Alfred Hitchcock once received an amusing letter from a fan: "Dear Mr. Hitchcock: My name is Hitchcock, and I wonder if we could possibly be related. I've been told that my maternal grandfather bragged that he was a horse thief. B.L.H." Hitchcock replied: "Mine would never admit it. Apparently we are not kin. A.H."
Sources
Herbert Prochnow, Complete Toastmaster, p. 160
