Alma Before Hitchcock

An interesting article published in the December 1925 issue of Picturegoer aims at describing what a script supervisor was to the general public. The chosen subject is allegedly the "only one" girl in England that does it.
To a modern reader, it is incredible timing that this tiny person, which the article hints earns a decent living doing what she does, is interviewed at this specific time.

Alma Reville is not a "director" at the time, as the legend of the picture suggests, but she did work with all the directors mentioned and, more importantly, she worked on the successful Woman to Woman, on The Passionate Adventure and The Blackguard (read more about these films in this book). On these three films, she collaborated with a young ever more influent assistant director named Alfred Hitchcock. The episode related at the end of the article is non other that Hitchcock's first completed feature, The Pleasure Garden.

The director himself will tell the story of Alma meeting his star Virginia Valli at Cherbourg (read about it in this book).
Of course, the end of the article is especially funny: "she has never had time to get married". We all know that changed soon after that and the two lived happily ever after.

Today would have been Alma's 116th birthday.

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