Hitchcock Chronology: The Lodger (1927)
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The Lodger (1927)...
1925
December
- Gainsborough Pictures announce that, upon his return from Munich where he is filming The Mountain Eagle, Hitchcock will direct The Lodger.[1]
1926
January
- Eliot Stannard begins writing the script for The Lodger, which he completes by February 1926.[2]
February
- Gainsborough Pictures announces that Ivor Novello will star in The Lodger.[3][4]
- Gainsborough Pictures announces that they are planning to make six films during 1926, including an adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger.[5]
March
- Principal photograph begins on The Lodger.[6]
May
- The editing of The Lodger is completed. However, due to concerns voiced within the company about the film's commerical appeal, Gainsborough recruits Ivor Montagu to tigten up the editing and flow of the film.[7]
July
- Ivor Montagu completes his work on The Lodger and the film is screened for press and trade.[8]
1927
January
- The Lodger premiers to the public. Partly due to Ivor Novello's fan base, the film is a success.[9]
- 18th - The Times reviews The Lodger and complains that "the spirit of a good tale must perish so that the camera be not denied its close-up kisses."[10]
February
- 14th - The Lodger is released.[11]
1931
February
- 9th - The Skin Game is reviewed positively by The Times, who also reports that the London Film Society screened a scene of the film along with a reel from The Lodger.[12][13]
1940
July
- 22nd - Hitchcock's radio adaptation of The Lodger is broadcast on US radio. Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn star as the lodger and landlord respectively. Although well received, David O. Selznick rules out Hitchcock having any further involvement with a proposed radio series. Revived in 1942, Suspense runs for 20 years and includes a radio adaptation of The 39 Steps in 1952.[14]
1942
July
- Hitchcock meets with studio head Darryl F. Zanuck to discuss making a film for Twentieth Century-Fox. Hitchcock suggests a remake of The Lodger, but Zanuck isn't keen.[15]
1951
May
- 9th - Actress Marie Ault, who played the role of the landlady (Mrs Bunting) in The Lodger, dies aged 80.
1955
June
- 17th - Actor and producer Carlyle Blackwell, who produced The Lodger, dies aged 71.
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 74
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 80
- ↑ The Times (02/Feb/1926) - The Film World
- ↑ The Times (16/Feb/1926) - The Film World
- ↑ The Times (05/Jan/1926) - The Film World
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 81
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 83-84
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 85
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 85
- ↑ The Times (18/Jan/1927) - "The Lodger"
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 95
- ↑ The Times (04/May/1931) - New films in London: The Skin Game
- ↑ The Times (09/Feb/1931) - The Film Society: Russian and British pictures
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 275-6
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 314
