SIAP. Found this tv movie about Hitch and Tippi Hedrin of The Birds fame.

So many of his other actresses LOVED working with Hitchcock (Joan Fontaine twice; Ingrid Bergman three times, Grace Kelly three times in a row, Eva Marie Saint and Janet Leigh one memorable time only) that the Tippi Hedren story always seems at odds with "the real Hitch." Here is what was possible: Hitchcock -- massively successful coming off of his TV show, NXNW and above all, Psycho -- decided to 'make a movie star out of a nobody" -- Tippi Hedren -- and then imposed that egotistical power ON her -- in a way he never could with the major female stars with whom he previously worked.

I can buy Hitchcock's villainy there ONLY as that way. But overall, I'm afraid I don't buy it. I've read a LOT of books about Hitchcock, about his actresses...and a couple about Tippi Hedren.

We can be sympathetic to Tippi Hedren in this way: she was making a living as a model, and she had a popular TV commercial(often shown on the Today show) that drew Hitch's attention. But suddenly, Tippi Hedren was moved to the front of the line, and given the leading roles in not one, but TWO Hitchcock movies, made as he was at the peak of his success. It must have been dizzying for Hedren. Critics came at her with knives, you know -- they had no respect for this woman who had not proved herself as a movie star, or even on stage, first. And the fact that The Birds(somewhat) and Marnie(a lot) suddenly looked like movies of decline after the Vertigo/NXNW/Psycho triad...Tippi ended up taking the hit for THAT, too.

In the final analysis, I feel that neither Hitchcock(about Psycho) nor The Girl(about The Birds, and, a little bit, Marnie) really captured much of anything about the real Hitchcock, the towering achievement of his films, or the excitement of the individual films.

You could say that Hitchcock "won" -- neither film could compete with the real man, and his real world, and his real historical power.

I thought it was well done. The acting was good and believable. Yes it shows Hitch had issues, however didn't paint him in with the monster brush Me Tooers would have liked.

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Toby Jones was odd casting. He got the voice right, but he really had a totally different physical look and face from Hitchcock...there's a touch of a "little person" look to him. With Jones in the role, Hitchcock came off perhaps as more ugly and weird looking than the real Hitchcock (who could actually have a rather warm and pleasant face when he relaxed.)

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Fact is his wife was old and he was working with young starlets; what's a director to do?

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What the record mostly shows is that Hitchcock loved his wife Alma very much -- as a lifelong companion and business partner more than anything else and -- surrounded indeed by young, sexy stars and starlets -- probably went a little nuts.

Look, long before "Metoo" came along, you had any number of men saying, quite frankly in interviews, "I went into the movie business because I wanted to get girls" (not women, girls.) It is a target rich environment where beautiful women are around all the time and -- when you are a producer or a director or a casting agent -- have to do what you say. Women are now often those producers and directors, which alleviates the problem somewhat...unless the power women are lesbian...