“For two more years he kept me under contract, paying me $600 a week,” she said. “Because of The Birds and Marnie I was, as the expression goes, 'hot’ in Hollywood, and producers and directors wanted me for their films. But they had to go through him to get to me and all he said was, 'She isn’t available.’ It was so easy for him. There was talk of me receiving an Academy Award nomination but he stopped that before it even got started.”