The Birds (1963)
Near the beginning of The Birds, when Tippi Hedren is walking down the street (having just passed the San Francisco poster), she turns to acknowledge a wolf-whistle from a passing boy. This is an in-joke.
Hitchcock had first seen Hedren in a commercial for Sego diet drink (apparently made by a company called Pet Milk – and with a name like that, you can see why they aren’t around any more). There was a shot in that commercial where she turns and smiles in response to a wolf whistle, and Hitchcock decided to reference it here.
April 9th, 2010 at 1:45 am
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