The Guardian (2004) - "What was it like to be in a Hitchcock film? I can't remember"

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• newspaper article: What was it like to be in a Hitchcock film? I can't remember
• author(s): Geoffrey Macnab
• journal: The Guardian (20/Jan/2004)
• issue: page 14
• journal ISSN: 0261-3077
• publisher: Guardian News & Media Limited

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Abstract

At the age of 101, [Sybil Rhoda] has a fair claim to being Britain's oldest movie star. Her movie career was telescoped into a single year, 1927, and consists of only three films: Sinclair Hill's desert-based romance Sahara Love, Alfred Hitchcock's Downhill, and Boadicea, a historical epic shot in Cricklewood. None the less, she is almost certainly the only British silent screen actress still alive. In 1928 Rhoda married EHR Pollok, a wealthy Anglo-Austrian businessman. He took her to live in Vienna. With war about to break out, Pollok, who was Jewish, was smuggled back to Britain, but they were penniless. Rhoda toyed with the idea of going back on stage, but with a young daughter to support, decided against it. Eventually, Pollok was hired by an American firm and the family moved to the US. It's over 75 years since Rhoda last saw herself on screen, but she is planning a trip to the National Film Theatre to watch Downhill. Whatever else, she hopes the experience will jog her memories of Hitchcock and [Ivor Novello]. "I always thought Ivor was a terribly handsome man. It's extraordinary that I have no recollection of working with him," she sighs.