Hitchcock Chronology: Jamaica Inn (1939)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Jamaica Inn (1939)...

1938

July

• 13th - The Hitchcocks set sail back to England aboard the SS Normandie. They plan to return to America once Jamaica Inn has been completed.

October

• A month later than originally planned, filming commences on Jamaica Inn, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.

1939

June

• 7th - Writing for the New York Times, C.A. Lejeune reports that following the recent UK press showing of Jamaica Inn, Hitchcock talked via long-distance telephone to several of the British journalists. She estimates the call cost Hitchcock at least $500.

1952

April

• 21st - Actor Leslie Banks, who starred in The Man Who Knew Too Much and Jamaica Inn, dies of a stroke, aged 61.

1956

March

• 25th - Actor Robert Newton, who starred in Jamaica Inn, dies of a heart attack, aged 50.

1962

December

• 15th - Actor Charles Laughton, who starred in Jamaica Inn and The Paradine Case, dies aged 63.

1970

February

• 14th - Cinematographer Harry Stradling, Sr., who worked with Hitchcock on Jamaica Inn, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Suspicion, dies aged 68.

1979

September

• 22nd - Actor Frederick Piper, who appeared in The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Young and Innocent and Jamaica Inn, dies aged 76.

1989

May

• 13th - Novelist Daphne du Maurier, whose works were adapted into the Hitchcock films Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds, dies aged 81.

2014

May

• 22nd - The newly restored print of Jamaica Inn (1939) is premiered at Cannes Film Festival. The 4K digital restoration by the Cohen Film Collection was based on the British Film Institute's original nitrate negatives of the film.