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Hitchcock Chronology: Month of September

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

1910

1920

1921

1923

1924

1925

  • 9th - Variety reports that "Virginia Valli, engaged by the Emelka in Munich, will start work soon with that organisation".[10]

1926

  • 15th - The Lodger is screened for the press and trade at the Scala Theatre, Nottingham. The Nottingham Evening Post praises Hitchcock and says he "has little to learn from Hollywood".[11]

1927

1928

1929

  • 10th - Both the sound and silent versions of Blackmail are screened in Berlin to a large trade audience who are then asked to vote for their preferred version. The silent version wins by 685 votes to 439.[14]

1930

1933

1934

1935

1937

1938

1939

1940

  • 4th - Variety reports that Hitchcock is travelling from New York to Los Angeles.[26]
  • 9th - In preparation for leaving England, Alma Reville's mother Lucy and sister Eveline are issued with American visas — numbers SEC.5.1612 and SEC.5.1613 respectively.
  • 23rd - Alma Reville's mother Lucy and sister Eveline leave England for the safety of America. They depart from Liverpool aboard the Samaria.
  • 25th - Foreign Correspondent receives its Hollywood première at the Four Star Theater.[27]
  • 3rd - Alma Reville's mother Lucy and sister Eveline arrive into New York aboard the Samaria and pass through Immigration.
  • 28th - The Hitchcocks and Joan Harrison attend a Halloween party at the opening night of the Palladium ballroom on Sunset Boulevard.[28]

1942

1944

1948

1949

  • Under Capricorn opens at the Radio City Music Hall, New York City, to mostly negative reviews. Ingrid Bergman's "scandalous" affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini creates negative press for the film, causing some US exhibitors to avoid booking the film. Angered by the press, Bergman refuses to do any publicity for the film.[36]
  • 22nd - Hitchcock departs from Southampton to New York aboard the RMS Queen Mary.[37]
  • 27th - Hitchcock arrives into New York aboard the RMS Queen Mary.

1950

  • 10th - Hitchcock appears alongside composer Bernard Herrmann on New York radio station WCBS's Invitation to Music, presented by James Fassett. Amongst the music played were Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2 and selections from William Walton's score for the film Hamlet (1948).[38]
  • 13th - Irish actress Sara Allgood, who appeared in Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, and Sabotage, dies of a heart attack aged 70.

1952

  • 10th - The Los Angeles Times carries a brief report that Cary Grant is keen to star in a Hitchcock adaptation of David Dodge's book To Catch a Thief. They report the actor as saying, "I read the book some time ago and loved it. If Alfred Hitchcock, who's to direct the picture, gets a good movie script from the story we'll have more conversation about my doing the film."[39]

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

  • 30th - Hitchcock begins filming Vertigo in San Francisco.[55]

1958

1959

1960

1961

  • 16th - After a series of telephone conversations about developing a film from Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds, novelist Evan Hunter flies from New York to Los Angeles to meet with Hitchcock.[58]
  • 18th - Evan Hunter officially begins working on the screenplay for The Birds, signing an initial seven-week contract for a salary for $5,000 per week. His family soon flies out to join him.[59]

1962

  • 14th - Peggy Robertson sends a memo to requesting that the National Screen Service Studios are hired to provide the opening title sequence for The Birds.[60]
  • 23rd - Playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton, writer of the play Hitchcock's Rope was based on, dies aged 58.

1963

1965

1966

  • With Torn Curtain completed, the Hitchcocks go on a month-long vacation to Europe, visiting the Villa D'Este in Italy, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Munich and Paris.[63]

1967

  • 13th - Hitchcock attends the opening night's performance of Eugene O'Neill's play "More Stately Mansion" in Los Angeles, which stars Ingrid Bergman. Afterwards, he joins Bergman at a post-event party.

1968

1969

1971

  • 6th-12th - The 6th week of filming on Frenzy begins with the rape/murder of Mrs. Blaney and ends with the studio filmed sequence of Rusk leading Babs up the stairs to his flat, before she is killed off-screen. The weekend is spent filming sequences at the Coburg Hotel, along with various retakes.[66]
  • 13th-17th - The 7th week of filming on Frenzy includes shots of Blaney and Babs in the park, after escaping from the Coburg Hotel, the dinner scene between Blaney and his ex-wife, and several night-shoots, including a woman escaping from Rusk's flat (which was unused in the final cut) and exterior shots of Blaney's escape from the prison.[67]
  • 14th - The Hitchcocks spend the evening dining with Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, who are visiting London.[67]
  • 15th - The evening is spent at Ennismore Gardens Mews shooting the scene of Brenda Blaney returning to her flat.[68]
  • 17th - Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco visit Hitchcock during location filming on Frenzy in Covent Garden Market.
  • 20th-24th - The 8th week of filming on Frenzy begins with Hitchcock feeling unwell, leading to some sequences to be shot by the assistant director, Colin M. Brewer. Sequences scheduled for the week include scenes at Scotland Yard, Chief Inspector Oxford pondering in the empty courtroom, Blaney's night at the Salvation Army and sequences at the Hilton Hotel. The week ends with Jon Finch being reprimanded for frequently arriving late on set each morning.[69]
  • 27th-1st Oct - The 9th week of filming on Frenzy again sees Hitchcock suffering from a sore throat. More sequences are filmed at the Coburg Hotel, at the prison (Wormwood Scrubs), Rusk carrying the body of Babs to the potato truck, and for the opening sequence.[70]

1972

  • The Hitchcocks spend September and October touring Europe to promote Frenzy.[71]

1973

1974

  • Hitchcock suffers a heart attack and is fitted with a pacemaker at the UCLA hospital.[73]

1978

1979

  • Ingrid Bergman pays Hitchcock a final visit — "He took both my hands and tears streamed down his face and he said, 'Ingrid, I'm going to die,' and I said, 'But of course you are going to die sometime, Hitch ... we are all going to die.' And then I told him that I, too, had recently been very ill, and that I had thought about it, too. And for a moment the logic of that seemed to make him more peaceful."[75]
  • 22nd - Actor Frederick Piper, who appeared in The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Young and Innocent and Jamaica Inn, dies aged 76.

1982

  • 13th - Grace Kelly suffers a stroke whilst driving with her daughter Stéphanie near La Turbie and crashes the car. She is pulled alive but unconscious from the wreckage and taken to Monaco Hospital.
  • 14th - Grace Kelly dies from the injuries she sustained during the car crash the previous day, aged 52.
  • 18th - Following a requiem mass held at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco, Grace Kelly is buried in the Grimaldi family vault. Cary Grant is among the attendees at the service.

1985

  • 4th - Actress Isabel Jeans, who appeared in three Hitchcock films, dies aged 93.

1986

  • 26th - BBC Television broadcasts the first part of a two-part "Omnibus" documentary about Hitchcock titled "It's Only Another Movie".[76]

1992

1995

1996

1999

2009

2010

References

  1. St. Ignatius College: History of the School
  2. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 25
  3. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 32-34
  4. "History of British Film (Volume 4): The History of the British Film 1918 - 1929" by Rachael Low
  5. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 39-40
  6. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 55
  7. Source: passenger list.
  8. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 62
  9. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 66
  10. Variety (09/Sep/1925)
  11. Nottingham Evening Post (15/Sep/1926) - New British Film: Ivor Novello in ''The Lodger''
  12. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 101
  13. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 112
  14. Hull Daily Mail (11/Sep/1929) - Sound v. Silent Film Vote
  15. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 139
  16. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 161
  17. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 142
  18. Film Weekly (1935) - Alfred Hitchcock Tells a Woman that Women Are a Nuisance
  19. Variety (08/Sep/1937)
  20. Wikipedia: MV Georgic
  21. See passenger list.
  22. See Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive and Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
  23. See, for example, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette (17/Sep/1938).
  24. Variety (1938) - Pictures: Hitchcock Draws 'Becky' as Second for Selznick
  25. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 248
  26. Variety (04/Sep/1940) - N.Y. to L.A.
  27. "New Four Star Premiere Gets Gala Trimmings" in Los Angeles Times (24/Sep/1940)
  28. "Palladium Will Open to Halloween Throngs" in Los Angeles Times (27/Oct/1940)
  29. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 319
  30. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 283
  31. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 420
  32. British Kinematography (1948) - Lecture Programme: September, 1948
  33. British Kinematography (1948) - Lecture Programme: Autumn, 1948
  34. British Kinematography (1949) - Film Production Technique
  35. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 420
  36. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 437-38
  37. See passenger list.
  38. Radio listing from the New York Times (10/Sep/1950).
  39. "Stage Producers Help Cowan Cast His Film" in Los Angeles Times (10/Sep/1952)
  40. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 483-85
  41. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 29
  42. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 483
  43. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 343
  44. American Cinematographer (1990) - Hitchcock's Techniques Tell Rear Window Story
  45. Hitchcock at Work (2000) by Bill Krohn, page 150
  46. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 505-6
  47. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, pages 121 & 138
  48. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 138
  49. What's My Line (12/Sep/1954)
  50. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, pages 138-39
  51. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 354
  52. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 141
  53. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 141
  54. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 373
  55. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 553
  56. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  57. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  58. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, pages 36-37
  59. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, pages 37-38
  60. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 179
  61. 61.0 61.1 The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 202
  62. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 5
  63. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 676
  64. Variety (1968) - Pictures: 'Short Night' for Hitch
  65. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, chapter 17
  66. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 63
  67. 67.0 67.1 Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 63-64
  68. Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations (2009) by Gary Giblin, page 178-79
  69. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 64-65
  70. Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 65-66
  71. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 714
  72. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 717
  73. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 722
  74. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 734
  75. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 742
  76. Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive
  77. Inside Scoop SF: Ernie's Restaurant Saying Good-bye
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