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Patricia Alma Hitchcock was the only child of Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville. Her upbringing was 'English' and strict. Two years of boarding school from the age of eight was followed by relocation to the U.S. a year later when Hitch was contracted by David O. Selznick to direct Rebecca (1940). Keen to join the acting fraternity, Pat appeared on stage by the early 40s. In 1944, she played the titular role in the short-lived Broadway play Violet at the Belasco Theater. Though she would have liked to go on to a college education, her father instead packed her off to London when she was 18 to study at RADA (among her classmates were Lionel Jeffries and Dorothy Tutin). She made several appearances on the London stage, followed by an inauspicious screen debut in 1949. In 1950, she had a small role in her father's thriller Stage Fright (1950) (as 'Chubby Bannister') which set the tone for her future roles, usually as the dowdy friend or sister of the heroine (Strangers on a Train (1951), Psycho (1960)). She was also featured in ten episodes of Alfred Hit

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March 11, 1993 | There’s at least one brightly charming story in The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Donald Spoto’s controversial 1983 biography of The Master of Suspense, and it deals with the birth of his only child, Patricia.

According to Spoto, Patricia arrived into this world on the morning of July 7, 1928. The birth took place in the family’s London apartment, with Alma Reville Hitchcock under the guidance of a midwife and the care of a doctor — but without her husband actually being present for the blessed event. “The tension in the apartment had closed around him,” Spoto writes, “and he had bolted out the door until late afternoon.” When Hitchcock returned, contrite and abashed, he found his wife sleeping, his infant daughter bawling. He waited until Alma awakened, then sheepishly presented her with an expensive sapphire-and-gold bracelet as a peace offering.

It’s a lovely anecdote, illuminating and entertaining, the sort of story any biographer would delight in unearthing.

Trouble is, it isn’t true.

At least, not according to Patricia Hitc

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Patricia (centre) and her family in 1956

Biography

Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell is an English actress and producer.

She was born at 153 Cromwell Road in London on 7th July 1928, the only child of Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville.

As a teenager, her first major acting role was in the John Van Druten play Solitaire, which opened on Broadway in New York in January 1942.

After graduating from Marymount High School in Los Angeles in 1947, she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and also appeared on the London stage.

She had supporting roles in three of her father's films — Stage Fright (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951) and Psycho (1960) — as well as appearing in several episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Patricia married Joseph E. O'Connell, Jr. in January 1952 and they had three daughters: Mary Stone, Tere Carrubba, and Katie Fiala.

Following her father's death, she donated his papers to the Margaret Herrick Library where they form the "Alfred Hitchcock Papers" collection.

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