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The Girl is a 2012 British television film directed by Julian Jarrold and written by Gwyneth Hughes. Produced by the BBC and HBO Films, and starring Sienna Miller and Toby Jones it portrays the difficult working relationship that existed between British-born film director Alfred Hitchcock and the American model and actress, Tippi Hedren whom Hitchcock plucked from relative obscurity to star in his 1963 film The Birds. The film is based on Donald Spoto’s 2009 book Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, which discusses Hitchcock and the various women who took leading parts in his films.