1960s Timeline

July 23, 1962 - Barry Sullivan has joined the cast of “A Gathering of Eagles,” a drama being produced for Universal-International. Also...

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...

July 22, 1962 - Peter Fonda, who appeared on Broadway last season in “Blood, Sweat, and Stanley Poole,” will make his screen debut...

July 19, 1962 - Howard Hawks’ “Hatari!” (Paramount) attained a box-office gross of $43,953 for its first week at New York’s DeMille...

July 19, 1962 - The United Arab Republic has refused to grant Elizabeth Taylor an entry visa because she has adopted the Jewish faith and...

July 17, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Bird Man of Alcatraz,” a United Artists drama with Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas, and...

July 16, 1962 - Jerry Wald, the film producer, was eulogized in Glendale, Calif., today as one of the great American showmen and a man...

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...

July 9, 1962 - George Cukor (right) has been signed to direct the film version of “My Fair Lady.” Audrey Hepburn (left) will play Eliza...

July 8, 1962 - Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Marta Kristen, and Kevin Corcoran will be featured in “Savage Sam,” a sequel to Fred Gipson’s...

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...

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...

July 5, 1962 - Today’s new movie is “Panic in Year Zero!”, a black-and-white science fiction film from American International Pictures,...

July 4, 1962 - Lieut. Gov. Rex Bell (pictured left in 1930) of Nevada, former silent Western screen star and husband of actress Clara Bow...

July 3, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Birdman of Alcatraz,” a biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt...

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, 1962 - Hugh Griffith, the Academy-Award-winning actor playing the part of a judge in the play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,”...

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, 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, 1962 - “The Longest Day,” produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from the book by Cornelius Ryan, will have its American premiere in...