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This Day in History –
On August 13, 1899 - Sir Alfred Hitchcock was born in London.
The [-----1-----] master of movie making, Alfred Hitchcock made a secondary career of [-----2-----] appearances in many of the 80 films he directed. In The Lodger, Hitchcock merely served as an extra to fill the screen. [-----2-----] appearances then followed as a [-----3-----] and later as a running gag that kept audiences paying strict attention to catch him. Such cleverness even found a way with six characters [-----4-----] at sea in Lifeboat, as he appeared in a before and after magazine ad. Sir Alfred states: “I do it as early as I can, because I'm told, I don't know this, I'm told, that an audience looks out for me. But I have another reason. I get in and out as quickly as I can, so that I don't have to suffer the [-----5-----] of being an actor too long“.
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