Peter Ackroyd's Blog
March 20, 2015
'Alfred Hitchcock was an overgrown schoolboy, with a schoolboy's obsession with sex': The director who used and abused his leading ladies
His marriage was sexless – ‘that’s why they call me the celibated director’. He slapped Joan Fontaine and left Grace Kelly covered in bruises. And he made a very indecent proposal to Tippi Hedren. A brilliant new book by Peter Ackroyd gets to the heart of Alfred Hitchcock’s cruelly controlling...
April 7, 2014
April 6, 2014
The mad woman who turned Charlie Chaplin against women for life and the desperate childhood of the man who made the whole world laugh
Had poor childhood moving from house to house and playing in pubs Chaplin's origins are mysterious with no records of his birth Sent to Orphanage where mother did not visit him for a year Mother Hannah went mad and Chaplin feared he would have same fate 135 shares
October 28, 2011
The English Ghost
As Hallowe’en approaches, the spirits grow restless. Acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd has made a study of documented 'unnatural’ happenings across the length and breadth of our haunted land
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