1960s Timeline

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 - “The Guns of Navarone” was voted the best picture of 1961 in the 39th annual poll of movie critics, reviewers and commentators conducted by the trade journal The Film Daily. The action drama of World War II, set in Greece and produced and adapted for the screen by Carl Foreman for release by Columbia, received 187 votes. “The Hustler,” a drama about pool players produced and directed by Robert Rossen for release by 20th Century-Fox, was the runner-up with 167

Mar. 17, 1962 - Director Francois Truffaut (right), pleased by the critical and popular success in Paris of “Jules and Jim,” is hard at work on another film, “L’Amour a Vingt Ans” (“Love at Twenty”), in which he is directing 17-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud (left), hero of Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” (1959), in one of five sequences. The other four sketches bear the names of young directors — two making their first films — Renzo Rossellini, Marcel Ophuls, Japan’s Chintaro Ishihar

Mar. 13, 1962 - Bette Davis, one of the stars of “The Night of the Iguana,” is bowing out of the Tennessee Williams play. She will be replaced on April 4 by Shelley Winters. Miss Davis denied reports today that she was withdrawing because of any quarrel with management or a cast member. “There are always reports,” she said, “from the day you start with a show.” “I feel that I have done it long enough,” she said. “I don’t want to go on for another six months. I’m going to rest

Mar. 12, 1962 - Jane Fonda, daughter of Henry Fonda, will star in her third Broadway appearance. She has been signed by Jay Julien for his play, “The Fun Couple.” Since Miss Fonda made her screen debut in “Tall Story,” she has become a popular Hollywood actress. She stars in the current “Walk on the Wild Side” and in the forthcoming “The Chapman Report.” Before reporting for rehearsals of “The Fun Couple” on Aug. 8, she will be seen in the film version of “Period of Adjustmen

Mar. 12, 1962 - Richard Harris, Irish stage and screen actor, who just completed a leading characterization in the MGM remake of “Mutiny on the Bounty,” starring Marlon Brando, has been signed to star with James Garner and Steve McQueen in “The Great Escape.” The adventure film will be produced and directed in June by John Sturges on location in Germany. It will be released by United Artists. Mr. Harris will portray a South African airman who plots an escape from a German POW

Mar. 11, 1962 - Ethel Waters (pictured with Billy Graham in 1957), the singer and actress, was recovering at her home today after she had collapsed while singing at a Youth for Christ program last night at the Church of the Open Door. “The Lord took care of the situation,” she said, “and I’m just fine.” Miss Waters, who had been hospitalized with a serious heart ailment in 1960, was taken to her home in a private ambulance. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #1960s #Movies #mo

Mar. 10, 1962 - “Through a Glass Darkly,” which has its New York première on Tuesday, is, according to Cyrus Harvey, distributor of the Swedish drama, not only Ingmar Bergman’s 24th film but is also the first feature in a trilogy, stemming from the 43-year-old director’s exploration of religious issues. What will Mr. Bergman (pictured with Ingrid Thulin) do after the trilogy? No films for a year, said Mr. Harvey. He will take a sabbatical from moviemaking with his wife, Kabi,