Hitchcock Chronology: Arthur La Bern
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to 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]
- 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.[1]
1971
February
- By late February, Anthony Shaffer and Hitchcock have produced a 55 page treatment for Frenzy, which drops several parts of Arthur La Bern's novel to help streamline the plot.[2]
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.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 22-23
- ↑ The Times (29/May/1972) - Letters to the Editor: Hitchcock's "Frenzy"
