Hitchcock Chronology: Hotel Carlton, Cannes, France
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Hotel Carlton, Cannes, France...
1953
December
- Screenwriter John Michael Hayes and his wife spend two weeks at the Hotel Carlton in Cannes researching the area in preparation for starting the screenplay for To Catch a Thief.[1]
1954
May
- The prinipal cast members of To Catch a Thief — Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams — arrive in Cannes where they stay at the Carlton Hotel. John Michael Hayes joins them where he works with Hitchcock to tighten the screenplay.[2][3]
July
- 13th - Filming of To Catch a Thief's Hotel Carlton raft sequence with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and Brigitte Auber begins in Paramount's "A" water tank on Set #12.[4]
1963
May
- 9th - The Hitchcocks and Tippi Hedren fly from Paris to Nice, before travelling on to Cannes. A evening cocktail reception is held in the ballroom of Les Ambassadeurs with 1,000 invited guests before the black-tie showing of The Birds at 9:30pm. Afterwards, a formal dinner is held at the Carlton Hotel for around 300 guests.[5]
1972
May
- 15th - The Hitchcocks arrive in Cannes and stay at the Carlton Hotel.[6]
References
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, pages 91-92
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 351
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 105
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 116
- ↑ The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 197
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012) by Raymond Foery, page 113
