Hitchcock Talks PSYCHO & A Poet Saves Joan Crawford

Sundays Were Made For Vintage Sensuality...

Art by Don Blanding

Hello Epicureans;

For this slice of sensuality on Sunday, I’ve brought you a compilation of snippets of interviews Alfred Hitchcock gave in the 1960s.

I learned things about Hitchcock himself and the thriller/suspense genre I hadn’t known before.

If you love Hitchcock you’ll love this piece of historical audio.

It’s definitely worth the 20 minute listen.

To listen to the audio, click the link below….

Additionally, I found an article which places Don Blanding - poet and artist - as the hero in the childhood of the woman who would become the famous movie star, Joan Crawford.

I’ve recently become aware of Don Blanding’s work and I’m sorry I didn’t discover it sooner.

Blanding was most popular in the early part of the 20th century and was said to be charismatic and adventurous.

The story goes that he, Blanding was a high school senior and the neighbor of a young girl whose birth name was Lucille and who the world would come to know as Joan Crawford.

Little Joan loved to dance. One day however, her dancing came to an abrupt end. In fact, her entire career in the movie business may never have come to fruition. She had jumped off the porch of her home and severely cut one of her bare feet when she landed on a broken glass milk bottle.

Apparently, it was Don Blanding, a teenager at the time, who walked by and helped her.

To read the entire story, click the link below….