Hitchcock Chronology: Barbara Bel Geddes
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Barbara Bel Geddes...
1937
August
- 31st - Despite heavy rain, the stars turn out in New York for the premiere of William Wyler's Dead End (1937) at the Rivoli Theater. Among them are the Hitchcocks — Alma wearing a "slim pale green crepe with matching bolero" — and the film's star, Sylvia Sidney, accompanied by Norman Bel Geddes (father of Barbara Bel Geddes). The other stars of the film are Humphrey Bogart and Joel McCrea.[1]
1947
October
- The House Committee on Un-American Activities begins a series of hearings in Washington D.C. to root out Communist influences in Hollywood. Among those affected by the subsequent Hollywood blacklist with links to Hitchcock are writers Arthur Laurents and Dorothy Parker, actors Hume Cronyn, Norman Lloyd and Canada Lee, actress Barbara Bel Geddes, and composer Lyn Murray.[2][3]
1957
November
- 14th - Over lunch, Hitchcock offers Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes the staring role in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Lamb to the Slaughter".[4]
2005
August
- 8th - Actress Barbara Bel Geddes, who appeared in Vertigo and starred in Lamb to the Slaughter, dies aged 82.
References
- ↑ Variety (01/Aug/1937).
- ↑ Wikipedia: Hollywood blacklist
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 414
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 556
