1960s Timeline

July 18, 1961 - Opening in local theatres today is "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," a science-fiction melodrama from 20th Century-Fox....

July 17, 1961 - Rod Cameron (pictured), screen actor, has married his former mother-in-law. The announcement was made today by Mr....

July 17, 1961 - Today's new film is "Leda," known in France as "À double tour," a French-language drama with English subtitles at New...

July 17, 1961 - The American movie "One Eyed Jacks," with Marlon Brando as director and star, was awarded the top prize in an...

July 15, 1961 - The independent film production team of Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, in association with United Artists, has...

July 14, 1961 - Yul Brynner will co-star with Tony Curtis in "Taras Bulba," an Eastmancolor adventure film loosely based on Nikolai...

July 14, 1961 - J. Lee Thompson, the British director of the "Guns of Navarone," has completed a second Gregory Peck vehicle, "Cape...

July 13, 1961 - Franchot Tone will portray the President and Burgess Meredith a civil servant in Otto Preminger's forthcoming adaptation...

July 13, 1961 - Dinah Shore will return to NBC-TV next season with seven shows. The singer had been appearing on a weekly basis for a...

July 12, 1961 - Pat Hingle will portray one of the leading characters in the forthcoming Marlon Brando vehicle, "The Ugly American,"...

July 11, 1961 - Carol Burnett (pictured) and Richard Hayes will team up on CBS radio next September. Their musical variety program will...

July 11, 1961 - There was a mob scene today at Polyclinic Hospital in New York City. About 200 fans and 100 reporters and photographers...

July 10, 1961 - Jean Simmons (right), the actress, wife of Richard Brooks (left), screen director, gave birth to a daughter today at...

July 9, 1961 - The indefinite postponement of a proposed telecast of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain," in which Marilyn Monroe (pictured at...

July 9, 1961 - Scheduled to arrive in local theatres this week is "The Ladies Man," a comedy directed by and starring Jerry Lewis....

July 9, 1961 - Gina Lollobrigida (pictured right with Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher) walked out on Premier Khrushchev and other...

July 9, 1961 - "Ben-Hur," which opened at New York's Loew's State in November, 1959, and ended its record run there last April, will open...

July 8, 1961 - Harry Belafonte (pictured) and Rosemary Clooney will be the stars when the "Bell Telephone Hour" begins a new season on...

July 8, 1961 - "By Love Possessed," the adaptation of the James Gould Cozzens novel, featuring Jason Robards, Lana Turner (left), Barbara...

July 8, 1961 - "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," a science-fiction drama, opens at New York's Paramount Theatre on July 19. Walter...