Jessica Tandy

Yeah, I think we need to say that anytime we talk about Open All Night.

Hume Cronin, Jessica Tandy.

That's a pretty deep cast, but like I said, top billing, or at least in the order listed on IMDb.

David Rash, Sledgehammer.

could be worse.

You could do worse than Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.

But if it were my druthers, I would have probably given it to Dead Poets.

Yeah.

Rod Taylor, an Australian actor best known for The Time Machine, was cast as Mitch Brenner, a San Francisco lawyer whose path Melanie crosses in a pet shop and whom she impulsively follows to Bodega Bay.

Jessica Tandy would play his mother, Lydia, and Suzanne Plachette, the local schoolteacher, Annie.

Hitchcock surrounded himself with his usual crew, cinematographer Robert Burks, editor George Tomasini, Edith Head.

There would be one new title in the credits, though.

There's no conventional music in The Birds of any type.

And when Jessica Tandy plays Rod Taylor's mother, The Birds is like, where's my neighbor? I gotta go meet the, I forget the character's name, but the farmer.

who lives in Bodega Bay.

And it's just about, it's a minute of her kind of creeping around the house just to see, well, where is he? And she starts to see the damage the birds have done and then finds, you know, Dan, I think his name is, the farmer.

In their late 70s, Jefferson designed the University of Virginia, and Ben Franklin invented bifocals.

Jessica Tandy and George Burns won Oscars at 80, and Thelma Pitt Turner ran the marathon at 82.

At 87, Mary Baker Eddy founded the Christian Science Monitor, Konrad Adenauer was Premier of Germany, and John Gielgud appeared, nude, as Prospero in the movie Prospero's Books.

Lisa Meitner was 88 when she won the Enrico Fermi Prize for discovering nuclear fission.

Ah, yes.

Starring the legendary husband and wife duo Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronin.

Which instantly adds this whole layer of authentic chemistry to the whole thing.

You can hear it in their voices.

It was, it was really, that was really fantastic as well.

And then we had one week of overlap when Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates and Gary Sartain came.

They were playing the present time stuff.

And, and so we got to, you know, mingle with them a little bit for a while.