Hitchcock Chronology: The 39 Steps (1935)

November

Hitchcock and Charles Bennett spend the winter of 1934 working on the script for The 39 Steps.^[1]

January

11th - Principal photography begins on The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.^[2]

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

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]

June

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

August

18th - Musical director and composer Louis Levy, who worked with Hitchcock on Waltzes from Vienna, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young and Innocent, The Lady Vanishes, Under Capricorn and Stage Fright, dies aged 62.

June

May

3rd - Actor Wylie Watson, who played Mr Memory in The 39 Steps, dies in Australia aged 77.

September

22nd - Actor Frederick Piper, who appeared in The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Young and Innocent and Jamaica Inn, dies aged 76.

October

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

June

14th - Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, who appeared in The 39 Steps (1935), dies aged 83.

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