Hitchcock Chronology: 1965

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Month by Month

January

• 4th - Hitchcock meets with Italian writers Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli in Hollywood to discuss developing a script for the R.R.R.R. project. The project is eventually abandoned as Hitchcock decides to concentrate his energy on the pre-production of Torn Curtain.

March

• Italian writers Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli return to Rome to begin working on a script for the R.R.R.R. project.
• Hitchcock begins script meetings with writer Brian Moore to develop Torn Curtain.
• 7th - Hitchcock receives the Milestone Award at the Screen Producers Guild dinner ceremony. He begins his speech by saying, "They say that when a man drowns, his entire life flashes before his eyes. I am indeed fortunate, for I am having that same experience without even getting my feet wet."
• 26th - Brian Moore completes a 5-page synopsis for Torn Curtain.
• 28th - Novelist and playwright Clemence Dane, author of the novel Murder! was based on, dies aged 77.

April

• 3rd - Julie Andrews meets with Hitchcock for the first time to discuss her role in Torn Curtain.

May

• 19th - Brian Moore completes an initial treatment for Torn Curtain.
• 25th - Brian Moore submits the first fifteen pages of his initial draft of Torn Curtain to Hitchcock.

June

• 21st - Brian Moore completes his first draft of Torn Curtain.
• 22nd - Producer David O. Selznick, who brought Hitchcock to America, dies following a series of heart attacks, aged 63.

July

• 9th - Hitchcock flies out to Europe to scout locations for Torn Curtain in Copenhagen and Frankfurt.
• 15th - Hitchcock returns to the US from scouting European locations for Torn Curtain.
• Brian Moore completes his second draft of Torn Curtain.

August

• Brian Moore completes his third draft of Torn Curtain during the first week of August.
• Hitchcock asks Brian Moore to make changes to his third draft of Torn Curtain towards the end of August, but the writer express his dissatisfaction with the entire project. Hitchcock begins looking around for a writer to replace Moore.

September

• 9th - Unhappy with the state of Brian Moore's screenplay for Torn Curtain, Hitchcock asks Peggy Robertson to draw up a list of skilled writers who might be able to salvage the script. Amongst the names, Robertson suggests John Michael Hayes. Unwilling to work with Hayes again, Hitchcock eventually selects the English writing team of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.

October

• The English writing team of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall arrive in Hollywood to work with Hitchcock on final script changes to Torn Curtain. Waterhouse and Hall will continuing working on the shooting script during filming.
• 18th - Principal photography begins on Torn Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
• 18th - Actor Henry Travers, who appeared in Shadow of a Doubt, dies aged 91.

December

• 16th - Playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham, writer of the novel "Ashenden" which Hitchcock adapted into Secret Agent, dies in Nice, France, aged 91.

See Also...

• articles from 1965
• deaths in 1965

Notes & References

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