Alma Reville

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Alma Lucy Reville (formally Lady Hitchcock) (August 14, 1899 in England – July 6, 1982 in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California) was an assistant director, screenwriter and editor. She is perhaps best-known as the wife of Alfred Hitchcock, whom she met while they were working together at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London, during the early 1920s. She converted to Roman Catholicism before their marriage.

They married in December 1926. Alma became his collaborator and sounding board, with a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for scrutinizing a film's final version for continuity flaws so minor they escaped Hitchcock's own notice, and that of his top notch crew.

Cinema was the couple’s passion. A talented editor, Alma worked on British films with directors like Berthold Viertel and Maurice Elvey though her main focus was her husband’s work. She was particularly good at revising dialogue and spotting inconsistencies in his plots.

In 1928, the Hitchcocks had one daughter, Patricia Hitchcock. Patricia made a few movies then retired to marry Joseph O'Connell, nephew of Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal William O'Connell. The couple married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 1952.

Reville died of natural causes at the age of 82, two years after Hitchcock's death. She was a breast cancer survivor.