SHORT TAKES : Tippi Hendren Joins Soap Opera

Tippi Hedren, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” is joining the cast of the CBS soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful.”

Hedren, 55, said Thursday that she will play Helen MacLaine, a mother of two grown children, beginning Sept. 6.

She is not the only actor from “The Birds” to join a soap opera cast. Darlene Conley, who played the waitress in the film’s gas station explosion scene, also has a role on “The Bold and the Beautiful.”

Hedren, whose daughter is “Working Girl” star Melanie Griffith, has also appeared on television in “Baby Boom,” “Tales From the Darkside” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”