Hitchcock Chronology: 1933

Overview

• Hitchcock signs a contract with Michael Balcon and Gaumont British.

Month by Month

January

• 4th - The Times reports that Hitchcock is planning to adapt Bulldog Drummond for British International Pictures.

February

• 1st - The Times reports that Hitchcock is currently working on an adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for British International Pictures and that he had recently signed a contract to make films for the new London Film Productions company.

April

• 26th - The Gloucestershire Echo carries a report about the portrait commissioned of Hitchcock painted by deaf and mute artist Alfred Thomson. A few days later, the Western Morning News reported that the painting "shows our ablest film director dramatically placed in studio surroundings".
• 28th - Actor Robin Irvine, who had appeared in Downhill and Easy Virtue, dies aged 32 after contracting pleurisy in Bermuda.

September

• After fleeing Hitler's Germany, actor Peter Lorre is brought to London by Ivor Montagu, with support from Michael Balcon and Sidney Bernstein. He will go on appear in several Gaumont British productions during the 1930s.

October

• 25th - Actress Lillian Hall-Davis, who starred in The Ring and The Farmer's Wife, commits suicide at her home in Golders Green, London. She had been suffering from neurasthenia and bouts of depression.
• 27th - An inquest is held into the suicide of actress Lillian Hall-Davis. The coroner returns a verdict that she "died from a cut throat, and that she took her own life while of unsound mind".

November

• 9th - The Times reports that Hitchcock has nearly completed filming on Waltzes from Vienna.

December

• 16th - The Picturegoer magazine carries an article written by Hitchcock titled "Are Stars Necessary?".
• 19th - Variety reports that Gaumont-British has signed Hitchcock on a three-picture deal.

See Also...

• articles from 1933
• births in 1933
• deaths in 1933

Notes & References

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