1960s Timeline

Apr. 4, 1962 - Bradford Dillman (pictured left with Dolores Hart), film actor, was divorced by his wife in Superior Court in Santa Monica, Calif., today for alleged mental cruelty. Mrs. Frieda H. Dillman, a former actress, was awarded $750 a month alimony, $250 a month support for their two children, and title to the $40,000 family home in Rustic Canyon. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #MovieStars #celebrities #OTD

Apr. 4, 1962 - Today’s new film is “Moon Pilot,” a Walt Disney adventure comedy at the Radio City Music Hall. Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, and Edmond O’Brien play leading roles in the Buena Vista release, directed by James Neilson. Accompanying the feature will be a stage show with acts from Disneyland. Away on a short leave before an upcoming moon launch, a NASA astronaut disappears and is feared kidnapped when the security services learn about his friendship with a suspected for

Apr. 2, 1962 - “All Fall Down,” an MGM production based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, will open April 11 at New York’s Loew’s State. Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty (pictured right), Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, and Brandon deWilde head the cast of the John Houseman production. The William Inge screenplay was directed by John Frankenheimer. Ralph (Malden) and Annabell Willart (Lansbury) are constantly bickering over their good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry (Beatty). When B

Apr. 2, 1962 - Doris Day will appear in “The Thrill of It All,” a comedy about television commercials which Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart have written for Universal-International. The Ross Hunter production will start filming in September. Also in the cast will be James Garner and Arlene Francis. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #MovieStars #celebrities #OTD

Apr. 2, 1962 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor and singer Eddie Fisher will soon end their three-year marriage in divorce, it was announced in New York today. A statement issued by an associate of lawyer Louis Nizer noted only that “Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher have mutually agreed to part. Divorce proceedings will be instituted soon.” The spokesman declined all questions on the statement except to say that it had been approved by both parties. Miss Taylor is in Rome, playing t

Apr. 1, 1962 - Scheduled to open in local theatres this week is “X-15,” a space aviation drama with Charles Bronson, David McLean, James Gregory, and Mary Tyler Moore, directed by Richard Donner for Essex Productions. The film presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 rocket aircraft program, the test pilots who fly the aircraft, and the associated NASA community that supports the program. The film’s narrator is James Stewart. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movi

Mar. 31, 1962 - Starring in Alfred Hitchcock’s film “The Birds,” currently before the cameras in California, are Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy and ‘Tippi’ Hedren. Hitchcock signed Miss Hedren, a New York model, to a contract after having seen her in a television commercial. He insisted that she enclose her first name in single quotation-marks but would not explain why. “I signed her because she is a classic beauty,” he said. “Movies don’t have them anymore. Gra

Mar. 31, 1962 - Salem Productions, the independent film company headed by director Martin Ritt and Paul Newman, has settled on the first property it will film for Paramount release. The drama is based on a novel by Larry McMurtry called “Horsemen Pass By.” Paramount last week announced the film’s title as “Wildest of the Thousand,” but Mr. Ritt and Mr. Newman have temporarily titled it “Hud.” The script is set in the contemporary West and is an adventure and character study d

Mar. 30, 1962 - Lee J. Cobb will portray Frank Sinatra’s father in the Paramount adaptation of the stage comedy, “Come Blow Your Horn.” The film will be directed by Bud Yorkin with a screenplay by Norman Lear. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #moviestar #movieset #MovieStars #moviescene #moviescenes #moviestagram #MovieStill #celebrities #MovieStills #moviescreen #Moviesnight #moviestime #movieseries

Mar. 27, 1962 - Suzanne Pleshette, who is currently before the cameras in California in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and co-stars with Troy Donahue in Warner Brothers’ “Rome Adventure,” now playing, has been signed to a long-term contract at Warners. Under the terms of the agreement, she is slated to do two pictures a year. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #moviestar #movieset #MovieStars #moviescene #moviescenes #moviestagram #MovieStill #celebrities #Movi

Mar. 25, 1962 - Ingrid Bergman (center) and Michael Redgrave (right) will co-star next season in “Hedda Gabler” on CBS-TV. Mr. Redgrave will portray the husband of Henrik Ibsen’s unscrupulous heroine. A 90-minute TV version of the Ibsen drama will be taped in May at B.B.C. studios in London. Three major roles are still to be cast. It is understood that English performers under consideration include Ralph Richardson (left) and Claire Bloom. “Hedda Gabler” will be televised by

Mar. 24, 1962 - The MGM remake of “The Mutiny on the Bounty” has been subject to countless delays and troubles. Many in Hollywood — including Lewis Milestone, the film’s director — are pointing at the finger at its star, Marlon Brando. Mr. Milestone said today: “Marlon did not have approval of the story, but he did have approval of himself. If Brando did not like something, he would just stand in front of the camera and not act. He thought only of himself. Until he was happy,

Mar. 21, 1962 - Eddie Fisher (center), the singer, arrived in New York from Rome by plane tonight and denied reports that he and his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, were breaking up, calling the idea “ridiculous and silly.” Mr. Fisher said he would be in this country 10 days to negotiate with 20th Century-Fox for production of four motion pictures. He said he would produce the films and that Miss Taylor would star in two of them. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #movi

Mar. 21, 1962 - More than half the U.S. Senators saw last night Hollywood’s version of the Senate in action. The occasion was a private preview at a downtown Washington theatre of the motion picture “Advise and Consent.” Produced by Otto Preminger (pictured last night with Mrs. Ethel Kennedy) and based on the novel by Allen Drury, it tells the story of a bitter Senatorial fight over the appointment of a Secretary of State. The reaction of the 60 Senators to the fictional stor

Mar. 21, 1962 - Sources in Monaco today denied a rumor that in returning to moviemaking Princess Grace was helping her husband, Prince Rainier, and his 370-acre country out of financial straits. “It is all nonsense,” declared Miss Phyllis Bloom, the Princess’ personal secretary. “For the past 48 hours,” Miss Bloom added, “we have done nothing but deny all sorts of fantastic rumors about the Princess and her coming film.” Other palace sources laughed off the rumor that the Pri

Mar. 21, 1962 - Rex Harrison married Rachel Roberts, the British actress, today in Italy in a ceremony that shifted abruptly from one room to another. News photographers and onlookers had crowded the room used for weddings in Genoa City Hall. As the ceremony began, bedlam broke out. Mr. Harrison grabbed a camera from a photographer and smashed it against a wall. He then asked the official performing the ceremony to adjourn the proceedings to quieter surroundings. The couple w

Mar. 21, 1962 - Alfred Hitchcock is using his own money to finance his latest movie, it was learned today. The cost will be well in excess of $1 million. The movie on which Mr. Hitchcock has risked so much money is “The Birds,” based on a novella by Daphne du Maurier. It is being filmed along Bodega Bay in northern California. The film will be distributed before Hitchcock’s “Marnie,” which will star Grace Kelly. The stars of “The Birds” are Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jess

Mar. 20, 1962 - Two new Allied Artists presentations will open today on a double-bill program at neighborhood theatres. “The George Raft Story,” with Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, and Julie London, is a biographical drama directed by Joseph M. Newman. “Look in Any Window,” a suspense melodrama, stars Paul Anka, Ruth Roman and Alex Nicol. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #moviestar #movieset #MovieStars #moviescene #moviescenes #moviestagram #MovieStill #celebr

Mar. 19, 1962 - Princess Grace of Monaco, the former Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, will return to motion pictures this summer when she makes a film under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock. In a brief announcement from the palace at Monaco, a spokesman for Prince Rainier said that the picture would be made in the U.S. beginning late this summer and that the Princess would return to Monaco in November. It will be her first motion picture since she was married to Prince Rainier o

Mar. 18, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “Twenty Plus Two,” directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Agnes Moorehead, and Dina Merrill. The film is an adaptation of Frank Gruber’s 1961 novel of the same name. A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Detective Tom Alder (Janssen) investigates. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #M