Number 13 (film)

In 1922 Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Numberor Mrs. Peabody.

However, some information about the film has survived. The story was about lowincome residents of a building, financed by The Peabody Trust, founded by American bankerphilanthropist George Foster Peabody, to offer affordable housing to needy Londoners.Numberwas written by Anita Ross, a woman employed at the Islington studio. She claimed to have a professional association with Charlie Chaplin, according to Hitchcock, in his booklength interview with Franois Truffaut, HitchcockTruffaut Simon and Schuster, 1967. ........

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