1960s Timeline

June 20, 1962 - Opening today is “Ride the High Country,” a CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph...

June 20, 1962 - A 30-minute documentary describing Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s recent visit to India has been selected as one of the...

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...

June 19, 1962 - “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” a half-hour situation comedy based on the 1939 film with James Stewart, will be shown...

June 19, 1962 - Marching bands, 119 loud and strong, took over Mason City, Iowa, today in the accompaniment of cheers and applause from a...

June 19, 1962 - Frank Borzage (pictured with Marlene Dietrich in 1936), Academy Award-winning motion-picture director, died today after a...

June 19, 1962 - Opening today is “Hatari,” an adventure romantic comedy film directed by Howard Hawks that stars John Wayne as the leader...

June 19, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “The Music Man,” a musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on...

June 18, 1962 - Edward G. Robinson (pictured in 1952), stricken with a heart attack while on film location near the Tanganyika border in...

June 16, 1962 - The first production of an independent production team headed by Roger H. Lewis and Philip Langner will be “The...

June 15, 1962 - Actress Janet Leigh filed for divorce today from her estranged husband, actor Tony Curtis, charging “extreme cruelty.”...

June 14, 1962 - Opening today is “That Touch of Mink,” a comedy romance film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day,...

June 14, 1962 - Formation of an independent film company, G. and E. Productions, has been announced by Blake Edwards and Martyn Jurow,...

June 13, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “Merrill’s Marauders,” a Technicolor war film, photographed in CinemaScope, and...

June 13, 1962 - Opening today is “Lolita,” a psychological comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of...

June 13, 1962 - One of the most incredible by-products of the dispute between 20th Century-Fox and Marilyn Monroe over “Something’s Got...

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....

June 12, 1962 - Mickey Rooney filed petitions of voluntary bankruptcy in Federal court today. The actor listed debts of $484,914 and...

June 11, 1962 - Twentieth Century-Fox decided today to halt shooting indefinitely on “Something’s Got to Give,” from which it had...

June 10, 1962 - “The Longest Day,” the 20th Century-Fox version of Cornelius Ryan’s book about the Allied landings in Normandy, will open...