5. His First Directing Job Was an Accident
Hitchcock became a title designer for Lasky Studio in the 1920s, designing the titles for their films over the next two years. In 1923, the director of the film
Always Tell Your Wife became ill and Hitchcock completed the film. This was how he met his future wife and collaborator, Alma Reville, who was an editor at the time. The studio, impressed by Hitchcock's work, gave him his first full directing job on
Number 13, which was never completed due to Lasky shutting down its British operation. Hitchcock was then hired as an assistant director by the company that would eventually become Gainsborough Pictures. Hitchcock worked as a title designer, art director and writer for several of their films. He finally directed a complete film with 1925's
The Pleasure Garden, which began him on his to path to being a major director.