Hitchcock Chronology: David Dodge
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to David Dodge...
1951
October
- Agent Leland Hayward tries to interest Hitchcock in buying the screen rights to Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder". Hitchcock passes and options David Dodge's "To Catch a Thief" instead.[1]
1952
September
- 10th - The Los Angeles Times carries a brief report that Cary Grant is keen to star in a Hitchcock adaptation of David Dodge's book To Catch a Thief. They report the actor as saying, "I read the book some time ago and loved it. If Alfred Hitchcock, who's to direct the picture, gets a good movie script from the story we'll have more conversation about my doing the film."[2]
References
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, pages 14-15
- ↑ "Stage Producers Help Cowan Cast His Film" in Los Angeles Times (10/Sep/1952)
