Hitchcock Chronology: The Skin Game (1931)
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The Skin Game (1931)...
1930
September
- Hitchcock meets playwright John Galsworthy to discuss a film adaptation of his book The Skin Game.[1]
November
- Principal photography begins on The Skin Game, starring Edmund Gwenn, Helen Haye, C V France and Jill Esmond.[2]
1931
January
- Filming of The Skin Game is completed.[3]
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.[4][5]
June
- 17th - The Times reports that The Skin Game will be the first film to be shown at a three week long film festival organised by John Maxwell and British International Pictures in Malvern.[6][7]
1959
September
- 6th - Actor Edmund Gwenn, who appeared in The Skin Game, Waltzes from Vienna, Foreign Correspondent and The Trouble with Harry, dies aged 81.
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.
1991
December
- 6th - Rodney Ackland, who worked with Hitchcock on The Skin Game (1931) and Number Seventeen (1932), dies aged 83.
2009
April
- 22nd - Cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who worked with Hitchcock on The Skin Game and Under Capricorn, dies aged 94.
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 139
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 140
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 141
- ↑ The Times (04/May/1931) - New films in London: The Skin Game
- ↑ The Times (09/Feb/1931) - The Film Society: Russian and British pictures
- ↑ The Times (17/Jun/1931) - The Film World: A British Picture Festival
- ↑ The Times (29/Jul/1931) - The film world: a British festival
