1960s Timeline

Jan. 15, 1962 - Michelangelo Antonioni’s “The Night” (“La Notte”) has been selected as the official Italian entry for this year’s...

Jan. 15, 1962 - Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Eddie Fisher, announced today they had adopted a baby girl. They said they had been...

Jan. 14, 1962 - John Wayne has been signed to portray Lieut. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort in “The Longest Day,” which is being produced in...

Jan. 14, 1962 - “The Hustler,” the film drama dealing with the career of a pool shark, captured a majority of the top awards in the...

Jan. 13, 1962 - Astor Pictures has acquired the American distribution rights to the second film by Francois Truffaut, the award-winning...

Jan. 12, 1962 - Televised motion pictures starring James Dean, who had only three major movie roles before his death, seem to have a...

Jan. 11, 1962 - “L’Avventura,” the Italian film that opened in New York last April 4, has been given a Class C (“Condemned”) rating by...

Jan. 11, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Bachelor Flat,” a 20th Century-Fox comedy with Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Richard Beymer, and...

Jan. 11, 1962 - Actress Arlene Francis (pictured), her husband, Martin Gabel, and the Ritz Towers Hotel were sued today for $500,000 by a...

Jan. 10, 1962 - Ingmar Bergman’s “Through a Glass Darkly” is the Swedish entry in this year’s competition for Hollywood’s Academy Award...

Jan. 8, 1962 - “The Hustler,” the movie about pocket billiards, usually called “pool,” is still in theatres. But if you’d like to see one...

Jan. 8, 1962 - The Paramount comedy “Who’s Got the Action?” starts production in Hollywood Thursday, under the direction of Daniel Mann....

Jan. 7, 1962 - Arriving in local theatres this week is “Teen-Age Millionaire,” a United Artists release with Jimmy Clanton, Jackie...

Jan. 6, 1962 - A press release from Titanus Films in Rome states: “‘The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah’ is expected to run for...

Jan. 5, 1962 - Having twisted its way out of Manhattan’s Peppermint Lounge and across the country, the current dance rage will soon...

Jan. 4, 1962 - “The Hidden Fortress,” a Japanese drama with Toshiro Mifune (pictured) and Misa Uehara, will have its American premiere...

Jan. 4, 1962 - Film actor Broderick Crawford today married actress Joan Tabor in the Baptist Little Church of the West in Las Vegas. They...

Jan. 3, 1962 - Henry Grace (pictured), a movie-set director who has never acted before the cameras, today was cast as General of the Army...

Jan. 3, 1962 - The winners of the 34th annual Oscar competition will be announced on April 9. For the second consecutive year, the...

Jan. 3, 1962 - “We’re just picking up where we left off,” Dick Powell said today of his reconciliation with June Allyson. Lawyers for the...