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Hitchcock Chronology: Ernest Lehman

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Ernest Lehman...

1957

August

October

  • 14th - Journalist Otis L. Guernsey, Jr. writes to Hitchcock handing over his idea of a innocent man who is mistaken for a fictional spy. Together with screenwriter Ernest Lehman, the director expands the concept into the screenplay for North by Northwest. Guernsey receives $10,000 from MGM for the transfer of story rights.[2]

1973

September

  • Hitchcock begins working with Ernest Lehman on Deceit (later to be retitled Family Plot).[3]

1974

April

  • Writer Ernest Lehman completes an initial draft of Deceit (later retitled Family Plot).[4]

August

  • Ernest Lehman submits a revised treatment for Deceit, followed by by a revised script a few weeks later.[5]

1975

April

  • After months of discussion and occasional disagreements with Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman finalises his screenplay for Deceit.[6]

1977

October

2005

July

  • 2nd - Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who wrote the screenplays for North by Northwest and Family Plot, and worked for a while on the unfilmed The Short Night, dies aged 89.

References

  1. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 391
  2. Document: Letter from Otis L. Guernsey (14/Oct/1957)
  3. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 717
  4. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 720-21
  5. The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002) by Thomas M. Leitch, page 100
  6. The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002) by Thomas M. Leitch, page 100
  7. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 732