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Jul 23, 2022
Movies: “A Gathering of Eagles”
July 23, 1962 - Barry Sullivan has joined the cast of “A Gathering of Eagles,” a drama being produced for Universal-International. Also...
Jul 23, 2022
Lewis Milestone Fired as Director of “PT-109”
July 23, 1962 - Lewis Milestone, who was fired over the weekend as director of “PT-109,” denied today that he had been ousted because he...
Jul 22, 2022
Movies: “Tammy and the Doctor”
July 22, 1962 - Peter Fonda, who appeared on Broadway last season in “Blood, Sweat, and Stanley Poole,” will make his screen debut...
Jul 19, 2022
Movies: “Hatari!”
July 19, 1962 - Howard Hawks’ “Hatari!” (Paramount) attained a box-office gross of $43,953 for its first week at New York’s DeMille...
Jul 19, 2022
U.A.R. Refuses Elizabeth Taylor Entry
July 19, 1962 - The United Arab Republic has refused to grant Elizabeth Taylor an entry visa because she has adopted the Jewish faith and...
Jul 17, 2022
Movies: “Bird Man of Alcatraz”
July 17, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Bird Man of Alcatraz,” a United Artists drama with Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas, and...
Jul 16, 2022
Producer Jerry Wald Eulogized in California
July 16, 1962 - Jerry Wald, the film producer, was eulogized in Glendale, Calif., today as one of the great American showmen and a man...
Jul 13, 2022
Movies: “Donovan’s Reef”
July 13, 1962 - Jack Warden has joined the cast of John Ford’s “Donovan’s Reef.” Filming of the adventure comedy began this month in...
Jul 9, 2022
Movies: “My Fair Lady”
July 9, 1962 - George Cukor (right) has been signed to direct the film version of “My Fair Lady.” Audrey Hepburn (left) will play Eliza...
Jul 8, 2022
Movies: “Savage Sam”
July 8, 1962 - Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Marta Kristen, and Kevin Corcoran will be featured in “Savage Sam,” a sequel to Fred Gipson’s...
Jul 7, 2022
Movies: “Advise and Consent”
July 7, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Advise and Consent,” a political drama based on the 1959 Pulitzer prize-winning novel of the same...
Jul 5, 2022
Movies: “That Touch of Mink”
July 5, 1962 - “That Touch of Mink” continues to break box-office records at the Radio City Music Hall, where the first 2 opening weeks...
Jul 5, 2022
Movies: “Panic in Year Zero!”
July 5, 1962 - Today’s new movie is “Panic in Year Zero!”, a black-and-white science fiction film from American International Pictures,...
Jul 4, 2022
Rex Bell Dead at 58
July 4, 1962 - Lieut. Gov. Rex Bell (pictured left in 1930) of Nevada, former silent Western screen star and husband of actress Clara Bow...
Jul 3, 2022
Movies: “Birdman of Alcatraz”
July 3, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Birdman of Alcatraz,” a biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt...
Jul 2, 2022
Movies: “Lawrence of Arabia”
July 2, 1962 - “Lawrence of Arabia,” a four-hour drama based on the life of the British soldier and author, T.E. Lawrence, has been...
May 28, 2022
Hugh Griffith Nearly Strangles Himself On Stage
May 28, 1962 - Hugh Griffith, the Academy-Award-winning actor playing the part of a judge in the play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,”...
May 28, 2022
Elizabeth Taylor Completes Last Big Scene for "Cleopatra"
May 28, 1962 - Elizabeth Taylor did her death scene as Cleopatra today, and the long-worried stockholders of 20th Century-Fox couldn’t be...
May 28, 2022
Revival Series of 1930s Warner Brothers Films
May 28, 1962 - A series of 14 double bills of Warner Brothers films from the 1930s will be presented for the next two weeks at the New...
May 27, 2022
Movies: "The Longest Day"
May 27, 1962 - “The Longest Day,” produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from the book by Cornelius Ryan, will have its American premiere in...
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