Alma Reville

At 82 years old, Alma Reville has this physical status:

Alma Lucy Reville, Lady Hitchcock, (14 August 1899 – 6 July 1982) was an English-American screenwriter and editor, author of several of Alfred Hitchcock's scripts, including Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion, and The Lady Vanishes, as well as script for other writers, including Henrik Galeen, Maurice Elvey and Berthold Viertel.

Reville's filmography is extensive, with writing credits on many films that were among the largest of their time.

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Early life and career

Reville was born in Nottingham on August 14th, just one day after her future husband) and Matthew Edward and Lucy (née Owen) Reville's second daughter. Reville and her family immigrated to London when she father earned a job at Twickenham Film Studios. Reville used to visit her father at work and then became a tea girl. She was promoted to cutter, which required assisting directors in editing the motion pictures at 16 years old. "The art of cutting is Art indeed, with a capital A, and is much more relevant than is usually acknowledged," she wrote about editing. She continued to work as a script writer and director's assistant. Because of her roles, she was able to get involved in filmmaking that women would then never have access to.

Twickenham Film Studio, where Reville first appeared in 1919, closed in 1919, but she was given a job at Famous Players-Lasky, a Paramount affiliate, based in Islington, where she met her future husband, Alfred Hitchcock. Before he became an art editor, the same firm gave him a job as a graphic designer. Woman to Woman (1923), Reville as film editor, and Hitchcock as art director and assistant editor, was Reville's first film on record with Hitchcock.

Reville performed on film, editing, writing, and other production roles, as well as acting in three film appearances: a lead role in David Lloyd George (1918) and Sabotage (1936).

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