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
- 1st - BBC Television broadcasts an adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose". Amongst the cast are Dame May Whitty, Esmond Knight and John Laurie.[2]
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
- 2nd - BBC World Service Radio broadcasts an adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose".[14]
2006
May
- 1st - Writer Jay Presson Allen, who wrote the screenplays for Marnie and the unfilmed Mary Rose, dies aged 84.
References
- ↑ The Times (23/Apr/1920) - Mary Rose: New Barrie Play at the Haymarket
- ↑ Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive
- ↑ See Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive and Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
- ↑ Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
- ↑ Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive.
- ↑ Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 206
- ↑ Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 206
- ↑ Wikipedia: Schott Music
- ↑ Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 207
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 207
- ↑ Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 208
- ↑ Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 208
- ↑ Mary Rose (BBC Radio, 02/Jun/1991)
