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Aug 9, 2021

TV: Janice Rule Sings and Dances on NBC

Aug. 9, 1961 - Jimmy Durante had a one-hour show on NBC-TV last night in which he shared the stage with two other formidable headliners, Bob Hope and Garry Moore. But most of the honors went to Janice Rule (pictured), who was billed below the three male stars. Miss Rule had already demonstrated in previous appearances on TV, the stage, and in the movies that she is an uncommonly talented and attractive young woman. In this taped telecast she sang respectably, danced gracefull

Aug 9, 2021

Movies: Suzanne Pleshette to Star with Troy Donahue in "Rome Adventure"

Aug. 9, 1961 - Suzanne Pleshette, the young actress who most recently seen on Broadway in "The Miracle Worker," will play opposite Troy Donahue in Warners' "Rome Adventure," which goes before the cameras next month in Italy. The romantic drama film, to be directed by Delmer Daves, is based on the 1932 novel "Lovers Must Learn" by Irving Fineman. Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence (Pleshette) resigns from her teaching position and sails for I

Aug 8, 2021

Movies: "Breakfast at Tiffanys" to Open at Radio City this Fall

Aug. 8, 1961 - "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the film version of Truman Capote's novel, will have its world premiére at Radio City Music Hall this fall. The Paramount comedy, starring Audrey Hepburn (pictured) and George Peppard, will follow "Come September," the attraction at the theatre after the current "Fanny." Miss Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer (Peppard). "Breakfast at Tiffany's" also features P

Aug 7, 2021

TV: Art Carney and George Burns to Guest Star on "Connie Francis Show" on ABC

Aug. 7, 1961 - Art Carney (pictured) and George Burns will be among the guest stars on "The Connie Francis Show," which ABC will televise on Sept. 13 from 9 to 10 p.m. Greg Garrison will direct the musical variety program, and Gordon Jenkins will be the music director. Mr. Carney was most recently seen on the "Twilight Zone" Christmas episode "The Night of the Meek." #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies #celebrities

Aug 7, 2021

Judy Garland Separates from Husband and Manager, Sid Luft

Aug. 7, 1961 - Judy Garland (left), the singer, has separated from her husband, Sid Luft (right), her manager said today. Miss Garland, now in Atlantic City, is due in California soon for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Her manager, Freddy Fields, said he had talked to Miss Garland by telephone and she had confirmed rumors of the separation. Mr. Luft, in Hollywood, refused to comment. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies #celebrities

Aug 7, 2021

Movies: Richard Burton to quit "Camelot" for "Cleopatra" with Elizabeth Taylor

Aug. 7, 1961 - It is now official that Richard Burton will quit the musical "Camelot" on Sept. 16 to act with Elizabeth Taylor in the film "Cleopatra." A spokesman for Mr. Burton confirmed a report that the management of "Camelot" received more than $50,000 to release Mr. Burton, whose contract would have expired Dec. 2. Mr. Burton and Twentieth Century-Fox, producer of "Cleopatra," shared in the expense. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies #cele

Aug 6, 2021

Movies: Alec Guinness to Play Prince Faisal in "Lawrence of Arabia"

Aug. 6, 1961 - At the present time, "Lawrence of Arabia" dominates talk of British filmmaking as thoroughly as did "The Guns of Navarone" and the unmade "Cleopatra" not long ago. Sir Alec Guinness left the other day for his three-week assignment as Prince Faisal in the Sam Spiegel epic. From Jordan, Guinness goes to Spain to play a sea captain of Napoleonic times in "The Mutineers," with Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Quayle. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #clas

Aug 6, 2021

Movies: "Gidget Goes Hawaiian"

Aug. 6, 1961 - Arriving in local theatres this week is "Gidget Goes Hawaiian," a Columbia romantic comedy with Deborah Walley (pictured), James Darren, and Carl Reiner. The film is a sequel to the 1959 Sandra Dee "beach movie" vehicle "Gidget." Dee was under contract to Universal for the rival series film "Tammy Tell Me True" and would not be released to Columbia to reprise her hit role. The sequel expands the archetypal high school teen surfer girl's romance with her college

Aug 5, 2021

Movies: 20th Century-Fox to Produce "Something's Got to Give" with Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin

Aug. 5, 1961 - Twentieth Century-Fox is preparing to open the vaults - the old R.K.O. vaults, that is - for a remake of the 1940 comedy, "My Favorite Wife," which starred Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. George Cukor is being considered to direct, with Dean Martin and Marilyn Monroe for the lead roles. The remake will be entitled "Something's Got to Give." In the original film, Miss Dunne played a woman who, after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years and declar

Aug 4, 2021

Movies: MGM to Produce Adaptation of "Jumbo"

Aug. 4, 1961 - MGM will produce an adaptation of the stage musical "Jumbo," which was originally produced by Billy Rose in 1935. It will be one of MGM's most ambitious musical ventures to date, with a large cast headed so far by Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye. The color production will be loaded with circus specialty acts - human and animal - and will retain all the original Rodgers and Hart songs from the stage production. #movienight #movietime #mov

Aug 3, 2021

Movies: "Marines, Let's Go" with Tom Tryon

Aug. 3, 1961 - "Marines, Let's Go," a drama about the Korean War directed by Raoul Walsh, will open at New York's Paramount Theatre Aug. 15. Tom Tryon, David Hedison, Tom Reese, and Linda Hutchins appear in the 20th Century-Fox release. Four privates romp their way through occupied Japan while on leave, finding a romance and some laughs. Then they head to the front lines where brutality and death are constant. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies

Aug 2, 2021

Movies: Steve McQueen to Star in "The Honeymoon Machine"

Aug. 2, 1961 - "The Honeymoon Machine," an MGM romantic comedy with Steve McQueen, Paula Prentiss, and Jim Hutton, will be the next attraction at New York's Loew's State, following the current revival there of "Gone With the Wind." A navy lieutenant (McQueen) and his civilian friend (Hutton) use a classified computer to help them break the bank at a Venetian casino. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies #celebrities

Aug 2, 2021

Movies: Mantle, Maris, Berra to Appear with Doris Day and Cary Grant in Comedy

Aug. 2, 1961 - Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Yogi Berra will appear as themselves in "That Touch of Mink," a comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day, who will be with the baseball stars in a dugout sequence. As the script now reads, each player has one line and no word is more than two syllables. The players will not have to wear make-up. At one point in the script, Miss Day objects loudly and strenuously to the umpire's call against a Yankee batter. The umpire walks over

Aug 1, 2021

Movie: French-Language "Purple Noon," Starring Alain Delon

Aug. 1, 1961 - René Clément's "Purple Noon" will open on Aug. 10 at the Little Carnegie Theatre in New York. The cast of the French-language color melodrama includes Alain Delon (pictured), Marie Laforet and Maurice Ronet. Tom Ripley (Delon) is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser. But there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies #celebrities

Jul 31, 2021

Movie: Anthony Franciosa and Claudia Cardinale to Star in Italian Drama "Careless"

July 31, 1961 - Anthony Franciosa (right) will leave for Rome on Thursday to start pre-production for "Careless," a romantic drama based on the novel "As a Man Grows Older" by Italo Svevo. Mauro Bolognini will direct. Emilio Brentani (Franciosa) leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri (Claudia Cardinale, left), a beautiful but unreliable young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her. #m

Jul 31, 2021

Otto Preminger Acquires Rights to Best-Selling Religious Novel "The Cardinal"

July 31, 1961 - Screen rights to the late Henry Morton Robinson's best-selling religious novel, "The Cardinal," have been acquired by Otto Preminger (pictured). The producer-director plans to make the film next spring as his first project after "Advise and Consent." The novel, dealing with a New England prelate of Irish descent who rises to cardinal's rank in the Roman Catholic Church in the years between the two World Wars, will require "a large, all-star cast, color, wide s

Jul 30, 2021

New Movie: "The Fiercest Heart"

July 30, 1961 - "The Fiercest Heart," a Twentieth Century-Fox dramatization of the novel by Stuart Cloete, arrives this week at neighborhood theatres. George Sherman directed the CinemaScope period adventure, which features Stuart Whitman (left), Juliet Prowse (right), Raymond Massey and Geraldine Fitzgerald. Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, on

Jul 29, 2021

Eiji Okada, Star of "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," to Make Hollywood Debut with Brando

July 29, 1961 - Eiji Okada, the Japanese actor who portrayed the hero in "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," named last year's best foreign-language import by the New York Film Critics, will make his Hollywood screen debut as a Southeast Asian soldier in Universal's "The Ugly American." Marlon Brando will star in the film. George Englund will direct. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #classicmovies #celebrities

Jul 27, 2021

Giants-Dodgers Game to Be Filmed for Use in Movie "Experiment in Terror"

July 27, 1961 - Next month three Hollywood cameramen will film a game at San Francisco's Candlestick Park between the Giants and the Dodgers. Though baseball sequences have been used in movies before, this is said to be the first time that cameramen will be covering an entire major league game for a movie. Usually in films that require shots of a baseball game the director uses footage out of film libraries. The filming is for a suspense movie called "Experiment in Terror," s

Jul 27, 2021

Movie: "Francis of Assisi"

July 27, 1961 - Today's new film is "Francis of Assisi," a Twentieth Century-Fox biographical drama, with Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart and Stuart Whitman. Plato A. Skouras produced the film, which was photographed in color in Italy and directed by Michael Curtiz. An invitational charity screening of the picture at New York's Rivoli Theatre last night raised $10,565 for foreign missions of the Third Order of St. Francis. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #cl