Stephen Rebello, a supervising Clinical Social Worker at a Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, took a brief vacation to Los Angeles, where he secured an interview with renowned director Alfred Hitchcock in his offices at Universal Studios.
This meeting led to a 1980 publication of an interview in "The Real Paper," the final Hitchcock interview published before his death that same year. The interview was widely syndicated nationally and internationally.
Rebello eventually relocated from Boston to Santa Monica, California, and shifted his focus from clinical practice to journalism, writing regularly for several national magazines and newspapers, including "American Film" and "Cinefantastique".
In 1990, he won international acclaim for his book-length study "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho'", which has been translated into numerous international editions.
The book helped establish Rebello as a respected authority on Hitchcock and his work, leading to a career as a journalist, magazine contributing editor, and media commentator. He has written widely quoted interviews and arts and entertainment-related pieces for various publications, including "Playboy", "GQ", "Movieline", "Saturday Review", and "American Film".
Rebello has also recorded audio commentary for several DVD and Blu-ray special editions and has written several books, including the award-winning "Reel Art - Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen" and the satiric "Bad Movies We Love".
As a screenwriter, Rebello has worked on story development, treatments, and screenplays for Disney animated feature film projects and a Disney original musical based on one of the studio's animated classics for ABC. He was mentored by legendary screenwriter Ernest Lehman and had been hand-picked by Lehman to co-write a screenplay based on an earlier idea Lehman had presented to Alfred Hitchcock.
A Los Angeles resident, Rebello was hired to work on several rounds of screenplay revisions for the 2012 film "Hitchcock", starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Scarlett Johansson, based on his book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho". He has optioned the rights to two novels which he is adapting for the screen and has a new non-fiction book set for publication in the summer of 2020, set against the tumultuous backdrop of Hollywood moviemaking in the '60s.
