May 29

Foreign Correspondent completes its scheduled filming, 1940. Joel McCrea and Laraine Day were cast in the war-era thriller, which was director Alfred Hitchcock’s second American picture. In the weeks following the movie’s completion, the likelihood of a German attack on London increased dramatically, prompting the production staff to call screenwriter Ben Hecht back in on July 3 to write a different ending in which the McCrea character delivers a radio broadcast while bombs rain down on the city. The new final scene was filmed on July 5; the Nazis bombed London a mere five days later.