1960s Timeline

Aug. 23, 1962 - Hoot Gibson (pictured in 1936), one of Hollywood’s most famous cowboy stars, died this morning of cancer at the Motion...

Aug. 22, 1962 - “Mutiny on the Bounty” will have its world premiere at New York’s Loew’s State Theatre Nov. 8. The film will be presented...

Aug. 22, 1962 - Today’s new film is “The Music Man,” a musical with Robert Preston at the Radio City Music Hall. The film, directed and...

Aug. 20, 1962 - “Billy Rose’s Jumbo,” an MGM musical with Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye, will be the Christmas...

Aug. 17, 1962 - The coroner of Los Angeles, Dr. Theodore J. Curphey (center), announced today that Marilyn Monroe’s death was probably a...

Aug. 16, 1962 - Bella Darvi (pictured), the French motion picture actress, was found unconscious before dawn today in her hotel room in...

Aug. 15, 1962 - United Artists and Cinerama have made a deal whereby two major United Artists movies will be filmed in Cinerama. The...

Aug. 13, 1962 - Actress Betsy Drake (pictured right in 1952) divorced Cary Grant today, charging that the 58-year-old actor had caused...

Aug. 13, 1962 - Two days ago in New York City, a twenty-eight-year-old woman drowned herself in a bathtub on East Tenth Street, a laborer...

Aug. 12, 1962 - Sammy Davis Jr. will make his New York area dramatic debut next Monday at the Mineola Playhouse in “The Desperate Hours.”...

Aug. 9, 1962 - A retrospective survey of dance films made by Gene Kelly has been scheduled to follow the well-received Howard Hawks...

Aug. 8, 1962 - Actors Studio Director Lee Strasberg, who had befriended and coached Marilyn Monroe in recent years, delivered the eulogy...

Aug. 8, 1962 - Lee Strasberg (left) of the Actor's Studio, who had befriended and coached Marilyn Monroe, wept today before delivering...

Aug. 8, 1962 - A brief, simple service was held today for Marilyn Monroe at the Westwood Village Funeral Chapel in Hollywood. She was...

Aug. 7, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “Follow that Dream,” a United Artists musical starring Elvis Presley and Arthur...

Aug. 7, 1962 - Plans were completed today to try to make Marilyn Monroe’s funeral tomorrow as simple as possible. Only a small number of...

Aug. 6, 1962 - Izvestia, the official Soviet Government newspaper, reported today that the death of Marilyn Monroe was “something bigger...

Aug. 6, 1962 - Funeral services for Marilyn Monroe were set today for Wednesday afternoon. The funeral will begin at 1 p.m. at the...

Aug. 6, 1962 - The Vatican City newspaper L’Osservatore Romano said today that Marilyn Monroe was a “victim of a symbolic form of life...

Aug. 6, 1962 - Marilyn Monroe’s body was released to the Westwood Village Mortuary today after Coroner Theodore J. Curphey announced that...