1960s Timeline

June 10, 1962 - “Mutiny on the Bounty” is reaching the end of an extended and expensive production journey. The remake will have its...

June 9, 1962 - Dean Martin quit the movie “Something’s Got to Give” today because Marilyn Monroe had been dismissed. “I have the greatest...

June 9, 1962 - Faye Dunaway (pictured with William Roderick), 22 years old, will play Margaret More in the Broadway production of Robert...

June 8, 1962 - Marilyn Monroe was dismissed today by the head of the 20th Century-Fox studio from a movie she is making for the company....

June 7, 1962 - Nancy Kwan, the screen star, was married today in London to Peter Pock, Austrian hotel keeper and ski instructor, in a...

June 7, 1962 - Twentieth Century-Fox’s “Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation” has been selected as the official American contribution to the...

June 6, 1962 - Henry Weinstein said today that 20th Century-Fox was considering a lawsuit against Marilyn Monroe for her failure to...

June 6, 1962 - Princess Grace said today she had “abandoned the idea” of returning to Hollywood to make a film with Alfred Hitchcock. The...

June 5, 1962 - Darryl Zanuck (pictured holding envelope), the American movie producer, filed a damage suit today against Juliette Gréco...

June 4, 1962 - Jon Voight (pictured), a young actor who took off last Saturday for Greece, where his wife is making a film, caused the...

June 2, 1962 - ABC recently sent film crews into American nightclubs and cabarets to obtain material for a documentary on new trends in...

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...

May 24, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “Lonely Are the Brave,” a Western film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel “The Brave...

May 22, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “The Road to Hong Kong,” a semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Panama and...

May 22, 1962 - A Southern Representative denounced Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton today for their conduct in Rome while making the...

May 22, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “Premature Burial,” a horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Ray Milland,...

May 21, 1962 - Scheduled to arrive in local theatres this week is “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” a Western drama with James Stewart...