Hitchcock Chronology: Maxwell Anderson
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Maxwell Anderson...
1955
October
- Maxwell Anderson submits his first draft of The Wrong Man.[1]
1956
January
- Hitchcock meets with Maxwell Anderson to discuss The Wrong Man screenplay. Hitchcock is increasinly unhappy with the dialogue and hires Angus MacPhail to work on the script.[2]
October
- With plans to film Flamingo Feather abandoned, Hitchcock turns his attention to the French novel D'Entre Les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, which will eventually be filmed as Vertigo. Maxwell Anderson is charged with adapting the book, and James Stewart and Vera Miles are expected to star.[3]
- Maxwell Anderson submits his adaption of D'Entre Les Morts, entitled "Darkling I Listen". Hitchcock finds it deeply unsatisfactory, and two other writers will work on the screenplay before Vertigo is ready to be filmed.[4]
1959
February
- 28th - Writer Maxwell Anderson, who wrote The Wrong Man and worked on an initial draught of the Vertigo screenplay, dies of a stroke aged 70.
References
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 375
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 376-7
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 383
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 383
