Hitchcock Chronology: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Strangers on a Train (1951)...
1950
August
- Hitchcock begins regular script meetings for Strangers on a Train with Raymond Chandler at the novelist's house in La Jolla in early August. The meetings become increasingly awkward, party due to Chandler's alcoholism. When Chandler breaks into a drunk rant about the script, Hitchcock walks out telling his associate producer Barbara Keon that "he's through" and begins looking for a replacement writer.[1]
- Although the film's script isn't completed, Hitchcock shoots second-unit footage for Strangers on a Train at Forest Hills, New York City, including Davis Cup sequences.[2]
October
- Hitchcock hires Czenzi Ormonde to write script for Strangers on a Train. At their first script meeting, Hitchcock pinched his nose, picked up Raymond Chandler's script for the film with his thumb and forefinger and then theatrically dropped it into the nearest waste paper basket. After spending a couple of weeks working with Ormonde, Barbara Keon takes over and the two women work non-stop to complete the script.[3]
November
- Czenzi Ormonde and Barbara Keon complete their rewrite of the Strangers on a Train script.[4]
December
- With filming on Strangers on a Train completed, the Hitchcocks celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary by spending Christmas at St. Mortiz.[5]
1951
August
- 28th - Actor Robert Walker, who memorably played Bruno in Strangers on a Train, dies suddenly, aged only 32.
1964
April
- 18th - Screenwriter Ben Hecht, who worked with Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Notorious, The Paradine Case, Rope and Strangers on a Train, dies aged 70.
1979
November
- 11th - Composer Dimitri Tiomkin, who worked with Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, I Confess and Dial M for Murder, dies aged 85.
2003
November
- 12th - Writer Whitfield Cook, who worked on the films Stage Fright and Strangers on a Train, dies aged 94.
2004
July
- 24th - Writer Czenzi Ormonde, who worked on the screenplay of Strangers on a Train, dies aged 98.
2006
July
- 6th - Actress Kasey Rogers, who appeared in Strangers on a Train, dies aged 80.
2011
March
- 27th - Actor Farley Granger, who starred in Rope and Strangers on a Train, dies aged 85.
References
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 445
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 446
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 446-49
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 449
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 453
