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Hitchcock Chronology: North by Northwest (1959)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to North by Northwest (1959)...

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]

1958

July

  • 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.

August

September

  • Production on North by Northwest moves to Chicago.[4]
  • 15th - Hitchcock arrives in Rapid City, South Dakota, to film sequences at Mount Rushmore for North by Northwest.
  • 16th - Filming at Mount Rushmore begins and is completed the following day. With shooting limited to the parking lot, the park cafeteria and an adjoining terrace, much of the final footage for North by Northwest's iconic climax will be completed back at the MGM studios on sets designed by Robert Boyle.
  • 18th - Production on North by Northwest returns to MGM in Los Angeles for studio work.[5]

December

  • 17th - Production on North by Northwest is completed.[6][7]

1959

January

  • Hitchcock spends January and February editing North by Northwest.[8]

April

  • A second unit crew refilms some of the North by Northwest exterior shots before capturing the film's finale — the suggestive footage of a train entering a tunnel.[9]

July

  • 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.

October

  • 1st - The Hitchcocks depart from Los Angeles on an European publicity tour for North by Northwest, calling at London and Paris.[10][11]

1964

November

1986

November

  • 19th - Actor Cary Grant, who starred in Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest, dies aged 82.

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.

2007

July

2010

August

  • 2nd - Art director and production designer Robert F. Boyle, who worked with Hitchcock on Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, North by Northwest, The Birds and Marnie, dies aged 100.

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. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 406
  4. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  5. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  6. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  7. Other sources state it was the 16th
  8. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 408
  9. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 409
  10. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 417
  11. Motion Picture Daily (02/Oct/1959).