1960s Timeline

June 12, 1963 - Opening today is “The Girl Hunters,” a crime drama film directed by Roy Rowland and adapted from the 1962 Mickey Spillane...

June 12, 1963 - Actress Dolores Hart (pictured), who once said “90% of success in show business is God-given,” renounced one of the...

June 12, 1963 - Opening today is “Donovan’s Reef,” an adventure comedy film starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin. The picture was directed...

June 11, 1963 - George Sidney has signed to direct “Viva Las Vegas,” which will co-star Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley. The picture, to be...

June 10, 1963 - Actress Shirley MacLaine walked into the office of a move trade paper today and slugged columnist Mike Connolly. Connolly...

June 8, 1963 - World-renowned actress Lillian Gish (pictured in 1926) has returned to Hollywood for an acting role. Today, she shared her...

June 7, 1963 - Actress ZaSu Pitts (pictured in 1932) died of cancer this morning at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Hollywood, where she...

June 5, 1963 - Opening today is “Come Blow Your Horn,” a comedy directed by Bud Yorkin from a screenplay by Norman Lear, based on the...

June 5, 1963 - Opening today is “Irma La Douce,” a romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I.A.L....

June 4, 1963 - The movie version of “My Fair Lady” is expected to be the most expensive film ever made by Warner Brothers. Jack L....

June 3, 1963 - Covered with bruises and strapped up from her broken clavicle to her broken ribcage, actress Arlene Francis said today in...

June 3, 1963 - Actress Katy Jurado retained her composure long enough today to give her divorce testimony against actor Ernest Borgnine,...

June 2, 1963 - Burl Ives and Walter Matthau have been signed for featured roles in “Ensign Pulver,” a Warner Brothers comedy. Robert...

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May 30, 1963 - Today’s new film is “The List of Adrian Messenger,” starring George C. Scott (right), Dana Wynter, and Clive Brook. Tony...

May 29, 1963 - Today’s new film is “Hud,” a Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon...

May 29, 1963 - Opening today is “55 Days at Peking,” an epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations’...

May 28, 1963 - Elizabeth Taylor, the highest-paid performer in motion pictures, has been signed for her third successive film at her...

May 26, 1963 - Alan Ladd (right) will portray Nevada Smith, the tough cowboy film star, in the Paramount-Embassy Pictures production of...

May 23, 1963 - Luchino Visconti’s version of Tommasi di Lampedusa’s best-selling novel, “The Leopard,” won the Gold Palm grand prize...