Hedren owes her acting career to Alfred Hitchcock who discovered the blonde model doing a commercial on the "Today" (1952) show. He cast her in The Birds (1963) and then Marnie (1964). She followed the Grace Kelly mold for playing frigid females with a vulnerable core. By: Ray Hamel From working for (Best Director) Alfred Hitchcock, to a movie written by (Worst Director) Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota girl of Scandinavian descent, has had a distinctive caree ...[Read Story]