Hitchcock Chronology: Walter Wanger
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Walter Wanger...
1940
January
- Hitchcock is briefly involved with the production of Walter Wanger's film The House Across the Bay[1]
February
- At Hitchcock's request, Walter Wanger hires British writer Charles Bennett to work on the screenplay for Personal History (later retitled Foreign Correspondent) for a period of 4 weeks at $1,000 per week. Together with Hitchcock and Joan Harrison, Bennett fashions a script that pushes against the US Neutrality Acts which limit pro-war propaganda in Hollywood.[2][3]
1968
November
- 18th - Producer Walter Wanger, who worked with Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent, dies of a heart attack aged 74.
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 255
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 255-6
- ↑ Wikpedia: Neutrality Acts of 1930s
