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Hitchcock Chronology: Month of June

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

1910

1925

  • 5th - The production crew for The Pleasure Garden arrive in Munich.[2]
  • 6th - The production crew for The Pleasure Garden depart Munich for Genoa. En route, their film stock is confiscated by Customs Guards. Once in Genoa, Hitchcock desperately sources new film stock to replace the stock that was confiscated on the train.[3]

1926

  • 8th - The Dundee Courier reports that Hitchcock is currently in Scotland scouting for suitable locations to film an adaptation of John Buchan's 1922 novel Huntingtower.[4]

1927

1928

1929

  • 21st - The sound version of Blackmail is given a trade screening at the Regal Marble Arch cinema.[11][12]

1931

1934

1938

1939

  • Early in June, Hitchcock submits a lengthy treatment of Rebecca to David O. Selznick, who is "shocked beyond words" at the changes Hitch had made to Daphne du Maurier's book. Selznick dictates a length memo to Hitchcock — "We bought Rebecca and we intend to make Rebecca."[26]
  • 7th - Writing for the New York Times, C.A. Lejeune reports that following the recent UK press showing of Jamaica Inn, Hitchcock talked via long-distance telephone to several of the British journalists. She estimates the call cost Hitchcock at least $500.[27]
  • Hitchcock submits a second lengthy treatment of Rebecca, prepared with Alma, Joan Harrison and Robert E Sherwood and running to 100 pages, to David O. Selznick. Again, Selznick is unimpressed.[28]

1940

  • 13th - Hitchcock attends the première of the Bette Davis film All This and Heaven Too at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.[29]

1941

  • Still unsure of the best ending for the film, Suspicion is shown to a test audience. The filmed ending — which sees Joan Fontaine drinking a glass of milk she believes to be poisoned only to discover Cary Grant is instead intending to commit suicide by poisoning himself — is rejected. Hitchcock later tells the New York Herald Tribune, the audience "booed [the ending], and I don't blame them." In desperation, Joan Harrison and Hitchcock eventually come up with a new ending, which is the one used in the released film.[30]
  • George Schaefer, head of production at RKO, sends a memo to Hitchcock with a suggested new ending for Suspicion.[31] A few days later, writer Samson Raphaelson sends the director a letter with his thoughts about the ending.[32]
  • RKO, who have recently undergone a change of management, threaten to recut Suspicion to under an hour. Furious protests by Hitchcock, Myron and David O. Selznick force the studio to back down and release Hitchcock's version of the film, but not before changing the film's title from Beyond the Fact to Suspicion, much to the director's consternation (a "cheap and dull" title).[33]
  • 27th - Hitchcock flies into LaGuardia Airport, New York, to appear as a guest expert on the NBC radio quiz show Information Please.[34]

1942

1943

  • Alfred Hitchcock's agreement with the Sleznick Agency expires and he refuses to re-sign with Myron Selznick.[40]

1944

1945

1947

1948

  • w/c 7th - Hitchcock returns to Hollywood for a week to approve post-production work on Rope and to work on the film's trailer. After that, he returns to join his wife and daughter in London.[45]
  • 24th - Hitchcock attends a London Music Festival concert at the Harringay Arena.[46]
  • 28th - A press event is held at the London headquarters of Transatlantic Pictures to announce that Michael Wilding will star opposite Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's next feature film, Under Capricorn.[47]

1949

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

  • The filming of The Wrong Man is completed by the start of June.[67]
  • 18th - The Hitchcocks arrive into Southampton from New York aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth and book into Claridge's hotel in London.[68]
  • 19th - The Hitchcocks meet up in London with Robert Burks, Herbert Coleman and Angus MacPhail in order to talk with staff from the British Colonial Office to discuss plans for the director's next project, Flamingo Feather. From there, they travel on to Europe and then South Africa to scout locations and to visit Hitch's aunt Emma Mary Rhodes (who dies in September). It soon becomes obvious that the logistics of shooting a film in southern Africa will be too much and Hitchcock decides to abandon the project.[69]

1957

1958

  • 1st - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "A Dip in the Pool", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.
  • 9th - Actor Robert Donat, who starred in The 39 Steps, dies aged 53.
  • 9th - The British Daily Mail newspaper reports that someone apparently impersonating Hitchcock had walked into a job centre in Sussex and said, "I'm making a film. I want a large number of men as extras." The incident was reported to the local police.[71]

1959

1960

  • 9th - Hitchcock arrives into New York towards the end of the around-the-world publicity tour for Psycho (1960).[73]
  • 15th - Hitchcock arrives into Philadelphia to promote Psycho.[74]
  • 17th - Hitchcock arrives into Boston to promote Psycho.[75]
  • 20th - Hitchcock arrives into Chicago to promote Psycho.[76]
  • 21st - Hitchcock returns to Los Angeles.[77]
  • 22nd - Psycho receives première screenings at the Arcadia Theatre (Philadelphia), the Paramount Theater (Boston) and the Woods Theater (Chicago).[78]

1961

  • The Hitchcocks spend the end of June in New York City with Alfred's sister Nellie and his cousin Teresa. They take in the latest shows and make a trip to Washington D.C.[79]
  • 25th - After months of negotiations, Hitchcock finally secures the film rights to Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds for $25,000. [80]

1962

  • Paramount Pictures' screen rights to J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose expire. Hitchcock eventually secures the rights in August 1963.[81]
  • Due to the lengthy planned post-production on The Birds, editor George Tomasini works on assembling rough edits of key sequences before principal photography is completed. By early June, sixteen separate sequences are ready, totaling 74 minutes of film.[82]
  • 7th - The contentious sand dune scene in The Birds is filmed. Evan Hunter protests to Hitchcock against the addition of the scene without his knowledge.[83]
  • 7th - Princess Grace releases a statement that she has withdrawn from Marnie and will not be resuming her acting career.[84]
  • 9th - Actor Henry Kendall, who starred in Rich and Strange, dies aged 65.
  • 12th-13th - The Birds phone booth scene is filmed. Due to a mistake by prop master Bobby Bone, a dummy seagull hitting the side of the booth shatters the glass, rather than cracking it, showering Tippi Hedren with glass splinters.[85]
  • 14th-18th - The Birds opening sequence scenes set in the pet store are filmed.[86]
  • 20th-29th - The complex crow attack scenes for The Birds are filmed using a long treadmill in front of a rear projection screen. Due to delays in filming, Suzanne Pleshette is unavailable and so doesn't appear in the studio filmed scenes.[86]

1963

1965

1968

  • Hitchcock's strained working partnership with author Leon Uris on the screenplay for Topaz comes to and end. Uris has only been able to complete a partial draft.[88]

1969

1970

1971

  • 3rd - Anthony Shaffer submits his first revision of the Frenzy screenplay.[90]
  • 9th - Alma Reville suffers a serious and debilitating stroke. Fortunately her husband's personal physician, Dr. Walter Flieg, is on hand and tends to her immediately. Rather than be admitted to hospital and be separated from her husband, she insists on being treated at the Claridge's hotel and she receives round-the-clock medical care for the next few weeks. She eventually makes an almost full recovery — although her speech will remain affected and she loses the movement in 3 of her fingers — and this allows her to make contributions to on-going the Frenzy production.[91][92]
  • 10th-15th - Following Alma's stroke, Hitchcock reschedules all his Frenzy cast and crew meetings to be held at Claridge's so that he can be close to his wife.[92]

1972

  • 2nd - The Hitchcocks spend a night in Paris before flying back to New York the following day.[93]
  • 6th - Hitchcock is awarded an honourary degree from Columbia University.[94][95]
  • 8th - ABC broadcasts a 65-minute interview between Hitchcock and Dick Cavett.[96]
  • 12th - Hitchcock appears on the Mike Douglas Show.[97]
  • 20th - Frenzy is premiered in Boston. The day is officially declared "Alfred Hitchcock Day" by the mayor.[97]
  • 21st - Frenzy is premiered in New York.[98]

1973

1975

1976

  • 12th - Director Frank Capra presents Hitchcock with an award at the "Entertainment '76" event in Hollywood.

1980

1991

2000

2002

  • 3rd - American talent agent and studio executive Lew Wasserman dies aged 89.

2003

2010

  • 16th - Ronald Neame, who began his long career in British films as an assistant cameraman on Blackmail, dies aged 99.

2012

  • 5th - Author Ray Bradbury dies aged 91 in Los Angeles, California, after a lengthy illness.

References

  1. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 31
  2. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 77
  3. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 78
  4. Dundee Courier (08/Jun/1926) - New Scottish Film
  5. Daily Mail (02/Jun/1927) - The Farmer's Wife
  6. Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations (2009) by Gary Giblin, page 257
  7. Daily Mail (08/Jun/1927) - New British Films: The Vortex and Easy Virtue
  8. The Guardian (11/Jun/1927) - THE WEEK ON SCREEN: Britain's Baby
  9. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 93
  10. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 105
  11. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 125.
  12. See publicity poster.
  13. The Times (17/Jun/1931) - The Film World: A British Picture Festival
  14. The Times (29/Jul/1931) - The film world: a British festival
  15. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 164
  16. The Times (25/Jun/1934) - Marriages: Mr B Wallace and Miss Lane
  17. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 213-4
  18. See passenger list.
  19. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 214
  20. Variety (1938) - Hitchcock's Selznick Palaver Cold, He's Now Dickering With 20th
  21. Variety (1938) - Hitchcock's Selznick Palaver Cold, He's Now Dickering With 20th
  22. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 239
  23. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 215
  24. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 216
  25. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 218
  26. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 240
  27. New York Times (18/Jun/1939)
  28. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 241-2
  29. "Bette Davis Acclaimed by Throng" in Los Angeles Times (14/Jun/1940)
  30. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 288-89
  31. Memo from George Schaefer (Jun/1941)
  32. Letter from Samson Raphaelson (28/Jun/1941)
  33. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 289-90
  34. Variety (02/07/1941) - L.A. to N.Y.
  35. The "S" stands for producer Jack H. Skirball. American Cinematographer (1993) - Hitchcock's Mastery is Beyond Doubt in Shadow
  36. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 311-12
  37. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 312
  38. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 317
  39. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 316-17
  40. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 345
  41. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 359.
  42. Spoto gives a start date of July 10th.
  43. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 285
  44. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 405
  45. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 419. "Hedda Hopper" column in Los Angeles Times (04/Jun/1948) states that Hitchcock would return to Hollywood on Monday 7th to work on the Rope trailer for a week before returning to London.
  46. The Stage (1948) - Round About
  47. See this press photo.
  48. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 434
  49. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 437
  50. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 342
  51. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 468
  52. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 337
  53. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 368
  54. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 11
  55. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 111
  56. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 111
  57. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 111
  58. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 351
  59. "Hitchcock and France: The Forging of an Auteur" - by James M. Vest (2003), page 58
  60. "Hitchcock and France: The Forging of an Auteur" - by James M. Vest (2003), page 59
  61. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, pages 114-15
  62. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 499
  63. Hitchcock Annual (2010) - Reflections on the Making of To Catch a Thief
  64. Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations (2009) by Gary Giblin, pages 230-31
  65. The MacGuffin: Why Hides the Sun in Shame? Ambrose Chapel and The Man Who Knew Too Much
  66. Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations (2009) by Gary Giblin, pages 174-77
  67. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 380
  68. See passenger list.
  69. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 380-1
  70. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 552
  71. Daily Mail (09/Jun/1958) - Fifty angry men seek the film hoaxer
  72. Source: Motion Picture Daily (15/Jun/1959)
  73. Source: Motion Picture Daily (07/Jun/1960)
  74. Source: Motion Picture Daily (16/Jun/1960)
  75. Source: Motion Picture Daily (16/Jun/1960)
  76. Source: Motion Picture Daily (16/Jun/1960)
  77. Source: Motion Picture Daily (21/Jun/1960)
  78. Source: Motion Picture Daily (16/Jun/1960)
  79. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan
  80. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, pages 26-27
  81. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 207
  82. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 168
  83. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, pages 147-48
  84. The Times (08/Jun/1962) - Princess Grace's film plans off
  85. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 149
  86. 86.0 86.1 The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 150
  87. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 662
  88. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, chapter 17
  89. Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive
  90. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 41
  91. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 708
  92. 92.0 92.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 42-43
  93. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 114
  94. Columbia Daily Spectator (05/Jun/1972) - Columbia to Grant 6800 Degrees
  95. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 114-5
  96. The Dick Cavett Show (ABC, 08/Jun/1972)
  97. 97.0 97.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 116
  98. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 117
  99. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 717
  100. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 725-26
  101. Variety (1975) - Pictures: Found and Lost Actor
  102. The Times (04/Jun/1980) - Tribute to a master of the macabre
  103. Boston Globe - "Where is John Williams Coming From?" (29/Jun/1980)
  104. Mary Rose (BBC Radio, 02/Jun/1991)
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