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May 15, 2023

Movies: “Robin and the 7 Hoods”

May 15, 1963 - Warner Brothers has negotiated a deal with Sinatra Enterprises to make “Robin and the 7 Hoods.” The film will star Frank...

May 15, 2023

TV: Vincent Edwards of “Ben Casey” to Sing and Dance on TV Special

May 15, 1963 - Vincent Edwards (pictured with Frank Sinatra), television’s Dr. Ben Casey, will drop his scalpel to star as a...

May 15, 2023

Movies: “Spencer’s Mountain”

May 15, 1963 - Today’s new film is “Spencer’s Mountain,” with Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara, opening at the Radio City Music Hall. The...

May 14, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Combat!”

May 14, 1963 - On tonight’s season finale of “Combat,” Private Caje (Pierre Jalbert, left) neglects his duties to spend time with a young...

May 13, 2023

Movies: Peter Sellers Signed for “The World of Henry Orient”

May 13, 1963 - Peter Sellers has been signed for the leading role in “The World of Henry Orient,” a comedy to be filmed in New York...

May 13, 2023

“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” Gets Mixed Response at Cannes

May 13, 1963 - Critics and moviegoers differed over Hollywood’s “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” at the annual Cannes film festival....

May 13, 2023

Belmondo and French Policeman Face Charges after Violent Incident

May 13, 1963 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, the movie actor (“Breathless”), was charged in Paris today with having insulted a policeman, and the...

May 12, 2023

Movies: “Children of the Damned” and “Becket”

May 12, 1963 - In London, two American productions started filming today. At MGM’s British studios, cameras rolled on “Children of the...

May 12, 2023

Movie Tough Guy Lawrence Tierney Arrested Again

May 12, 1963 - Former movie tough guy Lawrence Tierney (pictured top in 1951 and bottom in 1958 after assaulting two NYPD officers), out...

May 12, 2023

Movies: “The Great Escape”

May 12, 1963 - “The Great Escape” will begin an exclusive engagement at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles on July 2. Steve McQueen,...

May 11, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”

May 11, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” Chester (Dennis Weaver, left) is sweet on a widow dressmaker (Mary Carver, right). When the widow...

May 11, 2023

Movies: Veteran Claude Rains Still Going Strong

May 11, 1963 - At 72 years of age, Claude Rains (pictured in 1937), a Tony Award-winning actor who has been nominated 4 times for the...

May 10, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Rawhide”

May 10, 1963 - Tonight on “Rawhide,” Rowdy (Clint Eastwood, pictured practicing his golf swing during a break in filming) and Wishbone...

May 9, 2023

Movies: “The Birds” Screened at Cannes Film Festival

May 9, 1963 - The noncompetitive gala showing of an American film, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” got the 16th Cannes Film Festival off...

May 9, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

May 9, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” the Ransomes (Lee Philips and Joyce Van Patten), who are trying to salvage their troubled...

May 8, 2023

Movies: “The Day of the Triffids”

May 8, 1963 - “The Day of the Triffids,” a British science fiction horror film in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor starring Howard Keel and...

May 8, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”

May 8, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” Ann Dillon (Joanne Linville), an old friend of Dr. Graham (Jack Ging), hopes he can help...

May 6, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

May 6, 1963 - On tonight’s season finale of “The Andy Griffith Show,” the Mayberry jail is called upon to lodge two hold-up men captured...

May 6, 2023

Tony Curtis’s Bride Quitting Acting

May 6, 1963 - Christine Kaufmann, Tony Curtis’s 18-year-old German bride, is retiring from her acting career. Regarding her decision, she...

May 4, 2023

Carol Burnett Marires Joseph Hamilton in Mexico

May 4, 1963 - Television comedienne Carol Burnett, 28, today married Joseph Hamilton, 36, a producer with 8 children. The marriage was...