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She had a role opposite her daughter, Melanie Griffith, in the 1990 thriller "Pacific Heights
He cast her in the lead role of his 1963 thriller "The Birds" in which she flees a small California town terrorized by berserk flocks of crows and gulls
She followed with another Hitchcock thriller, co-starring with Sean Connery in "Marnie" as a beautiful con artist
Hedren, 72, was a top New York fashion model in the early 1960s when she appeared in a diet drink commercial that filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock saw on the "Today" show Tippi Hedren Gets Stars on Walk of Fame
Jan 30, 7:19 PM EST
"The Birds" star Tippi Hedren had something to crow about Thursday when she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame "<
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Hedren continues to act but has devoted much of her time in recent years to caring for exotic animals at the Shambala Preserve, a high desert refuge in Acton that houses two elephants and more than 60 lions, tigers, leopards and other big cats |