Hitchcock Chronology: Lake Como, Italy
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Lake Como, Italy...
1926
December
- The newly married Alma and Alfred Hitchcock spend their honeymoon at the Palace Hotel[1] in St. Moritz and at Lake Como in Italy, travelling via Paris where they spend a day with actress Nita Naldi.[2]
1951
March
- At the end of March, the Hitchcocks embark on a two-month long European vacation with their daughter, Patricia. They ship their car ahead and collect it in Naples, with Alma driving the family to Capri, Rome (where they meet with Ingrid Bergman, Florence, Venice and Villa d'Este by the shores of Lake Como.[3]
1969
August
- Whilst vacationing at the Villa d'Este on Lake Como in Italy, Hitchcock telephones editor William H. Ziegler with the decision that the Orly Airport sequence should be used for the ending of Topaz.[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.badruttspalace.com
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 89
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 454
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, chapter 17
