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Hitchcock Chronology: 1964

Overview

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Month by Month

January

February

March

April

May

  • The Hitchcocks spend 2 months in Europe on vacation, occasionally giving interviews and attending special events held in their honour. Amongst the many cities and places visited are: London, Villa D'Este at Lake Como, Rome, Vienna, Munich, Paris, the French Riviera, Belgrade, Dubrovnik and Zagreb.[3]

June

July

  • 5th - The BBC broadcasts an interview between Hitchcock and Huw Wheldon for the television series Monitor.[4]
  • Feeling unwell and tired, despite his recent European vacation, Hitchcock undergoes various medical tests but no underlying cause is found. He is advised to slow down his schedule and to diet.[5]

August

September

October

November

  • Hitchcock registers an original story idea with the Writers Guild, outlining a plot that prequels Shadow of a Doubt and follows an attractive serial killer who murders rich widows, drawing from the real-life English serial killers John George Haigh, John Christie and Neville Heath. Towards the end of November, he meets with author Robert Bloch and tries to persuade the novelist to develop an original idea based on the idea — Bloch eventually declines, partly due to the low salary offered.[7]
  • 22nd - Film editor George Tomasini, who worked with Hitchcock on Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds and Marnie, dies aged 55.
  • Hitchcock writes to Russian émigré novelist Vladimir Nabokov and tries to interest him in developing an original screenplay based on one of two stories that the director is considering as his next film — a crime caper about a family of Italian crooks or a gritty political spy thriller about a defecting scientist and his wife. Nabokov expresses interest in the first story, but is too busy to begin work until the summer of 1965 at the earliest.[8]

December

See Also...

Notes & References

  1. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 208
  2. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (2013) by Tony Lee Moral, page 128
  3. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 654
  4. Interview: Monitor (BBC, 05/Jul/1964)
  5. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 656
  6. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 653
  7. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 657-58 & 660
  8. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 658-61
  9. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 661

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