Hitchcock Chronology: Month of July

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology for the month of July...

1890

• 23rd - Leytonstone greengrocer William Hitchcock is fined a total 11 shillings (including costs) for "throwing litter and rubbish on the streets" at Stratford Court.

1900

• The Strand magazine publishes an article about the Limehouse district of London, describing Salmon Lane as the "great market street of the district, which is densely packed from end to end with a Saturday marketing crowd. Here are soldiers and sailors in plenty, a few Lascars and Chinamen, Irish hawkers, and a sprinkling of foreign Jews."
• The July 1906 London Telephone Directory is the final time William Hitchcock and family are listed as living at 517 Leytonstone High Road.
• The July 1908 London Telephone Directory lists the Hitchcock family as now residing at 175 Salmon Lane, Limehouse, and contactable on telephone number East 3332.

1910

• Hitchcock graduates from St. Ignatius College.

1923

• Filming begins on The White Shadow, Betty Compson's second film for Balcon, Freedman & Saville. Hitchcock wrote the scenario and is assistant director to Graham Cutts.

1924

• Gainsborough Pictures' The Passionate Adventure premiers.

1925

• Hitchcock shoots the nightclub dance scenes of The Pleasure Garden in Munich.

1926

• Ivor Montagu completes his work on The Lodger and the film is screened for press and trade.

1927

• Filming starts on The Ring, Hitchcock's first film for British International Pictures, starring Carl Brisson and Lillian Hall-Davis.

1928

• British International Pictures announces the cast for The Manxman, starring Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson and Malcolm Keen.
• 7th - Patricia Alma Hitchcock is born to Alma & Alfred Hitchcock at 153 Cromwell Road, Kensington, London.
• 12th - The Farmer's Wife is screened at the London Imperial Institute where it is praised by Conservative M.P. Lord Danesfort.

1929

• The sound version of Blackmail begins screening at selected cinemas.

1938

• 2nd - David O. Selznick makes an initial contract offer to Hitchcock. The contract is below Hitchcock's expectations, but Myron Selznick insists that it will be a better offer than Sam Goldwyn can make, so Hitchcock accepts.
• 6th - Myron Selznick hosts a celebratory party for the Hitchcocks. The other guests are Dan Winkler, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
• 8th - The Hitchcocks travel back to New York by train.
• 12th - David O. Selznick announces that he has signed Hitchcock.
• 13th - The Hitchcocks set sail back to England aboard the SS Normandie. They plan to return to America once Jamaica Inn has been completed.
• 17th - An interview with Hitchcock is published in the New York Times in which the director talks about his plans to film Titanic. He claims that he persuaded the Cunard Line to agree to the film by saying, "Over the grave of the Titanic rides, in safety, the Queen Mary."
• 18th - The Hitchcocks arrived into Le Harve, aboard the SS Normandie.

1939

• July and August are spent on the pre-production of Rebecca, with Hitchcock and Selznick finally coming to agreement over the screenplay.

1940

• Filming is completed on Foreign Correspondent, with the film's final scene being the last to be shot.
• 3rd - Variety reports that Hitchcock is travelling from Los Angeles to New York.
• 22nd - An adaptation of The Lodger is broadcast on US radio, apparently featuring Hitchcock (his voice was actually provided by actor Joseph Kearns), with actors Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn starring as the lodger and landlord respectively. Although well received, David O. Selznick rules out Hitchcock having any further involvement with a proposed radio series. Revived in 1942, Suspense ran for 20 years and included a radio adaptation of The 39 Steps in 1952.

1941

• David O. Selznick raises Hitchcock's salary to $3,000 per week.

1942

• Hitchcock meets with studio head Darryl F. Zanuck to discuss making a film for Twentieth Century-Fox. Hitchcock suggests a remake of The Lodger, but Zanuck isn't keen.
• 30th - The Hitchcocks travel up to Santa Rosa to begin the production of Shadow of a Doubt.
• 31st - Principal photography begins on Shadow of a Doubt in Santa Rosa.

1943

• Writer Jo Swerling completes his work on the screenplay of Lifeboat.

1945

• In late July, Hitchcock returns from his meeting with Sidney Bernstein in London.

1946

• Increasingly frustrated by the seemingly slow pace of work on the screenplay for The Paradine Case, David O. Selznick takes over and begins working on it.
• 24th - The Academy Award Theater radio series broadcasts an adaptation of Foreign Correspondent (1940) starring Joseph Cotten, who took over the role at short notice when Joel McCrea was unavailable.

1948

• 19th - After being delayed by a technician's strike, principal photography begins on the second Transatlantic Pictures film, Under Capricorn, starring Michael Wilding, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten.

1952

• 24th - Hitchcock, Jack Warner and Montgomery Clift meet with Anita Björk in New York to consider her for the lead role I Confess and to conduct costume tests. Afterwards, Warner insists on casting another actress and Hitchcock selects Anne Baxter for the role.

1953

• 20th - Lux Radio Theater broadcasts a radio adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds, starring Herbert Marshall.
• 30th - Principal photography for Dial M for Murder begins, starring Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings and John Williams.

1954

• Film censor Joseph Breen continues to object to certain planned scenes in To Catch a Thief, including the dropping of a casino chip down a woman's cleavage, the symbolic firework display and some of Cary Grant's more risqué dialogue.
• 2nd - Teresa O'Connell, daughter of Joseph E. O'Connell, Jr. and Patricia Hitchcock, and granddaughter of Alfred and Alma Hitchcock, is born.
• Studio-based filming for To Catch a Thief commences on the Paramount sound stages.
• 10th - Escape broadcasts a radio adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds, starring Ben Wright and Virginia Gregg.
• 12th - John Michael Hayes submits his first draft of The Trouble With Harry.
• 13th - Filming of To Catch a Thief's Hotel Carlton raft sequence with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and Brigitte Auber begins in Paramount's "A" water tank on Set #12.
• 27th - Following discussions with Hitchcock over the draft script, John Michael Hayes submits a revised 134-page green script for The Trouble With Harry.

1955

• Filming on The Man Who Knew Too Much is completed by late July.

1956

• 26th - The Hitchcocks depart from Southampton aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth, bound for New York. With them are Herbert Coleman, C.O. "Doc" Erickson and Alfred's sister, Ellen Kathleen. They arrive into New York on the 31st.

1957

• Hitchcock directs the Suspicion television episode "Four O'Clock" in late July.

1958

• 28th - MGM location manager Charles Coleman arrives at Mount Rushmore, accompanied by Larry Owen of the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce, to talk to the National Park Service about using the monument in North by Northwest.

1959

• 1st - Eva Marie Saint and Leo G. Carroll join Hitchcock in Chicago to attend the première of North by Northwest at the United Artists theater.

1960

• 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.

1962

• 2nd - François Truffaut writes to Hitchcock asking to be able to interview him over a period of several days in order to publish an in-depth book about his career.
• 3rd - The first bird attack in The Birds, where Tippi Hedren is hit by a gull whilst in the small boat, is filmed.
• 10th - Studio-based filming for The Birds wraps. The final scenes shot are those of Tippi Hedren attempting to leave the love birds at Mitch's San Francisco apartment.
• 11th - The lengthy post-production on The Birds begins, including the creation of a record-breaking 412 planned optical effects shots. Universal push for a completion date prior to March 3rd, 1963 in order to benefit from the Californian tax laws.

1964

• 5th - The BBC broadcasts an interview between Hitchcock and Huw Wheldon for the television series Monitor.
• Feeling unwell and tired, despite his recent European vacation, Hitchcock undergoes various medical tests but no underlying cause is found. He is advised to slow down his schedule and to diet.

1965

• 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.
• 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.

1966

• 7th - Actress Carmelita Geraghty, who appeared in The Pleasure Garden, dies of a heart attack aged 65.
• 23rd - Actor Montgomery Clift, who starred in I Confess, dies aged 46.

1968

• Hitchcock hires playwright Herb Gardner to work on Topaz, but Gardner soon leaves after differences of opinion. With the start of filming looming, writer Samuel A. Taylor then becomes attached to the project.
• 10th - Hitchcock meets with Universal executives Edd Henry and Lew Wasserman to pitch Kaleidoscope as an alternative to making Topaz. During further meetings in the following days, Wasserman and Henry reject the proposal. Topaz in green lit with a budget of $4,000,000 — the largest budget of any Hitchcock film.
• 21st - Hitchcock travels to England with Herbert Coleman and Doc Erickson to scout locations for Topaz in Europe and to interview European actors. Whilst in Rome, Hitchcock shoots a screen test of Frederick Stafford at Cinecittà film studios.

1971

• 1st - Hitchcock meets with actor Jon Finch to interview him for the lead role of Richard Blaney in Frenzy.
• 6th - Hitchcock puts together a preliminary cast list for Frenzy. Amongst the actors who don't end up being cast in the film are Lynn Redgrave (Babs), Glenda Jackson (Mrs. Blaney) and Max Bygraves (Inspector Oxford)
• With the start of principal photography looming, Hitchcock increases the frequency of meetings and interviews for casting Frenzy. By the time the cameras start rolling on the 26th, only the role of Mrs. Blaney's secretary, Monica Barling, remains uncast.
• 26th - Principal photography begins on Frenzy, which will last 13 weeks, with location scenes filmed at Covent Garden Market. Mid-afternoon, Hitchcock interviews actresses Patsy Byrne and Jean Marsh for the one remaining uncast role of Monica Barling — Marsh is selected. The first day of filming wraps at 6:15pm.
• 30th - The first week of filming on Frenzy concludes with the long continuous tracking shot (lasting 75 seconds) of Rusk leading Babs through Covent Garden Market and back to his flat. Nine takes are required before Hitchcock is satisfied.

1972

• 16th - The first part of a two-part interview with Hitchcock, conducted by Pia Lindström, is broadcast on CBS as part of their Camera Three series.
• 23rd - The concluding part of a two-part interview with Hitchcock, conducted by William K. Everson, is broadcast on CBS as part of their Camera Three series.

1975

• 9th Variety lists Hitchcock's latest production as being titled Family Plot.
• 16th Variety confirms that Deceit has been retitled Family Plot.

1976

• 1st - The New York Times reports that the French Consul General, Michel Rouganeau, presented Hitchcock with papers naming him "a commander of the French Order of National Arts and Letters" at a quiet ceremony in Hollywood. The article goes on to say, "Mr. Hitchcock said he was an unabashed francophile. He has a high regard for France, for French culture and particularly French food."

1977

• 2nd - William H. Ziegler, who edited three of Hitchcock's American, dies aged 67.</ref>

1978

• Norman Lloyd begins helping Hitchcock on the pre-prodcution of The Short Night.

1979

• 23rd - Actor Michael Wilding, who starred in Under Capricorn and Stage Fright, dies aged 66.
• 28nd - Actor Frederick Stafford, who starred in Topaz, dies in a plane crash, aged 51.

1989

• 11th - Actor Laurence Olivier, who starred in Rebecca, dies aged 82.

1990

• 15th - Actress Margaret Lockwood, who starred in The Lady Vanishes, dies aged 73.

1997

• 2nd - Actor James Stewart, who starred in "Rope", "Rear Window", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Vertigo", dies aged 89.

2000

• 24th - A fire breaks out in Kim Novak's house in Oregon, destroying her collection of acting memorabilia, including her annotated copy of the Vertigo script and the computer on which she'd been writing her autobiography. Talking to the press afterwards about the book that she'd been writing for 10 years, she said, "I take it personally as a sign my story should not be told. I read signs. Unfortunately, they have to be pretty heavy-duty signs for me to recognize them."

2003

• 10th - Writer Winston Graham, who wrote Marnie, dies aged 93.

2004

• 18th - Dancer actress Georgine Darcy, who memorably played the role of "Miss Torso" in Rear Window, dies aged 73.
• 24th - Writer Czenzi Ormonde, who worked on the screenplay of Strangers on a Train, dies aged 98.

2005

• 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.
• 6th - Writer Evan Hunter, who wrote the screenplay for The Birds, dies aged 78.

2006

• 6th - Actress Kasey Rogers, who appeared in Strangers on a Train, dies aged 80.

2007

• 10th - Composer Joel McNeely spends two days in Bratislava, Slovakia, conducting the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra in a recording of Bernard Herrmann's score for North by Northwest. The recording is later released on the Varèse Sarabande label.
• 11th - Australian-born film director Richard Franklin, dies aged 77.
• 23rd - Hungarian writer George Tabori, who worked with Hitchcock on I Confess, dies aged 93.

2009

• 1st - Actor Karl Malden, who appeared in I Confess, dies aged 97.

2011

• 2nd - Actress Anna Massey, who starred in Frenzy, dies aged 73.
• 10th - James H. Brown, who worked as an assistant director on The Birds and Marnie, dies aged 80.
• 15th - Actress Googie Withers, who appeared in The Lady Vanishes, dies aged 94.

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