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Number 13 (film)

Number 13

Hitchcock filming Number 13 in Rotherhithe, London.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Produced by Alfred Hitchcock

Written by Anita Ross

Starring Clare GreetErnest Thesiger

Studio Gainsborough Pictures

Release date(s) Unfinished/unreleased

Country United Kingdom

LanguageSilent filmEnglish intertitles

In 1922 Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or

Mrs. Peabody ).

The film was to star Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger as husband and wife. Unfortunately, the film's budget fell apart,

and it was pulled from production after only a handful of scenes were shot.

ProductionHowever, some information about the film has survived. The story was about low-income residents of a building,

financed by The Peabody Trust, founded by American banker-philanthropist George Foster Peabody, to offeraffordable housing to needy Londoners.

Number 13 was written by Anita Ross, a woman employed at the Islington studio. She claimed to have a professional

association with Charlie Chaplin, according to Hitchcock, in his book-length interview with Franois Truffaut,

Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967).

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Cast Clare Greet

Ernest Thesiger

Background and production Hitchcock rarely or never spoke about his first directing project, until his biographer, Donald Spoto, asked him

about life in the early twenties, and his first films.

Hitchcock, on one occasion, spoke about the film, saying that it was a "somewhat chastening experience", no

doubt referring to his directorial debut being shut down and running out of funds.

Much like Hitchcock's later film The Mountain Eagle , any possibly existing footage of Number 13 has become

widely sought after. Film historians and collectors have been looking for this film for decades and have no

knowledge of what happened to it.

Clare Greet was obliged to help the production by financing it with her own money; before her, Alfred

Hitchcock's uncle John Hitchcock had also provided funds.

Greet's generosity was something he never forgot, and she appeared in more Hitchcock films than any otherperformer (except for Leo G. Carroll who also appeared in six Hitchcock films): The Ring (1927), The Manxman

(1929), Murder! (1930), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Sabotage (1936), and Jamaica Inn (1939).

References Donald Spoto, The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius (HarperCollins Publishers, 1983) ISBN

0-00-216352-7

Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (Wiley and Sons, 2003) ISBN 0-470-86973-9

External links Number 13 [1] at the Internet Movie Database

Mrs. Peabody at SilentEra [2]

Link to still from film [3]

References[1] http:/ / www. imdb.com/ title/ tt0013444/

[2] http:/ / www. silentera. com/ PSFL/ data/ M/ MissusPeabody1922. html

[3] http:/ / richlabonte. net/ darkhollywood/ hitchscreens/ number13_1922. html

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