Hitchcock Chronology: The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The Farmer's Wife (1928)...
1924
March
- Eden Phillpotts' comic play The Farmer's Wife begins it's London run at the Court Theatre. It will go on to become a huge success, running for a record-breaking 1,329 performances and reportedly generating box office takings of over £200,000. It eventually closes on 29th January 1927.[1]
1927
January
- 29th - Eden Phillpotts' comic play The Farmer's Wife ends it's highly successful run at the Court Theatre in London after 1,329 performances. The press reports that box office takings for the run were in excess of £200,000.[2]
June
- 2nd - Speculation as to who will direct the screen adaptation of Eden Phillpotts' highly successful comic play The Farmer's Wife is ended when British International Pictures announces that Hitchcock will direct after completing The Ring.[3]
December
- Mrs Lucy Baldwin, wife of the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, visits British International Pictures' Elstree Studios and watches Hitchcock at work filming The Farmer's Wife.[4]
1928
July
- 12th - The Farmer's Wife is screened at the London Imperial Institute where it is praised by Conservative M.P. Lord Danesfort.[5]
1929
February
- 11th - The Farmer's Wife opens to the public at the Regal Marble Arch cinema in London.[6]
1933
October
- 25th - Actress Lillian Hall-Davis, who starred in The Ring and The Farmer's Wife, commits suicide at her home in Golders Green, London. She had been suffering from neurasthenia and bouts of depression.[7]
1944
November
- 21st - Eliot Stannard, one of England's most prolific screenwriters, dies aged 56. He wrote (or co-wrote) the scenarios for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Mountain Eagle (1926), Downhill (1927), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Ring (1927), Champagne (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928) and The Manxman (1929).
1960
July
- 29th - Cinematographer Jack E. Cox, who worked with Hitchcock on The Ring, Champagne, The Farmer's Wife, Blackmail, The Manxman, Murder!, Juno and the Paycock, Mary, Rich and Strange, The Skin Game, Number Seventeen and The Lady Vanishes, dies aged 64.
December
- 29th - Novelist Eden Phillpotts, whose play The Farmer's Wife was adapted by Hitchcock in 1928, dies aged 98.
1967
March
- 2nd - Actor Gordon Harker, who appeared in The Ring, The Farmer's Wife and Champagne, dies aged 81.
References
- ↑ This was a substantial figure at the time and equivalent to around £10,000,000 today.
- ↑ This was a substantial figure at the time and equivalent to around £10,000,000 today.
- ↑ Daily Mail (02/Jun/1927) - The Farmer's Wife
- ↑ The Times (07/Dec/1927) - The Film World
- ↑ Reported in the Daily Mail (13/Jul/1928).
- ↑ Source: Daily Mail (11/Feb/1929)
- ↑ The Times (28/Oct/1933) - Film actress's death: inquest on Miss Lilian Hall-Davis
