As Alfred Hitchcock loved the San Francisco Bay Area so much, he made several films in Northern California, bought a house in Scotts Valley (the southern end of the San Francisco peninsula -- about 67 miles south of San Francisco), acquired a vineyard and made his own wine. The Ranch became his primary home for the rest of his life. Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, his daughter, was quoted in Footsteps in the Fog, “My father found San Francisco a very cosmopolitan city, similar to Paris, France. He enjoyed the atmosphere, food, and weather.” He mixed business and pleasure -- invited James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman and other Hollywood stars at his ranch, serving the guests his own wine, researched nearby locations for his films and frequented San Francisco’s fine restaurants and culture. One of his favorite lunches when in downtown San Francisco was sour dough bread with salty butter, with either filet of trout meuniere or red sole.
Made in San Francisco Films
The British-born director made his first 23 films in England where he established himself as a remarkable filmmaker. But when the severe downturn hit the British movie industry in the 1930s, he decided to move to Hollywood. His first American film was Rebecca (1940) which uses background footage of coastal scenes from Monterey County. Other films with a scene or sequence of scenes filmed in or inspired by the San Francisco Bay Area include Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Topaz (1969) and Family Plot (1976).
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