1960s Timeline

July 11, 1961 - Carol Burnett (pictured) and Richard Hayes will team up on CBS radio next September. Their musical variety program will...

July 11, 1961 - There was a mob scene today at Polyclinic Hospital in New York City. About 200 fans and 100 reporters and photographers...

July 11, 1961 - Today's new film is "Trouble in the Sky," a British-made melodrama with Peter Cushing (right), Michael Craig, Delphi...

July 10, 1961 - Jean Simmons (right), the actress, wife of Richard Brooks (left), screen director, gave birth to a daughter today at...

July 9, 1961 - The indefinite postponement of a proposed telecast of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain," in which Marilyn Monroe (pictured at...

July 9, 1961 - Scheduled to arrive in local theatres this week is "The Ladies Man," a comedy directed by and starring Jerry Lewis....

July 9, 1961 - Gina Lollobrigida (pictured right with Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher) walked out on Premier Khrushchev and other...

July 9, 1961 - "Ben-Hur," which opened at New York's Loew's State in November, 1959, and ended its record run there last April, will open...

July 8, 1961 - Harry Belafonte (pictured) and Rosemary Clooney will be the stars when the "Bell Telephone Hour" begins a new season on...

July 8, 1961 - "By Love Possessed," the adaptation of the James Gould Cozzens novel, featuring Jason Robards, Lana Turner (left), Barbara...

July 8, 1961 - "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," a science-fiction drama, opens at New York's Paramount Theatre on July 19. Walter...

July 6, 1961 - Twentieth Century-Fox announced today that a fresh start would be made to film the movie "Cleopatra" in Rome and Egypt in...

July 5, 1961 - "The Devil at 4 O'Clock," a Columbia picture co-starring Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra and directed by Mervyn Leroy,...

July 5, 1961 - Today's new film is "Fanny," a Warner Brothers color production at the Radio City Music Hall. Leslie Caron (right),...

July 4, 1961 - The international jury at Berlin's 11th film festival today honored an Italian film with its top prize. The Golden Bear...

July 4, 1961 - Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards Jr. were married today in Mexico. The ceremony was performed by a judge of the Civil ...

July 3, 1961 - Hitting local bookstores today is "Thunderball," the latest James Bond mystery by Ian Fleming. Thunderball is the ninth ...

July 3, 1961 - Today's new film is "Most Dangerous Man Alive," a science-fiction melodrama from Columbia. Ron Randell (left), Elaine ...

July 2, 1961 - A French comedy of married love, "A Woman Is a Woman," has stirred the first real excitement at the Berlin Film Festival....

July 1, 1961 - MGM plans to distributed the Italian-made screen version of "The Leopard," the best-selling novel by Giuseppe de...