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Jun 20, 2022
Movies: "Ride the High Country"
June 20, 1962 - Opening today is “Ride the High Country,” a CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph...
Jun 20, 2022
Berlin Film Festival to Screen Documentary on Mrs. Kennedy's Asian Trip
June 20, 1962 - A 30-minute documentary describing Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s recent visit to India has been selected as one of the...
Jun 20, 2022
Movies: "Boys' Night Out"
June 20, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Boys’ Night Out,” an MGM comedy. James Garner, Tony Randall, and Kim Novak are in the Michael...
Jun 19, 2022
TV: ABC's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
June 19, 1962 - “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” a half-hour situation comedy based on the 1939 film with James Stewart, will be shown...
Jun 19, 2022
Iowa Parade Honors Opening of "Music Man"
June 19, 1962 - Marching bands, 119 loud and strong, took over Mason City, Iowa, today in the accompaniment of cheers and applause from a...
Jun 19, 2022
Frank Borzage, Academy Award Winning Director, Dead at 69
June 19, 1962 - Frank Borzage (pictured with Marlene Dietrich in 1936), Academy Award-winning motion-picture director, died today after a...
Jun 19, 2022
Movies: "Hatari!"
June 19, 1962 - Opening today is “Hatari,” an adventure romantic comedy film directed by Howard Hawks that stars John Wayne as the leader...
Jun 19, 2022
Movies: "The Music Man"
June 19, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “The Music Man,” a musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on...
Jun 18, 2022
Edward G. Robinson Stricken with Heart Attack
June 18, 1962 - Edward G. Robinson (pictured in 1952), stricken with a heart attack while on film location near the Tanganyika border in...
Jun 16, 2022
Sidney Lumet Will Direct "The Pawnbroker"
June 16, 1962 - The first production of an independent production team headed by Roger H. Lewis and Philip Langner will be “The...
Jun 15, 2022
Janet Leigh Files for Divorce from Tony Curtis
June 15, 1962 - Actress Janet Leigh filed for divorce today from her estranged husband, actor Tony Curtis, charging “extreme cruelty.”...
Jun 14, 2022
Movies: "That Touch of Mink"
June 14, 1962 - Opening today is “That Touch of Mink,” a comedy romance film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day,...
Jun 14, 2022
Blake Edwards' New Company To Produce "The Pink Panther"
June 14, 1962 - Formation of an independent film company, G. and E. Productions, has been announced by Blake Edwards and Martyn Jurow,...
Jun 13, 2022
Movies: "Merrill's Marauders"
June 13, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “Merrill’s Marauders,” a Technicolor war film, photographed in CinemaScope, and...
Jun 13, 2022
Movies: "Lolita"
June 13, 1962 - Opening today is “Lolita,” a psychological comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of...
Jun 13, 2022
Lee Remick Makes an Easy $100,000
June 13, 1962 - One of the most incredible by-products of the dispute between 20th Century-Fox and Marilyn Monroe over “Something’s Got...
Jun 12, 2022
Ava Gardner Returns to the Big Screen
June 12, 1962 - Ava Gardner is returning to the screen after a 3-year absence in a film being produced 16 miles from her home in Madrid....
Jun 12, 2022
Mickey Rooney Files for Bankruptcy
June 12, 1962 - Mickey Rooney filed petitions of voluntary bankruptcy in Federal court today. The actor listed debts of $484,914 and...
Jun 11, 2022
Fox Halts Shooting Indefinitely on "Something's Got To Give"
June 11, 1962 - Twentieth Century-Fox decided today to halt shooting indefinitely on “Something’s Got to Give,” from which it had...
Jun 10, 2022
Movies: "The Longest Day"
June 10, 1962 - “The Longest Day,” the 20th Century-Fox version of Cornelius Ryan’s book about the Allied landings in Normandy, will open...
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