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Hitchcock Chronology: The 39 Steps (1935)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The 39 Steps (1935)...

1934

November

1935

January

March

  • Studio-based filming on the The 39 Steps is completed. A second unit team headed by Penrose Tennyson is then dispatched to Scotland to film location footage at the Forth Bridge and at Glen Coe.[3]

April

  • Post production on The 39 Steps is completed.[3]

1938

January

  • 24th - BBC Radio broadcasts an episode of the 30-minute "The Cinema: The Director's Job" series in which Hitchcock talks about his work. The Yorkshire Post description reads, "The third of the talks on The Cinema (National, 8) is to be given by Alfred Hitchcock, the producer, who will speak about his work. Hitchcock has become outstanding among producers by reason of such successes as Blackmail some years ago, and later The Thirty Nine Steps, Secret Agent and Sabotage."[4][5]

1953

June

  • 8th - Actor Godfrey Tearle, who played the role of the villian in The 39 Steps, dies aged 68.

1957

August

1958

June

  • 9th - Actor Robert Donat, who starred in The 39 Steps, dies aged 53.

1966

May

1979

September

1987

October

  • 2nd - Actress Madeleine Carroll, who starred in The 39 Steps and Secret Agent, dies from pancreatic cancer, aged 81.

1991

June

References

  1. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 170
  2. The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide (2003) by Mark Glancy, page 36
  3. 3.0 3.1 The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide (2003) by Mark Glancy, page 39
  4. Yorkshire Post (24/Jan/1938)
  5. Project Genome: BBC Radio Times Archive