Hitchcock Chronology: Czenzi Ormonde

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Czenzi Ormonde...

1950

October

• Hitchcock hires Czenzi Ormonde to write script for Strangers on a Train. At their first script meeting, Hitchcock pinched his nose, picked up Raymond Chandler's script for the film with his thumb and forefinger and then theatrically dropped it into the nearest waste paper basket. After spending a couple of weeks working with Ormonde, Barbara Keon takes over and the two women work non-stop to complete the script.

November

• Czenzi Ormonde and Barbara Keon complete their rewrite of the Strangers on a Train script.

2004

July

• 24th - Writer Czenzi Ormonde, who worked on the screenplay of Strangers on a Train, dies aged 98.