Hitchcock Chronology: The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The Pleasure Garden (1925)...
1925
May
- Production begins on The Pleasure Garden, Hitchcock's directorial debut.[1]
June
- 5th - The production crew for The Pleasure Garden arrive in Munich.[2]
- 6th - The production crew for The Pleasure Garden depart Munich for Genoa. En route, their film stock is confiscated by Customs Guards. Once in Genoa, Hitchcock desperately sources new film stock to replace the stock that was confiscated on the train.[3]
July
- Hitchcock shoots the nightclub dance scenes of The Pleasure Garden in Munich.[4]
August
- 25th - Having completed her scenes in The Pleasure Garden, American actress Carmelita Geraghty departs from Southampton aboard the SS Leviathan and returns to the US, accompanied by her father, screenwriter Thomas Geraghty.[5]
- Hitchcock completes the filming of The Pleasure Garden.[6]
1926
January
- 5th - The Times carries a report that Gainsborough Pictures are planning to make six films during 1926, including The Pleasure Garden, The Mountain Eagle and an adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger.[7]
March
- The Pleasure Garden is previewed to the trade, with The Daily Express calling it "an outstanding film".[8]
April
- 14th - The Observer newspaper carries a review of The Pleasure Garden saying that, whilst Hitchcock was "saddled with a complicated story", "he has made some of it, so interesting as to make one eager and optimistic for his future."[9]
- 16th - The Pleasure Garden receives a premiere presentation at the Odeon Capitol cinema, Haymarket, London.[10]
1927
January
- 24th - The Pleasure Garden is finally released.[11]
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).
1949
January
- The Hitchcocks start the year with a vacation at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs, a resort founded by actors Charles Farrell and Ralph Bellamy — Farrell is married to retired actress Virginia Valli who starred in The Pleasure Garden (1925).[12]
1957
February
- 8th - Actor Miles Mander, who starred in The Pleasure Garden (1925), dies of a heart attack whilst dining at a Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles.
1966
July
- 7th - Actress Carmelita Geraghty, who appeared in The Pleasure Garden, dies of a heart attack aged 65.
1968
September
- 24th - Actress Virginia Valli, who starred in The Pleasure Garden, dies aged 70.
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 69
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 77
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 78
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 70
- ↑ Source: passenger list.
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 70
- ↑ The Times (05/Jan/1926) - The Film World
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 81
- ↑ The Observer (14/Apr/1926) - The Pleasure Garden
- ↑ The Times (16/Apr/1926) - Advert: The Pleasure Garden
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 95
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 429
