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Hitchcock Chronology: 1958

Overview

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Month by Month

January

February

March

  • With American musicians on strike, composer Bernard Herrmann is unable to record the score for Vertigo. Pushed for time, Paramount London negotiates with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Muir Mathieson but the recordings in early March are abandoned part way through when the orchestra walks out in support of the American musicians. Associate producer Herbert Coleman quickly tries to find another orchestra in Europe who can complete the score.[2]
  • 14th-18th - The score for Vertigo is completed in Vienna with a local orchestra, conducted by Muir Mathieson.[3]
  • 16th - Hitchcock returns to Los Angeles from London.[4]

April

May

  • 9th - Vertigo premieres at the Stage Door Theater, 420 Mason Street, San Francisco, California, USA.[9]

June

  • 1st - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "A Dip in the Pool", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.
  • 9th - Actor Robert Donat, who starred in The 39 Steps, dies aged 53.
  • 9th - The British Daily Mail newspaper reports that someone apparently impersonating Hitchcock had walked into a job centre in Sussex and said, "I'm making a film. I want a large number of men as extras." The incident was reported to the local police.[10]

July

  • 28th - MGM location manager Charles Coleman arrives at Mount Rushmore, accompanied by Larry Owen of the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce, to talk to the National Park Service about using the monument in North by Northwest.

August

September

October

November

December

See Also...

Notes & References

  1. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 403
  2. Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic (1998) by Dan Auiler, pages 142-43
  3. Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic (1998) by Dan Auiler, pages 142-43
  4. Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic (1998) by Dan Auiler, page 143
  5. Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic (1998) by Dan Auiler, pages 143-44
  6. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 403
  7. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, pages 403-4
  8. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 404
  9. Reel SF: Vertigo
  10. Daily Mail (09/Jun/1958) - Fifty angry men seek the film hoaxer
  11. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 406
  12. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  13. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  14. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 407
  15. Other sources state it was the 16th
  16. Source: Motion Picture Daily (22/Dec/1958)
  17. Source: Motion Picture Daily (23/Dec/1958)

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