Hitchcock Chronology: Joseph Cotten
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Joseph Cotten...
1946
July
- 24th - The Academy Award Theater radio series broadcasts an adaptation of Foreign Correspondent (1940) starring Joseph Cotten, who took over the role at short notice when Joel McCrea was unavailable.[1]
1948
July
- 19th - After being delayed by a technician's strike, principal photography begins on the second Transatlantic Pictures film, Under Capricorn, starring Michael Wilding, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten.[2]
1951
January
- 25th - The Screen Directors' Playhouse broadcasts a radio adaptation of Spellbound, starring Joseph Cotten and Mercedes McCambridge. Hitchcock provides an introduction and linking narration.[3]
1955
April
- 20th - Hitchcock swears American citizenship. En route to the courthouse, Herbert Coleman reportedly asks the director if he was having second thoughts, "No, but the Hitchcock name goes back almost to the beginning of the British Empire and you can imagine what a serious thing it is for me to break away." At the courthouse, his official witnesses are MCA agent Arthur Park and actor Joseph Cotten.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Foreign Correspondent (Academy Award Theater, 24/Jul/1946)
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 422-23. However, the Film Bulletin (13/Sep/1948) journal reports a start date of early September in London.
- ↑ Radio: Spellbound (Screen Directors' Playhouse, 25/Jan/1951)
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 362
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, chapter 13
