Hitchcock Chronology: Bel Air, Los Angeles, California
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Bel Air, Los Angeles, California...
1948
September
- 6th - Alma Reville arrives into New York from London aboard Pan Am flight 3/31. She then checked into the St. Regis Hotel in New York before traveling back to the family home in Bel-Air. Her husband remains in England to finish production on Under Capricorn. Their daughter Patricia stays in London with her maiden aunts Mary and Teresa, getting ready to start at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1]
1955
January
- The Hitchcocks return to Bel-Air from Paris, where work commences on the script for The Man Who Knew Too Much with Angus MacPhail.[2]
1961
November
- 6th - A discarded cigarette butt starts a fire in Bel Air that eventually destroys over 500 houses and causes $30,000,000 damage. The Hitchcocks store their valuables in the wine cellar and seek temporary shelter.[3]
1971
October
- 5th - Alma flies back to America, accompanied by office secretary Sue Gauthier. She returns to their Bel Air home to rest and recuperate.[4]
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 420
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 359
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 62
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 77
