Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock, the Hollywood film director and producer, enjoyed Martini cocktails, and liked these very dry, with just “one short glance at a bottle of vermouth”. I could not find more information on Martini drinking habits of Hitch: can anybody help?

Clark Gable

Clark Gable also liked Martinis, actually he is the Hollywood character connected to the Martini Dry in the great book Cocktail of the Movies (highly recommended). In order to make them really dry, James Gannon, the newspaperman Clark Gable played in Teacher’s Pet, moisten the cork of a bottle of vermouth and then runs it around the …