Hitchcock Chronology: Downhill (1927)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Downhill (1927)...

1927

January

• Gainsborough Pictures announces that Alfred Hitchcock will direct Downhill.
• 17th - Pre-production begins on Downhill.

February

• Eliot Stannard completes the script for Downhill.
• 27th - After attending the theatre, Hitchcock spends the night filming scenes with Ivor Novello at Maida Vale Tube Station for Downhill.

March

• Filming continues on Downhill, starring Ivor Novello.

May

• Downhill is screened for press and trade.

October

• 12th - The Times newspaper reviews Downhill and says that Hitchcock "tells the story clearly and with humour, and, in most cases, the characters are drawn with great skill."

1933

April

• 28th - Actor Robin Irvine, who had appeared in Downhill and Easy Virtue, dies aged 32 after contracting pleurisy in Bermuda.

1944

November

• 21st - Eliot Stannard, one of England's most prolific screenwriters, dies aged 56. He wrote (or co-wrote) the scenarios for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Mountain Eagle (1926), Downhill (1927), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Ring (1927), Champagne (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928) and The Manxman (1929).

1969

September

• 27th - Actress Violet Farebrother, who appeared in Downhill, Easy Virtue and Murder!, dies aged 81.

2005

August

• Actress Sybil Rhoda, who appeared in Downhill, dies aged 102.