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Jun 30, 2023
Negro Actress Given Featured Role on CBS’s “East Side, West Side”
June 30, 1963 - Cicely Tyson (pictured left with George C. Scott and Elizabeth Wilson) has been given a featured role in “East Side, West...
Jun 27, 2023
Movies: “Baby the Rain Must Fall”
June 27, 1963 - Steve McQueen and Lee Remick have been signed for the film “Baby the Rain Must Fall.” The studio is Columbia, the...
Jun 26, 2023
Movies: “The Wheeler Dealers”
June 26, 1963 - “The Wheeler Dealers,” a new MGM romantic comedy co-starring James Garner and Lee Remick, has been booked as a late fall...
Jun 26, 2023
Carroll Baker Goes Nude in “The Carpetbaggers”
June 26, 1963 - Actress Carroll Baker, dressed in nothing but a blush, banned all but her cameraman and director from the opening scene...
Jun 24, 2023
Movies: “Seven Days in May”
June 24, 1963 - Film director John Frankenheimer has justified the suspicions of the Pentagon that this nation’s military establishment...
Jun 24, 2023
Mamie Van Doren Speaks Out on Belinsky
June 24, 1963 - Actress Mamie Van Doren (pictured with her son Perry), jilted by southpaw pitcher Bo Belinsky, said today her ex-fiancé...
Jun 24, 2023
Movies: Federico Fellini’s “8½”
June 24, 1963 - Opening today in U.S. theaters is “8½,” a surrealist comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The...
Jun 23, 2023
Movies: “Robin and the 7 Hoods”
June 23, 1963 - Joey Bishop has been signed to rejoin Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. for a third film, “Robin and the 7...
Jun 20, 2023
Movies: “The Great Escape”
June 20, 1963 - Opening today is “The Great Escape,” a war adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough,...
Jun 20, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Leave It to Beaver”
June 20, 1963 - On tonight’s series finale of “Leave It to Beaver,” the Cleavers reminisce when June finds a family photo album while...
Jun 20, 2023
“PT-109” To Premiere at Beverly Hilton July 2
June 20, 1963 - President Kennedy became the first patron of the “PT-109” film premiere for the benefit of mentally handicapped and...
Jun 19, 2023
Elizabeth Taylor to Marry Richard Burton “As Soon As Possible”
June 19, 1963 - Elizabeth Taylor (pictured last night at the Cassius Clay-Henry Cooper fight) said today she will marry Richard Burton as...
Jun 19, 2023
Movies: “PT-109”
June 19, 1963 - Opening today is “PT-109,” a Technicolor Panavision biographical war film depicting the actions of President Kennedy when...
Jun 18, 2023
“Cleopatra” Cut by 22 Minutes
June 18, 1963 - After critical and public disapproval of the record 4-hour-3-minute length of “Cleopatra,” the mammoth film has been cut...
Jun 18, 2023
Actor Pedro Armendáriz Kills Himself
June 18, 1963 - Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz (left with Sean Connery), star of such films as “The Fugitive” (1947) and “Three...
Jun 17, 2023
Movies: “The Terror”
June 17, 1963 - Opening today is “The Terror,” a horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Boris Karloff and Jack...
Jun 15, 2023
Dennis Weaver of “Gunsmoke” To Star on New Series, “Kentucky Jones”
June 15, 1963 - Dennis Weaver, who plays Chester on CBS’s “Gunsmoke,” will be the star of “Kentucky Jones,” a pilot show for an NBC...
Jun 14, 2023
Anthony Quinn Extends Recognition to Illegitimate Child
June 14, 1963 - American movie actor Anthony Quinn said today he is the father of a love child born to a beautiful Italian girl, and he...
Jun 13, 2023
Movies: “The Carpetbaggers”
June 13, 1963 - Filming of “The Carpetbaggers” Paramount’s version of Harold Robbins’s novel about Hollywood, began on the West Coast...
Jun 13, 2023
Movies: “Cleopatra” Has New York Premiere
June 13, 1963 - The spotlight was on “Cleopatra” last night as 10,000 persons massed around New York City’s Rivoli Theater for the motion...
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