Rex Harrison Signed for Film Version of “My Fair Lady”
Oct. 25, 1962 - Rex Harrison (left) has been signed to recreate his original role of Professor Higgins in the film version of “My Fair...
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Oct 24, 2022
Movies: “The Manchurian Candidate”
Oct. 24, 1962 - Opening today is “The Manchurian Candidate,” a political thriller about Communist sleeper agents. The film was directed...
Oct 23, 2022
Mankiewicz Fired from “Cleopatra,” Taylor and Burton Outraged
Oct. 23, 1962 - Writer-director Joseph Mankiewicz (center) has been dismissed by Darryl F. Zanuck, the new president of Twentieth...
Oct 17, 2022
Movies: “McLintock!”
Oct. 17, 1962 - Final details have been announced for John Wayne’s forthcoming production, “McLintock!” a Western drama in color, which...
Oct 14, 2022
Movies: “Man’s Favorite Sport?”
Oct. 14, 1962 - Rock Hudson has been set to star in “Man’s Favorite Sport,” described as a comedy dealing with the adventures of a...
Oct 9, 2022
Otto Preminger to Produce “Harm’s Way”
Oct. 9, 1962 - Now that Darryl F. Zanuck has definitively documented the Army’s European campaign on D-Day, Otto Preminger (right) combat...
Oct 9, 2022
“Dracula” Director Tod Browning Dead at 80
Oct. 9, 1962 - Tod Browning (pictured right with Helen Chandler and Bela Lugosi in 1930), who directed scores of Hollywood movies for...
Oct 5, 2022
Movies: “Dr. No”
Oct. 5, 1962 - Opening today is “Dr. No,” a spy film directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian...
Oct 5, 2022
Movies: “The Chapman Report”
Oct. 5, 1962 - Opening today is “The Chapman Report,” a Technicolor drama starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda,...
Oct 4, 2022
Movies: “The Longest Day”
Oct. 4, 1962 - Twentieth Century-Fox’s “The Longest Day,” Darryl F. Zanuck’s version of the Cornelius Ryan novel about the D-Day landings...
Oct 1, 2022
Schell Demands Privacy for Hollywood Celebrities
Oct. 1, 1962 - Actor Maximilian Schell (pictured with Sophia Loren) assailed today photographers and reporters who invade the privacy of...
Sep 27, 2022
Dick Powell Suffering from Cancer
Sept. 27, 1962 - Dick Powell (pictured), a highly successful singer and actor before becoming one of television’s major producers, is...
Sep 27, 2022
Movies: “The Fall of the Roman Empire”
Sept. 27, 1962 - Sophia Loren (left) will join Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, and Stephen Boyd (right) in the color spectacle, “The Fall...
Sep 25, 2022
Movies: “The Longest Day”
Sept. 25, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “The Longest Day,” an epic black-and-white war film based on Cornelius Ryan’s 1959...
Sep 24, 2022
Movies: “All the Way Home”
Sept. 24, 1962 - Pat Hingle has been signed for a role in the film “All the Way Home,” which starts production Oct. 8 in Knoxville, Tenn....
Sep 24, 2022
Movies: “Requiem for a Heavyweight”
Sept. 24, 1962 - David Susskind’s film production of “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” with a screenplay by Rod Serling, will have a dual...
Sep 22, 2022
Color Comes to ABC-TV
Sept. 22, 1962 - Color will make its debut over ABC at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow on a program called “The Jetsons,” a new animated cartoon...
Sep 17, 2022
Movies: “Lawrence of Arabia”
Sept. 17, 1962 - Motion-picture admission prices will reach a high in December when “Lawrence of Arabia” opens at New York’s Criterion...
Sep 17, 2022
Movies: “Charade”
Sept. 17, 1962 - Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant will star in “Charade,” a comedy murder-mystery to be produced and directed by Stanley...
Sep 16, 2022
Burton to Costar with O’Toole in “Becket”
Sept. 16, 1962 - Richard Burton (right), who is on vacation in Switzerland after having finished his lengthy and much-publicized role of...
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