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He would do anything that Jimmy asked him to do for the lead-ins. That's, so you had Hitch inside a bottle. Then you had Hitch in golfing knickers playing golf in a most outlandish outfit.
You had Hitch playing his own brother. You had Hitch with a lion. You had him doing... well, I must say, these lead-ins would come in and I'd say to Joan Harrison, "We can't show this to him. He'll never do this. I mean, never, we'd better send this back." She said he'd show you that, and he did.
The man who made Hitchcock into a television star was his agent Lew Wasserman, head of the MCA talent agency. Wasserman embodied all the power of the so-called front office, the business and filmmaking. He wielded the kind of authority that Hitchcock both respected and resented.