Hitchcock Chronology: Perino's Restaurant, Los Angeles, California
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Perino's Restaurant, Los Angeles, California...
1962
August
- 13th - François Truffaut and translator Helen Scott begin interviewing Hitchcock at his Universal Studios office. Truffaut is shown a rough cut of The Birds during the morning and is invited to join the Hitchcocks to celebrate their birthdays with an evening meal at Perino's. Approximately 26 hours of interviews are eventually edited down to form Truffaut's book "Hitchcock", published in English in 1967.[1]