Hitchcock Chronology: 1966

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Month by Month

January

• 22nd - Actor Herbert Marshall, who starred in Murder! and Foreign Correspondent, dies aged 75.

February

• Principal photography on Torn Curtain is completed.
• 15th - Writer James Allardice, who wrote Hitchcock's dialogue for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, as well as many of the director's speeches, dies of a heart attack aged 46.

March

• Hitchcock listens to a recording of Bernard Herrmann's score for Torn Curtain. Rather than the upbeat score Hitchcock had asked for, and which the composer had promised to deliver, the score is typical Herrmann with heavy bass, brass and woodwind. Hitchcock immediately fires Herrmann and the two never talk to each other again.

May

• 3rd - Actor Wylie Watson, who played Mr Memory in The 39 Steps, dies in Australia aged 77.
• 8th - Producer Erich Pommer dies aged 76.

July

• 7th - Actress Carmelita Geraghty, who appeared in The Pleasure Garden, dies of a heart attack aged 65.
• 23rd - Actor Montgomery Clift, who starred in I Confess, dies aged 46.

August

• 3rd - The BBC broadcasts an interview between Hitchcock and Tony Bilbow as part of the BBC2 television series Late Night Line-Up.

September

• With Torn Curtain completed, the Hitchcocks go on a month-long vacation to Europe, visiting the Villa D'Este in Italy, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Munich and Paris.

October

• 22nd - British spy and double agent George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison and flees to Russia. The story is later fictionalised by author Ronald Kirkbride and Hitchcock purchases the story rights with the intention of filming it as The Short Night.

December

• Together with Samuel A. Taylor and his wife, the Hitchcocks spend Christmas in St. Moritz. Hitchcock begins to plan his next project, the tale of a necrophiliac serial killer.

See Also...

• articles from 1966
• deaths in 1966

Notes & References

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