If Hitchcock were alive, he would still be in love with Tippi Hedren, who turned 95 years old on January 21st, and whose images have gone viral this week. The unforgettable star of The Birdslooks spectacular in the photos and the video that her family has posted on the star's official Instagram. In them, it can be seen that Hedren still retains her serene beauty with spectacular skin as she blows out the candles on a green cream cake with confetti.
It was her daughter, Melanie Griffith (67), who wrote that MorMor - a Swedish word used by their ancestors meaning mom - is "happy, healthy, and a fighter." Melanie's daughter, Stella del Carmen, also posted a memory on her stories. In February of last year, it was made public that the actress is dealing with dementia and, for that reason, is not available to give interviews.
The American actress, one of the most famous blondes of Hitchcock alongside Grace Kelly, Kim Novak (92), or Eva Marie Saint (100) - resides in Shambala, the Californian wildlife reserve that she created in 1972 to protect feline animals such as Siberian and Bengal tigers, panthers, or leopards. Most of them were born in captivity, are orphans, discarded from circuses and zoos, and given up by owners who can no longer care for them. For example, in this place, they welcomed Samu and Thriller, the two Bengal tigers owned by Michael Jackson.
Tippi Hedren enjoyed her heyday in the cinema in the 60s when she filmed another movie with the master of suspense, Marnie, the Thief (1964), and with Charles Chaplin,A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), starring Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando. It wasn't until the publication of her memoirs in 2016 that the star confessed that Hitchcock had become infatuated with her to the point of sexual abuse. Refusing the British director was an impossible task because the actress feared not finding work again in the industry.
Additionally, in the biography, she revealed that during breaks in the filming of The Birds, the lead actor, Rod Taylor, was forbidden to speak or touch her, and if he saw her happy with other people, he became quite irritable. "It was sexual and perverse. The more I resisted, the more aggressive he became," recalled Antonio Banderas' (64) former mother-in-law. At the time of these events, Tippi was married to her second husband, agent and producer Noel Marshall.
Between 1952 and 1960, she was married to Peter Griffith, an attractive advertising executive with whom she had her only daughter, Melanie, who made her big-screen debut at 18 in Night Moves. On her father's side, Melanie has a sister named Tracy (59) and a brother, Clay (58).