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Hitchcock Chronology: Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero...

1953

January

June

  • Herbert Brean's "A Case of Identity", detailing the arrest and subsequent release of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, is published in the June edition of LIFE magazine. Brean also sells a screen treatment of the story to Warner Brothers. Eventually, this will be filmed as The Wrong Man.[2]

1956

January

  • Hitchcock, Henry Fonda and Vera Miles travel to Florida to meet the Balestrero family, to help prepare the actors for The Wrong Man. [3]

February

  • Hitchcock travels to New York, to scout locations for The Wrong Man and to talk to those involved with the Balestrero trial.[4]

References

  1. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 368
  2. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 368
  3. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 377
  4. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 377