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May 22, 2023

Movies: “Move Over, Darling”

May 22, 1963 - Thelma Ritter (pictured right in 1959) will appear in a principal role in “Move Over, Darling,” now in production at 20th...

May 21, 2023

Elizabeth Taylor Is Highest-Paid Performer in Motion Picture History

May 21, 1963 - Any doubt that Elizabeth Taylor has become the highest-paid performer in motion picture history was dispelled today by...

May 20, 2023

Movies: “Seven Days in May”

May 20, 1963 - George Macready (third from left) will play the role of Secretary of the Interior and personal friend of the President in...

May 19, 2023

Things Looking Up at 20th Century-Fox

May 19, 1963 - Spirits are rising at 20th Century-Fox. The studio has long been mired in a bog of pessimism bordering on despair....

May 17, 2023

Movies: “The Great Escape”

May 17, 1963 - “The Great Escape,” a Mirisch Company-United Artists drama of World War II with Steve McQueen (right), James Garner, James...

May 15, 2023

Movies: “Robin and the 7 Hoods”

May 15, 1963 - Warner Brothers has negotiated a deal with Sinatra Enterprises to make “Robin and the 7 Hoods.” The film will star Frank...

May 15, 2023

Movies: “Spencer’s Mountain”

May 15, 1963 - Today’s new film is “Spencer’s Mountain,” with Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara, opening at the Radio City Music Hall. The...

May 13, 2023

Movies: Peter Sellers Signed for “The World of Henry Orient”

May 13, 1963 - Peter Sellers has been signed for the leading role in “The World of Henry Orient,” a comedy to be filmed in New York...

May 13, 2023

“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” Gets Mixed Response at Cannes

May 13, 1963 - Critics and moviegoers differed over Hollywood’s “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” at the annual Cannes film festival....

May 13, 2023

Belmondo and French Policeman Face Charges after Violent Incident

May 13, 1963 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, the movie actor (“Breathless”), was charged in Paris today with having insulted a policeman, and the...

May 12, 2023

Movies: “Children of the Damned” and “Becket”

May 12, 1963 - In London, two American productions started filming today. At MGM’s British studios, cameras rolled on “Children of the...

May 12, 2023

Movie Tough Guy Lawrence Tierney Arrested Again

May 12, 1963 - Former movie tough guy Lawrence Tierney (pictured top in 1951 and bottom in 1958 after assaulting two NYPD officers), out...

May 12, 2023

Movies: “The Great Escape”

May 12, 1963 - “The Great Escape” will begin an exclusive engagement at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles on July 2. Steve McQueen,...

May 11, 2023

Movies: Veteran Claude Rains Still Going Strong

May 11, 1963 - At 72 years of age, Claude Rains (pictured in 1937), a Tony Award-winning actor who has been nominated 4 times for the...

May 9, 2023

Movies: “The Birds” Screened at Cannes Film Festival

May 9, 1963 - The noncompetitive gala showing of an American film, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” got the 16th Cannes Film Festival off...

May 8, 2023

Movies: “The Day of the Triffids”

May 8, 1963 - “The Day of the Triffids,” a British science fiction horror film in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor starring Howard Keel and...

May 6, 2023

Tony Curtis’s Bride Quitting Acting

May 6, 1963 - Christine Kaufmann, Tony Curtis’s 18-year-old German bride, is retiring from her acting career. Regarding her decision, she...

May 2, 2023

Actress Dorothy Malone Files for Divorce

May 2, 1963 - Actress Dorothy Malone (right), 35, today filed for divorce against her husband of 4 years, French-born actor Jacques...

May 1, 2023

Movies: “Hud”

May 1, 1963 - “Hud,” a contemporary Western drama with Paul Newman (left), Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal (right), and Brandon de Wilde,...

May 1, 2023

Movies: “Dead Ringer”

May 1, 1963 - Paul Henreid (left), who has been active as a television director, will direct his first feature film in 11 years, “Dead...