570205a Hitch Your Wagon to A Star
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Hitch Your Wagon to A Star
(Emerson)
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There is a very famous director
of exciting thrillers, who does most of his work in Hollywood, called Alfred
Hitchcock.
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Now Alfred Hitchcock is a very
fat man and he also is slightly eccentric in a very amusing way.
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Alfred Hitchcock, being a fat
man, used to have a little idiosyncrasy, which isn't known to many people. I
happened to know about it, so I can tell you this.
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But when one of the minor players
on the set, when they were due to go on, instead of beckoning them over with a
finger he used to do a sort of wiggle-waggle at them, being a very fat man he
could do that, a sort of woggle-waggle.
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And one day he wanted the bit player to go on the
set.? What he didn't realize was it
wasn't the bit player at all, it was Cary Grant, who was the star of the film.
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So he got up and said, "Come
on let's get going on the film," and did this little waggle to what he
thought was the bit player.
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And the Assistant Director said,
"Hitch! You're wagging to a star."
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Frank Muir 570205a
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