Tippi Hedren Overview:

Actress, Tippi Hedren, was born Nathalie Kay Hedren on Jan 19, 1930 in New Ulm, MN. As of December 2024, Tippi Hedren was 95 years old.

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Tippi: A Memoir

on May 22, 2017 From Journeys in Classic Film

says in the introduction to her autobiography that so much has been written about her that it’s high time she set the record straight. Tippi is as succinct a title and encapsulation of the writer behind it as the name implies, for good and ill. It’s unclear whether Hedren ke... Read full article


+ New Titles Announced for 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival

By Will McKinley on Dec 11, 2012 From Cinematically Insane

“THE BIRDS is coming!” to the?TCM Classic Film Festival?next April, along with star , Turner Classic Movies announced today. The still-gorgeous, 82-year-old actress and animal activist will be in person at the fourth annual TCMFF in Hollywood April 25-28 ?for a screening hono... Read full article


and The Birds at the Redford

By Angela on Oct 2, 2012 From Hollywood Revue

Picture from the Redford’s Facebook page. In all the time that I’ve been going to classic film screenings, I have never seen a Hitchcock movie bring out a lame crowd.? Even if the movie plays midnight, people are always eager to see one of Hitch’s movies on the big screen.? So back... Read full article


In the News: on Hitchcock

By Dawn on Aug 2, 2012 From Noir and Chick Flicks

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Pawsome Pet Pictures:

By monty on Jul 11, 2012 From Noir and Chick Flicks

Tippi and her well trained friend on the set of The Birds... Read full article


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Tippi Hedren Quotes:

Mark Rutland: Before I was drafted into Rutland's Miss Taylor, I had notions of being a zoologist. I still try to keep up with my field.
Marnie Edgar: Zoos?
Mark Rutland: Instinctual behavior.
Marnie Edgar: A lady's instinct too?


Marnie Edgar: Are you still in the mood for killing?


Mark Rutland: Well why didn't you jump over the side?
Marnie Edgar: The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish.


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Operates an exotic animal sanctuary which prompted her testimony in February 2005 in Riverside Superior Court. Hedren made a complaint regarding animal cruelty by a tiger rescuer and was told by U.S. Department of Agriculture that there were not enough inspectors to respond to her complaint. She eventually made room for a lion rather than have it go to the rescuer. She stated she felt like she was walking through a trash dump.

Requested director Alfred Hitchcock to give her the fur coat that she wore in The Birds (1963), and he graciously gave it to her but charged it to the production company. Eventually, she stopped wearing fur after she became an animal rights activist.

Alfred Hitchcock saw her in a 1962 commercial aired during the "Today" (1952) show and cast her in The Birds (1963). In the commercial for a diet drink, she is seen walking down a street and a man whistles at her slim, attractive figure, and she turns her head with an acknowledging smile. In the opening scene of The Birds (1963), the same thing happens as she walks toward the bird shop. This was an inside joke by Hitchcock.

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