Alfred Hitchcock at the doors of Coronation Street's Rovers Return

Made:: 1964-06-16 in Granada Studios

photographer:: Joe Darby

Alfred Hitchcock at the doors of Coronation Street's Rovers Return A photograph of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) peering through the doors of the Rovers Return pub in the soap Coronation

A photograph of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) peering through the doors of the Rovers Return pub in the soap Coronation Street, taken in June 1964 by Joe Darby for the Daily Herald.

The caption read 'While visiting a friend at Granada Television studios in Manchester, film director, Alfred Hitchcock, peeps through the doors of Coronation Street's famous local, the Rovers Return'. Sidney Bernstein (1899-1993) had worked with Hitchcock on 'Rope' (1948) and 'Under Capricorn' (1949) and went on to become a co-founder of Granada Television.

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Category:: Photographs

Object Number:: 1983-5236/11172

type:: photograph

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credit:: The Daily Herald Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

copyright:: National Science and Media Museum

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