Gregory Peck to Host Dick Powell Show
Jan. 7, 1963 - Gregory Peck tomorrow night will be the first of a series of hosts of the Dick Powell Show, introducing “Project X,” a...
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Jan 7, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Jan. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Barney tickets the Governor's car for illegal parking. The Governor, impressed, comes...
Jan 6, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Jan. 6, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” one of Ben Cartwright's old war buddies (John Larkin, left) who claims to be a business tycoon...
Jan 6, 2023
Brigitte Bardot to Star in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt”
Jan. 6, 1963 - Brigitte Bardot (left) changed her mind about taking a prolonged holiday from filmmaking and announced today that she had...
Jan 6, 2023
Director Frank Tuttle is Dead
Jan. 6, 1963 - Frank Tuttle (pictured left in 1942), a movie director who made more than 70 films, died today at Mt. Sinai Hospital in...
Jan 5, 2023
Tony Curtis Engaged
Jan. 5, 1963 - Actor Tony Curtis, 37, and German starlet Christine Kaufmann (right), 17, probably will be married next month, it was...
Jan 5, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”
Jan. 5, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” Abe (Michael Keep) and Jim Redrock (Charles Bronson, pictured) are both well-educated...
Jan 5, 2023
Jack Carson Eulogized in Hollywood
Jan. 5, 1963 - Jack Carson (pictured in 1955), the fourth Hollywood star to die of cancer in 18 days, was eulogized today as “a big man...
Jan 4, 2023
Steve McQueen to Co-Star with Natalie Wood in “Love With the Proper Stranger”
Jan. 4, 1963 - Steve McQueen, current star in “The War Lovers,” will appear opposite Natalie Wood in “Love With the Proper Stranger,”...
Jan 4, 2023
Hollywood Stars Attend Dick Powell’s Funeral
Jan. 4, 1963 - Scores of Hollywood’s vintage stars attended memorial services today for one of their own — Dick Powell — and left with...
Jan 3, 2023
Doris Day Most Popular Film Star
Jan. 3, 1963 - Doris Day, who appeared during 1962 in “Lover Come Back,” “That Touch of Mink,” and “Jumbo,” is the top...
Jan 3, 2023
TV: Season Premiere of “The Twilight Zone”
Jan. 3, 1963 - On tonight’s season premiere of the new hour-long “The Twilight Zone,” a young man (George Grizzard, right) finds his...
Jan 3, 2023
Hollywood Mourns Loss of Dick Powell
Jan. 3, 1963 - Hollywood’s movie and television industries are mourning today the loss of Dick Powell, who died last night at his Los...
Jan 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”
Jan. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” the governor asks Dr. Bassett (Wendell Corey, pictured) to determine if a convicted...
Jan 2, 2023
Jack Carson Dead at 52
Jan. 2, 1963 - Jack Carson, the chunky, moon-faced comedian and dancer of motion pictures, nightclubs, and television died of cancer at...
Jan 1, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Combat!”
Jan. 1, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow, pictured) begins to suspect a private’s French doctor father is really a...
Dec 31, 2022
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Dec. 31, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” a new boy in town (Scott McCartor) ridicules Opie by calling him “Dopie” and dares...
Dec 30, 2022
Exhibitor Magazine Names Paul Newman Best Actor of 1962
Dec. 30, 1962 - The nation’s motion picture exhibitors have voted Paul Newman Best Actor of the Year. Announced by Exhibitor, an industry...
Dec 29, 2022
TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”
Dec. 29, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” the "town fool” (Frank Sutton, second from right) has a chance to change his life when he learns...
Dec 27, 2022
TV: Tonight on “Leave It to Beaver”
Dec. 27, 1962 - Tonight on “Leave It to Beaver,” Beaver is feeling ignored after Wally doesn't invite him to a party. His sneaky pal...
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