Corporation. His second film for Balcon, The 39 Steps (1935) was one of the first to introduce the concept of the Macguffin, a plot device around which a whole story seems to revolve but ultimately has nothing to do with the true meaning of the story. By the end of the 1930s, Hitchcock was in high demand and he was in a position to negotiate his own career options when David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven year contract in March 1939.Although now working out of Hollywood, Hitchcock would continue to shoot many of his movies in his home country of England, including his first Rebecca (1940). Rebecca would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1940. Suspicion (1941) was Hitchcock’s first film as both producer and director, it also marked the first time that he collaborated with Cary Grant. The second movie he made for Universal, Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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