Tippi Hedren Net Worth

Tippi Hedren's Quotes

• [on Alfred Hitchcock] To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.
• [on 3/1/05, when asked which is her favorite of the Alfred Hitchcock films she starred in] I think Marnie (1964). They were both so different that it's kind of hard to figure out which, but The Birds (1963) was sort of a chase. All of the Hitchcock films have a mystery to them and that sort of thing, but the personality of Marnie was so intriguing. She was really - poor Marnie.
• My advice to anyone contemplating acting as a profession is to be independently wealthy or have another vocation as a backup. [Melanie Griffith] and [Antonio Banderas] are well set, but most actors make a pittance.
• For years, directors and producers came up to me and said they'd wanted me for a role, but [Alfred Hitchcock] wouldn't allow it. The worst was when I found out that François Truffaut had wanted to cast me. I'd never heard a word about it. That one hurt.
• [on being offered the title role in Marnie (1964) by Alfred Hitchcock] I was stunned. I was amazed that he would offer me this incredible role and that he would have that kind of faith in me . . . I thought Marnie was an extremely interesting role to play and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Interesting Facts about Tippi Hedren

1. At the end of shooting Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), she discovered that the big cats used in the production had no place to go and would likely languish in small cages. This prompted her to obtain a parcel of land on her own to establish a home with a natural setting for retired big cats. She named it Shambala and it exists to this day.
2. Mother of Melanie Griffith.
3. Presides over The Roar Foundation, an animal preserve outside of Los Angeles.
4. Director Alfred Hitchcock unsuccessfully pursued a relationship with her during the filming of Marnie (1964).
5. Named one of her house cats after Sean Connery, her co-star in Marnie (1964).
6. Lobbying for passage of Shambala Wild Animal Protection Act.
7. Participated in panel at University of Illinois on "Hitchcock, Women and Terror", October 2001.
8. Her first television commercial was for a cigarette brand in the early 1950s. She learned to smoke for the commercial, because she felt viewers would know if she was faking it. Her smoking habit lasted for 15 years until her daughter, Melanie Griffith--then 10 years old--came to her after a school health lecture and begged her to stop. In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that her primary reason for quitting was because smoking ages one's physical appearance.
9. Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Blvd. on 1/30/2003.
10. Alfred Hitchcock saw her in a 1961 commercial aired during the Today (1952) show and cast her in The Birds (1963). In the commercial for a diet drink, she is seen walking down a street and a man whistles at her slim, attractive figure, and she turns her head with an acknowledging smile. In the opening scene of The Birds (1963), the same thing happens as she walks toward the bird shop. This was an inside joke by Hitchcock.
11. Has three grandchildren: Alexander Bauer (b. 1985), Dakota Johnson (b. 1989), and Stella Banderas (b. 1996).
12. Former mother-in-law of Steven Bauer, Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas.
13. Operates an exotic-animal sanctuary, which prompted her testimony in February 2005 in Riverside (CA) Superior Court. She made a complaint regarding animal cruelty by a tiger rescuer and was told by the US Department of Agriculture that there were not enough inspectors to respond to her complaint. She eventually made room for a lion rather than have it go to the rescuer. She stated she felt like she was walking through a trash dump.
14. Her store owner father, Bernard Hedren, was of Swedish descent, and her school teacher mother, Dorathea (Eckhardt), was of half German and half Norwegian ancestry.
15. She met with Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville for the final time in London, England, in 1966 while she was filming Charles Chaplin's last film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). They took her to tea at Claridge's. The atmosphere was tense because she knew Hitchcock was upset that she had been cast in what was expected to be a big film, and he was unable to hide his bitterness.
16. Her performance as Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963) is ranked #86 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
17. British neo-progressive band Landmarq has a song titled "Tippi Hedren" on their 1992 album "Solitary Witness".
18. Attended the funeral of Suzanne Pleshette. [January 2008]
19. One of her favorite sweet treats is Marnie's red velvet cake, which she named after her character from the film of the same name Marnie (1964). She graciously provided the recipe for this three-layer cake to a website called high-societea.com, which specializes in articles on tea and accompanying treats.
20. Requested Alfred Hitchcock to give her the fur coat she wore in The Birds (1963), and he graciously gave it to her but charged it to the production company. She stopped wearing fur after she became an animal rights activist.