Hitchcock Chronology: Notorious (1946)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Notorious (1946)...

1944

August

• Hitchcock and Ben Hecht map out a treatment for Notorious.

September

• 15th - Hitchcock meets with RKO producer William Dozier at Chasen's Restaurant, where he outlines the plot of a story that will eventually become Notorious. Dozier is keen for RKO to purchase the story, but David O. Selznick overrules and decides it should be a Selznick International Pictures film.

December

• Hitchcock and Ben Hecht continue working on Notorious.
• Hitchcock returns from London in time for Christmas. David O. Selznick gives the go-ahead for Notorious to be Hitchcock's next film. During Hitchcock's absence, Selznick hired William Cameron Menzies to reshoot some of the scenes in Spellbound's dream sequence — when Salvador Dalí finally saw the finished film, he was reportedly very disappointed with the changes made to his designs.

1945

May

• Hitchcock receives a letter from the FBI warning him that, if Notorious contains a depiction of an American intelligence officer, it will need to be vetted by the State Department. In later years, Hitchcock will joke about the FBI keeping him "under surveillance".

October

• Principal photography begins on Notorious, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains.

1946

February

• Filming on Notorious is completed.

August

• Notorious opens to positive reviews.

1961

November

• 8th - Tippi Hedren takes part in a screen test with Martin Balsam. Hitchcock directs them both in scenes from Rebecca, Notorious and To Catch a Thief.

1964

April

• 18th - Screenwriter Ben Hecht, who worked with Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Notorious, The Paradine Case, Rope and Strangers on a Train, dies aged 70.

1967

May

• 30th - Actor Claude Rains, who starred in Notorious, dies from an abdominal hemorrhage aged 77.

1981

October

• 24th - Costume designer Edith Head, who worked with Hitchcock on Notorious, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz and Family Plot, dies aged 83.

1982

August

• 29th - Actress Ingrid Bergman, who starred in Spellbound, Notorious and Under Capricorn, dies aged 67.

1986

November

• 19th - Actor Cary Grant, who starred in Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest, dies aged 82.