Hitchcock Chronology: 1926
Overview
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Month by Month
January
- 5th - The Times carries a report that Gainsborough Pictures are planning to make six films during 1926, including The Pleasure Garden, The Mountain Eagle and an adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger.[1]
- Eliot Stannard begins writing the script for The Lodger, which he completes by February 1926.[2]
- 30th - The press begin reporting Gainsborough Pictures' announcement that Ivor Novello will star in The Lodger.[3]
February
- 24th - The Daily Mail reports that "an army of painters of carpenters" are busy working at Gainsborough Studios in preparation for filming to begin on The Lodger and that Hitchcock "is out daily with his camera man in search of coffee-stalls, bits of the Embankment, and street corners for the exterior scenes of this new London murder mystery".[4]
- 25th - Hitchcock films the opening scenes for The Lodger on the Thames Embankment.[5]
March
- The Pleasure Garden is previewed to the trade, with The Daily Express calling it "an outstanding film".[6]
April
- 14th - The Observer newspaper carries a review of The Pleasure Garden saying that, whilst Hitchcock was "saddled with a complicated story", "he has made some of it, so interesting as to make one eager and optimistic for his future."[7]
- 16th - The Pleasure Garden receives a premiere presentation at the Odeon Capitol cinema, Haymarket, London.[8]
May
- The editing of The Lodger is completed. However, due to concerns voiced within the company about the film's commerical appeal, Gainsborough recruits Ivor Montagu to tigten up the editing and flow of the film. Montagu reduces the number of intertitles and hires avant garde graphic designer E. McKnight Kauffer to create a new opening title sequence.[9][10]
- The Mountain Eagle is screened in Berlin.[11]
- 29th - The Western Morning News reports that Hitchcock, "the world's youngest producer", will "in spite of many tempting offers from California [...] dedicate his gifts to the revival of the British film industry, and when the great new studios are opened at Elstree — the English Hollywood — Mr. Hitchcock will become the principal creator of British national pictures".[12]
June
- 8th - The Dundee Courier reports that Hitchcock is currently in Scotland scouting for suitable locations to film an adaptation of John Buchan's 1922 novel Huntingtower.[13]
July
- Ivor Montagu completes his work on The Lodger and the film is screened for press and trade.[14]
August
September
- 15th - The Lodger is screened for the press and trade at the Scala Theatre, Nottingham. The Nottingham Evening Post praises Hitchcock and says he "has little to learn from Hollywood".[15]
October
- 1st - The Mountain Eagle is screened for the trade at the London Hippodrome.[16]
- 20th - In an article published in the Aberdeen Journal, J. Aubrey Rees of the British Film League names Hitchcock as a high calibre director.[17]
November
December
- 2nd - Alfred Hitchcock marries Alma Reville at Bromptom Oratory, South Kensington, London.[18][19] Alfred's older brother, William, is the best man and Alma's younger sister, Eva [born Eveline], is the maid of honour. The Reverend J.J. Bevan presides over the marriage service.[20][21]
- The newly married Alma and Alfred Hitchcock spend their honeymoon at the Palace Hotel[22] in St. Moritz and at Lake Como in Italy, travelling via Paris where they spend a day with actress Nita Naldi.[23]
See Also...
- articles from 1926
- births in 1926
Notes & References
- ↑ The Times (05/Jan/1926) - The Film World
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 80
- ↑ See Daily Mail (30/Jan/1926) - Mr. Ivor Novello, The Times (02/Feb/1926) - The Film World and The Times (16/Feb/1926) - The Film World
- ↑ Daily Mail (24/Feb/1926) - New British Films
- ↑ Daily Mail (26/Feb/1926) - Thames "Murder" Film
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 81
- ↑ The Observer (14/Apr/1926) - The Pleasure Garden
- ↑ The Times (16/Apr/1926) - Advert: The Pleasure Garden
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 83-84
- ↑ Sight and Sound (1980) - Working with Hitchcock
- ↑ Hitchcock Annual (1998) - Hitchcock's "The Mountain Eagle"
- ↑ Western Morning News (29/May/1926) - A Great British Producer
- ↑ Dundee Courier (08/Jun/1926) - New Scottish Film
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 85
- ↑ Nottingham Evening Post (15/Sep/1926) - New British Film: Ivor Novello in ''The Lodger''
- ↑ Daily Mail (02/Oct/1926) - Mr. Malcolm Keen
- ↑ Aberdeen Journal (20/Oct/1926) - Rescuing the Films for Britain
- ↑ Brompton Oratory's official web site
- ↑ Wikipedia: Brompton Oratory
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 89
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 92
- ↑ http://www.badruttspalace.com
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 89
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