# The Atoz Game (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341 "2025-12-02T22:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 66
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1301 "2026-06-19T05:14:50Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant He starred in 4 Hitchcock films ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1302 "2026-06-19T11:41:33Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant Dial M for Murder ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1303 "2026-06-19T14:28:21Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant Dial M for Murder Eva Marie Saint One of Hitch’s ingenues, she’ll be 102 in a few weeks ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1304 "2026-06-19T14:32:08Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant Dial M for Murder Eva Marie Saint Foreign Correspondent One of two movies he released in 1940, both of which were nominated for Best Picture. The other movie released that year, Rebecca, won the award. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1305 "2026-06-19T15:18:55Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant Dial M for Murder Eva Marie Saint Foreign Correspondent Grace Kelly ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1306 "2026-06-19T15:30:26Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant Dial M for Murder Eva Marie Saint Foreign Correspondent Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi Like Eva Marie Saint, she’s still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1307 "2026-06-19T18:29:36Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock Birds, The Cary Grant Dial M for Murder Eva Marie Saint Foreign Correspondent Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1308 "2026-06-19T20:41:42Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1309 "2026-06-19T21:08:38Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1310 "2026-06-19T21:34:23Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1311 "2026-06-19T21:35:50Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1312 "2026-06-19T22:29:16Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Hitchcock’s cameo in _Lifeboat_ was as a before-and-after picture in a newspaper ad for “Reduco Obesity Slayer” _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1313 "2026-06-20T18:38:52Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia In a 1963 interview at Cannes he was quoted as saying: _“I’m frightened of eggs. Worse than frightened – they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brr!”_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1314 "2026-06-20T20:34:38Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Tied with _The Birds_ for best-known movie of his catalog. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1315 "2026-06-23T20:34:15Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Queen Elizabeth II Knighting ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1316 "2026-06-24T05:48:10Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Queen Elizabeth II Knighting Reville, Alma Hitchcock’s screenwriter wife, who collaborated with her husband on many of his scripts, as well as writing screenplays for other directors. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1317 "2026-06-24T14:48:56Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Queen Elizabeth II Knighting Reville, Alma Suspenseful ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1318 "2026-06-24T15:30:12Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Queen Elizabeth II Knighting Reville, Alma Suspenseful TV series _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_ “Good eeeevening,” ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1319 "2026-06-25T14:19:25Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Queen Elizabeth II Knighting Reville, Alma Suspenseful TV series _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_ _Under Capricorn_ Mostly (and deservedly) forgotten even though it had Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman. It was basically just a stupid love story. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341/1320 "2026-06-25T14:33:24Z")
**Alfred Hitchcock** Alfred Hitchcock _Birds, The_ Cary Grant _Dial M for Murder_ Eva Marie Saint _Foreign Correspondent_ Grace Kelly Hedren, Tippi _I Confess_ _Juno and the Paycock_ Karen Black Looking for the director’s cameo _Man Who Knew Too Much, The_ Newspaper ad Ovophobia _Psycho_ Queen Elizabeth II Knighting Reville, Alma Suspenseful TV series _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_ _Under Capricorn_ Vera Miles Considered “the next Grace Kelly” by Hitch; she was supposed to star in _Vertigo_ (1958) but was replaced with Kim Novak due to her pregnancy, which annoyed the director. He later punished her by casting Janet Leigh over her in _Psycho_ (1960), and sticking her in the minor role of Leigh’s sister. It would be the best role Miles is remembered for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-3/1025341.md?page=67)