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Hitchcock Chronology: Geoffrey Shurlock

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Geoffrey Shurlock...

1955

February

  • 24th - Geoffrey Shurlock, the new director of the Production Code Administration, issues the certificate of approval to To Catch a Thief on the proviso that an edit is made to the scene with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant which ends with the fireworks display. Hitchcock eventually appeases Shurlock by toning down Lyn Murray's sensuous tenor saxophone in the scene.[1]

1961

November

  • 21st - The Production Code Administration's Geoffrey Shurlock writes to Peggy Robertson with a list of concerns over the script for The Birds.[2]

References

  1. Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 122
  2. The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 182