Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950/07/00 | Raymond Chandler | Screenwriter | Alfred Hitchcock hires Raymond Chandler for $2,500 a week to write a screenplay from "Strangers on a Train". | ||||
| 1950/08/27 | "Strangers on a Train" second unit crew films the 1950 Davis Cup finals, 25-27 August 1950 at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York. | Forest Hills | |||||
| 1950/09/25 | Hitchcock receives Raymond Chandler's adaptation of "Strangers on a Train". Although little of Chandler's work will become part of the movie, his screenwriter credit is retained to draw in patrons. | ||||||
| 1950/09/26 | Alfred Hitchcock dismisses Raymond Chandler as screenwriter on "Strangers on a Train". Hitchcock will offer the position to Patricia Highsmith, but she will turn it down. | ||||||
| 1950/10/00 | Alfred Hitchcock asks Ben Hecht to write the screenplay for "Strangers on a Train". The unavailable Hecht suggests his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde. | ||||||
| 1950/10/17 | Alfred Hitchcock | Director | Carrying a large bass fiddle, Alfred Hitchcock steps aboard the New Haven coach train at Danbury railroad station to make his cameo in "Strangers on a Train". | Union Station | Danbury, CT | ||
| 1950/10/17 | Alfred Hitchcock | Director | Alfred Hitchcock begins shooting "Strangers on a Train". For six days, they will film at Penn Station (lost) in New York City, at Danbury, Connecticut as Guy's hometown Metcalf and in Washington, DC. | Danbury, CT | Connecticut | ||
| 1950/11/00 | Patricia Hitchcock | Actress | Hitchcock and crew film "Strangers on a Train" in California. The amusement park was built on Rowland Lee's ranch in Chatsworth, the Tunnel of Love at a fairground in Canoga Park, a tennis club in South Gate and the Warner soundstages. | ||||
| 1950/11/00 | By early November, Czenzi Ormonde, associate producer Barbara Keon and Alma Reville complete the "Strangers on a Train" screenplay based on Whitfield Cook's adaptation. | ||||||
| 1951/06/30 | Alfred Hitchcock | Director | "Strangers on a Train" is released in the United States. | ||||
| 1951/07/00 | Carol Burnett | Work | Carol Burnett, an usherette at Warner Brothers, advises two patrons arriving during the last 10 minutes of a movie to wait until the beginning of the next show to avoid spoiling the ending. The manager ushers the couple in and fires Burnett. | Warner Pacific Theatre | Los Angeles |
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