Hitchcock Chronology: 1952
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Month by Month
January
- 3rd - Hitchcock signs a $999,000 contract with Warner Brothers to produce and direct 4 films over the next 7 years.[1]
- 17th - Patricia Hitchcock marries Joseph E. O'Connell at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.[2]
February
- 7th - Pleased with the terms of his new contact with Warner Brothers, Hitchcock offers to direct, without salary, one extra film at the end of the contract — this will turn out to be The Wrong Man.[3]
- Alma Reville beings re-working a treatment for I Confess that she had originally drafted in 1948 for Transatlantic Pictures.[4]
- Alma and Alfred Hitchcock travel to Quebec to scout locations for I Confess.[5]
March
- The Hitchcocks travel to New York to meet writer William Archibald, who is hired to work on the I Confess screenplay.[6]
April
- 21st - Actor Leslie Banks, who starred in The Man Who Knew Too Much and Jamaica Inn, dies of a stroke, aged 61.
- Dramatist George Tabori is hired to revise the dialogue of William Archibald's screenplay for I Confess.[7]
- Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein and writer George Tabori travel to Quebec to scout locations and hire local actors for I Confess. Local priest Father Paul La Couline is hired as a technical consultant and to act as a liaison with the Catholic Church.[8]
- Warner Bros object to elements of the screenplay for I Confess, including the ending which has the priest being executed, forcing Hitchcock and Barbara Keon to hastily rewrite the scenes.[9]
May
June
- Frederick Knott's play Dial M for Murder opens in London.[11][12]
- Montgomery Clift is cast to play the central role of the priest in I Confess.[13]
July
- 24th - Hitchcock, Jack Warner and Montgomery Clift meet with Anita Björk in New York to consider her for the lead role I Confess and to conduct costume tests. Afterwards, Warner insists on casting another actress and Hitchcock selects Anne Baxter for the role.[14][15]
August
- 21st - I Confess principal photography begins in Quebec. Hitchcock hires Barbara Keon to work on several of the film's more difficult scenes.[16]
September
- 10th - The Los Angeles Times carries a brief report that Cary Grant is keen to star in a Hitchcock adaptation of David Dodge's book To Catch a Thief. They report the actor as saying, "I read the book some time ago and loved it. If Alfred Hitchcock, who's to direct the picture, gets a good movie script from the story we'll have more conversation about my doing the film."[17]
October
- Frederick Knott's play Dial M for Murder is staged for the first time in America on Broadway. During the run, Hitchcock sees a performance.[18]
- 2nd - With location work completed, the filming of I Confess moves to the Warner studios.[19]
- 20th - Actor Basil Radford, who memorably played the role of Charters in The Lady Vanishes, dies of a heart attack, aged 55.
- Filming on I Confess is completed by late October.[20]
November
December
- The Hitchcocks celebrate their wedding anniversary at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz.[21]
See Also...
- articles from 1952
- births in 1952
- deaths in 1952
Notes & References
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 334
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 333
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 334
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 334
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 334
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 336
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 336
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 457
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 457-58
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 336
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 342
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 468
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 337
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 337-8
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 459
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 338
- ↑ "Stage Producers Help Cowan Cast His Film" in Los Angeles Times (10/Sep/1952)
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 463
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 341
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 341
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 341
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