Hitchcock Chronology: The Ring (1927)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The Ring (1927)...

1927

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.

July

• Filming starts on The Ring, Hitchcock's first film for British International Pictures, starring Carl Brisson and Lillian Hall-Davis.

August

• Filming for The Ring is completed.

September

• The Ring is screened for press and trade.

October

• 25th - The Ring is screened for trade and press at the Majestic Theatre in Leeds, Yorkshire.

1928

January

• 16th - The Ring premiers at the Astoria, Charing Cross Road, London.

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.

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).

1958

September

• 26th - Actor Carl Brisson, who starred in The Ring and The Manxman, dies aged 64.

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.

1967

March

• 2nd - Actor Gordon Harker, who appeared in The Ring, The Farmer's Wife and Champagne, dies aged 81.