Hitchcock Chronology: Month of November
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology for the month of November...
1910
- Following his studies at the London County Council School of Marine Engineering and Navigation, Hitchcock begins working for W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Ltd on Bromfield Street, London, where he is initially employed in the sales department.[1]
1922
- 15th - The Times reviews Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush and says that there "is a wholly pleasant flavour about this mid-Victorian story [and] some excellent characterizations of Scottish village types".[2]
1923
- 12th - The Times reviews Woman to Woman and says the story is "admirably told, and its finer points are never underlined. The acting, too, is excellent".[3]
1925
- Hitchcock retuns to Munich to begin studio filming for The Mountain Eagle with Nita Naldi.[4]
1927
- Several British and Australian newspapers report on Hitchcock's new contact with British National Pictures (which soon becomes British International Pictures) on a salary that is set to rise to £17,000 a year. Presumably based information contained in a studio press handout, they claim Hitchcock entered the film industry as a teenager — in reality he began working for Famous Players-Lasky in 1921, aged 21.[5]
1928
- British International Pictures announces that Alfred Hitchcock's next production will be an adaptation of Charles Bennett's play Blackmail.[6]
1929
- Principal photography begins on Juno and the Paycock, starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood.[7]
1930
- Principal photography begins on The Skin Game, starring Edmund Gwenn, Helen Haye, C V France and Jill Esmond.[8]
1931
- 4th - The Times reports that Hitchcock will be directing a screen adaptation of Jefferson Farjeon's play Number Seventeen for British International Pictures.[9]
- 16th - Actress Phyllis Konstam marries in London. The Hitchcocks are among the wedding guests and their daughter Patricia is Konstam's trainbearer.[10]
1932
- 4th - Lord Camber's Ladies is previewed to the trade press at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
- 5th - The Manchester Guardian reviews the trade preview of Lord Camber's Ladies and laments the trend of having the top-billed actors appear in minor roles — "Gerald du Maurier only comes into the picture half-way through" — but praises Benita Hume as being "admirably unsympathetic as the nurse."
- 15th - Variety reports that when Hitchcock's contract at British International Pictures expires in March 1933, the studio will not be renewing it.[11]
1933
- 9th - The Times reports that Hitchcock has nearly completed filming on Waltzes from Vienna.[12]
1934
- Hitchcock and Charles Bennett spend the winter of 1934 working on the script for The 39 Steps.[13]
1935
- 9th - Although the script for Sabotage is still under development, Hitchcock sends a second unit out to capture footage of the Lord Mayor's procession to the Law Courts for use in the film.[14]
1936
- With filming on Secret Agent falling behind schedule, John Gielgud has to juggle filming insert shots and starring alongside Laurence Olivier in Romeo and Juliet on the London stage.[15]
- Principal photography commences on Sabotage, starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka and John Loder.
1938
- After much press speculation that Hitchcock's first American film will be about the Titanic disaster, David O. Selznick formally announces it will be an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.[16]
1940
- Alma and Joan Harrison complete an initial treatment of Francis Iles' 1932 book Before the Fact. Screenwriter Samson Raphaelson then spends the next 5 weeks fashioning the full script for what would become Suspicion. Raphaelson would later recall it as being "the easiest and most pleasant" experience he had working in the film industry.[17]
1941
- Hitchcock signs Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane as the leads for Saboteur.[18]
- 26th - The New York Times reports that the Hitchcocks have arrived into New York by plane for a short visit.[19]
1942
- 19th - Hitchcock moves to his new offices at Twentieth Century-Fox. With Darryl F. Zanuck away on active service in North Africa, Hitchcock meets with William Goetz and staff producer Kenneth Macgowan where he pitches the idea for a "lifeboat film". Nine months later, Lifeboat would begin filming.[20]
1943
- Filming on Lifeboat completes in early-November. On the last day of shooting, Hitchcock presents Tallulah Bankhead with a Sealyham Terrier puppy.[21][22]
- An early edit of Lifeboat is screened for Twentieth Century-Fox's studio head Darryl Zanuck, who "raved about [it] as an outstanding film with awards potential".[23]
1944
- 21st - Eliot Stannard, one of England's most prolific screenwriters, dies aged 56. He wrote (or co-wrote) the scenarios for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Mountain Eagle (1926), Downhill (1927), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Ring (1927), Champagne (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928) and The Manxman (1929).
1945
- Spellbound opens to positive reviews and recoups eight times it's production costs within weeks.[24]
1948
- 2nd - The Hitchcocks host a dinner at their Bellagio Road home for Whitfield Cook and Hume Cronyn, whilst listening to the results of the election — Harry Truman is reelected.[25]
- 27th - The Hitchcocks spend the Thanksgiving weekend at their Scotts Valley ranch, accompanied by Whitfield Cook.[26]
1950
- Czenzi Ormonde and Barbara Keon complete their rewrite of the Strangers on a Train script.[27]
- 16th - The Screen Directors' Playhouse broadcasts a radio adaptation of Lifeboat, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Jeff Chandler. Hitchcock provides a short introduction to the adaptation.[28]
1953
- 13th - Cinematographer Robert Burks begins photography tests on the complex studio set of Rear Window to ensure each part can be lit independently for both day and night scenes.[29][30]
- The cast for Rear Window is finalised by mid-November.[31][32][33]
- 16th - Patricia Hitchcock plays a supporting role in the first part of two-part radio adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel "The Moonstone", broadcast as part of the Suspense series.[34]
- 27th - Principal photography begins Hitchcock's first film for Paramount, Rear Window, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. The first sequence to be filmed is the complex opening title sequence — 10 takes are required before Robert Burks is happy.[35][36][37]
1954
- After many years of trying to hire Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock finally secures the composer to create the score for The Trouble with Harry.[38]
- 12th - With John Michael Hayes unavailable, studio records indicate that Alec Coppel was hired for a week to write a small number of dialogue changes for To Catch a Thief which were then redubbed over the existing footage.[39]
1955
- The Hitchcocks tour Asia to promote The Trouble with Harry, visiting Inida, Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong.[40]
- 13th - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Breakdown", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.
1957
- 4th - Hitchcock hosts an Alfred Hitchcock Presents party at the Coconut Grove (part of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles) for TV magazine editors.[41]
- 6th - Hitchcock hosts a "Chuckwagon Diner" party at Republic Studios for newspaper columnists.[42]
- 14th - Over lunch, Hitchcock offers Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes the staring role in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Lamb to the Slaughter".[43]
1959
- Actress Janet Leigh meets Hitchcock for the first time at his home on Bellagio Road where he outlines his plans for Psycho. She later wrote, "He outlined his modus operandi. The angles and shots of each scene were predetermined, carefully charted before the picture began. There could be no deviations. His camera was absolute. Within the boundary of the lens circumference, the player was given freedom, as long as the performance didn't interfere with the already designed move [...] This was the way the man worked. And since I had profound respect for his results, I would earnestly comply."[44]
- 11th - Principal photography begins on Psycho, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam.[45]
1961
- 6th - A discarded cigarette butt starts a fire in Bel Air that eventually destroys over 500 houses and causes $30,000,000 damage. The Hitchcocks store their valuables in the wine cellar and seek temporary shelter.[46]
- 8th - Tippi Hedren takes part in a screen test with Martin Balsam. Hitchcock directs them both in scenes from Rebecca, Notorious and To Catch a Thief.[47]
- 10th - Evan Hunter submits his second draft of The Birds screenplay before flying back to New York with his family.[48]
- 21st - The Production Code Administration's Geoffrey Shurlock writes to Peggy Robertson with a list of concerns over the script for The Birds.[49]
- 28th - Over dinner at Chasen's Restaurant with Alma and Lew Wasserman, Hitchcock offers Tippi Hedren the lead role in The Birds.[50]
- 30th - Hitchcock sends Evan Hunter five pages of notes and amendments based on Hunter's second draft of The Birds screenplay.[51][52]
1962
- Reels of footage are sent to Remi Gassmann and Oskar Sala in Germany to record the electronic tratonium soundtrack for The Birds.[53]
1968
- 18th - Producer Walter Wanger, who worked with Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent, dies of a heart attack aged 74.
1970
- 17th - Actor Naunton Wayne, who memorably appeared alongside Basil Radford in The Lady Vanishes, dies aged 69.
1971
- 5th - Composer Henry Mancini is sent a copy of the Frenzy script and he begins working on his score for the film.[54][55]
- 10th - Hitchcock's trusted assistant Peggy Robertson leaves London to fly back to Los Angeles. Also safely stowed on the plane are the camera negatives of Frenzy.[56]
- 11th - Hitchcock begins work with editor John Jympson to create a work print of Frenzy that can be sent to composer Henry Mancini. Whilst overseeing the editing, Hitchcock begins conducts several interviews with journalists and film critics.[57]
- 29th - Editor John Jympson flies out to London with the film to prepare for the recording sessions with Henry Mancini. Hitchcock has supplied him with copious notes on further refinements to both the film and it's soundtrack.[58]
1972
- 16th - Hitchcock attends George Cukor's luncheon honouring the visiting Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel.[59]
1975
- Universal's music executive Harry Garfield recommends composer John Williams to Hitchcock after the director rejects the studios suggestion of Henry Mancini, who had written the rejected score to Frenzy (1972). Williams first seeks approval from his friend Bernard Herrman and then spends several weeks meeting with Hitchcock over lunch to discuss the score and classical music in general.[60]
1976
- 7th - As part of a season celebrating the 50th anniversary of Elstree Studios, BBC Television broadcasts Blackmail (1929) with a specially recorded introduction by Hitchcock.[61]
1977
- Grace Kelly visits the Hitchcocks.[62]
- 4th - Actress Betty Balfour, who starred in Champagne (1928), dies aged 74.
1979
- 11th - Composer Dimitri Tiomkin, who worked with Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, I Confess and Dial M for Murder, dies aged 85.
1984
- 5th - Ivor Montagu, who edited three of Hitchcock's earliest films and acted as a producer on four more, dies aged 80.
1986
- 19th - Actor Cary Grant, who starred in Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest, dies aged 82.
1987
- 20th - Helen Scott, who acted as the translator during François Truffaut's interviews with Hitchcock, dies aged 72.
2001
- 6th - Dramatist Anthony Shaffer, who wrote the screenplay for Frenzy, dies aged 75.
2002
- 29th - Actor Daniel Gélin, who appeared in The Man Who Knew Too Much, dies aged 81.
2003
- 12th - Writer Whitfield Cook, who worked on the films Stage Fright and Strangers on a Train, dies aged 94.
2004
- 22nd - Assistant director Daniel McCauley, who worked To Catch a Thief, The Wrong Man and Vertigo, dies aged 88.
2006
- 23rd - French actor Philippe Noiret, who appeared in Topaz, dies aged 76.
2012
- 18th - The New York premiere of "Hitchcock" takes place at the Ziegfeld Theater, Manhattan.
- 20th - The Los Angeles premiere of "Hitchcock" takes place at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 25
- ↑ The Times (15/Nov/1922) - Films of the Week
- ↑ The Times (12/Nov/1923) - Films of the Week
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 71
- ↑ Some newspapers report Hitchcock was only 16 when he started working in films! See Nottingham Evening Post (15/Nov/1927) - £300 a Week for Young Man, The News (Adelaide) (15/Nov/1927) - Clerk to director, The West Australian (17/Dec/1927) - The Kinema and Western Mail (Perth) (29/Dec/1927) - Film Flickers
- ↑ The Times (07/Nov/1928) - The Film World
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 131
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 140
- ↑ The Times (04/Nov/1931) - The film world
- ↑ The Times (16/Nov/1931) - Marriages: Mr H W Austin and Miss Phyllis Konstam
- ↑ Variety (1932) - Times Square: Chatter - London (Nov 15th)
- ↑ The Times (09/Nov/1933) - New British films
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 170
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 184
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 183
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 229
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 277-8
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 301
- ↑ New York Times (27/Nov/1941) - L.A. to N.Y.
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 322-23
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 343
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 269
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 343
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 287
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 428
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 428-29
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 449
- ↑ Radio: Lifeboat (Screen Directors' Playhouse, 16/Nov/1950)
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 41
- ↑ American Cinematographer (1990) - Hitchcock's Techniques Tell Rear Window Story
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 346
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 41
- ↑ American Cinematographer (1990) - Hitchcock's Techniques Tell Rear Window Story
- ↑ The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (2001) by Martin Grams Jnr & Patrik Wikstrom, page 16
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 43
- ↑ American Cinematographer (1990) - Hitchcock's Techniques Tell Rear Window Story
- ↑ Patrick McGilligan states filming began in October, but this is likely an error.
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 355
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 121
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 373
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 555
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 555
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 556
- ↑ There Really Was a Hollywood (1984) by Janet Leigh
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 418
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 62
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 62
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 45
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 182
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 63
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, pages 45-46
- ↑ Sight and Sound (1997) - Me and Hitch
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, pages 162-63
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 104 & 106
- ↑ Hitchcock Annual (2011) - "Murder Can Be Fun": The Lost Music of Frenzy
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 103
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 104-6
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 106
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 108
- ↑ Sleeve notes from Family Plot (VCL 1110 1115, 2010)
- ↑ Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 733
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