:02:02
(Woman) I remember my father
and Thornton Wilder and my mother
:02:05
working together on the movie.
:02:08
The original idea was brought to him
by Gordon McDonell,
:02:12
who was married
to Margaret McDonell,
:02:15
who worked at Selznick.
:02:18
(Man) Shadow of a Doubt
was really the first American Hitchcock.
:02:24
It was set in America,
:02:26
as opposed to Suspicion or Rebecca .
:02:30
Thornton Wilder's input,
since he was American,
:02:33
since it was about a small town,
:02:36
since Thornton Wilder wrote the great
small-townAmerican play, Our Town ,
:02:39
that contributes to
Hitchcock's fondness of it.
:02:42
On top of which, Thornton Wilder
did not bring an ego to the project.
:02:46
He was very open, very easy
to work with and very respectful.
:02:49
This is something Hitch hadn't gotten
from American artists before,
:02:55
and I think it meant a lot to him.
:02:58
(O'Connell) After Thornton Wilder
left to join the army,
:03:00
my father brought in Sally Benson,
:03:03
who had just written a play
in New York called Junior Miss ,
:03:06
which was a big hit.
:03:08
Then he
and Sally Benson and my mother
:03:11
worked on the screenplay.
:03:13
It's one of my favourites
because I loved all the people in it.
:03:17
I thought it was very well cast,
right down to the last person.
:03:26
(Woman) I'd come out to California
to do The Little Foxes.
:03:30
and I went back
to New York to do a play.
:03:32
Then I came back to do Mrs Miniver
:03:35
because Billy Wilder had asked me,
:03:38
and by then,
Mr Goldwyn had signed me.
:03:39
I did that and then
Pride of the Yankees , almost in a row.
:03:43
I mean, each one lasted
almost four months.
:03:47
Then I was married and very caught up
in, you know, having my first home
:03:52
and all of that.
:03:54
Then this script came,
:03:56
and, of course, everybody
wants to do a Hitchcock film.