Hitchcock Chronology: 1947

Overview

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Several U.S. local newspapers carry a report that Hitchcock's new puppy bit his ear and the director was left with an infection.^[1]

22nd - Actress Nova Pilbeam plays the title role in a BBC Radio adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play "Mary Rose", produced by Martyn C. Webster. The broadcast makes use of Norman O'Neill's original stage music.^[2]

7th - Filming on The Paradine Case is completed.^[3]
Playwright Irving Fiske files a law suit against Cary Grant and Hitchcock for infringing upon his work "Hamlet in Modern English". Hitchcock had a previously announced plans to make a modern-language version of Hamlet in 1945, although the project was soon dropped. Fiske sought damages of $1,250,000 and the case was eventually heard in October 1954.

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.^[4]

The House Committee on Un-American Activities begins a series of hearings in Washington D.C. to root out Communist influences in Hollywood. Among those affected by the subsequent Hollywood blacklist with links to Hitchcock are writers Arthur Laurents and Dorothy Parker, actors Hume Cronyn, Norman Lloyd and Canada Lee, actress Barbara Bel Geddes, and composer Lyn Murray.^[5]^[6]

6th - To celebrate the imminent start of filming on the first Transatlantic Pictures production, Rope, Hitchcock hosts a party at his Bellagio Road home. Among the guests are Sidney Bernstein and his wife, Arthur Laurents, Whitfield Cook, John Hodiak, Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.^[7]
Technical meetings begin for Rope with key crew personnel.^[8]^[9]
31st - The Paradine Case premieres at the Bruin Theater in Westwood Village, Los Angeles.^[10]