Hitchcock Chronology: Ernest Lehman
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Ernest Lehman...
1957
August
- Ernest Lehman expresses his doubts about adapting The Wreck of the Mary Deare to Hitchcock. Instead, Hitchcock suggests that they work on an original idea for a film, which will eventually become North by Northwest.[1]
October
- 14th - Journalist Otis L. Guernsey, Jr. writes to Hitchcock handing over his idea of a innocent man who is mistaken for a fictional spy. Together with screenwriter Ernest Lehman, the director expands the concept into the screenplay for North by Northwest. Guernsey receives $10,000 from MGM for the transfer of story rights.[2]
1973
September
- Hitchcock begins working with Ernest Lehman on Deceit (later to be retitled Family Plot).[3]
1974
April
- Writer Ernest Lehman completes an initial draft of Deceit (later retitled Family Plot).[4]
August
- Ernest Lehman submits a revised treatment for Deceit, followed by by a revised script a few weeks later.[5]
1975
April
- After months of discussion and occasional disagreements with Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman finalises his screenplay for Deceit.[6]
1977
October
- Ernest Lehman begins helping Hitchcock on the pre-prodcution of The Short Night.[7]
2005
July
- 2nd - Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who wrote the screenplays for North by Northwest and Family Plot, and worked for a while on the unfilmed The Short Night, dies aged 89.
References
- ↑ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 391
- ↑ Document: Letter from Otis L. Guernsey (14/Oct/1957)
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 717
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 720-21
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002) by Thomas M. Leitch, page 100
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002) by Thomas M. Leitch, page 100
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 732
