Hitchcock Chronology: 1960

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Month by Month

January

• Filming on Psycho is completed.

February

• Hitchcock directs the Startime epsiode "Incident at a Corner".

April

• Trade journals begin to report that Hitchcock's next project will be an adaptation of Arthur David Beaty's novel Village of Stars.
• 2nd - The Hitchcocks leave the US to start a publicity tour around Europe and Asia for Psycho, visiting Honolulu, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Rome, Naples, and Paris.
• 26th - Hitchcock reads an article about a bird attack in La Jolla, California, which reminds him of Daphne du Maurier's short story that he had recently read when it was published in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Fourteen of My Favorites in Suspense anthology.
• 28th - Hitchcock arrives into Singapore to promote Psycho (1960).

May

• 9th - Hitchcock is interviewed at the Australia Hotel in Sydney, Australia. Partway through the interview, he accidentally kicked his shoe off and is later photographed retrieving it from beneath a chair.

June

• 9th - Hitchcock arrives into New York towards the end of the around-the-world publicity tour for Psycho (1960).
• 15th - Hitchcock arrives into Philadelphia to promote Psycho.
• 17th - Hitchcock arrives into Boston to promote Psycho.
• 20th - Hitchcock arrives into Chicago to promote Psycho.
• 21st - Hitchcock returns to Los Angeles.
• 22nd - Psycho receives première screenings at the Arcadia Theatre (Philadelphia), the Paramount Theater (Boston) and the Woods Theater (Chicago).

July

• 5th - BBC television broadcasts an interview between Hitchcock and Robert Robinson as part of the Picture Parade series.
• 29th - Cinematographer Jack E. Cox, who worked with Hitchcock on The Ring, Champagne, The Farmer's Wife, Blackmail, The Manxman, Murder!, Juno and the Paycock, Mary, Rich and Strange, The Skin Game, Number Seventeen and The Lady Vanishes, dies aged 64.

August

• 10th - Frank Lloyd, who produced Saboteur, dies aged 74.

September

• 27th - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.

October

• 4th - Whilst in Paris, Hitchcock is awarded a silver medal by Julien Tardieu in honour of the director's contribution to the film industry.
• 12th - Whilst in Milan, Italy, to promote Psycho, Hitchcock is pictured sitting in a go-cart.
• 29th - Hitchcock returns to New York from Europe.

December

• 29th - Novelist Eden Phillpotts, whose play The Farmer's Wife was adapted by Hitchcock in 1928, dies aged 98.

See Also...

• articles from 1960
• deaths in 1960

Notes & References

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