Mary Rose
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Introduction
Hitchcock had long desired to turn J. M. Barrie's 1920 play "Mary Rose" into a film. in 1964, after working together on "Marnie", Hitchcock asked Jay Presson Allen to adapt the play into a screenplay. Hitchcock would later tell interviewers that his contract with Universal allowed him to make any film, so long as it cost under $3 million, and so long as it wasn't "Mary Rose". Whether or not this was actually true or not, Lew Wasserman was not keen on the project, though Hitchcock never gave up hope of one day filming it.
In an article published in The Times in 1964, Hitchcock was still planning to make the film...
Mr. Hitchcock is relatively reticent about his latest film Marnie, due soon in the West End ("Well, that's another direction.") but talks happily about his projects, The Three Hostages, and, of all things, a version of Mary Rose, The Island that likes to be Visited ("I see it essentially as a horror story"). To hear him describing effects he has in mind for the latter, like having the semi-phantom Mary Rose lit from inside, so that she casts a ghostly glow instead of a shadow on the walls, and in the death scene letting her husband feel her brow when she goes into a trance and find his hand covered in blue powder ("I don't know exactly what it signifies, but I like the idea"), one is left in no doubt that he starts his films very much from the visual end of things.
Articles
External Links
- Writing with Hitchcock - complete script (PDF format)
Product Links
- "Mary Rose, a Play in Three Acts" by J. M. Barrie
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- "Peter Pan and Other Plays" (inc. Mary Rose) by J. M. Barrie
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