cared for Togar, a lion that belonged to Anton LaVey, after he was told by San Francisco officials that he couldn't keep a fully grown lion as a house pet. More recently, Shambala became the new home for Michael Jackson’s two Bengal tigers, Sabu and Thriller, after he decided to close his zoo at his Neverland Valley Ranch in Los Olivos, California. On December 3, 2007, Shambala Preserve made headlines when Chris Orr, a caretaker for the animals, was mauled by a tiger named Alexander. [citation needed]
Several documentaries have focused on Shambala Preserve, including the 30-minute Lions: Kings of the Serengeti (1995), narrated by Melanie Griffith, and Animal Planet's Life with Big Cats (1998), which won the Genesis Award for best documentary in 1999. The animals at the preserve served as the initial inspiration for the life's work of artist A. E. London, who started her career working for Hedren. [citation needed]
Personal life
Hedren met and married actor/producer Peter Griffith in 1952. Their daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, was born on August 9, 1957. They were divorced in 1961. She married her then-agent Noel Marshall, who later produced three of her films, in 1964; they divorced in 1982. She married businessman Luis Barrenechea in 1985 and divorced in 1995.[18]
Hedren has three grandchildren from daughter Griffith: Alexander Bauer, Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas. Her son-in-law is Antonio Banderas.
In a Los Angeles Times article and featured on a CBC news story, Hedren was described as being a pivotal figure in the modern development of Vietnamese-owned nail salons in the United States that later spread rapidly along the East and to Canada. Drawn to the plight of refugees from the Vietnam War, she began visiting a tent city at Hope Village, and in 1975, helped Vietnamese immigrants, primarily female, by having her manicurist teach them the skills of the trade and working with a local beauty school to help them find jobs. In Canada, the nail parlour industry is now dominated by Vietnamese immigrants and refugees.[19]
Selected filmography
Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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2011 | Cousin Sarah | Betty | pre-production |
2010 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Queen Hippolyta | Animated series |
2009 | Tribute | Mrs. Hennessey | TV movie |
2008 | Birdemic: Shock and Terror | Actor on TV | archive footage |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Karen Rosenthal (1 episode, 2008) | ||
Her Morbid Desires | Aunt Gloria | ||
2007 | Dead Write | Minnie | |
2006 | Fashion House | Doris Thompson | |
2005 | The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams | Grandmother Adams | |
Diamond Zero | Eleanor Kelly | ||
The 4400 | Lily Moore Tyler, aged | ||
2004 | I Heart Huckabees | Mary Jane Hutchinson | |
Raising Genius | Grandma Babe | ||
Return to Babylon | Mrs. Peabody | ||
2003 | Rose's Garden | Rose | |
DarkWolf | Mary | ||
Searching for Haizmann | Dr. Michelle Labner | ||
111 Gramercy Park | Mrs. Granville | ||
IceMaker | Mrs. Kelly | ||
Julie and Jack | Julie McNeal | ||
2001 | Tea with Grandma | Grandma Rae | |
Ice Cream Sundae | Lady | ||
2000 | Mind Rage | Dr. Wilma Randolph | |
1999 | Replacing Dad | Dixie | |
The Darklings | Martha Jackson | ||
The Storytellers | Lillian Glosner | ||
1998 | I Woke Up Early The Day I Died | Maylinda Austed | |
Break Up | Mom | ||
Expose | unknown | ||
1997 | Mulligans | Dottie | |
1996 | Citizen Ruth | Jessica Weiss | |
1994 | Inevitable Grace | Dr. Marcia Stevens | |
Treacherous Beauties | Lettie Hollister | ||
The Birds II: Land's End | Helen | ||
Teresa's Tattoo | Evelyn Hill | ||
1993 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal | Beverly Courtney | |
Murder, she wrote | Catherine Noble | ||
1992 | Through the Eyes of a Killer | Mrs. Bellano | |
1991 | Shadow of a Doubt | Mrs. Mathewson | |
In the Heat of the Night | Annabelle Van Buren | ||
1990 | Pacific Heights | Florence Peters | |
Return to Green Acres | Arlenn | ||
1989 | Deadly Spygames | Chastity | |
1985 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Waitress | |
1984 | Terror in the Aisles | archival appearance | |
1982 | Foxfire Light | Elizabeth Morgan | |
1981 | Roar | Madeline | |
1976 | The Bionic Woman | Susan Victor | |
1976 | Where the Wind Dies | unknown | |
1973 | The Harrad Experiment | Margaret Tenhausen | |
Mr. Kingstreet's War | Maggie Kingstreet | ||
1970 | Satan's Harvest | Marla Oaks | |
1968 | Tiger by the Tail | Rita Armstrong | |
1967 | A Countess from Hong Kong | Martha | |
1964 | Marnie | Marnie Edgar | |
1963 | The Birds | Melanie Daniels | |
1950 | The Petty Girl | Ice Box Petty Girl | uncredited |
Awards
- Most Promising Newcomer Award by Photoplay for The Birds (1963)
- Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress for The Birds (1963)
- Life Achievement Award in France at The Beauvais Film Festival Cinemalia (1994)
- Life Achievement Award in Spain by the Fundacion Municipal De Cine (1995)
- The Helen Woodward Animal Center's Annual Humane Award (1995)
- Founder's Award from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1996)
- Lion and Lamb Award from Wildhaven (1997)
- Woman of Vision Award from Women of Film and Video in Washington, D.C. (1999)
- Presidential Medal for her work in film from Hofstra University (1999)
- "Best Actress in a Comedy Short" Award in the short film Mulligans! (2000) at the Method Fest, Independent Film Festival (2000)
- "Best Actress" Award for the short film Tea With Grandma (2002) from the New York International Independent Film Festival (2002)
- Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 23, 2003
- Women of Los Angeles Annual Hope is a Woman Honor (2003)[20]
- PAWS Companion for Life Award (2004)
- "Best Actress" Award for the short film Rose's Garden from the Los Angeles TV Short Film Festival (2004)[21]
- Animal Rights Advocacy Award at Artivist Film Festival (2004)
- Living Legacy Award (2005)
- Conservationist of the Year—Dino Award from the Las Vegas Natural History Museum (2006)
- Lifetime Achievement Award—Riverside Film Festival (2007)
- Jules Verne "Nature" Award — the 1st Annual Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival of Los Angeles (2007)
- Academy of Art University's 2nd Epidemic Film Festival Award (2008)
- Jules Verne Legendaire Award (2008)
- Thespian Award-La Femme Film Festival (2008)[22]
- "When a Woman Wills She Will!" Award by the Woman's Club of Hollywood (2009)
- Workhouse's first Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award (2009)
- Received the First Star on the Orinda Theater Walk of Fame (2009)[23]
- Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Genesis Awards show from the Humane Society of the United States (2010)[24]
- BraveHeart Award (2010)
- Who-Manitarian Award (2010)
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce at its 90th Annual Installation & Awards Luncheon (2011)
- "The Women Together Award" from the United Nations (2011)
- Vietnamese-American Marton Saint Award from the Boat People SOS Organization (2011)
- Omni Youth Humanitarian/Career Achievement award (2011)[25]
References
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- ^ Nathalie Hedren was recorded as a newborn in the 1930 Federal Census
- ^ "Minnesota Birth Certificates Index". Minnesota Historical Society. CertID# 1930-03148. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ^ Tippi Hedren Film Reference biography
- ^ Holt, Georgia (1988). Star Mothers: The Moms Behind the Celebrities. Simon and Schuster. p. 287. ISBN 0671645102.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Vroman, Lavender. Tippi Hedren airs out her early acting days, wildlife preservation, Antelope Valley Press, September 30, 2004, page A6
- ^ http://www.originallifemagazines.com/LIFE-Magazine-May-21-1956-P2521.aspx
- ^ Billen, Andrew (April 5, 2005). "The birds attacked me but Hitch was scarier". The Times. London. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ op cit, page A1 and A6.
- ^ Official list of Winston Graham novels at Cartog.co.uk
- ^ Leon Worden. "SCV NEWSMAKER OF THE WEEK: Tippi Hedren". Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society. Retrieved 2005-03-05.
- ^ Haynes, Deborah. The Times. London http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article377531.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3.
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(help) - ^ Billen, Andrew (April 5, 2005). "The birds attacked me but Hitch was scarier". The Times. London. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ Naomi Watts interview
- ^ Hitchcock Classics: Entertainment & Culture
- ^ Stanley, Alessandra (July 25, 2008). "Back to the Office, Vices in Tow". The New York Times. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ http://www.scotsman.com/features/Interview-January-Jones-actress.6776332.jp
- ^ http://www.more.com/2049/3350-tea-leoni
- ^ http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/22288/Tippi-Hedren.html
- ^ Tran, My-Thuan (May 5, 2008). "A mix of luck, polish". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ WireImage: Listings
- ^ Shawna Bacas Film, Roses Garden Starring Tippi Hedren Won Big at LA TV Short Film Fest including Best Film and Best Actress
- ^ http://lafemme.org/blog/honorees-announced/honoreeswinners/past-honorees-winners/2005-2009-celbebrity-honorees/
- ^ Contra Costa Times report on Hedren's star on the Orinda Theater Walk of Fame
- ^ Humane Society website re Hedren's 2010 Genesis Award
- ^ http://www.canyon-news.com/artman2/publish/On_the_Industry_1168/An_Exciting_Night_At_The_Omni_Awards.php
External links
- Tippi Hedren at IMDb
- Tippi Hedren at the TCM Movie Database
- Tippi Hedren at NNDB
- Tippi Hedren's Roar Foundation and the Shambala Preserve
- TV Interview with Tippi Hedren, March 6, 2005 (free online viewing)
- TV Interview with Tippi Hedren on location at Shambala, 2008 (free online viewing)
- Book interview with Tippi Hedren Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie
- Articles with ibid from September 2011
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