Hitchcock Chronology: Month of June

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

1910

• Settled into his new role in the advertising department, Hitchcock becomes the editor of a new in-house magazine for W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works — The Henley Telegraph. The initial issue, dated 1st of June 1919, includes a contribution from Hitchcock entitled "Gas".

1925

• 5th - The production crew for The Pleasure Garden arrive in Munich.
• 6th - The production crew for The Pleasure Garden depart Munich for Genoa. En route, their film stock is confiscated by Customs Guards. Once in Genoa, Hitchcock desperately sources new film stock to replace the stock that was confiscated on the train.

1926

• 8th - The Dundee Courier reports that Hitchcock is currently in Scotland scouting for suitable locations to film an adaptation of John Buchan's 1922 novel Huntingtower.

1927

• 2nd - Speculation as to who will direct the screen adaptation of Eden Phillpotts' highly successful comic play The Farmer's Wife is ended when British International Pictures announces that Hitchcock will direct after completing The Ring.
• 7th - Hitchcock films the polo match in Easy Virtue at the Roehampton Club.
• 11th - Writing in The Guardian newspaper, film critic C. A. Lejeune calls Hitchcock "Britian's Baby" and argues that when he "sets to work on real film material, real artist's material, there will not be more than half a dozen producers in the world, who will be able to beat him. There are none in England now."
• Hitchcock leaves Gainsborough Pictures and signs a new contract with British International Pictures.

1928

• Hitchcock completes Champagne.

1929

• 21st - The sound version of Blackmail is given a trade screening at the Regal Marble Arch cinema.

1931

• 17th - The Times reports that The Skin Game will be the first film to be shown at a three week long film festival organised by John Maxwell and British International Pictures in Malvern.

1934

• Principal photography commences on The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre and Nova Pilbeam.
• 25th - The Times reports that Alma Reville attended the wedding of Gaumont British screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace to Margaret Lane. Among the other guests are Michael Balcon and his wife.

1938

• 1st - The Hitchcocks depart from Southampton to New York aboard the RMS Queen Mary. He hopes to secure himself an American contact during the visit.
• 6th - The Hitchcocks arrive at New York aboard the SS Queen Mary and are met by Kay Brown.
• 10th - The Hitchcocks depart from New York for Hollywood.
• David O. Selznick meets actress Joan Fontaine at a garden party hosted by Charles Chaplin. When she mentions that she has just finished reading Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Selznick admits he had recently bought the film rights and offers her a screen test for the role of the 2nd Mrs. de Winter.
• 15th - Hitchcock meets with David O. Selznick.
• 16th - Hitchcock meets with Sam Goldwyn.
• 23rd - Hitchcock meets for a second time with Sam Goldwyn.

1939

• Early in June, Hitchcock submits a lengthy treatment of Rebecca to David O. Selznick, who is "shocked beyond words" at the changes Hitch had made to Daphne du Maurier's book. Selznick dictates a length memo to Hitchcock — "We bought Rebecca and we intend to make Rebecca."
• 7th - Writing for the New York Times, C.A. Lejeune reports that following the recent UK press showing of Jamaica Inn, Hitchcock talked via long-distance telephone to several of the British journalists. She estimates the call cost Hitchcock at least $500.
• Hitchcock submits a second lengthy treatment of Rebecca, prepared with Alma, Joan Harrison and Robert E Sherwood and running to 100 pages, to David O. Selznick. Again, Selznick is unimpressed.

1940

• 13th - Hitchcock attends the première of the Bette Davis film All This and Heaven Too at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.

1941

• Still unsure of the best ending for the film, Suspicion is shown to a test audience. The filmed ending — which sees Joan Fontaine drinking a glass of milk she believes to be poisoned only to discover Cary Grant is instead intending to commit suicide by poisoning himself — is rejected. Hitchcock later tells the New York Herald Tribune, the audience "booed [the ending], and I don't blame them." In desperation, Joan Harrison and Hitchcock eventually come up with a new ending, which is the one used in the released film.
• George Schaefer, head of production at RKO, sends a memo to Hitchcock with a suggested new ending for Suspicion. A few days later, writer Samson Raphaelson sends the director a letter with his thoughts about the ending.
• RKO, who have recently undergone a change of management, threaten to recut Suspicion to under an hour. Furious protests by Hitchcock, Myron and David O. Selznick force the studio to back down and release Hitchcock's version of the film, but not before changing the film's title from Beyond the Fact to Suspicion, much to the director's consternation (a "cheap and dull" title).
• 27th - Hitchcock flies into LaGuardia Airport, New York, to appear as a guest expert on the NBC radio quiz show Information Please.

1942

• 8th - Hitchcock sends a telegram to actress Joan Fontaine offering her the lead role in Shadow of a Doubt — "DEAR JOAN DO YOU WANT TO PLAY THE LEAD IN MY NEXT CONFIDENTIALLY BECAUSE S DOES NOT KNOW I'VE TELEGRAPHED YOU LOVE HITCH". However, she is unavailable.
• Taking a short break from writing, Hitchcock and Thornton Wilder fly north to Santa Rosa to scout locations for Shadow of a Doubt.
• 24th - Thornton Wilder heads back to New York, accompanied by Jack H. Skirball and Hitchcock En route, they complete the script for Shadow of a Doubt.
• Whilst visiting Santa Rosa, Hitchcock spots local 10-year-old Edna May Wonacott skipping down the sidewalk and casts her as Teresa Wright's bookish younger sister.
• Hitchcock meets Teresa Wright and describes the entire plot of Shadow of a Doubt to her. She later recalls, "to have a master storyteller like Mr. Hitchcock tell you a story is a marvellous experience".

1943

• Alfred Hitchcock's agreement with the Sleznick Agency expires and he refuses to re-sign with Myron Selznick.

1944

• Principal photography begins on Spellbound, starring Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman.

1945

• In late June, Hitchcock travels to London for a third meeting with Sidney Bernstein about setting up their new company, Transatlantic Pictures.

1947

• The Hitchcocks celebrate their daughter Patricia's high school graduation with a lavish party at their Bellagio Road house. Among the guests are Alida Valli, Whitfield Cook, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Arthur Laurents, Farley Granger, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

1948

• w/c 7th - Hitchcock returns to Hollywood for a week to approve post-production work on Rope and to work on the film's trailer. After that, he returns to join his wife and daughter in London.
• 24th - Hitchcock attends a London Music Festival concert at the Harringay Arena.
• 28th - A press event is held at the London headquarters of Transatlantic Pictures to announce that Michael Wilding will star opposite Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's next feature film, Under Capricorn.

1949

• Sculpture Jacob Epstein completes his bust of Patricia Hitchcock, which her father had commissioned.
• 1st - Principal photography begins on Stage Fright, the third Transatlantic Pictures production, starring Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Marlene Dietrich and Michael Wilding.
• 25th - With work on the Stage Fright completed, Whitfield Cook flies back to America.

1952

• Frederick Knott's play Dial M for Murder opens in London.
• Montgomery Clift is cast to play the central role of the priest in I Confess.

1953

• 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.
• 8th - Actor Godfrey Tearle, who played the role of the villian in The 39 Steps, dies aged 68.
• 8th - Screenwriter John Michael Hayes is formally contracted by Paramount to write Rear Window on a salary of $750 per week.

1954

• 10th - John Michael Hayes completes changes to the To Catch a Thief shooting script.
• 12th - John Michael Hayes' writing contract for To Catch a Thief is formally completed.
• 14th - John Michael Hayes' writing contract for The Trouble with Harry formally begins.
• André Bazin, co-founder of Cahiers du Cinéma, visits Hitchcock during the filming of To Catch a Thief's flower market scene, and interviews him for the journal.
• 19th - Cary Grant is treated at Saint Nicolas Clinic for back and shoulder injuries sustained during the filming of the To Catch a Thief flower market scene.
• 21st - Paramount studio executives demonstrate the studio's new VistaVision format at a press and industry event at the newly refurbished Paramount Cinema in Paris. Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief is one of the first VIstaVision films.
• 25th - First unit location filming for To Catch a Thief is completed and the cast and most of the crew return to Hollywood to begin studio-based filming. Producer Herbert Coleman stays on in Cannes with the second unit team to shoot footage for the car chases, including aerial shots from a helicopter. French film critic André Bazin, holidaying nearby in Tourrettes-sur-Loup, later writes of the helicopter shots, "That sequence must have been expensive!"
• 28th - The Hitchcocks fly from Paris, France, to New York aboard TWA flight 951/28. The flight lands in New York on the 29th.

1955

• 2nd-4th - Location filming takes place at Edward Gerrard & Sons taxidermist, situated at 61 College Place, Camden, which stands in for "Ambrose Chappell" in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
• 16th - Location filming takes place at St. Saviour's Church Hall, Brixton Hill, which stands in for "Ambrose Chapel" in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
• 17th - Actor and producer Carlyle Blackwell, who produced The Lodger, dies aged 71.
• Hitchcock films sequences at the Royal Albert Hall for The Man Who Knew Too Much, including Bernard Herrmann conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Covent Garden Chorus.

1956

• The filming of The Wrong Man is completed by the start of June.
• 18th - The Hitchcocks arrive into Southampton from New York aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth and book into Claridge's hotel in London.
• 19th - The Hitchcocks meet up in London with Robert Burks, Herbert Coleman and Angus MacPhail in order to talk with staff from the British Colonial Office to discuss plans for the director's next project, Flamingo Feather. From there, they travel on to Europe and then South Africa to scout locations and to visit Hitch's aunt Emma Mary Rhodes (who dies in September). It soon becomes obvious that the logistics of shooting a film in southern Africa will be too much and Hitchcock decides to abandon the project.

1957

• 17th - Actor Esme Percy, who played the role of Handel Fane in Murder!, dies aged 69.
• Over lunch in late June, at Hitchcock's home on Bellagio Road, Kim Novak voices her concerns about playing Madeleine in Vertigo. Samuel A. Taylor is also present.

1958

• 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.

1959

• 12th - The Hitchcocks arrive in New York.
• 14th - Producer and writer Walter C Mycroft, who worked with Hitchcock on Champagne and Murder!, dies.
• 18th - Actress Ethel Barrymore, who starred in The Paradine Case, dies aged 68.

1960

• 9th - Hitchcock arrives into New York towards the end of the around-the-world publicity tour for Psycho (1960).
• 15th - Hitchcock arrives into Philadelphia to promote Psycho.
• 17th - Hitchcock arrives into Boston to promote Psycho.
• 20th - Hitchcock arrives into Chicago to promote Psycho.
• 21st - Hitchcock returns to Los Angeles.
• 22nd - Psycho receives première screenings at the Arcadia Theatre (Philadelphia), the Paramount Theater (Boston) and the Woods Theater (Chicago).

1961

• The Hitchcocks spend the end of June in New York City with Alfred's sister Nellie and his cousin Teresa. They take in the latest shows and make a trip to Washington D.C.
• 25th - After months of negotiations, Hitchcock finally secures the film rights to Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds for $25,000.

1962

• Paramount Pictures' screen rights to J.M. Barrie's play Mary Rose expire. Hitchcock eventually secures the rights in August 1963.
• Due to the lengthy planned post-production on The Birds, editor George Tomasini works on assembling rough edits of key sequences before principal photography is completed. By early June, sixteen separate sequences are ready, totaling 74 minutes of film.
• 7th - The contentious sand dune scene in The Birds is filmed. Evan Hunter protests to Hitchcock against the addition of the scene without his knowledge.
• 7th - Princess Grace releases a statement that she has withdrawn from Marnie and will not be resuming her acting career.
• 9th - Actor Henry Kendall, who starred in Rich and Strange, dies aged 65.
• 12th-13th - The Birds phone booth scene is filmed. Due to a mistake by prop master Bobby Bone, a dummy seagull hitting the side of the booth shatters the glass, rather than cracking it, showering Tippi Hedren with glass splinters.
• 14th-18th - The Birds opening sequence scenes set in the pet store are filmed.
• 20th-29th - The complex crow attack scenes for The Birds are filmed using a long treadmill in front of a rear projection screen. Due to delays in filming, Suzanne Pleshette is unavailable and so doesn't appear in the studio filmed scenes.

1963

• 29th - BBC Radio broadcasts an adaptation of Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles.

1965

• 21st - Brian Moore completes his first draft of Torn Curtain.
• 22nd - Producer David O. Selznick, who brought Hitchcock to America, dies following a series of heart attacks, aged 63.

1968

• Hitchcock's strained working partnership with author Leon Uris on the screenplay for Topaz comes to and end. Uris has only been able to complete a partial draft.

1969

• 21st - BBC Radio broadcasts an adaptation of Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles.

1970

• 19th - BBC Television broadcasts an hour-long interview between Hitchcock and Bryan Forbes, recorded at the National Film Theatre in London.

1971

• 3rd - Anthony Shaffer submits his first revision of the Frenzy screenplay.
• 9th - Alma Reville suffers a serious and debilitating stroke. Fortunately her husband's personal physician, Dr. Walter Flieg, is on hand and tends to her immediately. Rather than be admitted to hospital and be separated from her husband, she insists on being treated at the Claridge's hotel and she receives round-the-clock medical care for the next few weeks. She eventually makes an almost full recovery — although her speech will remain affected and she loses the movement in 3 of her fingers — and this allows her to make contributions to on-going the Frenzy production.
• 10th-15th - Following Alma's stroke, Hitchcock reschedules all his Frenzy cast and crew meetings to be held at Claridge's so that he can be close to his wife.

1972

• 2nd - The Hitchcocks spend a night in Paris before flying back to New York the following day.
• 6th - Hitchcock is awarded an honourary degree from Columbia University.
• 8th - ABC broadcasts a 65-minute interview between Hitchcock and Dick Cavett.
• 12th - Hitchcock appears on the Mike Douglas Show.
• 20th - Frenzy is premiered in Boston. The day is officially declared "Alfred Hitchcock Day" by the mayor.
• 21st - Frenzy is premiered in New York.

1973

• Hitchcock attends the funeral of Dave Chasen, owner of Chasen's Restaurant.

1975

• One month into shooting Deceit, Hitchcock decides to replace actor Roy Thinnes with William Devane.

1976

• 12th - Director Frank Capra presents Hitchcock with an award at the "Entertainment '76" event in Hollywood.

1980

• 3rd - A requiem mass is held at Westminster Cathedral in London for Alfred Hitchcock. Amongst the attendees are Sidney Bernstein, Ingrid Bergman, Ann Todd, Elsie Randolph, Anna Neagle, Joan Harrison, Barry Foster and George Perry.
• 29th - In an article published in the Boston Globe, composer John Williams spoke about working with Hitchcock on Family Plot (1976), "I wasn't excited about that particular picture, but I wanted to work with Hitchcock, and it turned out to be his last film. He didn't want any thick, heavy scoring. 'Just remember this,' he said to me, 'murder can be fun.'"

1991

• 2nd - BBC World Service Radio broadcasts an adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose".
• 14th - Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, who appeared in The 39 Steps (1935), dies aged 83.

2000

• 8th - Paramount publicist Herb Steinberg dies aged 78.

2002

• 3rd - American talent agent and studio executive Lew Wasserman dies aged 89.

2003

• 3rd - Film editor John Jympson, who edited Frenzy, dies aged 72.
• 12th - Actor Gregory Peck, who starred in Spellbound and The Paradine Case, dies aged 87.
• 15th - Actor and writer Hume Cronyn, who acted in Shadow of a Doubt and Lifeboat, and worked on the screenplays of Rope and Under Capricorn, dies aged 91.
• 21st - Writer Leon Uris, who wrote Topaz, dies aged 78.

2010

• 16th - Ronald Neame, who began his long career in British films as an assistant cameraman on Blackmail, dies aged 99.

2012

• 5th - Author Ray Bradbury dies aged 91 in Los Angeles, California, after a lengthy illness.

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