![]() In addition to being elegant and beautifully dressed, these women could be brave, plucky, sensual, complicated, obsessive, and most important, sympathetic. He looked to find another actress who could fill her shoes – first Vera Miles, then Tippi Hedren. But it was with Grace Kelly, whose allure Hitchcock was never able to fully shake off, that he cemented his reputation. Hitchcock’s heroines weren’t all blondes – there were strong, independent, dark-haired leading ladies like Teresa Wright and Margaret Lockwood, and light brown haired Joan Fontaine and Ingrid Bergman. While June and Anny Ondra were two of Hitchcock’s early blondes, Madeleine Carroll was the first heroine whose image and character he truly went out of his way to shape on screen in The 39 Steps and Secret Agent. ![]()
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