![]() Skirball green-lights Shadow of a Doubt as Hitchcock's second film for Universal. 7th - After hearing Gordon McDonell's "Uncle Charlie" story outline, Jack H.5th - Gordon McDonell provides Hitchcock with a typewritten version of his " Uncle Charlie" story.McDonnell's original story ends with the uncle falling off a cliff after a failed attempt to silence his niece. Initially titled " Uncle Charlie", the story becomes Shadow of a Doubt. Over lunch at the Brown Derby, author Gordon McDonell pitches a story idea to Hitchcock about a "handsome, successful, debonair" man who visits his family in a small Californian town only for his young niece to suspect that he might be a serial killer.Incensed that the film implies that the Normandie fire was sabotage, the US Navy forces the scene to be cut. ![]() Ever the opportunist, Hitchcock dispatches a Universal newsreel unit to capture footage of the beached liner for use in Saboteur. 9th - The French ocean liner SS Normandie catches fire in New York Harbor.Cornell Woolrich's short story " It Had to Be Murder" is published in the February edition of Dime Detective.Unfortunately the events surrounding Pearl Harbor contribute to a shortened run of just three weeks and it closes on 14th February. 27th - The John Van Druten play Solitaire opens on Broadway in New York, marking Patricia Hitchcock's stage debut.Images from the Hitchcock Gallery (click to view larger versions or search for all relevant images).
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