When Hitchcock came to America he signed a kind of marriage agreement with the controlling and contentious/controversial David O.Selznick. Both of them had different perspectives. When one had an idea of how to mix reality and action in film the other stood for shaping the artists who worked for the duo by assigning them limits and teaching them discipline by controlling and surveilling their every move. During the American period of Hitchcock “marriage” became a centre piece of his oeuvre. In all American films Hitchcock’s treatment of marriage and coupling are filled with irony. Even if the union is legal it will be loveless, or loving but illegal. Both the fragmented family and the conventional normal family is caught up in a bizarre
