Hitchcock Chronology: Charles Bennett
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Charles Bennett...
1928
November
- British International Pictures announces that Alfred Hitchcock's next production will be an adaptation of Charles Bennett's play Blackmail.[1]
1934
April
- Script sessions for The Man Who Knew Too Much, are held at 153 Cromwell Road throughout April and May 1934. Contributing are Charles Bennett, Angus MacPhail, Ivor Montagu, Alma and Alfred[2]
November
- Hitchcock and Charles Bennett spend the winter of 1934 working on the script for The 39 Steps.[3]
1936
December
- The Hitchcocks, along with Joan Harrison and Charles Bennett, spend Christmas holiday in St. Moritz. Whilst they are there, a telegram arrives from Myron Selznick offering Bennett a job in Hollywood and he accepts.[4]
1940
February
- At Hitchcock's request, Walter Wanger hires British writer Charles Bennett to work on the screenplay for Personal History (later retitled Foreign Correspondent) for a period of 4 weeks at $1,000 per week. Together with Hitchcock and Joan Harrison, Bennett fashions a script that pushes against the US Neutrality Acts which limit pro-war propaganda in Hollywood.[5][6]
March
- Charles Bennett submits his draft script for Foreign Correspondent. Despite remaining on friendly terms, Bennett never works with Hitchcock again.[7]
References
- ↑ The Times (07/Nov/1928) - The Film World
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 141
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 170
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 193
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 255-6
- ↑ Wikpedia: Neutrality Acts of 1930s
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 256
