Hitchcock Chronology: Warner Bros.
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Warner Bros....
1952
January
- 3rd - Hitchcock signs a $999,000 contract with Warner Brothers to produce and direct 4 films over the next 7 years.[1]
February
- 3rd - Pleased with the terms of his new contact with Warner Brothers, Hitchcock offers to direct, without salary, one extra film at the end of the contract — this will turn out to be The Wrong Man.[2]
1953
March
- Financial woes at Warner Bros. result in the studio halting production on all new projects for 90 days and studio executives are later asked to take a salary cut of up to 50%. This prompts Hitchcock to ask his agent Lew Wasserman to shop around for a new contract with a different studio — Wasserman eventually secures a lucrative deal with Paramount Studios on the proviso that Hitchcock adapts a story from a collection they've optioned by writer Cornell Woolrich as his first film.[3]
June
- Herbert Brean's "A Case of Identity", detailing the arrest and subsequent release of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, is published in the June edition of LIFE magazine. Brean also sells a screen treatment of the story to Warner Brothers. Eventually, this will be filmed as The Wrong Man.[4]
References
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 334
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 334
- ↑ Writing with Hitchcock (2001) by Steven DeRosa, page 6
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 368
