Hitchcock died in 1980 at age 80. Hedren, 86, recalled Hitchcock making unwanted advances during her grueling six-month shoot for “The Birds” in 1962, including one encounter while riding back to her hotel with the filmmaker in his limousine. The breaking point, she wrote, came in 1964 during production of Hedren's second Hitchcock film, “Marnie,” when the director “suddenly grabbed me and put his hands on me.” “It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly, and I couldn't have been more shocked and more repulsed,” she added, alleging that Hitchcock threatened to ruin her career when she insisted on ending her contract, which she did that day.
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Tippi Hedren accuses Hitchcock of sexual harassment in memoir