Tippi Hedren’s career began with teenage modeling, as she appeared often in popular magazines.
Later she appeared in TV commercials, and one ofd them caught the eye of someone famous and powerful.
One day a Hollywood agent called with the magic words: “Alfred Hitchcock wants to put you under contract.”
Hedren then starred in Hitchcok’s “The Birds” in 1963 and “Marnie” in 1964.
While she was shooting two movies in Africa in 1969,she realized a new life mission: animal rescue.
By 1983 Hedren had established a nonprofit foundation, and had built a wildlife sanctuary of her own, which she named the Shambala Preserve.
In 1985 Hedren published a book about her sanctuary, and the animals she curfates. Her book was called The Cats of Shambala.
I met her while she was on a book tour, and I relished the opportunity to ask her about Hitchcock.
So here now, from 1985, Tippi Hedren.
Tippi Hedren will be 95 next month. She remains in charge of Shambala.
