A fictionalized version of Alfred Hitchcock appears on the first page of Meg Waite Clayton’s latest novel, setting an appropriately eerie and atmospheric tone. Typewriter Beach revels in the morally gray areas of movies — and of life. In 1957, a young actress is sent to Carmel-by-the-Sea, an idyllic California beach town, but Isabella Giori’s… The post So Old Hollywood first appeared on Chapter 16.