Hitchcock Chronology: Month of September

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology for the month of September...

1910

• Hitchcock enrols at the London County Council School of Marine Engineering and Navigation, located on the High Street, Poplar, London, to study draughtsmanship and advertising design.
• 26th - Hitchcock's niece, Ellen Marcella Lee, is born to parents Ellen Kathleen and Harry Lee at 16 Parker Street, Cowley St. John, Oxford.
• The September 1919 issue of The Henley Telegraph contains a contribution from Hitchcock entitled "The Woman's Part".
• John Maxwell founds Wardour Films Ltd with £50,000.

1920

• The September 1920 issue of The Henley Telegraph contains a contribution from Hitchcock entitled "And There Was No Rainbow".

1921

• The Mystery Road is screened for the press and trade.

1923

• 26th - Having completed work on Woman to Woman and The White Shadow, actress Betty Compson departs back to America aboard the White Star Line's Homeric.

1924

• Graham Cutts, Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville arrive Berlin to film The Blackguard, a joint production between Gainsborough Pictures and the Ufa Studios.
• Filming of The Blackguard is completed in Berlin and the Gainsborough Pictures staff, including Alma and Alfred, return to London.

1925

• 9th - Variety reports that "Virginia Valli, engaged by the Emelka in Munich, will start work soon with that organisation".

1926

• 15th - The Lodger is screened for the press and trade at the Scala Theatre, Nottingham. The Nottingham Evening Post praises Hitchcock and says he "has little to learn from Hollywood".

1927

• The Ring is screened for press and trade.

1928

• Hitchcock completes The Manxman.

1929

• 10th - Both the sound and silent versions of Blackmail are screened in Berlin to a large trade audience who are then asked to vote for their preferred version. The silent version wins by 685 votes to 439.

1930

• Hitchcock meets playwright John Galsworthy to discuss a film adaptation of his book The Skin Game.

1933

• After fleeing Hitler's Germany, actor Peter Lorre is brought to London by Ivor Montagu, with support from Michael Balcon and Sidney Bernstein. He will go on appear in several Gaumont British productions during the 1930s.

1934

• 22nd - Gaumont-British studio head Michael Balcon sets sail from Southampton to New York aboard the RMS Aquitania on a short publicity trip for the studio. With him are actor Jack Hulbert and new star, 14-year-old Nova Pilbeam, accompanied by mother. They return to England in mid-October.
• Editing and scoring for The Man Who Knew Too Much is completed by late September.

1935

• 20th - Barbara J. Buchanan's article "Alfred Hitchcock Tells a Woman that Women Are a Nuisance" is published in Film Weekly. She begins by asking the director, "Why do you hate women?"

1937

• 4th - Variety reports that Hitchcock is sailing from New York to England aboard the MV Georgic.
• 12th - The Hitchcocks, along with daughter Patricia and Joan Harrison, arrive into Southampton aboard the MV Georgic.

1938

• 11th - Actress Nova Pilbeam plays the title role in a BBC Radio adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose", produced by Cyril Wood. The play is repeated again on the 13th.
• Some British newspapers report that David O. Selznick has purchased the rights to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and name Carole Lombard as being cast in the lead role.
• 21th - Variety reports that Hitchcock will begin filming Titanic for Selznick International in January 1939, followed by Rebecca in March.

1939

• 6th - Hitchcock begins principal photography beings on Rebecca, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.

1940

• 4th - Variety reports that Hitchcock is travelling from New York to Los Angeles.
• 9th - In preparation for leaving England, Alma Reville's mother Lucy and sister Eveline are issued with American visas — numbers SEC.5.1612 and SEC.5.1613 respectively.
• 23rd - Alma Reville's mother Lucy and sister Eveline leave England for the safety of America. They depart from Liverpool aboard the Samaria.
• 25th - Foreign Correspondent receives its Hollywood première at the Four Star Theater.
• 3rd - Alma Reville's mother Lucy and sister Eveline arrive into New York aboard the Samaria and pass through Immigration.
• 28th - The Hitchcocks and Joan Harrison attend a Halloween party at the opening night of the Palladium ballroom on Sunset Boulevard.

1942

• After a month of location shooting in Santa Rosa, production on Shadow of a Doubt moves to stage 22 at Universal Studios to film interior sequences.
• 26th - Alfred Hitchcock's mother Emma Jane passes away at Shamley Cottage, Shamley Green. The cause of death is given as "acute pyelonephritis, an abdominal fistula, and an intestinal perforation". She leaves effects to the value of £102 7s. 5d.

1944

• 15th - Hitchcock meets with RKO producer William Dozier at Chasen's Restaurant, where he outlines the plot of a story that will eventually become Notorious. Dozier is keen for RKO to purchase the story, but David O. Selznick overrules and decides it should be a Selznick International Pictures film.

1948

• 6th - Alma Reville arrives into New York from London aboard Pan Am flight 3/31. She then checked into the St. Regis Hotel in New York before traveling back to the family home in Bel-Air. Her husband remains in England to finish production on Under Capricorn. Their daughter Patricia stays in London with her maiden aunts Mary and Teresa, getting ready to start at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
• 22nd - Hitchcock gives a guest lecture to the British Kinematograph Society entitled "Production Methods Compared". The lecture starts at 7:15pm with refreshments and is held at the G.B. Theatre, Film House, Wardour Street, W1.
• 25th - Rope goes on general release in the US to mixed reviews.

1949

• Under Capricorn opens at the Radio City Music Hall, New York City, to mostly negative reviews. Ingrid Bergman's "scandalous" affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini creates negative press for the film, causing some US exhibitors to avoid booking the film. Angered by the press, Bergman refuses to do any publicity for the film.
• 22nd - Hitchcock departs from Southampton to New York aboard the RMS Queen Mary.
• 27th - Hitchcock arrives into New York aboard the RMS Queen Mary.

1950

• 10th - Hitchcock appears alongside composer Bernard Herrmann on New York radio station WCBS's Invitation to Music, presented by James Fassett. Amongst the music played were Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2 and selections from William Walton's score for the film Hamlet (1948).
• 13th - Irish actress Sara Allgood, who appeared in Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, and Sabotage, dies of a heart attack aged 70.

1952

• 10th - The Los Angeles Times carries a brief report that Cary Grant is keen to star in a Hitchcock adaptation of David Dodge's book To Catch a Thief. They report the actor as saying, "I read the book some time ago and loved it. If Alfred Hitchcock, who's to direct the picture, gets a good movie script from the story we'll have more conversation about my doing the film."

1953

• Hitchcock begins assembling a new team of key personnel for his first Paramount film, Rear Window, including assistant director Herbert Coleman, production manager C.O. "Doc" Erickson, cinematographer Robert Burks, editor George Tomasini, costume designer Edith Head, production designer Hal Pereira and his team of Joseph McMillan Johnson, John P. Fulton and John Goodman.
• 11th - John Michael Hayes submits his treatment of Rear Window.
• 25th - Filming on Dial M for Murder is completed.

1954

• Rear Window is released nationally in the United States.
• In early September, a storm blows through parts of Vermont, forcing The Trouble with Harry producer Herbert Coleman to scout for alternative filming locations. By late September, the area around East Craftsbury and Craftsbury Common had been deemed suitable.
• 4th - Principle photography on To Catch a Thief is completed and the film moves into post-production. Hitchcock boards the 8pm Santa Fe Super Chief at Los Angeles's Union Station to New York via Chicago. Once in New York, Hitchcock stays at the St. Regis Hotel where he meets Shirley MacLaine for the first time — when MacLaine admits to her lack of acting experience, Hitchcock says "All this simply means that I shall have fewer bad knots to untie."
• 10th - The crew of The Trouble with Harry travel to Stowe, Vermont.
• 12th - TV show What's My Line? features Hitchcock as the mystery celebrity guest.
• 14th - Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes complete changes requested by the Production Code Administration to the script for The Trouble with Harry.
• Casting for The Trouble with Harry is completed by mid-September.
• 20th - Principal photography begins on The Trouble with Harry, Paramount production #10332. begins in East Craftsbury, Vermont.
• 22nd - Location filming on The Trouble with Harry moves to Morrisville, Vermont.

1955

• 25th - Hitchcock and Shirley MacLaine appear as guests on the NBC Radio series Monitor where they promote The Trouble with Harry.
• 30th - The world premiere of The Trouble with Harry takes place in Barre, Vermont, with Shirley MacLaine and Hitchcock as the guests of honour at a civic dinner.

1956

• 1st - Hitchcock's aunt Emma Mary Rhodes dies in Durban, South Africa, aged 87.
• 30th - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Wet Saturday", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.

1957

• 30th - Hitchcock begins filming Vertigo in San Francisco.

1958

• Production on North by Northwest moves to Chicago.
• 7th - British film director Graham Cutts, who worked with the young Hitchcock at Gainsborough Pictures in the 1920s, dies aged 72.
• 15th - Hitchcock arrives in Rapid City, South Dakota, to film sequences at Mount Rushmore for North by Northwest.
• 16th - Filming at Mount Rushmore begins and is completed the following day. With shooting limited to the parking lot, the park cafeteria and an adjoining terrace, much of the final footage for North by Northwest's iconic climax will be completed back at the MGM studios on sets designed by Robert Boyle.
• 18th - Production on North by Northwest returns to MGM in Los Angeles for studio work.
• 26th - Actor Carl Brisson, who starred in The Ring and The Manxman, dies aged 64.

1959

• 6th - Actor Edmund Gwenn, who appeared in The Skin Game, Waltzes from Vienna, Foreign Correspondent and The Trouble with Harry, dies aged 81.
• 13th - Costume designer Adrian, who worked with Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt and Rope, dies of a heart attack aged 56.
• 27th - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Arthur", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.

1960

• 27th - The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat", directed by Hitchcock, premiers on US TV.

1961

• 16th - After a series of telephone conversations about developing a film from Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds, novelist Evan Hunter flies from New York to Los Angeles to meet with Hitchcock.
• 18th - Evan Hunter officially begins working on the screenplay for The Birds, signing an initial seven-week contract for a salary for $5,000 per week. His family soon flies out to join him.

1962

• 14th - Peggy Robertson sends a memo to requesting that the National Screen Service Studios are hired to provide the opening title sequence for The Birds.
• 23rd - Playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton, writer of the play Hitchcock's Rope was based on, dies aged 58.

1963

• 5th - Peggy Robertson and Tippi Hedren arrive in Paris to start a European publicity tour for the The Birds. Their schedule is Frankfurt (9th), Berlin (11th), Stockholm (13th), Brussels (17th), Antwerp (18th) and Copenhagen (19th).
• 20th - Peggy Robertson and Tippi Hedren fly back to the US after their hectic European promotional tour for The Birds.

1965

• 9th - Unhappy with the state of Brian Moore's screenplay for Torn Curtain, Hitchcock asks Peggy Robertson to draw up a list of skilled writers who might be able to salvage the script. Amongst the names, Robertson suggests John Michael Hayes. Unwilling to work with Hayes again, Hitchcock eventually selects the English writing team of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.

1966

• With Torn Curtain completed, the Hitchcocks go on a month-long vacation to Europe, visiting the Villa D'Este in Italy, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Munich and Paris.

1967

• 13th - Hitchcock attends the opening night's performance of Eugene O'Neill's play "More Stately Mansion" in Los Angeles, which stars Ingrid Bergman. Afterwards, he joins Bergman at a post-event party.

1968

• 4th - Variety announces that The Short Night will be Hitchcock's next film after Topaz.
• Hitchcock begins production on Topaz with European location filming, but without a completed script. Writer Samuel A. Taylor hastily works on the upcoming scenes.
• 24th - Actress Virginia Valli, who starred in The Pleasure Garden, dies aged 70.
• 25th - Writer Cornell Woolrich, author of the short story Rear Window was based on, dies aged 64. He lived his final years as a recluse and reportedly no-one attended his funeral.

1969

• 27th - Actress Violet Farebrother, who appeared in Downhill, Easy Virtue and Murder!, dies aged 81.

1971

• 6th-12th - The 6th week of filming on Frenzy begins with the rape/murder of Mrs. Blaney and ends with the studio filmed sequence of Rusk leading Babs up the stairs to his flat, before she is killed off-screen. The weekend is spent filming sequences at the Coburg Hotel, along with various retakes.
• 13th-17th - The 7th week of filming on Frenzy includes shots of Blaney and Babs in the park, after escaping from the Coburg Hotel, the dinner scene between Blaney and his ex-wife, and several night-shoots, including a woman escaping from Rusk's flat (which was unused in the final cut) and exterior shots of Blaney's escape from the prison.
• 14th - The Hitchcocks spend the evening dining with Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, who are visiting London.
• 15th - The evening is spent at Ennismore Gardens Mews shooting the scene of Brenda Blaney returning to her flat.
• 17th - Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco visit Hitchcock during location filming on Frenzy in Covent Garden Market.
• 20th-24th - The 8th week of filming on Frenzy begins with Hitchcock feeling unwell, leading to some sequences to be shot by the assistant director, Colin M. Brewer. Sequences scheduled for the week include scenes at Scotland Yard, Chief Inspector Oxford pondering in the empty courtroom, Blaney's night at the Salvation Army and sequences at the Hilton Hotel. The week ends with Jon Finch being reprimanded for frequently arriving late on set each morning.
• 27th-1st Oct - The 9th week of filming on Frenzy again sees Hitchcock suffering from a sore throat. More sequences are filmed at the Coburg Hotel, at the prison (Wormwood Scrubs), Rusk carrying the body of Babs to the potato truck, and for the opening sequence.

1972

• The Hitchcocks spend September and October touring Europe to promote Frenzy.

1973

• Hitchcock begins working with Ernest Lehman on Deceit (later to be retitled Family Plot).

1974

• Hitchcock suffers a heart attack and is fitted with a pacemaker at the UCLA hospital.

1978

• Feeling that they're still not ready to develop a full script, Norman Lloyd ends his work on The Short Night.

1979

• Ingrid Bergman pays Hitchcock a final visit — "He took both my hands and tears streamed down his face and he said, 'Ingrid, I'm going to die,' and I said, 'But of course you are going to die sometime, Hitch ... we are all going to die.' And then I told him that I, too, had recently been very ill, and that I had thought about it, too. And for a moment the logic of that seemed to make him more peaceful."
• 22nd - Actor Frederick Piper, who appeared in The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Young and Innocent and Jamaica Inn, dies aged 76.

1982

• 13th - Grace Kelly suffers a stroke whilst driving with her daughter Stéphanie near La Turbie and crashes the car. She is pulled alive but unconscious from the wreckage and taken to Monaco Hospital.
• 14th - Grace Kelly dies from the injuries she sustained during the car crash the previous day, aged 52.
• 18th - Following a requiem mass held at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco, Grace Kelly is buried in the Grimaldi family vault. Cary Grant is among the attendees at the service.

1985

• 4th - Actress Isabel Jeans, who appeared in three Hitchcock films, dies aged 93.

1986

• 26th - BBC Television broadcasts the first part of a two-part "Omnibus" documentary about Hitchcock titled "It's Only Another Movie".

1992

• 12th - Actor Anthony Perkins, who played the role of Norman Bates in the Psycho films, dies aged 60.

1995

• The owners of the Ernie's Restaurant in San Francisco, which appeared in Vertigo (1958) and was a favourite of Hitchcock, announce that the restaurant will close.

1996

• 5th - Composer Joel McNeely conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at City Halls, Glasgow, in a recording of Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho. The recording is later released on the Varèse Sarabande label.

1999

• 11th - Composer Joel McNeely conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at City Halls, Glasgow, in a recording of Bernard Herrmann's score for Marnie. The recording is later released on the Varèse Sarabande label.

2009

• 4th - Writer Keith Waterhouse, who worked on Torn Curtain, dies aged 80.

2010

• 12th - French director Claude Chabrol, co-author of the influential book Hitchcock - the First Forty-Four Films, dies aged 80.
• 13th - BBC Radio begins broadcasting The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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