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Apr 23, 2023

Shirley Temple is 35

Apr. 23, 1963 - Shirley Temple (pictured in 1935) celebrated her 35th birthday today where she became a show business legend 3 decades...

Apr 22, 2023

Elizabeth Taylor Speaks Out on Negative Publicity

Apr. 22, 1963 - Movie queen Elizabeth Taylor said in an interview published today she expects some people to have a “nasty opinion” of...

Apr 22, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

Apr. 22, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” it's pandemonium when eleven stray dogs invade the courthouse. Andy and Barney must...

Apr 22, 2023

Movies: “Seven Days in May”

Apr. 22, 1963 - Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Fredric March have been signed for the leading roles in “Seven Days in May,” a film...

Apr 21, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”

Apr. 21, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” a stagecoach accident in a windstorm leaves Little Joe and four others stranded. Even worse, when a...

Apr 20, 2023

Ricky Nelson Weds Kristin Harmon in California

Apr. 20, 1963 - Singer Ricky Nelson, 22, and Kristin (Kris) Harmon, 18, were married this afternoon in St. Martin of Tours Church in...

Apr 20, 2023

Movies: “Fail-Safe”

Apr. 20, 1963 - “Dr. Strangelove” has company. “Fail-Safe,” which, like “Dr. Strangelove,” is being released by Columbia Pictures and...

Apr 20, 2023

TV: Series Finale of “Have Gun - Will Travel”

Apr. 20, 1963 - On tonight’s series finale of “Have Gun - Will Travel,” a bank hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to collect $10,000 from a...

Apr 19, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Apr. 19, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a beautiful 17-year-old British girl (Katherine Crawford, pictured) is...

Apr 18, 2023

James Earl Jones Joins Cast of “Strangelove”

Apr. 18, 1963 - James Earl Jones, 32 years old, has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures’ “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

Apr 18, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Apr. 18, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” toymaker Horace Ford (Pat Hingle, left) is increasingly preoccupied with memories of his...

Apr 17, 2023

Screen Rights To “Dr. Zhivago” Purchased by Ponti

Apr. 17, 1963 - Screen rights to “Dr. Zhivago,” the controversial, Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, the late Russian writer,...

Apr 17, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”

Apr. 17, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” a college sophomore (Robert Walker Jr., right with Jena Engstrom) who feels he is not...

Apr 16, 2023

Apr. 16, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” the squad enters a French village recently vacated by the Germa

Apr. 16, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” the squad enters a French village recently vacated by the Germans, and the men take 48 hours for...

Apr 16, 2023

TV: Bellamy to Replace Wendell Corey on NBC’s “The Eleventh Hour”

Apr. 16, 1963 - Ralph Bellamy (pictured) will replace Wendell Corey in the lead role of a psychiatrist on NBC-TV’s “The Eleventh Hour.” A...

Apr 15, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

Apr. 15, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Barney is ready for Andy to get married, but Andy is not. However, unbeknownst to...

Apr 14, 2023

Movies: “All Night Long” and “Murder on the Campus”

Apr. 14, 1963 - Romance and murder make up the themes of two motion pictures, “All Night Long” and “Murder on the Campus,” opening...

Apr 13, 2023

TV: ABC’s “Hootenanny”

Apr. 13, 1963 - To capitalize on the national vogue for folk music — particularly among college students — ABC has begun a Saturday-night...

Apr 12, 2023

Betty White Engaged to Allen Ludden

Apr. 12, 1963 - Actress Betty White, 37, announced today she and television performer Allen Ludden will be married in Los Angeles in...

Apr 12, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Rawhide”

Apr. 12, 1963 - Tonight on “Rawhide,” after a gypsy convinces Wishbone (Paul Brinegar) that he is going to die, Wishbone becomes very...