Comedian Lenny Bruce Convicted of Heroin Possession
May 16, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured left with John Marshall, his attorney) was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury...
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- Apr 13
Lenny Bruce Expelled from Britain For Second Time This Week
Apr. 13, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the American comedian, was ordered expelled from Britain today for the second time this week. Two...
- Apr 9
Lenny Bruce Returns to New York, Detained by Authorities
Apr. 9, 1963 - Lenny Bruce arrived at New York’s Idlewild Airport after a transatlantic trip late yesterday. He was detained there for 75...
- Apr 8
Lenny Bruce Barred from Britain
Apr. 8, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the American nightclub comedian, was refused permission to enter Britain today when he arrived at London...
- Mar 26
Comedian Lenny Bruce: “Rather Get Gas Chamber in L.A. than Jail in Chicago”
Mar. 26, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the comedian, surrendered today in a Los Angeles court on a fugitive warrant issued in Chicago after his...
- Mar 14
Comedian Lenny Bruce Sentenced to Prison
Mar. 14, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, 37-year-old comedian, was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison and fined $1,000 after being...
- Feb 23
Comedian Lenny Bruce Arrested on Drug Charge
Feb. 23, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (left), 37, was arrested early today on suspicion of possessing heroin. The so-called “sick”...
- Jan 29
Lenny Bruce Obscenity Underway in Chicago
Jan. 29, 1963 - Dan Sorkin, a disc jockey, and Nelson Algren, a novelist, were called as witnesses in a hearing today on revocation of...
- Dec 19, 2022
Bob Hope to Entertain Troops Once Again
Dec. 19, 1962 - Bob Hope (pictured in Korea in 1950) and a troupe of Hollywood entertainers left this morning on Mr. Hope’s 11th...
- Dec 19, 2022
Jackie Gleason Banters with New York Studio Audience
Dec. 19, 1962 - During the taping of Jackie Gleason’s weekly television shows, the entertainer enjoys bantering with the New York studio...
- Dec 18, 2022
Movies: “It’s Only Money” with Jerry Lewis
Dec. 18, 1962 - Jerry Lewis’s newest comedy, “It’s Only Money,” produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, opens today. Lewis plays a...
- Nov 20, 2022
Comedian Woody Allen On the Rise
Nov. 20, 1962 - A steadily rising comic in New York City is a slight, bespectacled, unhappy-looking man of 26 named Woody Allen...
- Oct 5, 2022
Lenny Bruce Arrest on Drug Charge
Oct. 5, 1962 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured) and Robert Coogan, brother of former child star Jackie Coogan, were arrested in North...
- Sep 7, 2022
Lenny Bruce Banned in Sydney
Sept. 7, 1962 - Lenny Bruce (pictured), American comedian, opened at the Aarons Hotel last night in Sydney, Australia, and closed this...
- Sep 3, 2022
Zero Mostel To Deliver Televised Lecture on Comedy
Sept. 3, 1962 - Zero Mostel, who lectured humorously on the art of comedy at Harvard University last May, has obtained a booking for his...
- Aug 28, 2022
Burnett Signs Long-Term Contract with CBS
Aug. 28, 1962 - Carol Burnett (pictured with Rod Serling) has signed a long-term, exclusive TV contract with CBS. Hubbell Robinson,...
- Aug 26, 2022
Burnett Declines Offer of Hour-Long Weekly Program
Aug. 26, 1962 - Carol Burnett (pictured with Richard Chamberlain), the comedienne who resigned from the Garry Moore show last season,...
- Aug 14, 2022
TV: CBS’s “Calamity Jane” with Carol Burnett
Aug. 14, 1962 - Carol Burnett will star next season in a 90-minute musical comedy, “Calamity Jane,” on CBS-TV. No date has been set for...
- Jul 8, 2022
Comic Troupe Satirizes Kennedy Administration
July 8, 1962 - While President Kennedy and his family relaxed on Squaw Island on Nantucket Sound, an improvisational troupe of actors...
- Jun 6, 2022
George Burns Partners with Carol Channing in Comedy Show
June 6, 1962 - George Burns (pictured with Ann-Margret) and Carol Channing won critical acclaim at the premiere of their comedy show at...
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