Hitchcock Chronology: "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" - by Arthur La Bern
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" - by Arthur La Bern...
1970
December
- 10th - Hitchcock meets with Universal heads Lew Wasserman and Edd Henry to pitch Frenzy as his next project, based on Arthur La Bern's 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square. Wasserman and Henry agree, but with a budget cap of $2.8m.[1]
- Hitchcock sends a copy of Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square to playwright Anthony Shaffer in New York, hoping to tempt him into writing the adaptation for Frenzy. Shaffer responds quickly to say that he "likes the story".[2]
- 21st - Paving the way for pre-production on Frenzy to begin, Universal's Vice President Edd Henry succeeds in acquiring the film fights to Arthur La Bern's Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square for $25,000.[3]
- 22nd - Universal Studios staff writer Estelle Conde provides Hitchcock with a 42 page synopsis of Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square. Conde's more concise 3 page précis of the novel's plot and main characters is delivered to Hitchcock on the 30th.[4]
1972
May
- 29th - In a letter to the editor published in The Times, author Arthur La Bern voices his disapproval of how his 1966 novel "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" was adapted into Frenzy by Hitchcock and Anthony Shaffer.[5]
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 11
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, pages 11-12
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 11
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 21
- ↑ The Times (29/May/1972) - Letters to the Editor: Hitchcock's "Frenzy"
