1960s Timeline

Sept. 30, 1961 - "Spartacus," the spectacle-adventure starring Kirk Douglas, will mark its first anniversary at New York's DeMille...

Sept. 28, 1961 - The stars and other figures who live near Hollywood's Sunset Strip have become the most fallout-proof citizens of...

Sept. 27, 1961 - Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, the film performers, became parents of a daughter today at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital...

Sept. 25, 1961 - Opening in local theatres today is "The Hustler," a CinemaScope drama directed by Robert Rossen from Walter Tevis's...

Sept. 22, 1961 - Marion Davies (pictured in 1936), a star of the old Hollywood, died today of cancer. A friend said that Miss Davies,...

Sept. 22, 1961 - "Back Street," Ross Hunter's film version of the sentimental 1931 novel by Fannie Hurst, will open at the Capitol...

Sept. 21, 1961 - Two public previews of the film "King of Kings" have been scheduled for Oct. 8 and 9, before the official opening at New...

Sept. 20, 1961 - Mickey Rooney (pictured with Rod Serling) has been signed for a leading role in Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight,"...

Sept. 20, 1961 - Marion Davies (pictured in 1935) has been given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church and was reported to be near...

Sept. 20, 1961 - "Town Without Pity," a United Artists release filmed in Germany, will open Oct. 10 at New York's Astor Theatre,...

Sept. 15, 1961 - Horst Buchholz, the German film star who appeared in "The Magnificent Seven" last year, was discharged from a Munich...

Sept. 15, 1961 - Italian actress and fashion model Elsa Martinelli (left) recently completed a leading role with John Wayne in Howard...

Sept. 13, 1961 - Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., and Dean Stockwell have been signed for the four leading...

Sept. 13, 1961 - Hollywood producer Sol C. Siegel (pictured right) said today that he would not make pictures with racial themes or "sex...

Sept. 12, 1961 - Maurice Chevalier celebrated his 73rd birthday today. "I feel fine," said the French performer, in Britain playing a...

Sept. 12, 1961 - The Radio City Music Hall has announced film bookings that will carry the theatre into 1962. After the current...

Sept. 11, 1961 - Hollywood producer Samuel Bronston (lower left) is convinced that the salvation of the film industry lies in expensive,...

Sept. 10, 1961 - Arriving at local movie theatres this week is "Master of the World," a Jules Verne science-fiction drama starring...

Sept. 8, 1961 - Curt Jürgens (right) has been signed for the role of Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt, the German staff officer, in "The...

Sept. 7, 1961 - Screen rights to Harold Robbins' novel, "The Carpetbaggers," have been acquired by Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures...