Hitchcock Chronology: Psycho (1960)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Psycho (1960)...

1959

November

• Actress Janet Leigh meets Hitchcock for the first time at his home on Bellagio Road where he outlines his plans for Psycho. She later wrote, "He outlined his modus operandi. The angles and shots of each scene were predetermined, carefully charted before the picture began. There could be no deviations. His camera was absolute. Within the boundary of the lens circumference, the player was given freedom, as long as the performance didn't interfere with the already designed move [...] This was the way the man worked. And since I had profound respect for his results, I would earnestly comply."
• 11th - Principal photography begins on Psycho, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam.

1960

January

• Filming on Psycho is completed.

April

• 2nd - The Hitchcocks leave the US to start a publicity tour around Europe and Asia for Psycho, visiting Honolulu, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Rome, Naples, and Paris.
• 28th - Hitchcock arrives into Singapore to promote Psycho (1960).

June

• 9th - Hitchcock arrives into New York towards the end of the around-the-world publicity tour for Psycho (1960).
• 15th - Hitchcock arrives into Philadelphia to promote Psycho.
• 17th - Hitchcock arrives into Boston to promote Psycho.
• 20th - Hitchcock arrives into Chicago to promote Psycho.
• 22nd - Psycho receives première screenings at the Arcadia Theatre (Philadelphia), the Paramount Theater (Boston) and the Woods Theater (Chicago).

October

• 12th - Whilst in Milan, Italy, to promote Psycho, Hitchcock is pictured sitting in a go-cart.

1964

November

• 22nd - Film editor George Tomasini, who worked with Hitchcock on Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds and Marnie, dies aged 55.

1992

September

• 12th - Actor Anthony Perkins, who played the role of Norman Bates in the Psycho films, dies aged 60.

1996

September

• 5th - Composer Joel McNeely conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at City Halls, Glasgow, in a recording of Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho. The recording is later released on the Varèse Sarabande label.

2004

October

• 3rd - Actress Janet Leigh, who starred in Psycho, dies after suffering a heart attack, aged 77.

2006

August

• 25th - Screenwriter Joseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Psycho, dies aged 84.

2013

October

• 2nd - Film producer and assistant director Hilton A. Green, who worked with Hitchcock on Psycho and Marnie, dies aged 84.