 Alfred Hitchcock preferred to cast blonde women for major roles in his films as he believed that the audience would suspect them the least, comparing them to "virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints", hence the term "Hitchcock blonde".This stereotype has become so ingrained it has spawned counter-narratives, such as in the 2001 film "Legally Blonde", in which Reese Witherspoon succeeds at Harvard despite biases against her beauty and blonde hair, and terms such as cookie-cutter blonde (CCB), implying standardized blonde looks and standard perceived social and intelligence characteristics of a blonde.Many actors and actresses in Latin America and Hispanic United States have blonde hair and blue eyes and/or pale skin,