10 Times Directors Projected Their Strange Fetishses In Mainstream Movies

5. Alfred Hitchcock - Blondes

Alfred Hitchcock often projected his fascination, his fetish, for blonde women in his films. Most of his leading female characters were blondes, played by actresses like Joan Fontaine, Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak. Ingrid Bergman is probably Hitchcock's most famous blonde (and she once called him "an adorable genius"): she played in many of his critically acclaimed and awarded movies, like Spellbound, Notorious, and the less well appreciated Under Capricorn. All of Hitchock's blondes were cool ladies, often excited by danger. They were occasionally criminal and manipulative, and often passionate. The heroines were all deep, complex, as well as very sensual women that definitely made the heroes' lives so much harder.