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Hitchcock Chronology: Mary Rose

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Mary Rose...

1920

April

  • 22nd - J.M. Barrie's melancholic play Mary Rose debuts at the Haymarket Theatre in London. According to some sources, Hitchcock saw the play on the first night.
  • 23rd - The Times carries a review of the first night of J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose at the Haymarket Theatre, "It is like nothing you have ever seen and yet full of everything you have seen from a child up. Its ghosts are almost more human than its creatures of flesh and blood, so that you subdue your shiver to love them."[1]

1938

January

September

  • 11th - Actress Nova Pilbeam plays the title role in a BBC Radio adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose", produced by Cyril Wood. The play is repeated again on the 13th.[3]

1940

February

  • 20th - Actress Nova Pilbeam plays the title role in a BBC Radio adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose", produced by Barbara Burnham.[4]

1947

March

  • 22nd - Actress Nova Pilbeam plays the title role in a BBC Radio adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose", produced by Martyn C. Webster. The broadcast makes use of Norman O'Neill's original stage music.[5]

1957

May

  • 9th - Herbert Coleman writes to Kay Selby at Paramount British Productions Ltd. in London asking for her help in tracking down a recording of Norman O'Neill's score for the 1920 production of J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose. Hitchcock is keen for Bernard Herrmann to hear the recording and use it as a guide for Vertigo.[6]
  • 17th - Kay Selby at Paramount British Productions Ltd. replies to Herbert Coleman to say she has managed to track down possibly the only surviving recordings of Norman O'Neill's score for the 1920 production of J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose. The old recordings are held by Schott Music and are "scratched and ghastly".[7][8]

1962

June

  • Paramount Pictures' screen rights to J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose expire. Hitchcock eventually secures the rights in August 1963.[9]

1963

August

  • Hitchcock meets with Peggy Robertson to discuss the possibility of hiring Fay Compton to play a role in Mary Rose. Compton had played the role of Mary Rose in the original London stage production which Hitchcock saw in April 1920.[10]
  • 16th - Hitchcock sends a memo to his agent Herman Citron asking him to try and secure the rights to both J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose and John Buchan's The Three Hostages.[11]
  • 23rd - Agent Herman Citron writes a memo to Hitchcock to confirm that he can purchase the story rights to J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose from Paramount Pictures.[12]

1964

March

  • Negotiations for Hitchcock's acquisition of the rights to J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose are completed.[13]

1991

June

2006

May

References

  1. The Times (23/Apr/1920) - Mary Rose: New Barrie Play at the Haymarket
  2. Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive
  3. See Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive and Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
  4. Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
  5. Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
  6. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 206
  7. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 206
  8. Wikipedia: Schott Music
  9. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 207
  10. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2005) by Tony Lee Moral, page 207. Moral gives the date as the 26th, but this would clash with the dates Moral gives for Robertson being in Europe in his book on "The Birds".
  11. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 207
  12. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 208
  13. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 208
  14. Mary Rose (BBC Radio, 02/Jun/1991)