![]() ![]() Was it not foreseen that he was an innocent–– wasn’t he innocent? Always the story has to be compromised because the star cannot be a villain. ![]() Well, these are the problems that we face with the star system. Now, of course, there is one slight difficulty – the leading man is England’s matinee idol and that’s Ivor Novello, but he was a big name. they’ve done it two or three times since but too elaborate and no. The story was the house that took in lodgers and the woman of the house wondered “is the man upstairs Jack the Ripper or not?” But, I treated it purely from her point of view–– they have made it since and. I saw a play and it was called “Who is He?” and it was a play based on the book of Mrs Belloc Lowndes called “The Lodger”. “The Lodger” was the first true Hitchcock picture. Well, “ The Lodger” of course, that’s another story. ![]()
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