Films 1950-1970
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1950
Mar 23, At the Academy Awards, "All the King's Men"
won best picture of 1949; its star, Broderick Crawford, won best actor.
Olivia de Havilland won best actress for "The Heiress."
(AP, 3/23/00)
1950 The British musical film
"Alice in Wonderland" was directed by Dallas Bower.
(SFC, 10/21/99, p.A25)(MoTV, 1977, p.16)
1950 The film "All About Eve"
starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders as a sardonic
Broadway columnist. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and
received a record 14 Oscar nominations and won 6. It was rated #16 by
the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. In 2003 3 poets authored "Phoebe 2002: An
Essay in Verse" based on the film.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(SFEC, 4/20/97, Par
p.4)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.42)(SFC, 9/3/99,
p.B3)(SSFC, 12/7/03, p.M2)
1950 The film "American Guerilla
in the Philippines" was based on the 1945 nonfiction book by Ira
Wolfert.
(SFC,11/28/97, p.B8)
1950 The MGM musical "Annie Get
Your Gun" starred Howard Keel and Betty Hutton. It was directed by
George Sidney.
(SFC, 5/7/02, p.A21)(SFC, 11/8/04, p.A2)
1950 The film "The Asphalt Jungle"
starred Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe and Brad Dexter (d.2002). It
was directed by John Huston.
(WSJ, 6/21/99, p.A24)(TVM, 1977, p.37)(SFC,
12/16/02, p.A23)
1950 The film "Atom Man Versus
Superman" was the 2nd Superman film in a 15-part serial format. It
again starred Kirk Alyn.
(SFC, 3/18/99, p.C4)
1950 The film "At War with the
Army" starred Jerry Lewis.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1950 The Indian film "Barsaat" was
a blockbuster written by Ramanand Sagar.
(WSJ, 4/22/98, p.A1)
1950 The film "Battleground"
starred Van Johnson and was directed by William Wellman. It was a
replay of the Battle of the Bulge and was one of the 3 top grossing
films of the year.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(WUD, 1994 p.36)
1950 The film "The Big Lift"
starred Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas. It was based on the
1948-1949 Berlin Airlift.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, Par p.18)
1950 The film "Borderline" starred
Claire Trevor.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.62)
1950 The film "Born Yesterday"
with Judy Holliday was directed by George Cukor. It was written by
Garson Kanin and won an Oscar for best picture.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D8)
1950 The film "Broken Arrow"
starred Jimmy Stewart and Debra Paget.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SSFC, 8/15/04, Par p.2)
1950 The film "Captain Carey, USA"
featured the song "Mona Lisa" by Jay Livingston (d.2001) and Ray Evans.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D5)
1950 The Disney animated film
"Cinderella" was produced. It was narrated by Betty Lou Gerson.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFC, 1/16/99, p.A18)
1950 The film "The Company She
Keeps" starred Jane Greer.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A15)
1950 The film "Copper Canyon"
starred Hedy Lamarr.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.A10)
1950 The film "Cyrano de Bergerac"
starred Jose Ferrer and Mala Powers (1931-2007). It was directed by
Michael Gordon and produced by Stanley Kramer. Ferrer won an Oscar for
his role.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(SFC, 6/14/07, p.B4)
1950 The sci-fi film "Destination
Moon" helped launch a decade of science fiction movie making.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1950 The French film "Diary of a
Country Priest" was directed by Robert Bresson.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1950 The classic noir film
"D.O.A." starred Edmond O'Brian and was shot in SF. In 2004 it was
added to the National Film Registry.
(WSJ, 6/21/99, p.A24)(SFEC, 10/10/99, DB p.49)(SFC,
12/31/04, p.E6)
1950 The film "Fancy Pants"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1950 The film "Father Is a
Bachelor" starred Peggy Converse and William Holden.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A23)
1950 Lucille Ball starred in
"Fuller Brush Girl." She was on contract with MGM and made $3,500 a
week.
(SFC, 9/23/96, D1)
1950 The film "The Great Rupert"
starred Terry Moore, Jimmy Durante and Jimmy Conlin and was directed by
George Pal.
(SFEM, 2/6/99, p.4)
1950 The film "The Gunfighter"
starred Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott (d.1998 at 70), and Karl Malden.
It was directed by Andre de Toth.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)(SFC,
7/2/09, p.A8)
1950 The film "Harvey" starred
Jimmy Stewart and Victoria Oakie (d.2003 at 91).
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 10/14/03, p.A21)
1950 The film "The Hasty Heart"
starred Ronald Reagan
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)(SFEC, 6/29/97, DB p.33)
1950 The documentary film "The
Hollywood Ten" was directed by John Berry. Berry was blacklisted and
left the US for France.
(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A26)
1950 The film "Hot Rod" was
directed by Lewis D. Collins.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A18)
1950 The Swedish film “Illicit
Interlude” was directed by Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007).
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1950 The film "In a Lonely Place"
with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame was directed by Nicholas Ray.
Hadda Brooks (d.2002) sang to Bogart in the film. In 2007 it was added
as a classic to the American national registry.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFEM, 2/22/98, p.6)(SFC,
11/23/02, p.A19)(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1950 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "The Jackpot."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1950 Two short films of Jackson
Pollock in his studio were made by Hans Namuth.
(WSJ, 11/10/98, p.A20)
1950 The film “The Kid from Texas”
starred Audie Murphy and Gale Storm. It was directed by Kurt Neumann.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0042638/)
1950 The film "King Solomon’s
Mines" was remade with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. It was one of
the 3 top grossing films of the year.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(SFEC, 4/5/98, DB p.45)
1950 The film "Lady Without a
Passport" starred Hedy Lamarr.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)
1950 The film "La Ronde" starred
Simone Signoret and was directed by Max Ophuls. It was based on a play
by Arthur Schnitzler and originally banned in the US for immorality.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, DB p.50)
1950 The French film "Les Enfants
Terribles" was narrated by Jean Cocteau and based on his 1929 novel.
(SFC, 10/12/97, DB p.40)
1950 The film "The Magnificent
Yankee" was a biopic about Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes. It starred
Louis Calhern and Ann Harding.
(SFEC, 12/5/99, DB p.48)
1950 The Italian film "Mamma Mia,
Che Impressione!" starred Alberto Sordi in his first role.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.E3)
1950 The film "The Men" featured
the debut of Marlon Brando. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann and
produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB p.37)(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)
1950 The Mexican film "Los
Olvidados" was directed by Luis Bunuel. It was released in the US as
"The Young and the Damned." It was a study of social pathology among
the urban poor in Mexico City.
(WSJ, 3/30/01, p.W6)(SFC, 8/9/07, p.B5)
1950 Charles O’Neil (1904-1996)
co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Montana."
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.C2)
1950 The film "Murder Without
Crime" was the 1st film directed by J. Lee Thompson (d.2002).
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1950 The British film “Night and
the City,” a film noir classic, was directed by Jules Dassin.
(SFC, 8/15/06, p.B5)
1950 The film "No Man of her Own"
featured the debut of Lyle Bettger (d.2003 at 88).
(SFC, 10/10/03, p.A25)
1950 The film "No Sad Songs for
Me" was produced with music by George Dunning.
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.D5)
1950 The film "No Way Out" starred
Sidney Poitier.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)
1950 The film "Odette" featured
Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1950 The film “Our Very Own”
starred Farley Granger and Ann Blyth. It featured the debut of Phyllis
Kirk (1927-2006).
(SFC, 10/24/06, p.B5)
1950 The film "Outrage" starred
Mala Powers (1931-2007). It was directed by Ida Lupino and created a
minor sensation for its frank treatment of rape.
(SFC, 6/14/07, p.B4)
1950 The MGM musical film "Pagan
Love Song" starred Esther Williams, Rita Moreno and Howard Keel. It was
partly filmed on Kauai, Hawaii.
(TVM, 1975, p.431)(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.T4)
1950 The film "Panic in the
Streets" starred Richard Widmark and Jack Palance (1919-2006), who was
billed as Walter Palance. It was directed by Elia Kazan and was written
by Edward Anhalt, who won an Oscar.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D5)(SFC, 11/11/06, p.B6)(SFC,
3/27/08, p.A2)
1950 The film "Rashomon" starred
Toshiro Mifune and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was about a crime
recollected from different points of view.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)(SFEC,
8/1/99, DB p.40)
1950 The film "The Reformer and
the Redhead" starred June Allyson and Dick Powell.
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B5)
1950 The film "Rio Grande" starred
Maureen O'Hara.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, Par p.16)
1950 The sci-fi film "Rocketship
X-M" helped launch a decade of science fiction movie making.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1950 The film "Rogue River"
starred Peter Graves.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, Par p.26)
1950 The film "Samson and Delilah"
was produced and was one of the 3 top grossing films of the year.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1950 The Japanese film "Scandal"
was directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1950 The British film "Seven Days
to Noon" was produced by the twin Boulting brothers. Paul Dehn and
James Bernard won an Oscar in 1951 for best story. It was about a
threatened nuclear attack on London
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C16)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A19)
1950 The noir film "Shakedown"
starred Howard Duff.
(SFC, 1/14/03, p.D2)
1950 The film "The Sleeping City"
featured the debut of Alex Nicol.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A20)
1950 The film "State Secret"
starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
(SFC, 5/8/00, p.A5)
1950 The film "The Steel Helmet"
with Gene Evans was directed by Samuel Fuller (d.1997 at 86). It was
set in the Korean War.
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A17)(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)
1950 The film "Story of a Love
Affair" was the first feature film by Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1950 The film "Sunset Boulevard"
starred Gloria Swanson and William Holden. It was written and directed
by Billy Wilder and was rated #12 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC,
6/27/99, BR p.45)(SFEC, 11/14/99, BR p.3)
1950 The film "Tarzan and the
Slave Girl" starred Lex Barker and Vanessa Brown (d.1999 at 71). It was
directed by Lee Sholem.
(TVM, 1975, p.568)(SFC, 5/24/99, p.C4)
1950 The film "Treasure Island"
with Robert Newton as Long John Silver was produced. It was based on
the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)
1950 The film "Tripoli" starred
Maureen O'Hara.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, Par p.16)
1950 The film “Two Lost Worlds”
starred Jim Arness and Kasey Rogers.
(MoTV, 1977, p.755)(SFC, 7/15/06, p.B6)
1950 The film "Union Station"
featured Lyle Bettger.
(SFC, 10/10/03, p.A25)
1950 The film "Waiting Women"
featured Jarl Kulle (d. 1997 at 70) and was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A20)
1950 The film "Watch the Birdie"
starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1950 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Where Danger Lives."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1950 The film "Where the Sidewalk
Ends" featured Karl Malden. It was directed by Otto Preminger.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D5)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977,
p.788)
1950 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Winchester ‘73."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1950 The film "Woman On the Run"
featured Ross Elliott (d.1999 at 82) Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe
and was directed by Norman Foster.
(TVM, 1975, p.655)(SFC, 8/18/99, p.C4)
1950 The film "Young Man with a
Horn" starred Lauren Bacall and Kirk Douglas.
(SFEC, 11/21/99, Par p.30)(SFEC, 1/23/00, Par p.12)
1950 A film starring Tyrone Power
was based on a biographical book by Ira Wolfert that told the story of
"Rich" Richardson (d.2001 at 83), PT boat commander and Philippine
guerilla operative during WW II.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.C2)
1950 Gross Hollywood revenues for
the year were $1,379 million with 3,107 million admissions and average
ticket price of $0.46.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1951 The film “Abbot and Costello
Meat the Invisible Man” featured Arthur Franz.
(SFC, 6/20/06, p.B5)
1951 "Ace in the Hole" [see The
Big Carnival]
1951 The film "Across the Wide
Missouri" with Clark Gable was directed by William Wellman.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.E1)
1951 The film "The African Queen"
with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was produced. It was rated
#17 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1951 The film "An American in
Paris" with Gene Kelly, Nina Foch, Leslie Caron and Georges Guetary was
directed by Vincent Minnelli. It won an Oscar for best picture and
another for best musical score. Saul Chaplin (d.1997 at 85) helped
compose the music. It was rated #68 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.38)(SFC, 9/19/97,
p.A22)(SFC,11/18/97, p.A19)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1951 The film "Angels in the
Outfield" starred Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh. It was remade in 1994.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.51)(SFEC, 4/26/98, DB p.56)
1951 The film "Awaara" (The
Vagabond) starred Leela Chitnis. She left India for the US in the 1980s
and died in 2003 at age 93.
(SFC, 7/16/03, p.A19)
1951 The film "Bedtime for Bonzo"
starred Ronald Reagan.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)
1951 The film "The Big Carnival"
(Ace in the Hole) starred Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling. It was
directed by Billy Wilder and was about a cynical newsman covering a
mining disaster. It was based on the 1925 incident where Floyd Collins,
a Kentucky farmer, discovered Sand Cave and was trapped for 2 weeks as
he crawled back to the surface.
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.C5)(WSJ, 5/17/99, p.A24)
1951 The film "The Big Night"
starred John Drew Barrymore. It was screen written by Ring Lardner Jr.
(d.2000 at 85) and Hugo Butler.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A23)
1951 The film “The Blue Veil”
starred Jane Wyman.
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.A2)
1951 The film “The Brave Bulls”
starred Mel Ferrer (1917-2008).
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.B11)
1951 The film "Bride of the
Gorilla" was produced.
(SFC, 6/10/02, p.B6)
1951 The film "The Browning
Version" was produced.
(SFC, 4/21/00, p.D4)
1951 The film "Bullfighter and the
Lady" starred Robert Stack and was directed by Budd Boetticher (d.2001
at 85).
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A28)
1951 The film "Captain Horatio
Hornblower" starred Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo. Peck played a
British hero in the Napoleonic War .
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)(WSJ, 5/21/98, p.A1)
1951 The British film "A Christmas
Carol" with Alastair Sim as Scrooge.
(SFC,12/19/97, p.C20)
1951 The British film "Cry the
Beloved Country" was based on the novel by Alan Paton. It was screen
written by John Howard Lawson, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy
era. It starred Sidney Poitier and was directed by Zoltan Korda.
(TVM, 1975, p.119)(SFC, 10/3/97, p.C10)
1951 The film "David and
Bathsheba" starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1951 The short documentary film
"Day of the Fight" was the first work by Stanley Kubrick.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)
1951 The film “The Day the Earth
Stood Still” starred Michael Rennie. It was directed by Robert Wise.
(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)
1951 The film "Death of a
Salesman" starred Fredric March and was directed by Laslo Benedek. It
was produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.132)(SFC,
2/21/01, p.A18)
1951 The film "Decision Before
Dawn" featured Karl Malden. It was directed by Anatole Litvak.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.180)
1951 The film "Detective Story"
starred Kirk Douglas and William Bendix.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1951 The film "Double Dynamite"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1951 The film “Duck and Cover” was
produced as a civil defense educational aid to prepare schoolchildren
in case of an atomic attack. In 2004 it was added to the National Film
Registry.
(SFC, 12/31/04, p.E6)
1951 The film "Fixed Bayonets" was
directed by Samuel Fuller (d.1997 at 86).
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A17)
1951 The sci-fi film "Flight to
Mars" was produced using the cinecolor process.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1951 The film "Flying Padre" was
directed by Stanley Kubrick.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)
1951 "Follow the Sun" with Glenn
Ford was the first feature length film production about golf and told
the story of Ben Hogan’s comeback from an auto accident.
(Hem., 7/96, p.101)
1951 The film "He Ran All the Way"
was directed by John Berry. The screenplay was by Dalton Trumbo.
(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A26)(SFC, 3/3/05, p.E3)
1951 The film "Here Comes the
Groom" starred Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, DB p.36)
1951 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "His Kind of Woman."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1951 The film "Hoodlum Empire"
starred Claire Trevor.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.62)
1951 The film "Hotel Sahara"
featured Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1951 The noir film "House on
Telegraph Hill" starred Italian actress Valentina Cortese and Richard
Basehart. It was directed by Robert wise and was filmed in San Francisco
(SFC, 1/14/03, p.D2)(SFC, 4/17/09, p.E8)
1951 The film "The Idiot"
(Hakuchi) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC,
9/7/98, p.A21)
1951 The film "I Was a Communist
for the FBI" was based on the true story of Matt Cvetic (d.1962 at 53).
In 2001 Daniel J. Leab authored "I Was a Communist for the FBI," the
story of Mr. Cvetic.
(WSJ, 2/12/00, p.A25)
1951 The film "Journal d'un Cure
de Campagne" (Diary of a Country Priest) was directed by Robert
Bresson. It was based on a book by Georges Bernanos.
(SFC, 12/22/99, p.A27)
1951 The film “Kind Lady” featured
Betsy Blair (1923-2009).
(AP, 3/20/09)
1951 The film "The Lavender Hill
Mob" featured the debut of Audrey Hepburn and starred Alec Guinness. It
was directed by Charles Crichton.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB p.37)(SFC, 9/16/99, p.A19)
1951 The film "The Lemon Drop Kid"
starred Bob Hope. It featured the song "Silver Bells" by Jay Livingston
and Ray Evans."
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D5)
1951 The comedy film "Love Nest"
featured Marilyn Monroe in one of her 1st starring roles. It was
produced by Jules Buck.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A20)
1951 The film "The Magic Box"
featured Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1951 The 3 1/2* British film "The
Man in the White Suit" was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and
starred Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood.
(TVM, 1975, p.360)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E17)
1951 The film "Mr. Drake’s Duck"
starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
(SFC, 5/8/00, p.A5)
1951 The film "My Favorite Spy"
starred Hedy Lamarr and Bob Hope.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.A10)(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1951 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "My Forbidden Past."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1951 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "No Highway" (aka No Highway in the Sky).
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1951 The film "Only the Valiant"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1951 The film "On the Riviera"
starred Gwen Verdon.
(SFEC, 12/20/98, Par p.14)
1951 The film "An Outcast of the
Islands" starred Wendy Hiller.
(SFC, 5/17/03, p.A16)
1951 The Western film "The Painted
Hills" starred Lassie, the collie, and was directed by Harold F. Kress
(d.1999 at 86).
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A26)
1951 The film "People Will Talk"
starred Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn and Cary Grant.
(SFC, 6/17/03, p.A21)(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)
1951 The film "A Place in the Sun"
with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor was directed by George
Stevens. It was based on Theodore Dreiser’s "An American Tragedy." It
was rated #92 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1951 The noir film “The Prowler”
starred Evelyn Keyes and Van Heflin.
(SFC, 7/12/08, p.B5)
1951 The film "Quo Vadis" featured
Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1951 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Racket."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1951 The film "Rawhide" starred
Jack Elam (d.2003), Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward.
(SFC, 10/23/03, p.A22)
1951 The film "Red Badge of
Courage" was directed by John Huston and starred Audie Murphy. It was
based on the Civil War novel by Stephen Crane.
(SFC, 5/28/99, p.C11)
1951 The film "The Right Cross"
starred June Allyson and Dick Powell.
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B5)
1951 The 3* film "Royal Wedding"
starred Gene and was directed by Stanley Donen.
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.D7)(TVM, 1975, p.487)
1951 The film "Saturday’s Hero"
had music composed by Elmer Bernstein.
(SFC, 1/28/98, p.E6)
1951 The musical film "Show Boat"
with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel was remade under the direction of
George Sidney. The original was from 1936.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.E3)(SFEC, 4/5/98, DB p.43)(SFC,
5/7/02, p.A21)
1951 The film “Silver City”
starred Edmond O’Brien and Kasey Rogers.
(MoTV, 1977, p.648)(SFC, 7/15/06, p.B6)
1951 The film "The Steel Helmet"
featured Gene Evans (d.1998 at 75).
(SFC, 4/2/98, p.A23)
1951 The German film "The Story of
a Sinner" starred Hildegard Knef (d.2002 at 76). A brief nude scene
scandalized roman Catholic authorities.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.B5)
1951 The film "Strangers on a
Train" was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and featured his daughter
Patricia. It starred Farley Granger, Kasey Rogers (1925-2006) and
Robert Walker who play a tennis player and a psychopath who exchange
murders. In 2001 it was rated the #32 most thrilling film.
(SFEC,11/23/97, DB p.56)(SFEC, 6/14/98, DB
p.51)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1951 The film "A Streetcar Named
Desire" with Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh
was directed by Alia Kazan. It was based on a story by Tennessee
Williams. It was rated #45 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(WSJ, 9/66/96, p.A12)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC,
5/30/99, DB p.46)
1951 The film "Summer Stock"
starred Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A23)
1951 The film "Tales of Hoffman"
featured ballerina Moira Shearer. It was directed by Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger choreographed to the opera music.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, DB p.42)(SFC, 2/2/06, p.B7)
1951 The film "Teresa" featured
the debut of Rod Steiger. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A6)
1951 The film "Texas Carnival"
starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1951 The film “The Texas Rangers”
starred George Montgomery and Gale Storm. It was directed by Phil
Karlson.
(TVM, 1977, p.710)
1951 The film "That’s My Boy"
starred Jerry Lewis.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1951 The film "The Thing From
Another World" starred Ken Tobey (d.2002 at 85). It was remade in 1982
as "The Thing."
(SFC, 12/25/02, p.A29)
1951 The film "Tomahawk" starred
Van Heflin, Yvonne DeCarlo, Preston Foster, Jack Oakie, Alex Nicol and
Rock Hudson. It was about the legendary trapper and guide Jim Bridger.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.55)(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A20)
1951 The noir film "Tomorrow Is
Another Day" starred Steve Cochran as an ex-con.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, DB p.58)
1951 The film “Too Young to Kiss”
starred June Allyson and Van Johnson.”
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B5)
1951 The film "Two Tickets to
Broadway" starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1951 The film "Valentino" starred
Walter Craig (d.2001, aka Anthony Dexter) as the silent film star. It
was directed by Lewis Allen.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.D3)(TVM, 1975, p.621)
1951 The film "When Willie Comes
Marching Home" starred Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvert. It was written
by Sy Gomberg and directed by John Ford.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A23)
1951 The film "You're in the Navy
Now" starred Gary Cooper and featured the debut of Charles Bronson
(1921-2003).
(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A2)
1952 The Western film "Apache War
Smoke" starred Gilbert Roland and was directed by Harold F. Kress.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A26)
1952 The film "At Sword's Point"
starred Maureen O'Hara.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, Par p.16)
1952 The film "The Bad and the
Beautiful" starred Kirk Douglas and was directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Art director Edward C. Carfagno won an Academy Award for his work. In
2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 1/2/97, p.A20)(SFC, 5/24/99, p.D2)(TVM, 1975,
p.29)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1952 The film "Because of You"
starred Loretta Young.
(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B10)
1952 The film "Bela Lugosi Meets a
Brooklyn Gorilla" was directed by William Beaudine. Herman Cohen
(d.2002) served as assoc. producer.
(SFEM, 3/21/99, p.4)(SFC, 6/10/02, p.B6)
1952 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Bend of the River."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1952 The film "Bonzo Goes to
College" starred Maureen O’Sullivan.
(SJM, 6/24/98, p.4A)
1952 The 1st modern 3-D film
"Bwana Devil" starred Robert Stack and premiered Nov 26. It was made in
3-D by cameraman Lothrop Worth (d.2000 at 96) and inspired a series of
1950s 3-D movies.
(SFC, 3/18/00, p.A21)(MC, 11/26/01)
1952 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Carbine Williams."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1952 The documentary film
"Champagne Safari" was about the 2nd honeymoon of queen Rita Hayworth
and her 3rd husband Prince Aly Khan as they traveled through Africa.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, DB p.58)
1952 The film "Clash by Night"
with Keith Andes(d.2005), Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn
Monroe was directed by Fritz Lang. This was the first film to feature
Marilyn Monroe as a star. It was based on a story by Clifford Odets.
(TVM, 1975, p.99)(SFEC, 12/22/96, DB p.51)(SFEC,
1/24/99, BR p.9)
1952 The film "Come Back, Little
Sheba" starred Burt Lancaster and was directed by Daniel Mann.
(TVM, 1975, p.104)(SFC, 4/26/00, p.C1)
1952 The film "The Crimson Pirate"
starred Burt Lancaster and was directed by Robert Siodmak.
(SFC, 4/26/00, p.C1)
1952 The film “Denver and Rio
Grande” starred Sterling Hayden and Kasey Rogers.
(MoTV, 1977, p.182)(SFC, 7/15/06, p.B6)
1952 The film "Eight Iron Men"
starred Lee Marvin and was directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was produced
by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.158)
1952 The film "El Bruto" starred
Katy Jurado (1924-2002) and was directed by Luis Bunuel. Jurado won an
Ariel, Mexico’s highest acting award, for her performance.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A19)
1952 The film "The 5,000 Fingers
of Dr. T" starred Peter Lind Hayes and was directed by Roy Rowland. It
was produced by Stanley Kramer and based on a story by Sr. Seuss.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.181)
1952 The film "Flesh and Fury"
starred Tony Curtis.
(SSFC, 12/15/02, Par p.26)
1952 The film "Forbidden Games" by
Rene Clement was produced.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.E3)
1952 The film "The Fourposter"
starred Rex Harrison and was directed by Irving Reis. It was produced
by Stanley Kramer. It was based on a play by Jan de Hartog.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.194)
1952 The film "The Greatest Show
on Earth" starred Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton. It was directed by
Cecil B. DeMille and won an Oscar for best picture.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1952 The film "The Happy Time"
starred Charles Boyer and was directed by Richard Fleischer. It was
produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)
1952 The film "High Noon" starred
Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurdao and Grace Kelly. It was
directed by Fred Zinnemann and Carl Foreman was the screenwriter. It
was rated #33 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. It was produced by
Stanley Kramer. In 2001 it was rated the #20 most thrilling film. It
featured the Oscar winning Tex Ritter song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My
Darling" by Dimitri Tiomki and Ned Washington.
(TMC, 1994, p.1952)(SFEC, 1/5/97, p.T5)(SFC,
3/15/97, p.A19)(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A4)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(WSJ, 4/6/00,
p.A20)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)(SSFC, 6/30/02, Par p.2)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A19)
1952 The film "Ikiru" was directed
by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1952 The film "The Importance of
Being Earnest" was adopted from a comedy by Oscar Wilde. It was
directed by Anthony Asquith and starred Michael Redgrave, Margaret
Rutherford, Edith Evans and Joan Greenwood.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, DB p.36)
1952 The film "Julius Caesar"
starred John Gielgud.
(SFC, 5/23/00, p.A13)
1952 The film "La Provinciale"
starred Gina Lollobrigida and was directed Mario Soldati and based on a
novel by Alberto Moravia.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.A25)
1952 The film "The Las Vegas
Story" was screen written by Paul Jarrico.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)
1952 The film "The Lawless Breed"
was about John Wesley Hardin. It starred Rock Hudson and Julie Adams
and was based on Hardin’s autobiography.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.55)
1952 The film "Le Plaisir" was
directed by Max Ophuls and was based on 3 stories by Guy de Maupassant.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, DB p.50)
1952 Charles Chaplin directed the
movie "Limelight." It received an Oscar for best musical score 21 years
later. He left the US and returned to England and then moved to
Switzerland as a tax exile. Chaplin produced, directed, edited and
choreographed the film in which he starred with his children.
(CFA, '96, p.89)(WSJ, 7/17/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/23/98,
Z1 p.8)
1952 The film "Lone Star" was
directed by Vincent Sherman and starred Clark Gable and Ava Gardner.
(TVM, 1975, p.334)
1952 The film "Love Is Better Than
Ever" starred Josephine Hutchinson and Elizabeth Taylor.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C3)
1952 The film "Lovely to Look At"
starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1952 The film "The Lusty Men"
starred Robert Mitchum and his brother John Mallory (John Mitchum
d.2001).
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 12/3/01, p.A17)
1952 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Macao."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1952 The film "The Marrying Kind"
was produced by Bert Granet (d.2002 at 92).
(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A15)
1952 The film "Meet Danny Wilson"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1952 The film "The Member of the
Wedding" with Julie Harris was directed by Fred Zinneman. It was based
on a book and play by Carson McCullers. It was produced by Stanley
Kramer.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)
1952 The film "The Merry Widow"
starred Gwen Verdon.
(SFEC, 12/20/98, Par p.14)
1952 The film "Moulin Rouge"
starred Jose Ferrer as Toulousse-Lautrec, along with Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Suzanne Flon and Colette Marchand. It was directed by John Huston.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(SSFC, 6/3/01, DB p.49)
1952 The film "My Six Convicts"
starred Millard Mitchell and was directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was
produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.396)
1952 The film "The Narrow Margin"
starred Marie Windsor and was directed by Richard Fleischer.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.C9)
1952 The film "Night Into Morning"
with Nancy Davis, Ray Milland and John Hodiak was produced.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)
1957 Jan 16, The Mexican film
"Nosotros Los Pobres" (We the Poor) starred Katy Jurado (d.2002) and
Pedro Infante.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A19)
1952 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "One Minute to Zero."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1952 The film "Park Row" with Gene
Evans was directed by Sam Fuller. It was about 2 newspaper owners in
New York in 1886.
(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)(SFC, 4/2/98, p.A23)
1952 The film "Pat and Mike"
starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and was written by Garsin
Kanin (d.1999 at 86) and wife Ruth Gordon.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D8)
1952 The John Ford film "The Quiet
Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara was produced. Ford received his
6th Oscar for directing this film.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(SFEC, 3/15/98, DB p.56)
1952 The film serial “Radar Men
from the Moon” featured George Wallace (d.2005) as Commando Cody.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.B7)
1952 The film "Red Planet Mars"
with Peter Graves was produced.
(SFC, 4/22/97, p.D5)
1952 The film "Road to Bali"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1952 The film “Scaramouche”
featured Nina Foch (1924-2008).
(SFC, 12/13/08, p.A5)
1952 The film "Seafarers" was
directed by Stanley Kubrick.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)
1952 The Swedish film “Secrets of
Women” was directed by Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007).
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1952 The 4* film "Singin’ in the
Rain" starred Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse (1922-2008), Douglas Fowley
(d.1998 at 86) and Donald O'Connor (d.2003 at 78). It was directed by
Stanley Donen and was rated #10 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. The
MGM movie was released Apr 10.
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.D7)(TVM, 1975, p.522)(SFC, 5/29/98,
p.D7)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC, 9/20/98, DB p.54)(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A1)
1952 The film "The Sniper" starred
Arthur Franz (d.2006), Adolphe Menjou and Marie Windsor. It was
directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was written by Edward and Anna Anhalt
and produced by Stanley Kramer.
(TVM, 1975, p.529)(SFC, 1/14/03, p.D2)(SFC, 6/20/06,
p.B5)
1952 The film "The Snows of
Kilimanjaro" starred Gregory Peck.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)
1952 The film "Somebody Loves Me"
starred Betty Hutton. This was a biopic of vaudeville star Blossom
Seeley.
(SFEC, 8/6/00, DB p.60)(SFC, 3/14/07, p.A2)
1952 The film "Son of Paleface"
starred Roy Rogers, Bob Hope and Jane Russel.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A2)
1952 The film "Sudden Fear" with
Joan Crawford and Jack Palance was shot in SF.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, DB p.52)(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB
p.48)(SFEC, 10/10/99, DB p.49)
1952 The film "This Is Cinerama"
was produced. In 2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1952 The socialist realism film
"Umberto D" was directed by Vittoria De Sica.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)
1952 The Western film "Way of a
Gaucho" starred Rory Calhoun (d.1999 at 76).
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D6)
1952 The film “Where’s Charley”
starred Ray Bolger.
(SFC, 12/25/07, p.)
1952 The film "The Winning Team"
with Ronald Reagan was produced.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)
1952 The film “With a Song in My
Heart” starred Susan Hayward as band singer Jane Froman (d.1980).
(SSFC, 5/15/05, Par p.2)
1952 The film "The World in His
Arms" starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1952 The film "Viva Zapata!"
starred Marlon Brando, Jean Peters and Anthony Quinn. It was directed
by Elia Kazan.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.D5)(TVM, 1975, p.627)
1953 The film "Abbott and Costello
Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with Helen Westcott was directed by
Charles Lamont.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B4)(TVM, 1975, p.1)
1953 The Mexican film “Abismos de
Pasion” was directed by Luis Bunuel. It was loose adaptation of Emily
Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” and featured Ernesto Alonso (d.2007).
(SFC, 8/9/07, p.B5)
1953 The film "All I Desire"
starred Maureen O’Sullivan.
(SJM, 6/24/98, p.4A)
1953 The film "All My Babies" was
produced to educate midwives in the South. In 2002 it was added
to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1953 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Angel Face."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1953 The film "Arrowhead" starred
Charlton Heston and Mary Sinclair (d.2000 at 78).
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.B6)
1953 The film "The Band Wagon" by
Vincent Minelli was produced in which Jack Buchanon played a pompous
director modeled on Orson Welles. It starred Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire
and Cyd Charisse. The screenplay was by Adolph Green and Betty Comden.
(WSJ, 2/16/96, p.A8)(SFC,10/24/97, p.C14)(SFEC,
3/5/00, DB p.43)(SFC, 10/25/02, p.A4)
1953 The film "The Beast From
20,000 Fathoms" was produced by Fred Freiberger (d.2003). It was based
on a Ray Bradbury story. Ray Harryhausen (b.1920) was responsible for
the special effects.
(SFC, 3/15/03, p.A16)(SFC, 2/27/08, p.E5)
1953 The film "The Bigamist" was
directed by Ida Lupino.
(SFEM, 8/16/98, p.3)
1953 The film “The Big Heat”
starred Glenn Ford.
(SFC, 8/31/06, p.B7)
1953 The film "Blowing Wild"
starred Gary Cooper. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1953 The film "Bright Road"
starred Harry Belafonte.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, Par p.22)
1953 Feb 18, The film "Bwana
Devil," the movie that heralded the 3D fad of the 1950s, opened in New
York City.
(AP, 2/18/98)
1953 The film "By the Light of the
Silvery Moon" starred Gordon MacRae and Doris Day. It also featured the
debut of Meredith MacRae (7).
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A23)
1953 The film "The Caddy" with
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was produced.
(Hem., 7/96, p.101)
1953 The film "Captain’s Paradise"
starred Alec Guinness.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A15)
1953 The 2 1/2* film "Charge at
Feather River" starred Helen Westcott and was directed by Gordon
Douglas.
(TVM, 1975, p.91)(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B4)
1953 The Western film "City of Bad
Men" starred Leo Gordon (d.2000 at 78).
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B11)
1953 The film noir thriller "Crime
Wave" with Sterling Hayden and Charles Bronson was directed by Andre de
Toth.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.41)(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
1953 The British film "The Cruel
Sea" starred Jack Hawkins and was directed by Charles Frend. It was
based on a novel by Nicholas Monsarrat.
(TVM, 1975, p.118)(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A22)
1953 The film “The Desert Song”
starred Irene Manning, Kathryn Grayson, and Gordon MacRae. It was
directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.
(SFC, 6/1/04, B4)(MoTV, 1977, p.184)
1953 The film "Duck Amuck" was
produced and added to the National Film Registry in 1999.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E10)
1953 The film "The Earrings of
Madame de …" starred Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer and Vittorio De
Sica. It was directed by Max Ophuls.
(WSJ, 6/11/99, p.W5)
1953 The film "Eaux D’Artifice"
was directed by Kenneth Anger. It was later selected as a Library of
Congress film classic.
(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)
1953 The Mexican film "Espaldas
Mojadas" (Wetbacks) was directed by Hector Alejandro Galindo.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A25)
1953 The film "Fear and Desire"
was directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was Kubrick's first film and the
screen-acting debut for Paul Mazursky.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)(SFC, 6/12/99, p.B8)
1953 The film "From Here to
Eternity" with Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery
Clift and Burt Lancaster was made. Sinatra was an Oscar winner. The
film won an Oscar and was directed by Fred Zinnemann. It was based on
the book by James Jones (d.1977). It was rated #52 by the Amer. Film
Inst. in 1998. In 2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 2/14/97, p.D5)(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)(SFC,
10/12/97, DB p.52)(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC,
12/19/02, p.E12)
1953 The Roy Rowland film "The
5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" was produced based on a tale by Dr. Seuss.
(SFEM,11/16/97, p.4)
1953 The film "Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes" starred Marilyn Monroe. She sang "Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best
Friend." The film was based on a 1924 novel by anita Loos.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.40)(WSJ, 4/10/09, p.W7)
1953 The English biopic film
"Gilbert and Sullivan" starred Robert Morley and Maurice Evans.
(WSJ, 11/22/00, p.A20)
1953 The film "Glen or Glenda" was
directed by Edward D. Wood.
(SFC, 12/25/98, p.C21)
1953 The film “The Glenn Miller
Story” starred June Allyson and James Stewart.”
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B5)
1953 The film "Go, Man, Go!" was
about the Harlem Globetrotters and screen written by Alfred Palca
(d.1998 at 78) who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Palca
assigned the credit to his cousin Arnold Becker.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.C10)
1953 Bud Browne (1912-2008),
completed his first surf film, “Hawaiian Surfing Movies,” in Santa
Monica, Ca. He was later considered the father of surf films.
(AP, 7/29/08)
1953 The film "Here Come the
Girls" featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1953 The film "His Majesty
O’Keefe" starred Burt Lancaster.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.C4)
1953 The film "The Hitchhiker" was
directed by Ida Lupino. It starred Edmond O’Brian, Frank Lovejoy and
William Talman. It was named a Library of Congress Classic in 1998.
(SFEM, 8/16/98, p.3)(SFC, 11/30/98, p.D3)
1953 The film "Hondo" starred John
Wayne and Leo Gordon. It was based on a short story by Louis L’Amour,
who produced a full length novel to coincide with the movie.
(SFEC, 3/5/00, Par p.2)(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B11)(WSJ,
5/3/02, p.W13)
1953 The film "Houdini" starred
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
(SSFC, 12/15/02, Par p.26)(SFC, 10/5/04, p.A2)
1953 The film "House of Wax," the
first 3-D movie, starred Vincent Price, Charles Bronson and Phyllis
Kirk (d.2006). It was directed by Andre de Toth, produced by Warner
Bros. and premiered in NYC on Apr 10. It was based on the play “The
Mystery of the Wax Museum” (1933) by Charles Belden (1904-1954).
(AP, 4/9/97)(HN, 4/10/98)(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
1953 The film "How To Marry a
Millionaire" with Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe was
produced.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.7)
1953 The film "It Came from Outer
Space" was produced.
(SFC, 10/29/96, p.B2)(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.6)
1953 The sci-fi film "Invaders
From Mars" featured Arthur Franz. It included special effects by Ray
Harryhausen on a body-snatching theme.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)(SFC, 6/20/06, p.B5)
1953 The Italian film "I
Vitelloni" starred Alberto Sordi.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.E3)
1953 The film "The Joe Louis
Story" featured Ossie Davis.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, Par, p.24)
1953 The film "The Juggler"
starred Kirk Douglas and was directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was
produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.298)
1953 The film "Julius Caesar" was
produced. Art director Edward C. Carfagno won an Academy Award for his
work.
(SFC, 1/2/97, p.A20)
1953 The MGM dance musical film
"Kiss Me Kate" starred Howard Keel (d.2004), Bob Fosse and Ann Miller.
It was directed by George Sidney.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, DB p.54)(SFC, 5/7/02, p.A21)
1953 The film "Lady Without
Camellias" was by Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1951 The film “Lili” starred Mel
Ferrer (1917-2008) as a disabled puppeteer.
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.B11)
1953 The independent film "The
Little Fugitive" was directed by Morris Engel (1919-2005).
(SFC,11/21/97, p.C17)
1953 The film “A Lion Is in the
Streets” starred James Cagney as the politician Huey Long. It was
written by Luther Davis (1916-2008).
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.B4)
1953 The documentary film "The
Living Desert" by Stuart V. Jewell (d.1997 at 84) was a Disney
"True-Life Adventure" feature. In 2000 it was selected for preservation
in the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 7/19/97, p.A21)(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1953 The film "The Magnetic
Monster" was written by Curt Siodmak.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A25)
1953 The film "Main Street to
Broadway" starred Tallulah Bankhead.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, DB p.34)
1953 The film "The Master of
Ballantrae" starred Errol Flynn.
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.E1)
1953 May 28, Premier of first
animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, "Melody".
(HN, 5/28/98)
1953 The film "Mesa of Lost Women"
starred Jackie Coogan and Tandra Quinn. It was directed by Ron Ormand
and Herbert Trevos and was about a mad scientist who injects the
pituitary gland of a tarantula into a woman.
(SFEM, 11/22/98, p.6)
1953 The film "The Million-Pound
Note" starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1953 The French film "Mister
Ripois" starred Germaine Montero and was directed by Rene Clement.
(SFC, 7/1/00, p.C2)
1953 The film "Mogambo" with Clark
Gable and Grace Kelly was produced. The stars were outfitted by Willis
& Geiger.
(NH, 9/96, p.17)
1953 The French film "Mr. Hulot’s
Holiday" starred and was directed by Jacques Tati.
(WSJ, 8/1/00, p.A20)
1953 The film "The Naked Spur"
starred Jimmy Stewart. It was directed by Anthony Mann.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.51)
1953 The film "Off Limits"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1953 Feb 5, "Peter Pan" by Walt
Disney opened at Roxy Theater, NYC. [see Feb 11]
(MC, 2/5/02)
1953 Feb 11, Walt Disney’s "Peter
Pan" premiered. [See Feb 5]
(HN, 2/11/97)
1953 The film "Pickup on South
Street" starred Richard Widmark and Jean Peters. It was directed by
Samuel Fuller.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1953 The sci-fi film "Phantom From
Space" was produced. It was a low-budget "first contact" movie
involving a silicon-based life form set in the Los Angeles Griffith
Observatory.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1953 The film "Pin Down Girls" was
about professional wrestling.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.52)
1953 The film "The Pleasure
Garden" was directed by James Broughton.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.E3)
1953 The film "The Proud Ones" by
Yves Allegret was produced.
(SFEM, 9/8/96, p.6)
1953 The film “Remains to Be Seen”
starred June Allyson and Van Johnson.”
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B5)
1953 The film "Return to Paradise"
starred Gary Cooper and Roberta Haynes. It was directed by Mark Robson,
set in Samoa and based on a book by James Michener.
(TVM, 1975, p.475)(SFCM, 10/14/01, p.45)
1953 The Scottish film "Rob Roy,
The Highland Rogue" starred Ian MacNaughton as Callum MacGregor.
(SFC, 1/4/03, p.A15)
1953 The film "The Robe" starred
Richard Burton and Victor Mature.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)(SFC, 8/10/99, p.A20)
1953 The film "Roman Holiday"
starred Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert. It was directed
by William Wyler. It was added to the National Registry of films in
1999. The screenplay was by Dalton Trumbo.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A20)(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E10)(SFC,
7/8/02, p.D2)(SFC, 3/3/05, p.E3)
1953 The film "Ruby Gentry"
featured Karl Malden. It was directed by King Vidor.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.610)
1953 The film "Sadie Thompson"
starred Peggy Converse and Rita Hayworth.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A23)
1953 The film "Salt of the Earth"
was written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert Biberman and
produced by Paul Jerrico (d.1997 at 82). All three men had been
blacklisted by HUAC. The film chronicled a long strike by
Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)(SFC, 1/21/98,
p.E1,6)
1953 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Second Chance."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1953 The western 4* film "Shane"
with Alan Ladd and Jack Palance was directed by George Stevens. It was
later selected as a Library of Congress film classic. It was rated #69
by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFEC,12/28/97, BR p.8)(SFC,
1/21/98, p.E1,6)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1953 The film "Small Town Girl"
starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1953 The film “So Big” featured
Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden in the screen version of Edna Ferber’s
best-selling novel.
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.A2)
1953 The film "Stalag 17" starred
William Holden and Peter Graves. It was written by Billy Wilder and
directed by Don Taylor (d.1998 at 78).
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFEC, 6/28/98, Par
p.26)(SFC, 1/2/99, p.C2)
1953 The film "Take the High
Ground" starred Richard Widmark and Karl Malden. It was directed by
Richard Brooks.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.698)
1953 The film "Taxi" with Stubby
Kaye starred Dan Dailey.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1953 The film "Titanic" was the
first movie to tell the story of the sunken British liner. It starred
Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb. [see 1912 & 1943]
(SFEC,12/797, DB p.41)(SFC, 1/2/98, p.C15)
1953 The comedy film "Those
Redheads From Seattle" starred Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Teresa
Brewer (1931-2007) and Guy Mitchell.
(SFC, 7/6/99, p.B2)(SFC, 10/19/07, p.A11)
1953 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Thunder Bay."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1953 The film "Tokyo Story" was
produced.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.B7)
1953 The British film “Tom Brown’s
School Days” starred Robert Newton. It was directed by Godron Parry. It
was based on the 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown%27s_Schooldays)
1953 The film "Torch Song" starred
Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding. It was about a romance between a
Broadway star and a blind pianist.
(SFEC, 8/22/99, DB p.34)
1953 The French film "The Wages of
Fear" was directed by Henri-Georges Clouzet. In 1977 William Friedkin
made a remake called "The Sorcerer."
(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB p.38)
1953 The film "War of the Worlds"
was based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Landscapes for the movie were
painted by illustrator Chesley K. Bonestell (1888-1986).
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.D1)(WSJ, 5/30/00, p.A24)
1953 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "White Witch Doctor."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1953 The film "Young Bess" starred
Charles Laughton as Henry VIII and Jean Simmons as a young Queen
Elizabeth.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, DB p.45)
1953-1998 The prestigious D.W. Griffith Award for
film directors was won by 28 directors. The award was retired in 1999
due to racial stereotypes in Griffith films.
(SFC, 12/15/99, p.E6)
1954 The Mexican film "And
Tomorrow They Will Be Women" featured Sonia Furio (1937-1996).
(SFC, 12/4/96, p.A17)
1954 The film "Apache" starred
Burt Lancaster and Jean Peters.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
1954 The film "Bad Day at Black
Rock" by John Sturges starred Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan. [see 1955]
(SFEM, 12/8/96, p.8)
1954 The film "The Barefoot
Contessa" starred Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by
Joseph Mankiewicz. Edmund O’Brian received an Oscar for best supporting
actor.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, DB p.58)
1954 The film "Beat the Devil"
starred Humphrey Bogart and Gina Lollobrigida. The surrealistic spoof
in int’l. thrillers was directed by John Huston, who co-wrote it with
Truman Capote.
(WSJ, 10/20/00, p.W16)
1954 The film "Beau Brummel"
featured Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1954 In Egypt Youssef Chahine
(1926-2008), filmmaker, directed “The Blazing Sun” with Omar
Sharif. (SFC, 7/29/08, p.B5)
1954 The film “The Bob Mathias
Story” starred Bob Mathias (1931-2006), 2-time US Olympic decathlon
champion.
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.A14)
1954 The film “Brigadoon” starred
Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.
(SFC, 6/18/08, p.A2)
1954 The Western film "Broken
Lance" starred Spencer Tracy. Philip Yordan won an Oscar for the
screenplay.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1954 The Bugs Bunny cartoon
"Bewitched Bunny" quoted Bugs: "Ah, sure, I know! But aren't they all
witches inside?"
(SFEC, 12/12/99, p.A28)
1954 The film "Bridges of Toko-Ri"
starred William Holden and Grace Kelly. It was an anguished look at the
Korean War.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, Z1 p.6)
1954 The film "Broken Lance"
starred Spencer Tracy, Katy Jurado and Jean Peters.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A19)
1954 The film "Caine Mutiny"
starred Humphrey Bogart, May Wynn and E.G. Marshall. It was directed by
Edward Dmytryk (d.1999) and produced by Stanley Kramer. Arthur Franz
supplied the narration. It was based on the book by Herman Wouk.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.B1)(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.5)(SFC,
10/12/97, Par p.22)(SFC, 6/20/06, p.B5)
1954 The Otto Preminger film
"Carmen Jones" starred Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. It was
based on the 1875 French opera Carmen. In 1997 a biography of Dandridge
was written by Donald Bogle: "Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography."
(SFEC, 8/10/97, BR p.3)(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB
p.45)(SSFC, 9/16/01, Par p.22)
1954 The film "Casanova's Big
Night" starred Bob Hope.
(WSJ, 6/3/03, p.D5)
1954 The film "Cattle Queen of
Montana" starred Anthony Caruso and Barbara Stanwyck.
(SFC, 4/5/03, p.A14)
1954 The film "The Country Girl"
starred Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby as an alcoholic singer.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.48)(SSFC, 1/21/01, DB p.36)
1954 The film "Creature from the
Black Lagoon" featured Richard Denning and was directed by Jack Arnold.
Ben Chapman (1928-2008) played the creature.
(SFC, 10/13/98, p.A22)(TVM, 1975, p.114)(Econ,
3/8/08, p.97)
1954 The film "Deep in My Heart"
starred Jose Ferrer, Ann Miller Merle Oberon, Walter Pigeon, Cyd
Charisse, James Mitchell and William Olvis (d.1998 at 70). It was
directed by Stanley Donen and was the story of composer Sigmund Romberg.
(TVM, 1975, p.133)(SFC, 12/9/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/18/08,
p.A2)
1954 The film "Demetrius and the
Gladiators" starred Victor Mature.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.A20)
1954 The film “Devil Girl From
Mars” featured British actress Hazel Court (1926-2008).
(SFC, 4/19/08, p.B5)
1954 The film "Dial M for Murder"
starred Grace Kelly and Ray Milland and was directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. It was based on the 1952 book by Frederick Knott (d.2002 at
86). In 2001 it was rated the #48 most thrilling film.
(TVM, 1975, p.140)(WSJ, 4/8/98, p.A20)(SFC, 6/14/01,
p.E5)(SFC, 12/24/02, p.A16)
1954 The British film "Doctor in
the House" starred Dirk Bogarde and Kenneth More. It was directed by
Ralph Thomas.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A20)
1954 The film "Donovan's Brain"
was produced.
(SFC, 2/6/04, p.E12)
1954 The Western film "Drum Beat"
starred Alan Ladd and Charles Bronson.
(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A2)
1954 The film "The Egyptian"
starred Victor Mature and Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.A20)(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1954 The film “Executive suite”
starred William Holden and Nina Foch. It was directed by Robert Wise.
(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)(SFC, 12/13/08, p.A5)
1954 The film "The French Line"
was produced.
(SFC, 2/6/04, p.E12)
1954 The film "Girl Gang" dealt
with drugs, blackmail and prostitution.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.52)
1954 The film "The Glenn Miller
Story" starred Jimmy Stewart and Frances Langford.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 7/12/05, p.B5)
1954 The film "Godzilla, King of
the Monsters" was released. It was produced by Japan’s Toho Co., headed
by Tomoyuki Tanaka (d.1997). Godzilla went on to star in 22 films.
(SFC, 4/3/97, p.C2)
1954 The film "The High and the
Mighty" starred Claire Trevor, Ann Doran (d.2000 at 89), Robert Stack
(d.2003), Jan Sterling (d.2004), Laraine Day and John Wayne.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C14)(SFC, 10/3/00, p.C2)(SFC,
3/30/04, p.B6)(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1954 Zvi Kolitz (d.2002 at 89)
wrote and co-produced "Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer," Israel’s 1st war of
independence movie.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A21)
1954 The film "Hobson’s Choice"
starred Charles Laughton, Brenda de Banzie and John Mills. It was based
on a 1915 play by Harold Brighouse, set in Manchester, England.
(WSJ, 1/16/02, p.A14)
1954 The film "The Iron Glove"
starred Robert Stack.
(SFC, 5/16/03, p.A2)
1954 The film "It Should Happen to
You" featured Jack Lemmon.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, Par p.22)
1954 The Western film "Johnny
Guitar" starred Joan Crawford and was directed by Nicholas Ray.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1954 The film "The Lawless Rider"
starred Johnny Carpenter.
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.A31)
1954 The film "The Law vs. Billy
the Kid" was screen written by Bernard Gordon. Gordon was blacklisted
and gave the credit to his friend John T. Williams.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.C10)
1954 The film "The Long, Long
Trailer" featured Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on their honeymoon.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E7)
1954 The Polish film "The Loop"
was directed by Wojciech Has.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.B2)
1954 The film "Magnificent
Obsession" starred Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. It was directed by
German emigre Douglas Sirk.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.E7)
1954 The film "Man Crazy" was
produced.
(SFC, 2/6/04, p.E12)
1954 The film "Night People"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1954 The US film "On the
Waterfront" starred Eva Marie Saint, Marlon Brando as an ex-boxer
working on the docks, Rod Steiger and Karl Malden. It was directed by
Elia Kazan and won 7 Oscars. It was rated # 8 by the Amer. Film Inst.
in 1998.
(SFC,
6/1/96,p.E7)(SFC,7/30/97,p.E3)(SFEC,1/4/98,Par. p.6)(USAT, 6/17/98,
p.9D)(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D5)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1954 The film "Peter Pan" with
Mary Martin was made from the Broadway play. It was shown to a national
TV audience in 1955 to help promote color TV.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFC, 12/30/03, p.D2)
1954 The film "Phantom of the Rue
Morgue" starred Karl Malden and Patricia Medina. It was directed by Roy
Del Ruth.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.556)
1954 The Italian film "The Poor
and the Noble" starred Toto (Antonio de Curtis) and Sophia Loren.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.D1)
1954 The film "The Purple Plain"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1954 The film "Red Garters"
starred Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson and Guy Mitchell. It was a
musical Western spoof.
(SFC, 7/6/99, p.B2)
1954 The film "Rear Window"
starred Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly and was directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. A photographer laid up in a wheelchair witnesses a murder
through his binoculars. It was rated #42 by the Amer. Film Inst. in
1998. In 2001 it was rated the #14 most thrilling film.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 2/20/98, p.C13)(SFEC,
6/14/98, DB p.51)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1954 The film "Riot In Cell Block
11" starred Leo Gordon.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B11)
1954 The film "River of No Return"
starred Robert Mitchum and Harry Monty (d.1999).
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A25)
1954 The romantic comedy film
"Sabrina" starred Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Audrey Hepburn.
It was directed by Billy Wilder and was based on a play by Samuel
Taylor. It was remade in 1995. Ernest Lehman (1916-2005) was the
screenwriter. In 2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFEC,11/2/97, DB p.63)(SFEC,11/16/97, DB p.16)(SFC,
5/27/00, p.A26)(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.47)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1954 The Japanese film "Sansho the
Bailiff" was produced.
(SFC, 10/12/97, DB p.53)
1954 The Italian film "Senso," a
historical romance, was made by Luchino Visconti.
(SFEM, 9/10/00, p.21)
1954 The film “Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers” was produced. In 2004 it was added to the National Film
Registry. Michael Kidd (1915-2007) choreographed the dancing.
(SFC, 12/31/04, p.E6)(SFC, 12/25/07, p.B6)
1954 The Japanese film "Seven
Samurai" (Shichinin no samurai) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was directed
by Akira Kurosawa. It was the basis for the American film "The
magnificent Seven."
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC,
9/7/98, p.A21)
1954 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "She Couldn’t Say No."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1954 The biblical film "The Silver
Chalice" starred Paul Newman (1925-2008) and E.G. Marshall. This was
Newman's debut film and he later bought an ad to apologize for it. It
was later considered one of the worst films ever made.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.33)(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A17)(SFEC,
5/9/99, Par p.2)
1954 The film "A Star Is Born"
starred Judy Garland and James Mason. It was directed by George Cukor
and produced by Sid Luft, the 3rd husband of Judy Garland. In 2000 it
was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1954 The film the "Steel Cage"
starred Maureen O’Sullivan.
(SJM, 6/24/98, p.4A)
1954 The Italian film "La Strada"
was directed by Federico Fellini.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.42)
1954 The film "Suddenly" with
Frank Sinatra was produced.
(SFEC,12/28/97, BR p.8)(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1954 The film “Susan Slept Here”
starred Debbie Reynolds.
(SFC, 4/2/08, p.B9)
1954 The film "Them" starred James
Arness and James Whitmore. Huge marauding ants get spawned by nuclear
experiments in the desert.
(SFC, 10/22/98, p.A7)
1954 The film "Three Coins in a
Fountain" starred Jean Peters.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
1954 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Track of the Cat."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1954 The film "20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea" was made with James Mason as Captain Nemo. It also
starred Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.
(WSJ, 5/20/96, p.A1) (SFC, 6/1/96, p.E7)
1954 The film "White Christmas"
starred Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Danny Kaye.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, DB p.36)(SSFC, 6/30/02, p.A20)
1954 The film "The Wild One"
starred Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin. It was directed by Laslo Benedek
and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stemmed from a photo in Life
magazine of a biker in Hollister, Ca. in 1947.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.56)(TVM, 1975, p.649)(SFC,
7/4/02, p.A18)
1954 The film "Young at Heart"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1955 The film "Abbott and
Costello" Meet the Mummy was produced.
(SFEC, 5/16/99, DB p.56)
1955 The film "Artists and Models"
starred Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.E3)(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1955 The film "Bad Day at
Blackrock" with Spencer Tracy was by John Sturges. [see 1954]
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.52)(WSJ, 8/14/97, p.A1)
1955 The film "The Big Knife"
starred Rod Steiger.
(SFEC, 12/5/99, DB p.62)
1955 The film "The Blackboard
Jungle" starred Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier. It was directed by
Richard Brooks.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.56)(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par
p.18)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.B3)
1955 The film “Blood Alley”
starred John Wayne and Lauren Bacall. Director William Wellman fired
Robert Mitchum from the cast for dunking a studio worker during a shoot
into SF Bay.
(SFC, 1/7/05, p.F6)
1955 Jean-Pierre Melville directed
his French classic noir thriller "Bob le Flambeur."
(SFC, 2/28/97, p.D3)
1955 The film “The Cobweb” starred
Richard Widmark.
(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1955 The film "Confidential
Report" (aka Mr. Arkadin) was directed by Orson Welles with music by
Paul Misraki.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)
1955 The film "The Court Martial
of Billy Mitchell" starred Rod Steiger, Darren McGavin Peter Graves.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFEC, 6/28/98, Par p.26)
1955 The French thriller film
"Diabolique" was directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It was remade in
1996 with Sharon Stone.
(WSJ, 3/22/96, p.A10)(SFEC, 2/1/98, DB p.59)(SFEC,
8/1/99, DB p.48)
1955 The film "The Days of Dylan
Thomas" was made by Rollie McKenna (d.2003).
(SFC, 7/15/03, p.A19)
1955 The Elia Kazan film "East of
Eden" with James Dean and Jo Van Fleet (1915-1996) was directed by Elia
Kazan. It was a reworking of the biblical account of Cain and Abel and
won an Academy Award.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A21)(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.51)(SSFC,
2/29/04, p.C5)
1955 The Mexican film “Ensayo de
un Crimen” (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz) was directed by
Luis Bunuel and featured Ernesto Alonso.
(SFC, 8/9/07, p.B5)
1955 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "The Far Country."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1955 The film "Father Panchali"
was directed by Satyajit Ray. It was about a poor boy growing up in
Bengal.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)
1955 The film "Francis in the
Navy" starred Clint Eastwood and a mule. 7 talking mule films were made
between 1950-1956 based on a 1946 collection of short stories by David
Sterns III (d.2003 at 94).
(SFC, 12/3/96, p.E1,3)
1955 The film "Gentlemen Marry
Brunettes" starred Gwen Verdon.
(SFEC, 12/20/98, Par p.14)
1955 The film "The Girlfriends"
was by Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1955 The film "The Girl on the Red
Velvet Swing" featured the 1906 murder of architect, philanderer,
Stanford White.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, BR p.3)
1955 The film "Good Morning Miss
Dove" starred Robert Stack.
(SFC, 5/16/03, p.A2)
1955 The film "Guys and Dolls"
featured Stubby Kaye and starred Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Marlon
Brando and was directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. It was based on the 1950
Broadway musical which was based on several Damon Runyon short stories.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)(SFEC, 9/27/98, DB p.51)
1955 The western film "Hidden
Guns" featured Faron Young.
(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1955 The film "Hit the Deck"
starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1955 Christopher Isherwood wrote
"Goodbye to Berlin" in 1939. It included a story about a singer called
Sally Bowles that became the basis for the 1951 play "I Am a Camera,"
the 1955 film "I Am a Camera," the 1966 musical play "Caberet" and the
1972 musical film "Cabaret."
(WSJ, 3/23/98, p.A20)
1955 The Japanese film "I Live in
Fear" starred Toshiro Mifune as an elderly nuclear protestor.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)
1955 The film "Indian Fighter"
starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1955 The film "The Indiscreet Mrs.
Jarvis" was an Alan Smithee production.
(SFC, 2/26/98, p.E4)
1955 The science fiction thriller
film "It Came From Beneath the Sea" was produced by Charles Schneer
(1920-2009). Ray Harryhausen directed the animation.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.D5)(SSFC, 5/16/04, p.M6)(SFC,
1/27/09, p.B4)
1955 The film "Interrupted Melody"
was the story of opera star Marjorie Lawrence and featured the voice of
Eileen Farrell (d.2002).
(SFC, 3/25/02, p.B5)
1955 The film “It’s Always Fair
Weather” starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.
(SFC, 6/18/08, p.A2)
1955 The film "The Kentuckian"
starred Burt Lancaster and Walter Matthau. Lancaster also directed.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5,C2)
1955 The film "Killer's Kiss" was
directed by Stanley Kubrick.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)
1955 The noir film "Kiss Me
Deadly" with Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer was directed by Robert
Aldrich. A private eye chases after a suitcase with nuclear material.
It was added to the National Registry of films in 1999.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFC, 7/6/98, p.D1)(SFC,
11/18/99, p.E10)
1955 The film "Lady and the Tramp"
was produced. It featured the voice of Peggy Lee.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.63)
1955 The film "Ladykillers"
starred Alec Guinness. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick
(d.1993).
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A16)
1955 The film "Land of the
Pharaohs" was produced.
(SFC, 6/18/97, p.E3)
1955 The animated Disney film "The
Littlest Outlaw" was produced.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A18)
1955 The film "Lola Montes"
starred Martine Carol and was directed by Max Ophuls.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, DB p.50)
1955 The film "Love Is a Many
Splendored Thing" starred Jennifer Jones and William Holden.
(SFC, 5/29/00, p.A26)
1955 The film "Love Me or Leave
Me" starred James Cagney and Doris Day as singer Ruth Etting. The
script by Daniel Fuchs won a 1955 Oscar.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, DB p.46)(WSJ, 6/8/05, p.D14)
1955 The film "A Man Called Peter"
starred Jean Peters in her last film.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
1955 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "The Man From Laramie." The screenplay was by Philip Yordan.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1955 The film "Man Without a Star"
starred Jeanne Crain and Kirk Douglas. It was directed by King Vidor.
(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)(MoTV, 1977, p.455)
1955 The film "The Man with the
Golden Arm" by Otto Preminger was produced. It starred Frank Sinatra,
Kim Novak and Darren McGavin and was a daring film on drug addiction.
The jazz score was by Elmer Bernstein.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(TVM, 1975, p.364)(SSFC, 2/26/06,
p.B8)
1955 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Man With the Gun."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1955 The film "Marty" starred
Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. It was directed by Delbert Mann
(1920-2007). The script was by Paddy Chayevsky and was originally a TV
play.
(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.W11)(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1955 The film "The McConnell
Story" starred June Allyson.
(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.D8)
1955 The film "Mr. Roberts"
starred Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Matthau won best
supporting actor for his role.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFEC,
4/5/98, Par p.22)
1955 The film "My Sister Eileen"
was the first that Bob Fosse choreographed on his own. It was a musical
version of the 1942 movie.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.40)
1955 The documentary film "Night
and Fog" by Alain Resnais was about the Nazi concentration camps.
(WSJ, 2/5/99, p.W2)
1955 The film "The Night of the
Hunter" with Robert Mitchum, Peter Graves, Shelley Winters and Lillian
Gish was directed by Charles Laughton. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic. It was Laughton's only film as
director. In 2001 it was rated the #35 most thrilling film.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)(SFEC,
6/28/98, Par p.26)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1955 The Italian film "Nights of
Cabiria" with Giulietta Masina was directed by Fellini.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)
1955 The film "Not as a Stranger"
starred Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and Olivia de Havilland. It was
directed by Stanley Kramer. It was based on a novel by Morton Thompson
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(TVM, 1975,
p.412)
1955 The Rodgers and Hammerstein
musical film "Oklahoma" starred Rod Steiger and was directed by Fred
Zinnemann. In 2007 it was added as a classic to the American national
registry.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A6)(SFC,
12/28/07, p.E3)
1955 The Indian film "Pather
Panchali" by Satyajit Ray (d.1992) was produced. It was based on the
Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and was directly
influenced by Vittorio De Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief” (1948).
(SFC, 4/30/97, p.E6)(Econ, 6/18/05, p.80)
1955 The film "Picnic" by Joshua
Logan starred William Holden, Susan Strasberg (d.1999 at 60) and Kim
Novak. The music was by George Dunning.
(SFC, 8/16/96, p.D14)(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A19)(SFC,
3/3/00, p.D5)
1955 The film "The "Private War of
Major Benson" starred Charlton Heston as an Army Major who takes
command of an ROTC program at a children’s academy.
(SFC, 2/15/03, p.A25)
1955 The film "The Purple Plain"
starred Gregory Peck and was directed by Robert Parrish. The screenplay
was by Eric Ambler.
(TVM, 1975, p.460)(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A22)
1955 The film "Queen Bee" starred
Joan Crawford as a control freak.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.52)
1955 The film "Rebel Without a
Cause" starred James Dean, Corey Allen, Natalie wood and Sal Mineo as
Plato. It was rated #59 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC,10/27/96, DB p.56)(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.48)(WSJ,
6/17/98, p.A14)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC, 12/27/98, Z1 p.8)
1955 The Japanese film "Record of
a Living Being" (Ikimono no kiroku) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was
directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)
1955 The film "Revenge of the
Creature" starred Clint Eastwood in his first role.
(SFC, 12/3/96, p.E3)(SFC,10/31/97, p.C7)
1955 The film "Richard III"
starred John Gielgud.
(SFC, 5/23/00, p.A13)
1955 The French noir film "Rififi"
starred Marie Sabouret and Jean Servais. It was directed by Jules
Dassin.
(SFEC, 11/5/00, DB p.58)
1955 The film "The Road to
Paradise" featured Georges Guetary (d.1997 at 82), the Egyptian-born
crooner.
(SFC, 9/19/97, p.A22)
1955 The film "The Seven Little
Foys" starred Bob Hope, and James Cagney. It was about a vaudeville
family that crisscrossed the country from 1912-1928. Bob Hope played
vaudevillian Eddie Foy. This was the debut film of director Melville
Shavelson (1917-2007), who also did the screenplay.
(SFC, 4/25/03, A29)(SFC, 8/10/07, p.B9)
1955 The film "The Seven Year
Itch" was directed by Billy Wilder. It starred Marilyn Monroe,
Marguerite Chapman, Evelyn Keyes and Tom Ewell and was based on a 1952
play by George Axelrod (d.2003).
(TVM, 1975, p.509)(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A25)(SFC, 7/12/08,
p.B5)
1955 The film "Smiles of a Summer
Night" featured Jarl Kulle (d. 1997 at 70) and was directed by Ingmar
Bergman.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A20)
1955 The film "Strategic Air
Command" starred James Stewart and June Allyson.
(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.D8)(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B5)
1955 The film "Summertime" starred
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi and Darren McGavin (d.2006 at 83).
(SSFC, 4/1/01, DB p.37)
1955 The film "Tarantula" starred
Clint Eastwood.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.6)(SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A1)
1955 The film "The Tender Trap"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1955 The sci-fi film "This Island
Earth" was produced.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.A6)
1955 Alfred Hitchcock made "To
Catch a Thief" with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A12)(SFC, 4/18/97, p.D7)
1955 The Italian film "Toto
Against the Four" starred Toto.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.D1)
1955 The film "The Treasure of
Ruby Hills" was based on a story by Louis L’Amour. It starred Zachary
Scott, Carole Matthews and Barton MacLane.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.55)
1955 The film "Ulysses" starred
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn and Silvana Mangano.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.12E)
1955 The prison film "Unchained"
featured the theme song Unchained Melody written by Alex North.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A21)
1955 The film "Vanishing American"
was based on the Zane Grey book. The original was made in 1924.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.T10)
1955 The film "The Virgin Queen"
starred Bette Davis, Joan Collins and Richard Todd.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, DB p.45)
1955 The film "We're No Angels"
featured Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1955 The film "Woman's Prison"
starred Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Mae Clark, Cleo Moore, Juanita Moore,
Audrey Totter and Gertrude Michael.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.52)
1956 Mar 21, 50 years ago, "Marty"
won best picture at the Academy Awards; its star, Ernest Borgnine, won
best actor. Anna Magnani won best actress for "The Rose Tattoo."
(AP, 3/21/06)
1956 The film “All That Heaven
Allows” starred Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson and Virginia Grey. It was
directed by Ross Hunter.
(SFC, 8/7/04, p.B6)
1956 The film "Anastasia with
Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner was produced. Bergman won an Oscar for
her role.
(SFEC, 7/20/97, BR p.6)(SFEC,11/16/97, DB p.56)(SFC,
3/15/02, p.D1)
1956 The film "And God Created
Woman" with Brigitte Bardot was directed by Roger Vadim (d.2000 at 72).
The music was by Paul Misraki.
(SFC, 9/25/96, p.A9)(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)(SFC,
2/12/00, p.A21)
1956 The film "Around the World in
80 Days was produced by Mike Todd. It won an Oscar for best picture. It
featured Frank Sinatra in a cameo role.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(SFC,
5/16/98, p.E6)
1956 The film "Baby Doll" starred
Karl Malden and Carroll Baker. It was directed by Elia Kazan.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.43)
1956 The film "The Bad Seed"
starred Patty McCormack as the evil child Rhoda Penmark.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, DB p.44)
1956 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Bandido."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1956 The film "The Benny Goodman
Story" starred Steve Allen as Benny Godman.
(SFC, 11/1/00, p.A19)
1956 The film "Bigger Than Life"
starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1956 The film "The Brave One" was
directed by Irving Rapper. It was the story of a Mexican boy and a bull
and was written by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo under the pseudonym Robert
Rich.
(SFC, 12/30/99, p.C6)
1956 The film "Bus Stop" starred
Marilyn Monroe and Hope Lange.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.46)(SFEC, 7/11/99, DB
p.41)(SFC, 12/22/03, p.A20)
1956 A film version of the
Broadway musical "Carousel" was produced.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, DB p.41)
1956 The film "Court Jester" with
Angela Lansbury was produced. In 2004 it was added to the National Film
Registry.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, Par p.18)(SFC, 12/31/04, p.E6)
1956 The film "The Eddie Duchin
Story" was produced with music by George Dunning.
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.D5)
1956 The film "Fastest Gun Alive"
starred Jeanne Crain and Glenn Ford. It was directed by Russell Rouse.
(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)(MoTV, 1977, p.231
1956 The science fiction classic
"Forbidden Planet" was produced. It featured the Krell, a race of
beings who have evolved beyond their bodies and exist as pure thought.
They built a powerful reactor that instantly produced and delivered
anything that the mind could visualize.
(Wired, Dec. '95, p.202)(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.D1)
1956 The film "Foreign Intrigue"
starred Robert Mitchum and Ingrid Thulin (d.2004).
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A21)
1956 The film "Friendly
Persuasion" was produced.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)
1956 The film "Full of Life" was
directed by Richard Quine and starred Judy Holliday and Salvatore
Baccaloni. The screenplay was by John Fante.
(TVM, 1975, p.199)(SFC, 3/30/00, p.E7)
1956 The film "Giant" with
Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean by George Stevens was set
in Marfa, Texas, 120 northwest of Big Bend Nat’l. Park. The story was
based on a book by Edna Ferber. It was rated #82 by the Amer. Film
Inst. in 1998. In 2005 it was selected for preservation by the US
National Film Registry.
(SFEC, 9/15/96, p.T5)(SFEM, 11/24/96, p.8)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 12/28/05, p.E6)
1956 The film "The Girl Can’t Help
It" with Jayne Mansfield was by Frank Tashlin and featured music by
Fats Domino, Little Richard and the Platters.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)
1956 The film “The Girl He Left
Behind” featured comedian Alan King (d.2004).
(SFC, 5/10/04, p.A2)
1956 The film "The Great American
Pastime" starred tap dancer Ann Miller.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)
1956 The film "The Great Man"
starred Julie London (d.2000 at 74). It was directed by Jose Ferrer.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A29)
1956 The film "Gunfight at the
O.K. Corral" starred Kirk Douglas and was directed by John Sturges.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, Par p.12)
1956 The film "The Harder They
Fall" starred Rod Steiger and Humphrey Bogart. This was Bogart's last
film. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB
p.37)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1956 The Cole Porter musical film
"High Society" was produced. It was based on the Philip Barry play and
film "The Philadelphia Story." It starred Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and
Frank Sinatra.
(SFEC, 8/24/97, DB p.39)(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A20)
1956 The film "A Hill in Korea"
with Michael Caine (born as Maurice Mickelwhite) was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)
1956 The B film “Hot Rod Girl”
featured Frank Gorshin (1933-2005).
(SFC, 5/19/05, p.B7)
1956 The film "The Incredible
Shrinking Man" opened.
(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.15)
1956 The 4* science fiction film
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" starred Kevin McCarthy and was
directed by Don Siegel. It was remade in 1978 by Philip Kaufman. In
2001 it was rated the #47 most thrilling film.
(WSJ, 7/3/97, p.A9)(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B3)(SFEC,
8/1/99, DB p.48)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1956 The film "Iron Petticoat"
starred Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope.
(SFC, 6/30/03, p.A11)(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1956 The film "Johnny Concho"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1956 The film "Julie" starred
Doris Day.
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.C5)
1956 The film "A Kid for Two
Farthings" was directed by Carol Reed and based on the novel by Wolf
Mankowitz. It was about a London boy who buys a little goat thinking
him to be a unicorn.
(TVM, 1975, p.303)(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D7)
1956 The film "The Killing"
starred Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor and Elisha Cook and was directed
by Stanley Kubrick.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)(SFC, 3/12/99, p.D15)
1956 The film "The King and I"
starred Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno and Deborah Kerr. It was directed by
Jerome Robbins and Walter Lang and was banned in Thailand. Ernest
Lehman was the screenwriter.
(TVM, 1975, p.305)(SFEC, 2/9/97, DB p.58)(SFEC,
9/20/98, DB p.54)(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.47)
1956 The film "The Lone Ranger"
starred Clayton Moore.
(SFC, 12/29/99, p.A11)
1956 The film "Love Me Tender"
with Elvis Presley premiered Oct 16.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)(MC, 10/16/01)
1956 The film "Lust for Life"
starred Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Paul
Gauguin. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on a novel by
Irving Stone.
(SFC, 5/24/99, p.D2)(SSFC, 2/18/01, DB p.52)
1956 The film "A Man Escaped" was
directed by Robert Bresson. It won the 1957 best director award at
Cannes.
(SFC, 12/22/99, p.A27)
1956 The film "The Man in the Gray
Flannel Suit" starred Gregory Peck.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)
1956 The film "The Man Who Knew
Too Much" starred Jimmy Stewart, Doris Day and Hillary Brooke. It was
directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his 2nd version following the 1934
original. It featured the song "Que Sera Sera" by Jay Livingston and
Ray Evans."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.50)(SSFC,
11/26/00, DB p.55)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D5)
1956 The film "Meet Me in Las
Vegas" featured Frank Sinatra in a cameo.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1956 The film “Miracle in the
Rain” starred Jane Wyman and Van Johnson.
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.A2)
1956 The film "Moby Dick" with
Gregory Peck was made by John Huston.
(USAT, 2/11/97, p.D1)
1956 The Puerto Rican film
"Modesta" was directed by Benji Doniger. It was named a Library of
Congress Classic in 1998.
(SFC, 11/30/98, p.D3)
1956 The film "The Mole People"
with Hugh Beaumont was made.
(WSJ, 2/10/96, p.A16)
1956 The film "The Monolith
Monsters" was produced. The extraterrestrials were gigantic slabs of
meteoritic crystal.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.6)
1956 The film "Notre Dame de
Paris" starred Anthony Quinn and Gina Lollobrigida as the hunchback and
his paramour.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.D6)
1956 The film "Oklahoma Woman" was
directed by Roger Corman.
(SFEM, 6/27/99, p.6)
1956 The documentary film "On the
Bowery" was made by Lionel Rogosin (d.2000 at 76). It depicted life on
New York’s skid row and reflected alienation in American society.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.B4)
1956 The film "Operation Murder"
starred Rosamund John.
(SFC, 11/4/98, p.C7)
1956 The film "The Opposite Sex"
starred Ann Miller. It was a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film "The
Women." It was based on a play by Clare Boothe Luce.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.E5)(SFEC, 3/9/96, Par
p.2)(SFEC,11/2/97, DB p.62)
1956 The film "Patterns" featured
Sallie Gracie (d.2001 at 80). It was based on a Rod Serling story that
was done as a teleplay in 1955.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.E3)(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.A31)
1956 The film “The Rack” starred
Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1956 The film "The Rainmaker"
starred Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. It was based on the
Broadway play by Richard Nash.
(USAT, 11/12/99, p.1E)
1956 The film "Ransom" featured
Leslie Nielson.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, DB p.56)
1956 The French film "The Red
Balloon" was produced. It won an Academy Award.
(WSJ, 11/1/02, p.A1)
1956 The film "The Searchers"
starred John Wayne and was directed by John Ford. It was later selected
as a Library of Congress film classic. It was rated #96 by the Amer.
Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC,11/2/97, DB p.62)(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)
1956 The film "The Seventh Seal"
was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1956 The film “Somebody Up There
Likes Me” starred Paul Newman. It was directed by Robert Wise.
(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)
1956 The film "The Swan" with
Grace Kelly, Louis Jordan and Alec Guinness was produced. It was based
on the play by Ferenc Molnar.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A20)
1956 The film “Tea and Sympathy”
starred John Kerr.
(SSFC, 8/29/04, Par p.2)
1956 The film "The Ten
Commandments" starred Charlton Heston and Yvonne De Carlo. This was the
last film made by Cecil B. De Mille. In 1996 dollars it grossed $602
mil. It was added to the National Registry of films in 1999.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.D11)(WSJ, 3/19/98, p.R4)(SFC,
11/18/99, p.E10)
1956 The film "That Certain
Feeling" featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1956 The film "Trapeze" starred
Tony Curtis.
(SFEC, 1/24/99, DB p.37)
1956 The film “War and Peace”
starred Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda. The cinematography was by Jack
Cardiff (1914-2009).
(SFC, 4/24/09, p.B7)(MoTV, 1977, p.775)
1956 The noir film “While the City
Sleeps” was directed by Fritz Lang. It was based on the 1952 book
“Bloody Spur” by Charles Einstein (1926-2007). Einstein based his book
on the crimes of William Heirens, the “Lipstick Killer,” who terrorized
Chicago in the mid-1940s. The film was set in NYC.
(SSFC, 3/11/07, p.B6)
1956 The film "The Wild Party"
starred Anthony Quinn and was directed by Harry Horner.
(SFC, 11/14/98, p.A23)
1956 The film "The Wings of
Eagles" starred Maureen O'Hara.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, Par p.16)
1956 The film "Written on the
Wind" starred Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson and Dorothy
Malone. It was directed by German emigre Douglas Sirk.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.E1)
1956 The Scottish sci-fi film "X
the Unknown" starred Ian MacNaughton.
(SFC, 1/4/03, p.A15)
1956 The film "Young Strangers"
was directed by John Frankenheimer (1930-2002). This was his feature
film debut.
(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)
1957 Mar 27, In the 29th Academy
Awards "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1957 Oct 2, The World War II drama
"The Bridge on the River Kwai," directed by David Lean, premiered in
Britain. The film opened in the United States the following December.
(AP, 10/2/07)
1957 Oct 17, The movie "Jailhouse
Rock," starring Elvis Presley, had its world premiere in Memphis, Tenn.
(AP, 10/17/07)
1957 Oct 25, The movie musical
"Pal Joey," starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak, was
released.
(AP, 10/25/07)
1957 Oct 29, Louis B. Mayer
(b.1885), Belarus born MGM producer, died. In 2005 Scott Eyman authored
“Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer.”
(www.answers.com/topic/louis-b-mayer)
1957 Dec 11, The movie "Peyton
Place," based on the novel by Grace Metalious, had its world premiere
in Camden, Maine, where most of it had been filmed.
(AP, 12/11/07)
1957 Dec 26, The Ingmar Bergman
film "Wild Strawberries," starring Victor Sjostrom, opened in Sweden.
(AP, 12/26/07)
1957 The film "All at Sea"
featured Jackie Collins (16).
(SSFC, 8/4/02, Par p.14)
1957 The film "An Affair to
Remember" starred Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning and Cary Grant.
It was a remake of the 1939 movie "Love Affair," written in part by
Donald Ogden Stewart, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.C10)
1957 The 2* film "April Love" with
Pat Boone was about a city boy who moves to a horse farm.
(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B3)
1957 The film “Band of Angels”
starred Clark Gable, Sidney Poitier, and Yvonne De Carlo.
(AP, 1/11/07)
1957 The film "Beau James"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1957 The film "The Big Land"
starred Julie Bishop (d.2001 at 87) in her last film.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A21)
1957 The Japanese film “Black
River” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1957 The film "Bombers B-52"
starred Karl Malden and Natalie Wood. It was directed by Gordon Douglas.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.89)
1957 Alex Guinness, William Holden
and Jack Hawkins starred in the film "Bridge on the River Kwai." Carl
Foreman was the screenwriter. It premiered at the RKO Palace Theater in
New York City on Dec 18 and later won multiple Oscars. It was rated #13
by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. Holden was the 1st Hollywood actor to
earn a $ 1 million for a film.
(WSJ, 2/27/96, p.A19)(SFEC, 9/8/96, DB p.8)(AP,
12/18/97)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(WSJ, 4/6/00, p.A20)
1957 The film "The Buster Keaton
Story" starred Donald O'Connor.
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A33)
1957 The film "China Gate" with
Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson and Nat "King" Cole was directed by Sam
Fuller.
(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)
1957 The "Curse of Frankenstein"
featured Hazel Court. It was a British Hammer Film production with a
score by James Bernard.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.66)(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C16)(SFC,
4/19/08, p.B5)
1957 The film "The Deadly Mantis"
with Craig Stevens, William Hopper and Alix Talton was made.
(WSJ, 2/10/96, p.A16)
1957 The film "The Delicate
Delinquent" starred Jerry Lewis.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1957 The film "The Delinquents"
was written and directed by Robert Altman.
(SFC, 11/22/06, p.A14)
1957 The film "Designing Woman"
starred Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall. It was directed by Vincente
Minnelli.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)(SFEC, 11/21/99, Par
p.30)(SFEC, 3/5/00, DB p.43)
1957 The film “Desire Under the
Elms” was directed by Delbert Mann.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1957 The film "Desk Set" starred
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, DB p.37)
1957 The film "Dragstrip Girl"
starred Fay Spain and Frank Gorshin. It was directed by Edward L. Cahn
and became a pulp classic.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A18)(SFC, 5/31/03, p.D1)(SSFC,
6/28/03, p.A31)
1957 The film "Elevator to the
Gallows" was screened at Cannes.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.D5)
1957 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Enemy Below."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1957 The film "Escape from San
Quentin" included Don Devlin (d.2000 at 70).
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.C4)
1957 The film "A Face in the
Crowd" starred Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Anthony
Franciosa and Lee Remick. It was directed by Elia Kazan.
(WSJ, 9/14/98, p.A30)(SFEC, 4/4/99, DB p.39)(SFC,
7/3/00, p.B5)
1957 The film "The Fall T" was
produced. In 2000 it was selected for preservation in the National Film
Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1957 The film "Fear Strikes Out"
starred Karl Malden and Anthony Perkins. It was directed by Robert
Mulligan.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.234)
1957 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Fire Down Below."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1957 The film “Full of Life”
featured Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969), Italian opera basso buffa and
actor.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Baccaloni)
1957 The musical film "Funny Face"
starred Fred Astaire, Suzy Parker (d.2003 at 69) and Audrey Hepburn. It
was directed by Stanley Donen.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.41)(SFC, 5/6/03, p.A16)
1957 The film "The Girl Most
Likely" was a remake and screen written by Paul Jarrico.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)
1957 The film “Glimpse of the
Garden” was produced. In 2007 it was added as a classic to the American
national registry.
(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1957 The film "Gun Battle at
Monterey" was filmed at Monterey, Ca.
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.C5)
1957 The film “Gun for a Coward”
starred Fred MacMurray and was directed by Abner Biberman.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0049285/)
1957 The film “Hatful of Rain”
starred Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006) and was directed by Frank
Zinnemann. It was based on a Broadway play by Michael Gazzo.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)(MoTV, 1977, p.306)
1957 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1957 The film "The Helen Morgan
Story" was a biopic on torch singer Helen Morgan and featured Paul
Newman. The screenplay was by Dean Riesner (d.2002 at 83).
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A20)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1957 The film "Hellcats of the
Navy" starred Arthur Franz, Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Davis. It
was produced by Charles Schneer (1920-2009))
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)(SFC, 6/20/06, p.B5)(SFC,
1/27/09, p.B4)
1957 The film "Il Grido" (The
City) starred Steve Cochran and was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1957 The film "Island in the Sun"
starred Dolores Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, John Justin and Joan
Fontaine. It was directed by Robert Rossen and was filmed in Barbados
and Grenada.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.45)
1957 The black and white film "I
Was a Teenage Frankenstein" was directed by Herbert L. Strock.
(TVM, 1977, p.343)
1957 The film "I Was a Teenage
Werewolf" starred Michael Landon and was directed by Gene Fowler
(d.1998 at 80). It was produced by Herman Cohen.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.E1)(SFC, 5/15/98, p.D7)(SFC,
6/10/02, p.B6)
1957 The black and white film
"Invasion of the Saucer Men" was about Martians menacing a lover’s lane.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.E1)
1957 The film "Jailhouse Rock"
with Elvis Presley was produced. In 2004 it was added to the National
Film Registry.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)(SFC, 12/31/04, p.E6)
1957 The film "The James Dean
Story" was directed by Robert Altman.
(SFC, 11/22/06, p.A14)
1957 Walt Disney's movie "Johnny
Tremain" was released in movie theaters.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1957 The film "The Joker Is Wild"
starred Frank Sinatra and Jeanne Crain.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)
1957 The Polish film "Kanal" was
made by Andrzej Wajda.
(SFEC, 3/19/00, DB p.52)
1957 The film "A King in New York"
was made by Charlie Chaplin.
(SFEC, 12/13/98, BR p.6)
1957 The Japanese film "Kisses" by
Yasuzo Masumura (d.1986 at 62) marked the director’s debut.
(SFC, 9/2/97, p.E1)
1957 The film "Kiss Them for Me"
starred Carry Grant and Suzy Parker. It featured the film debut of Ray
Walston.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A17)(SFC, 5/6/03, p.A16)
1957 The sci-fi film "Kronos" was
produced.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1957 The Italian film "La Grande
Strada Azzurra" ("The Wide Blue Road") starred Yves Montand and Alida
Valli. The tale of a fishing community was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
(1919-2006).
(AP, 10/13/06)
1957 The French film "Les
Miserables" was produced.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.D6)
1957 The film "Les Mistons" was
the first film directed by Francois Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1957 The film "Let’s All Go to the
Lobby" was produced. In 2000 it was selected for preservation in the
National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1957 The film "Look Homeward
Angel" was directed by George Roy Hill and based on a novel by Thomas
Wolfe.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A2)
1957 The film "Love in the
Afternoon" starred Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn and was directed by
Billy Wilder.
(TVM, 1975, p.342)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A14)
1957 The film "Loving You" with
Elvis Presley was produced. It featured his parents as extras.
(SFEC, 3/9/96, Z1 p.5)
1957 The film "The Lower Depths"
starred Toshiro Mifune in a version of the Gorky story. It was directed
by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1957 The film "A Man Escaped" by
Robert Bresson was based on the true story of French General Andre
Devigny. Bresson won the best director award at Cannes for his work.
(SFC, 2/19/99, p.E2)
1957 The film "Man in the Shadow"
starred Jeff Chandler and Orson Welles.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.55)
1957 The film "Man of a Thousand
Faces" starred Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer and James Cagney as Lon
Chaney. The screenplay was by Ivan Goff (d.1999 at 89) and Ben Roberts.
It was directed by Joseph Pevney.
(TVM, 1975, p.360)(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A21)
1957 The noir film "The Midnight
Story" starred Tony Curtis.
(SFC, 1/14/03, p.D2)
1957 The film "Monkey on My Back"
starred Cameron Mitchell as a boxer addicted to morphine. It was
directed by Andre de Toth.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
1957 The French film "The Night
Heaven Fell" (Les Bijoutiers du Clair-de-lune) was directed by Roger
Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1957 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Night Passage."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1957 The film "Nights of Cabiria"
by Federico Fellini featured his wife, Giulietta Masina, as a Roman
prostitute.
(WSJ, 8/7/98, p.W4)
1957 The French film "No Sun in
Venice" (Sait-on Jamais?) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1957 The film "Old Yeller" starred
Tomy Kirk, Fess Parker and Dorothy McGuire and the dog named Spike. It
was set in Texas in 1869.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.63)
1957 The film Omar Khayyam starred
Debra Paget.
(SSFC, 8/15/04, Par p.2)
1957 The UN produced film "Out"
was about Hungarian refugees with a script by John Hersey.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E4)
1957 The film "The Pajama Game"
starred Doris Day, Carol Haney and John Raitt.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.40)
1957 The film "Pal Joey" starred
Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth. It was an adaptation of a
Rogers and Hart musical. Director George Sidney filmed part of it at
the Sprechel’s Mansion on Washington and Octavia in San Francisco.
(SFC, 1/15/98, p.E7)(SFC, 10/22/99, p.C3)(SFC,
4/17/09, p.E8)
1957 The film "The Parson and the
Outlaw" starred Buddy Rogers.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.D2)
1957 The film "Pather Panchali
from India" was directed by Satyajit Ray.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1957 The film "Paths of Glory" was
about a WW I mutiny within a French army unit. It starred Kirk Douglas
and was directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was banned in France by Pres.
Charles de Gaulle.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, DB p.58)
1957 The film "Peyton Place"
starred Hope Lange (d.2003 at 70) and Lee Philips (d.1999 at 72).
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A23)(SFC, 12/22/03, p.A20)
1957 The film "Pride and the
Passion" starred Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren. It was
directed by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A24)(SFC,
2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.454)
1957 The film "Raintree County"
starred Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint and Lee
Marvin. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk.
(TVM, 1975, p.466)(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)
1957 The film "Saint Joan" starred
Jean Seberg and Richard Widmark. It was directed by Otto Preminger and
was an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "St. Joan" about Joan
of Arc.
(SFEC, 12/5/99, DB p.59)(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1957 The film "Sayanora" starred
Miyoshi Umeki (1929-2007) and Red Buttons. It was based on a novel by
James Michener. Umeki and Buttons won Oscars for their supporting roles.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, DB p.44)(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A17)
1957 The dance musical film "Silk
Stockings" starred Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire. It was directed by
Rouben Mamoulian. It was a remake of the film "Ninotchka."
(SFEC, 9/20/98, DB p.54)
1957 The film "Slaughter on Tenth
Avenue" starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1957 The film “Slippery When Wet”
was shot by Bruce Brown. Dale Velzy (1927-2005), pioneer surfboard
builder, helped launch the surfing-movie genre by funding Brown to
shoot the film in Hawaii.
(SFC, 5/31/05, p.B4)
1957 The film "Something of Value"
starred Wendy Hiller.
(SFC, 5/17/03, p.A16)
1957 The film "The Spirit of St.
Louis" starred Jimmy Stewart and was directed by Billy Wilder.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A14)
1957 The western film "Spoilers of
the Forest" starred Rod Cameron, Hillary Brooke (d.1999 at 84) and Vera
Ralston.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.C7)
1957 The film "Spring Reunion"
starred Betty Hutton and Dana Andrews.
(SFEC, 8/6/00, DB p.60)
1957 The film "The Story of
Mankind" starred Hedy Lamarr.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.A10)
1957 The 3* drama film "The Sun
Also Rises" with Tyrone Power was based on the Hemingway novel.
(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B3)
1957 The film "The Sweet Smell of
Success" starred Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster as gossip columnist
J.J. Hunsecker. The music was by jazz drummer Chico Hamilton. It was
based on a 1950 novella “Tell Me About It Tomorrow” by Ernest Lehman,
who was co-screenwriter with Clifford Odets. It was directed by
Alexander Mackendrick (d.1993).
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB
p.48)(SFEC, 10/17/99, DB p.46)(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.47)(WSJ, 3/25/02,
p.A16)(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
1957 The film "Syanora" starred
Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki. Buttons and Umeki won Oscars.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, DB p.58)
1957 The film "Tall T" starred
Randolph Scott and Maureen O’Sullivan. It was shot in Lone Pine, Ca.
and was directed by Bud Boetticher. In 2000 it was selected for
preservation in the National Film Registry.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, p.T3)(SJM, 6/24/98, p.4A)(SFC,
12/28/00, p.D5)
1957 The film "Tammy and the
Bachelor" starred Debbie Reynolds.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, DB p.28)
1957 The film "Tarnished Angels"
with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack was produced. It was
based on "Pylon" by William Faulkner and was directed by Douglas Sirk.
(SFEM, 12/8/96, p.8)(SFC, 7/28/99, p.E1)
1957 The film "Tattered Dress"
starred Jeanne Crain and Jeff Chandler.
(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)
1957 The film "Teenage Doll" by
Roger Corman was about a restless teenager who joins a girl gang.
(SFEM, 8/16/98, p.3)(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.52)
1957 The film “This Could Be the
Night” starred Anthony Franciosa.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)
1957 The Japanese film "Throne of
Blood" (Kumonosujo) starred Toshiro Mifune in the Kurosawa directed
reworking of Macbeth in the stylized manner of Noh drama. It was
directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC,
9/7/98, p.A21)
1957 The film "Thunder Road" with
Robert Mitchum was produced. It was about moonshiners in the hills of
the Smokey Mountains.
(DFP, 7/28/96, p.J3)
1957 The film "3:10 to Yuma" with
Van Heflin and Glenn Ford was produced. It was based on a novel by
Elmore Leonard.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.51)(SFEC, 12/27/98, BR p.6)
1957 The Sidney Lumet film drama
"Twelve Angry Men" starred Henry Fonda and E.G. Marshall and John
Fiedler (1925-2005). It was based on the 1954 teleplay for "Studio One"
by Reginald Rose." In 2007 it was added as a classic to the American
national registry.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, DB p.51,52)(WSJ, 8/11/97,
p.A12)(SFC, 6/30/05, p.B6)(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1957 The film “20 Million Miles to
Earth” was produced. Ray Harryhausen (b.1920) was responsible for the
special effects.
(SFC, 2/27/08, p.E5)
1957 The sci-fi film "The 27th
Day" starred Gene Barry. It was based on a novel by John Mantley
(d.2003).
(TVM, 1977, p.752)
1957 The film “The Unholy Wife”
starred Diana Dors and Rod Steiger. It was set in the wine country of
California’s Napa and Central Valleys.
(SFC, 6/22/06, p.F3)
1957 The Japanese film “Untamed”
starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Mikio Naruse.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1957 The film “Until They Sail”
starred Paul Newman and featured the debut of Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1957 The film "Voodoo Island"
starred Boris Karloff. It was filmed on Kauai, Hawaii.
(TVM, 1975, p.628)(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.T4)
1957 The film "The Wayward Bus"
starred Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins and Dan Daily. It was based on a
novel by John Steinbeck.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.51)
1957 The cartoon film "What’s
Opera Doc" with Bugs Bunny was produced. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic.
(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)
1957 The film "White Nights"
starred Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.B6)
1957 The film “Wild Is the Wind”
starred Anthony Franciosa.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)
1957 The Swedish film “Wild
Strawberries” was directed by Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007).
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1957 The film "Will Success Spoil
Rock Hunter" was produced. In 2000 it was selected for preservation in
the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1957 The film "Witness for the
Prosecution" starred Charles Laughton and was directed by Billy Wilder.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFEC, 4/23/00, DB p.46)
1957 The film "Woman in a Dressing
Gown" was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1957 Erich von Stroheim (b.1885),
actor and director, died in Paris. In 2000 Arthur Lennig published the
biography "Stroheim."
(WSJ, 2/23/00, p.A20)
1958 Mar 19, The film "South
Pacific," with Mitzi Gaynor, was released. It was adapted from the
Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical.
(AP, 3/19/08)(SSFC, 6/29/08, DB p.58)
1958 Mar 26, In the 30th Academy
Awards "The Bridge on the River Kwai" won 7 Awards, including best
picture of 1957; its director, David Lean, and star Alec Guinness also
received Oscars. Joanne Woodward was named best actress for "The Three
Faces of Eve."
(AP, 3/26/08)
1958 Apr 23, The film noir
thriller "Touch of Evil," starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and
Orson Welles, who also directed, was released.
(AP, 4/23/08)
1958 May 9, The film "Vertigo"
with James Stewart and Kim Novak was released. It was directed by
Alfred Hitchcock and had been shot in the SF Bay Area. "Vertigo"
premiered in San Francisco.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.39)(AP, 5/9/08)
1958 May 15, The MGM movie musical
"Gigi," starring Leslie Caron as a young French courtesan-in-training,
was released.
(AP, 5/15/08)
1958 Jul 16, The science-fiction
film "The Fly" opened in San Francisco.
(AP, 7/16/08)
1958 Sep 12, The science-fiction
movie "The Blob," starring Steve McQueen, billed as "Steven," was
released.
(AP, 9/12/08)
1958 The film "Andy Hardy Comes
Home" starred Mickey Rooney.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, DB p.61)
1958 A 2nd film "Anna Lucasta"
starred Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr. and Rosetta LeNoire (d.2002). It
was directed by Arnold Laven. It was based on a play by Philip Yordan
(d.2003). A 1949 version had an all-white cast.
(TVM, 1975, p.19)(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A25)(SSFC, 4/6/03,
p.A23)
1958 The Polish film "Ashes and
Diamonds" was made by Andrzej Wajda.
(SFEC, 3/19/00, DB p.52)
1958 The movie "Attack of the 50
Foot Woman" was released May 19 in the movie theaters in USA.
(DTnet, 5/19/97)
1958 The film "Auntie Mame"
starred Rosalind Russell. It was ranked 48th most funny film in 2000.
"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death."
(SFC, 6/15/00, p.E3)(SSFC, 4/1/01, DB p.37)
1958 The French film "Le Beau
Serge" starred Gerard Blain (d.2000) and was directed by Claude Chabrol.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B5)
1958 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Bell, Book and Candle."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1958 The film "The Big Country"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)
1958 The film "Big Deal on Madonna
Street" starred Vittorio Gassman and Toto. It was directed by Mario
Monicelli.
(SFC, 6/30/00, p.D7)(SFC, 1/31/01, p.D1)
1958 The science-fiction movie
"The Blob," starring Steve McQueen, billed as "Steven," was released.
(AP, 9/12/08)
1958 The film "The Bravados"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1958 The Swedish film "Brink of
Life" was directed by Ingmar Bergman. Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson and
Eva Dahlbeck won Cannes Film Festival best actress awards for their
work.
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A21)
1958 The film "Carmen Jones" was
based on the 1943 musical "Carmen Jones" was based on Bizet’s 1875
opera "Carmen" in turn based on the 1845 novella by Prosper Merimee.
(SFC, 10/24/96, p.D1) (WSJ, 2/5/97, p.A16)
1958 The film "Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof" starred Liz Taylor and Paul Newman. It was based on a play by
Tennessee Williams and was adopted for cable TV in 1985.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, DB p.52)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1958 Marcel Carne (1906-1990),
French film director, made "The Cheaters" (Les Tricheurs) with
Jean-Paul Belmondo.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A28)
1958 The film "Crash Landing" was
the last movie for Nancy Reagan.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, Z1 p.8)
1958 The film "Damn Yankees"
starred Ray Walston (d.2000 at 86), Gwen Verdon (d.2000 at 75) and was
choreographed by Bob Fosse.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.40)(SFC, 10/19/00, p.D3)(SFC,
1/3/01, p.A17)
1958 The film "The Defiant Ones"
starred Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier and Theodore Bikel. It was directed
by Stanley Kramer.
(TVM, 1975, p.133)(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)(SFEC,
1/24/99, DB p.37)
1958 The Czechoslovakian film "The
Fabulous World of Jules Verne" was produced.
(SFEM, 2/6/99, p.4)
1958 The British film "Dracula"
was produced. The score was by James Bernard.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C16)
1958 The film "The Female Animal"
starred Hedy Lamarr.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.A10)
1958 The film "Friend Without a
Face" was produced.
(WSJ, 2/9/00, p.W7)
1958 The sci-fi film "The Fly" was
produced.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.6)
1958 The film "The Geisha Boy"
starred Jerry Lewis.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1958 The film "The Gift of Love"
with Lauren Bacall was produced.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.6)
1958 The Vincente Minnelli film
"Gigi" was produced and won 9 Oscars. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic. Maurice Chevalier (1889-1972) sang
“Thank Heaven for Little Girls.”
(SFC, 3/25/97, p.A15)(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)
1958 The film "The Goddess"
starred Kim Stanley (d.2001 at 76).
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.A18)
1958 The Japanese film "The Hidden
Fortress" starred Toshiro Mifune and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. It
served as an inspiration for "Star Wars."
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)
1958 The film "The Horse’s Mouth"
starred Alec Guiness as a lunatic painter. It was based on a novel by
Joyce Cary.
(WSJ, 2/16/00, p.W9)
1958 The film "House on Haunted
Hill" starred Vincent Price and was directed by William Castle (d.1977).
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.B1)
1958 The film "How to Steal a
Million" starred Audrey Hepburn. Her Hubert de Givenchy suit was
auctioned in 1997 for $10,350. The suit was part of Saint Laurent’s
first collection as the successor to Christian Dior.
(SFC,10/31/97, p.C2)
1958 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Hunters."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1958 The film "Ice Cold in Alex"
was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1958 The film "It Happened to
Jane" starred Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Casey Adams (Max Showalter).
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.D2)
1958 The film "I Want To Live"
starred Susan Hayward as the death-row inmate Barbara Graham, executed
in 1955 for the murder of a wealthy, disabled Burbank widow. It was
directed by Robert Wise and based on the Santo gang murder trial in
Nevada County.
(TVM, 1975, p.270)(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFC,
7/15/98, p.A20)
1958 The film "King Creole"
starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1958 The film "Kings Go Forth"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1958 The film "The Lady Takes a
Flyer" starred Richard Denning, Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler. It was
directed by Jack Arnold.
(SFC, 10/13/98, p.A22)(TVM, 1975, p.315)
1958 The film "The Left-Handed
Gun" was written by Leslie Stevens. Arthur Penn directed the film with
Paul Newman as Billy the Kid.
(SFC, 4/14/96, EM, p.25)(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)(SFC,
4/29/98, p.C2)
1958 The film "Let’s Rock" starred
Della Reese.
(SFEC, 1/19/97, Par p.22)(SSFC, 12/17/00, Par p.5)
1958 The film "The Lineup" with
Eli Wallach and Warner Anderson was released. It was directed by Don
Siegel and had been shot in the SF Bay Area.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.39)
1958 The film “Lonelyhearts”
starred Maureen Stapleton (1925-2006).
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.B5)
1958 The film "The Lone Ranger and
the Lost City of Gold" starred Clayton Moore.
(SFC, 12/29/99, p.A11)
1958 The film "The Long Hot
Summer" starred Angela Lansbury, Tony Franciosa and Paul Newman.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, Par p.18)(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)(SSFC,
9/28/08, p.A16)
1958 The film "Look Back in Anger"
starred Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter, Britain’s original "angry young
man." It was based on a play by John Osborne.
(WSJ, 4/21/00, p.W4)
1958 The horror film "Macabre" was
directed by William Castle.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.B5)
1958 The film "Machine Gun Kelly"
was produced.
(SFC, 10/29/96, p.B2)
1958 The film "Marjorie
Morningstar" starred Gene Kelly and Lezly Ziering.
(SSFC, 7/20/03, p.C9)
1958 The Indian film “Mother
India,” directed by Mehboob Khan, was nominated for an Oscar.
(Econ, 2/9/08, p.72)
1958 The British film "A Night to
Remember" was about the Titanic. It was based on the 1955 best seller
by Walter Lord (d.2002). It starred Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, David
McCallum and George Rose. The screenplay was by Eric Ambler.
(SFEC,12/797, DB p.41)(SFC, 1/2/98, p.C15)(SFC,
10/24/98, p.A22)(SFC, 5/21/02, p.A21)
1958 The film "Onionhead" starred
Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1958 The UN produced the film
"Overture." It was directed by Thorold Dickinson and featured
Beethoven’s Egmont Overture against a background of war, hunger and
poverty.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E4)
1958 The film "Paris Holiday"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1958 The film “Party Girl” starred
Cyd Charisse.
(SFC, 4/2/08, p.B9)
1958 The film "Passport to Shame"
featured Jackie Collins (17).
(SSFC, 8/4/02, Par p.14)
1958 The film “Rally ‘Round the
Flag Boys!” starred Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1958 The film "Raw Wind in Eden"
starred Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.B1)
1958 The MGM film “The Reluctant
Debutante” featured Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein
was a British Hammer Film production.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.67)
1958 The film "Ride a Crooked
Trail" starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1958 The film "Rock You Sinners"
featured Jackie Collins (17).
(SSFC, 8/4/02, Par p.14)
1958 The film "Run Silent, Run
Deep" starred Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable and Brad Dexter. It was
directed by Robert Ryan.
(SFC, 12/16/02, p.A23)(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)
1958 The film "The Safecracker"
featured Jackie Collins.
(SSFC, 8/4/02, Par p.14)
1958 The film "Separate Tables"
starred Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven and
Wendy Hiller. Niven won a best actor Oscar for his performance and
Hiller won for best supporting actress. It was directed by Delbert Mann.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.C4)(SSFC, 2/4/01, DB p.67)(SFC,
5/17/03, p.A16)(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1958 The film “The 7th Voyage of
Sinbad” starred Kerwin Matthews (d.2007). The film was made for
$650,000 and featured special effects by Ray Harryhousen.
(SSFC, 5/16/04, p.M6)(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.B6)
1958 The film "Some Came Running"
starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, and Dean Martin. It was
directed by Vincente Minnelli.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(MoTV, 1977, p.660)
1958 The film "Some Like It Hot"
with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon and Richard Denning
(d.1998 at 85) was directed by Billy Wilder. It was set at the Hotel
del Coronado in San Diego and based on a story by Robert Thoeren. It
was rated #14 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFC, 8/12/96, p.A6)(WSJ, 10/25/96, p.B9)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 10/13/98, p.A22)(SSFC, 2/11/01, DB p.47)
1958 The film “South Pacific”
starred John Kerr and Mitzi Gaynor. It was filmed on the island of
Kauai, Ha.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T9)(SSFC, 8/29/04, Par p.2)(SSFC,
6/29/08, DB p.58)
1958 The film "Stage Struck"
starred Christopher Plummer and Sallie Gracie.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.E3)(SSFC, 1/12/03, Par p.20)
1958 The film "Teacher’s Pet"
starred Doris Day and Clark Gable.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.48)
1958 The film "Ten North
Frederick" starred Gary Cooper, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Suzy Parker.
(SFC, 5/6/03, p.A16)(SFC, 7/20/05, p.B7)
1958 The film "Thunder Road"
starred Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1958 The film "Touch of Evil"
starred Orson Welles, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston. It was also
directed by Welles. It was later selected as a Library of Congress film
classic. In Dec. 1957 Wells wrote a memo of 47 specific changes that he
wished to make in the film that involved the continuity of cuts and
music cues.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.C8)(SFC, 1/21/98,
p.E1,6) (SFEC, 2/8/98, DB p.57)
1958 Roman Polanski shot his
student film "Two men and a Wardrobe" in Poland.
(WSJ, 10/29/03, p.D10)
1958 The film "Verboten" was
directed by Sam Fuller.
(SFC, 7/2/02, p.D5)
1958 The 4* film "Vertigo" with
James Stewart and Kim Novak was released. It was directed by Alfred
Hitchcock and had been shot in the SF Bay Area. A detective afraid of
heights falls for a woman he is hired to protect. It was rated #61 by
the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. Dan Auiler later authored "Vertigo: The
Making of a Hitchcock Classic." In 2001 it was rated the #18 most
thrilling film.
(SFC, 5/19/96,Mag,p.27)(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB,
p.39)(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B3)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A26)
1958 The film "The Vikings"
starred Kirk Douglas, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
(WSJ, 1/8/99, p.A8)(SFC, 10/5/04, p.A2)
1958 The film "Voice in the
Mirror" starred Walter Matthau and Julie London. London wrote and sang
the title song. The film was about Alcoholics Anonymous.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
c1958 The film "What Men Go For"
was produced.
(WSJ, 7/20/01, p.A4)
1958 The Disney documentary "White
Wilderness" was produced and featured a mass suicide of lemmings herded
off a cliff by the film maker supporting the myth of lemming
foolishness and proclivity to mass suicide.
(SFC, 12/4/94, p. S-4)
1958 The film "Wild Heritage"
starred Maureen O’Sullivan.
(SJM, 6/24/98, p.4A)
1958 The film "The Wind Cannot
Read" starred Dirk Bogarde and was directed by Ralph Thomas.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A20)
1958 The film "Witness for the
Prosecution" starred Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power and was directed
by Billy Wilder.
(TVM, 1975, p.653)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A14)
1958 The film "The Young Lions"
starred Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin and Hope Lange. It
was directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was based on a novel by Irvin Shaw.
(TVM, 1975, p.665)(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)
1958 The "Film Quarterly" began
publishing from UC Berkeley under editor Ernest Callenbach. In 1999
Brian Henderson and Ann Martin edited "Film Quarterly: Forty Years - A
Selection."
(SFEC, 3/7/99, BR p.3)(SFEC, 8/22/99, BR p.5)
1959 Jan 21, Cecil Blount de Mille
(Cecil B. DeMille), one of Hollywood’s most successful filmmakers, died
at age 77. He was also one of the toughest. He once said to his staff,
"You are here to please me. Nothing else on earth matters." He produced
the "The 10 Commandments." In 2004 Robert S. Birchard authored “Cecil
B. DeMille’s Hollywood.”
(HNPD, 8/12/98)(HNQ, 10/27/98)(MC, 1/21/02)(WSJ,
7/14/04, p.D14)
1959 Apr 6, In the 31st Academy
Awards "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven won.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1959 The film "Al Capone starred
Rod Steiger.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)
1959 The film "Alias Jesse James"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1959 The film "Anatomy of a Murder
starred Jimmy Stewart and George C. Scott.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1959 The film "The Angry Hills"
starred Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1959 The film "Beloved Infidel"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1959 The William Wyler film "Ben
Hur" with Charlton Heston was directed by William Wyler. It won 11
Oscars. Art director Edward C. Carfagno won an Academy Award for his
work. It was based on the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. It was rated #72
by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. In 2001 it was rated the #49 most
thrilling film. In 2004 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 1/2/97, p.A20)(HT, 3/97, p.66)(SFC, 3/25/97,
p.A15)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)(SFC, 12/31/04, p.E6)
1959 The film "The Best of
Everything" starred Joan Crawford as an editor in a NT publishing house
along with Hope Lange. It was based on the 1958 novel by Rona Jaffe
(d.2005).
(WSJ, 9/3/99, p.W2)(SFC, 12/22/03, p.A20)(SSFC,
1/1/05, p.B6)
1959 The film "Black Orpheus" was
directed by Marcel Camus. It featured the music of Luis Floriano Bonfa
(d.2001 at 78).
(SFC, 1/13/01, p.A24)
1959 The film "Breathless" starred
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. It was directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.B5)
1959 The film "Career" starred
Dean martin and Anthony Franciosa.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.E3)
1959 The film "Compulsion" starred
E.G. Marshall and Lillian Dillman Amark.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Par p.22)(SFC, 6/23/00, p.D5)
1959 The film "Cousins" starred
Gerard Blain and was directed by Claude Chabrol. The music was by Paul
Misraki.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B5)
1959 The film "Crimson Kimono" was
directed by Sam Fuller. LA detectives investigate a stripper’s murder.
(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)
1959 The French film "Dangerous
Liaisons" (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1959 The Disney film "Darby O’Gill
and the Little People" featured Sean Connery.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, DB p.57)
1959 The film “The Diary of Anne
Frank” featured Shelley Winters.
(SSFC, 1/15/06, p.B7)
1959 The film "The FBI Story”
starred Jimmy Stewart and Larry Pennell. Ronald Reagan had tried to get
the role of Crandall played by Pennell.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F3)
1959 The film "Flame Over India"
with Lauren Bacall was produced.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.7)
1959 The underground classic film
"The Flesh Eaters" was made by Bernard J. Cherin (d.1999 at 73).
(SFC, 1/19/99, p.A16)
1959 The French film "The 400
Blows" with Jean-Pierre Leaud was the first feature film by Francois
Truffaut.
(WSJ, 4/3/98, p.W4)
1959 The film "The Fugitive Kind"
featured Sallie Gracie.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.E3)
1959 The film "The Gene Kruppa
Story" starred Sal Mineo, James Darren and Bobby Troup as Tommy Dorsey.
It was directed by Don Weis.
(TVM, 1975, p.204)(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A25)
1959 The film "Gidget" starred
Cliff Robertson and Sandra Dee (1942-2005).
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.56)
1959 The British film Gideon of
Scotland Yard starred Jack Hawkins and was directed by John Ford. It
was based on a detective novel by John Creasey.
(WSJ, 1/31/08, p.W8)
1959 The film "Go, Johnny, Go" was
a Ritchie Valens rock-o-rama.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.E1)
1959 The film "The Golden Fish" by
Jacques Cousteau won an Academy Award.
(SFC, 6/26/97, p.A7)
1959 The Italian film "The Great
War" starred Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.E3)(SFC, 6/30/00, p.D7)
1959 The film “Green Mansions”
starred Audrey Hepburn and was directed by her husband, Mel Ferrer.
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.B11)
1959 The film "The Hanging Tree"
with George C. Scott and Karl Malden was shot near Yakima, Wa.
(PNI, 2/5/97, p.14)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1959 The film "Hercules" starred
Steve Reeves.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.C4)
1959 The sci-fi film "The Hideous
Sun Demon" was produced. It was about a man who turned into a reptilian
monster by the blaze of the sun.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1959 The film "A Hole in the Head"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1959 The British comedy film "I’m
All Right Jack" was produced by the twin Boulting brothers.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A19)
1959 The remade film "Imitation of
Life" was directed by Douglas Sirk and starred Lana Turner, Sandra Dee,
Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner and John Gavin.
(TVM, 1975, p.274)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E17)(SFEC,
11/7/99, DB p.49)
1959 Russ Meyer produced his 1st
film “The Immortal Mr. Teas.” This inaugurated the “nudie-cutie” genre.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.E4)
1959 The film "Jazz on a Summer's
Day" was produced and added to the National Film Registry in 1999.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E10)
1959 The 2 1/2* film "Jean Paul
Jones" starred Robert Stack and was directed by John Farrow.
(TVM, 1975, p.294)
1959 The film "The Journey"
starred Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1959 The film "Journey to the
Center of the Earth" starred James Mason, Pat Boone and Diane Baker. It
was based on the novel by Jules Verne.
(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.W11C)
1959 The Italian film "Kapo" told
the story of a Jewish girl trying to escape from a concentration camp.
It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (1919-2006).
(AP, 10/13/06)
1959 The sci-fi film "Leech Woman"
was produced.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.A6)
1959 The film "Li’l Abner"
featured Stubby Kaye (d.1997 at 79) as Marryin’ Sam. He sang the song
"Jubilation T. Cornpone."
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1959 The film "The Mating Game"
starred Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall and Paul Douglas. It was produced
by Philip Barry Jr. (d.1998 at 74).
(SFC, 5/26/98, p.B2)
1959 The film “Middle of the
Night” was directed by Delbert Mann.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1959 The British film "The Mouse
That Roared" starred Peter Sellers and was directed by Jack Arnold.
(WSJ, 4/24/00, p.A36)
1959 The film "The Mummy" starred
Christopher Lee.
(SFEC, 5/16/99, DB p.56)
1959 The film “The Naked Maja”
starred Ava Gardner Anthony Franciosa as the painter Goya.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)(MoTV, 1977, p.501)
1959 The film "Never So Few"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1959 The Alfred Hitchcock film
"North by Northwest" starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and Josephine
Hutchinson. It was rated #40 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. Ernest
Lehman wrote the original script. In 2001 it was rated the #4 most
thrilling film.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.E3)(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFC,
6/11/98, p.C3)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC, 9/5/99, DB p.34)(SSFC,
3/18/01, DB p.47)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1959 The film "The Nun’s Story"
was produced.
(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)
1959 The Japanese film “Odd
Obsession” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Kon Ichikawa.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1959 The film "Odds Against
Tomorrow" with Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Shelley Winters
and Gloria Grahame was directed by Robert Wise. It was a bitter study
of race hatred.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, DB p.51)(SFEM, 9/28/97, p.14)
1959 The film "On the Beach"
starred Gregory Peck. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and partly shot
in San Francisco.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.5)(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1959 The film "Operation
Petticoat" starred Tony Curtis and Cary Grant.
(SFEC, 1/24/99, DB p.37)
1959 The film “Peeping Tom” was
directed by Michael Powell. It was about a young psychopath who uses a
16mm movie camera to film his victims while he is killing them.
(WSJ, 11/20/07, p.D7)
1959 The French film "Pickpocket"
was directed by Robert Bresson.
(SFC, 12/22/99, p.A27)
1959 The film "Pillow Talk"
starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day. The music was written by Frank DeVol.
(WSJ, 4/4/97, p.A7)(SFC, 10/30/99, p.C2)
1959 The sci-fi film "Plan 9 from
Outer Space" starred Conrad Brooks (Biedrzycki) and was directed by
Edward D. Wood. It was later hailed as the worst movie ever made. The
Baptist church was involved in the production.
(SFC, 12/25/98, p.C21)(Econ, 3/17/07, p.69)
1959 The film "Pork Chop Hill"
starred Gregory Peck and was directed by Lewis Milestone. The film also
featured Norman Fell (d.1998 at 74). The film was set in the Korean War.
(TVM, 1975, p.451)(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A30)
1959 The film "Porgy and Bess" was
produced by Samuel Goldwyn and Otto Preminger. It starred Sydney
Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey. Poitier
later acquired the rights to the film and kept it out of circulation.
(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.13)(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.45)
1959 The Western film "Ride
Lonesome" starred Randolph Scott and featured the debut of James Coburn
(1928-2002).
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A2)(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1959 The film "Rio Bravo" was
starred John Wayne.
(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)(SFEC, 3/5/00, Par p.2)
1959 John Cassavetes’ first film
"Shadows" was about an interracial romance.
(SFEC, 9/29/96, DB p.44)
1959 The film "Shake Hands with
the Devil" starred Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1959 The Polish film "Shared Room"
was directed by Wojciech Has.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.B2)
1959 The Hollywood film "Solomon
and Sheba" was produced with Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida.
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 14)
1959 The film "Some Came Running"
starred Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. It was
directed by Vincente Minnelli. It was based on a novel by James Jones.
(SFEC, 3/5/00, DB p.43)
1959 The film "Some Like It Hot"
featured Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis. It was directed
by Billy Wilder.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, Par p.22)(SFEC, 1/24/99, DB p.37)
1959 Cuban film director Tomas
Gutierrez Alea produced his first feature film "Stories of the
Revolution" (Historias de la Revolucion).
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.E3)
1959 The film “The Story on Page
One” starred Rita Hayworth and Anthony.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)(MoTV, 1977, p.681)
1959 The film “A Stranger in My
Arms” starred June Allyson and Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1959 The film "Suddenly Last
Summer" starred Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery
Clift. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewitz. It was based on a
Tennessee Williams story with the screenplay by Gore Vidal.
(TVM, 1975, p.556)(SFEC, 11/7/99, BR p.5)
1959 The film "A Summer Place"
starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donohue. It was written, directed and
produced by Delmer Daves.
(SFC, 6/23/96, BR, p.32)(SFEC, 7/12/98, DB p.52)
1959 The film "Tiger Bay" starred
Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1959 The film "Tamango" starred
Dolores Dandridge and Curt Jurgens and was directed by John Berry. It
was a French-Italian production of a 19th century slave-ship revolt
based on a story by Prosper Merimee.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.45)
1959 The film “That Kind of Woman”
featured Bea Arthur (1922-2009).
(SSFC, 4/26/09, p.B6)
1959 The film “This Earth Is Mine”
starred Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons and Dorothy McGuire. It was directed
by Henry King and was set in the wine country of California’s Napa
Valley.
(SFC, 6/22/06, p.F3)
1959 The film "Tiger Bay" was
directed by J. Lee Thompson.
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1959 The film "The Tingler"
starred Vincent Price.
(SFEC, 8/6/00, DB p.63)
1959 The film "The Virgin Spring"
with Max von Sydow was directed by Ingmar Bergman with photography by
Sven Nykvist.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)
1959 The film “The Wild and the
Innocent” starred Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1959 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Wonderful Country." It was based on the book by Texas writer
and artist Tom Lea (d.2001 at 93).
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1959 The film "The World of Apu"
was directed by Satyajit Ray.
(SFEC, 4/9/00, DB p.46)
1959 The film "The Wreck of the
Mary Deare" starred Charlton Heston, Gary Cooper, Richard Harris and
Michael Redgrave. It was directed by Michael Anderson and was based on
the novel by Hammond Innes (d.1998 at 83). The screenplay was by Eric
Ambler.
(SFC, 6/12/98, p.A26)(TVM, 1975, p.658)(SFC,
10/24/98, p.A22)
1959 The film “The Young
Philadelphians” starred Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1959-1961 The Japanese tripartite film “The Human
Condition” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1960 Apr 4, In the 32nd Academy
Awards "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret won.
(MC, 4/4/02)
1960 The film “The Alamo” starred
John Wayne and Richard Widmark. Wayne also directed and produced the
film.
(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1960 The flop sci-fi film "The
Amazing Transparent Man" starred Douglas Kennedy and Marguerite Chapman
and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
(TVM, 1975, p.14)(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A25)
1960 The film "The Apartment"
starred Jack Lemmon, Jack Kruschen, Fred MacMurray and Edie Adams. It
was directed by Billy Wilder. It won a best picture Oscar and was rated
#93 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, Par p.22)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC,
3/29/02, p.A14)(SFC, 5/27/02, p.B5)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A25)(SFC,
10/17/08, p.A2)
1960 The Japanese film "The Bad
Sleep Well" (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) starred Toshiro Mifune as a
shrewd, vengeance seeking businessman. It was directed by Akira
Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1960 The film "Il Bell Antonio"
starred Marcello Mastroianni as an impotent Sicilian.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.B6)
1960 The film "The Bellboy"
starred Jerry Lewis. He also directed.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1960 The film “Bells Are Ringing”
starred Frank Gorshin (1933-2005) and Dean Martin.
(SFC, 5/19/05, p.B7)
1960 The film "Ben-Hur" was one of
the three top grossing films of the year.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1960 The film “Black Tights”
featured Moira Shearer and Roland Petit dancing Cyrano de Bergerac.
(SFC, 2/2/06, p.B7)
1960 The French film "Blood and
Roses" (Et Mourir de Plaisir) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1960 Elizabeth Taylor starred in
"Butterfield 8." She won a best actress Oscar for her role the call
girl who said: "I was the slut of all time." It was based on the 1935
novel by John O’Hara.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(WSJ, 3/15/08, p.W10)
1960 The drive-in film classic "A
Bucket of Blood" was directed by Roger Corman and starred Dick Miller.
The film was remade in 1996 by Corman as The Death Artist.
(SFC, 11/23/96, p.E4)
1960 The film "Can Can" was one of
the three top grossing films of the year. It featured Juliet Prowse
(1937-1996) and starred Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine.
(SFEC, 9/15/96, C10)(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1960 The film “Chartroose Caboose”
starred country singer Molly Bee (1939-2009).
(SFC, 2/12/09, p.B4)
1960 The film "Cinderfella"
starred Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson and Anna Marie
Alberghetti. It featured Count Basie and his orchestra.
(SFC, 11/27/98, p.C6)
1960 The film "Conspiracy of
Hearts" was directed by Ralph Thomas.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A20)
1960 The film “The Dark at the Top
of the Stairs” was directed by Delbert Mann. It was based on a 1957
play by William Inge.
(SFC, 11/13/07,
p.D9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_at_the_Top_of_the_Stairs)
1960 The film "Diamond Head"
starred Charlton Heston and was based on the book "Such Sweet Thunder"
by Peter Gilman.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.C2)
1960 The film "El Cochecit" (The
Wheelchair) by Italian director Marco Ferreri was produced.
(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A20)
1960 The documentary film "The
Connection" was about drug addiction and made by Shirley Clarke (d.1997
at 72).
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.B2)
1960 The film "Elmer Gantry"
starred Burt Lancaster as a shady evangelist.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)
1960 The film "The
Entertainer" starred Alan Bates and Lawrence Olivier. It was
based on a John Osborne play and was directed by Tony Richardson.
(WSJ, 11/27/96, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/16/97, p.A16)
1960 The film "Exodus" starred
Paul Newman. The music was composed by Ernest Gold (d.1999 at 77).
(SFC, 11/8/96, p.A25)(SFC, 3/19/99, p.D4)(SSFC,
9/28/08, p.A16)
1960 The film "Face of a Fugitive"
featured James Coburn.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1960 The film "The Facts of Life"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1960 The film "Five Branded Women"
was screen written by Paul Jarrico.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)
1960 The film "From the Terrace"
starred Paul Newman and was directed by Mark Robson. It was adopted
from a novel by John O’Hara and Ernest Lehman was the
screenwriter.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.47)
1960 The film "The Gangster Story"
was directed by Walter Matthau. Matthau was also appeared in the film.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A9)
1960 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Grass Is Greener."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1960 The film "The Great St. Louis
Bank Robbery starred Steve McQueen and David Clarke (d.2004).
(SFC, 4/21/04, p.B7)
1960 The film "Guns of the
Timberland" starred Jeanne Crain and Alan Ladd.
(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)
1960 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Home From the Hill."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1960 The film “The House of Usher
was produced. In 2005 it was selected for preservation by the US
National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/05, p.E6)
1960 The film "Huckleberry Finn"
starred Patty McCormack.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, DB p.44)
1960 The film "Inherit the Wind"
starred Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly. It was directed
by Stanley Kramer and was based on a play (1955) co-authored by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee which focused on the 1921 Scopes evolution
trial.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, DB p.51)(SFC, 3/18/97, p.A22)
1960 The documentary film "Jazz on
a Summer's Day" was shot by Bert Stern at the 1958 Newport Jazz
Festival.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, DB p.46)
1960 The Italian film "La Dolce
Vita" starred Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996), Anita Ekberg and Laura
Betti (d.2004).
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)(SFC, 8/3/04, p.B6)
1960 The film "The Last Days of
Pompeii" starred Steve Reeves.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.C4)
1960 The film "L'Avventura"
starred Lea Massari and was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1960 The film "Let's Make Love"
starred Marilyn Monroe and featured singer Frankie Vaughn.
(SFC, 9/18/99, p.A21)
1960 The film “Little Shop of
Horrors” featured Jack Nicholson in his 4th movie appearance. The
screenplay was by Charles Griffith (1930-2007).
(SFC, 10/12/07, p.B11)
1960 The film “Love Games” was
directed by Philippe de Broca, his debut effort.
(SFC, 12/3/04, p.B7)
1960 The film "Macumba Love"
starred Douglas Fowley.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D7)
1960 The film "The Magnificent
Seven" was directed by John Sturges. It was based on the 1954 Japanese
film, "The Seven Samurai," by Akira Kurosawa. The music was composed by
Elmer Bernstein. It starred Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen,
James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and Horst Bucholz.
(SFC, 1/28/98, p.E6)(TVM, 1975, p.353)
1960 The film "Marriage-Go-Round"
starred James Mason and Susan Hayward. It was based on the Broadway
play by Leslie Stevens (d.1998).
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C2)
1960 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "The Mountain Road."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1960 In India the film
"Mughal-e-Azam" (Emperor of the Moghuls) was released. It became one of
Bollywood's greatest classics. In 2004 it was re-released in a color
version. The film was set in Lahore at a time when Muslims ruled India.
It was shown in Pakistan for the 1st time in 2006.
(AP, 11/8/04)(Reuters, 4/23/06)
1960 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Night Fighters."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1960 The film "North to Alaska"
with John Wayne was produced.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A18)
1960 The film "Ocean’s Eleven"
starred Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and
Joey Bishop, the 5 members of the Rat Pack. Sinatra leads an 11-man
team to rob 5 Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.56)
1960 The film "Our Man in Havana"
starred Alec Guinness.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A15)
1960 The Italian film "The
Passionate Thief" starred Toto and Anna Magnani.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.D1)
1960 The thriller film "Peeping
Tom" starred Carl Boehm and Moira Shearer. It was written by Leo Marks
and directed by Michael Powell. It was about a killer who films his
victims at the moment of their death.
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.D3)(SFEC, 9/19/99, DB p.52)
1960 The film "Pepe" featured
Frank Sinatra in a cameo role.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1960 The film "Please Don’t Eat
the Daisies" starred David Niven and Doris Day. It was based on a 1959
book by Jean Kerr (d.2003).
(SFC, 1/7/03, p.A22)
1960 The Disney film "Pollyanna"
starred Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman and Karl Malden. It was directed by
David Swift (d.2002 at 82).
(SFEC, 1/18/98, DB p.47)(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A17)(SFC,
9/11/07, p.A2)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1960 The film "Psycho" starred
Janet Leigh. One of the three top grossing films of the year, it was
directed by Alfred Hitchcock and featured his daughter Patricia in a
small role. It was rated #18 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. In 2001
it was rated the #1 most thrilling film.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(SFEC,11/23/97, DB p.56)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1960 The film "Purple Noon" with
Alain Delon and Marie Laforet by Rene Clement was produced. It was
based on "The Talented Mr. Ripley," a suspense thriller by Patricia
Highsmith. A 2nd version was made in 1999.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.E3)(WSJ, 12/23/99, p.A16)
1960 The film "The Rise and Fall
of Legs Diamond" was directed by Budd Boetticher.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A28)
1960 The film “Sex Kittens Go to
College” starred Leonard Maltin and Louis Nye.
(SFC, 10/11/05, p.B9)
1960 The film "Shoot the Piano
Player" starred singer Charles Aznavour and was directed by Francois
Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1960 The film "Sons and Lovers"
starred Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard and Dean Stockwell. The
cinematography was by Jack Cardiff.
(SFC, 5/17/03, p.A16)(SFC, 4/24/09, p.B7)
1960 The film "Spartacus" Lawrence
Olivier, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Peter Ustinov. It was begun by
Anthony Mann and completed by Stanley Kubrick. The script was rewritten
by Dalton Trumbo.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.52)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)(SFC,
5/24/99, p.D2)
1960 The film "Strangers When We
Met" starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1960 Gerry Mulligan played a
priest in the movie version of Jack Kerouac's "The Subterraneans." The
film starred George Peppard and was directed by Ranald MacDougall.
(TVM, 1977, p.687)(SFEC, 9/29/96, DB p.44)
1960 The film "Sundowners" starred
Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov and Deborah Kerr. It was about sheep
drovers in Australia.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(WSJ, 10/31/97, p.A20)(SFC,
3/30/04, p.A2)
1960 The film "Sunrise at
Campobello" starred Hume Cronyn.
(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)(SFC, 6/17/03, p.A21)
1960 The film "Tall Story" starred
Jane Fonda and Anthony Perkins dribbling with two hands.
(SFC, 7/14/96, DB p.33)
1960 The film "Terrible Beauty"
starred Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1960 The MGM film "Time Machine"
based on the H.G. Wells novel starred Rod Taylor.
(NH, 4/97, p.7)
1960 The Swedish film “Through a
Glass Darkly” was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1960 The Italian film "The Traffic
Policeman" starred Alberto Sordi.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.E3)
1960 The film “Tunes of Glory”
starred John Mills and Alec Guinness.
(SSFC, 4/24/05, p.A2)
1960 The film "Visit to a Small
Planet" starred Jerry Lewis.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1960 The Japanese film “When a
Woman Ascends the Stairs” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by
Mikio Naruse.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1960 The film "Where the Boys Are"
starred Jim Hutton, George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss,
Yvette Mimieux and Dolores Hart. It was set in Fort Lauderdale and
featured The Elbo Room, a small beachfront bar.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.56)(WSJ, 3/19/98, p.A16)(SFEC,
4/11/99, DB p.50)
1960 The film "Wild River" was
produced.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1960 Gross revenues for the year
were $984 million with 1,304 million admissions and average ticket
price of $0.76.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)
1961 Apr 17, In the 33rd Academy
Awards "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor won.
(MC, 4/17/02)
1961 The Disney comedy film "The
Absent Minded Professor" starred Fred MacMurray.
(SFEC,11/23/97, DB p.42)
1961 The film "Anatomy of a
Psycho" included Don Devlin.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.C4)
1961 The film "Angel Baby" starred
Burt Reynolds.
(SFEC, 2/15/98, Par p.22)
1961 The film "Bachelor in
Paradise" featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1961 The noir film "Blasts of
Silence" was written, directed by and starred Allan Baron. It was about
a hit man who comes to Manhattan.
(SFEC,10/26/97, DB p.44)
1961 The film "Breakfast at
Tiffany’s" with Patricia Neal, Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard was
directed by Blake Edwards and based on a novel by Truman Capote. It
featured the song "Moon River." Romantic video.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.35)(SFEC,11/16/97, DB
p.16)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)
1961 The film "By Love Possessed"
starred Jason Robards and Lana Turner.
(WSJ, 6/18/97, p.B1)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1961 The film "The Canadians" was
directed Burt Kennedy.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A24)
1961 The short film “The Creation
of Women” was produced by Ismail Merchant and shown at the Cannes Film
Festival.
(SFC, 5/26/05, p.B6)
1961 The film “Cry for Happy”
starred Miyoshi Umeki.
(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A17)
1961 The sci-fi film "The Day the
Earth Caught Fire" starred Michael Caine.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)
1961 The film "The Devil at 4
O’Clock" starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1961 Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996), Italian actor, starred in "Divorce Italian Style."
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)
1961 The experimental film “Dog
Star Man,” a series of 5 short films, was created by Stan Brakhage.
(WSJ, 11/11/06, p.P2)
1961 The film “Dr. Blood’s Coffin”
featured British actress Hazel Court.
(SFC, 4/19/08, p.B5)
1961 The film "El Cid" starred
Charlton Heston and was produced in Spain by Samuel Bronston. The
screenplay was by Philip Yordan.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1961 The comedy film "The Errand
Boy" with Jerry Lewis was produced. He also directed.
(SFC, 5/2/97, p.C4)(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1961 The film “Fanny” starred
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer and was directed by
Joshua Logan. The cinematography was by Jack Cardiff.
(MoTV, 1977, p.229)
1961 The German film "Flight to
Berlin" was directed by Will Tremper.
(SFC, 12/17/98, p.C11)
1961 The film "The Flower Drum
Song" starred Miyoshi Umeki and was based on the 1957 novel by C.Y.
Lee. Umeki had starred in the 1958 stage musical.
(SFC, 10/9/97, p.C3)(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A17)
1961 The film "Follow That Dream"
with Elvis Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1961 The film "the Great Imposter"
starred Tony Curtis and Karl Malden. It was directed by Robert Mulligan.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.288)
1961 The film "The Guns of
Navarone" starred Gregory Peck, Richard Harris and Anthony Quinn. Carl
Foreman was the screenwriter. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson
(d.2002).
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)(WSJ, 4/6/00, p.A20)(SFC,
9/9/02, p.A22)
1961 The horror film "Homicidal"
was directed by William Castle.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.B5)
1961 The film "The Hustler"
starred George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman. The film was
based on a book by Walter Tevis, who was inspired by Eddie Parker, aka
Fast Eddie (d.2000 at 69).
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1961 The film drama "Judgement at
Nuremberg" starred Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell,
Richard Widmark, Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich. It was directed by
Stanley Kramer.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, DB p.51)(SFC, 2/23/01, p.C15)(TVM,
1975, p.298)(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1961 The film "Jules and Jim"
starred Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner and Henri Serre and was directed by
Francois Truffaut.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, DB p.56)(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB
p.53)
1961 The biblical epic film "King
of Kings" with Jeffrey Hunter was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)
1961 The Polish film "Knife in the
Water" was the debut work by Roman Polanski.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.E3)
1961 The film "La Notte" starred
Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau and was directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1961 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Last Time I Saw Archie."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1961 The film "Last Year at
Marienbad" was directed by Alain Resnais.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.E8)
1961 The film "L'Eclisse" (The
Eclipse) starred Monica Vitti and Alain Delon and was directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1961 Jacque Demy produced his
first feature film "Lola." Anouk Aimee starred as the leading cabaret
dancer.
(WSJ, 5/3/96, p.A8)
1961 The film "Look in Any Window"
starred Paul Anka.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, Par p.18)
1961 The comedy film "Lover Come
Back" starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.53)
1961 The film "Mad Dog Coll"
starred Gene Hackman in his first role.
(SFC, 4/22/00, p.E3)
1961 The film "A Majority of One"
starred Alex Guinness as a Japanese gentleman.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.C7)
1961 The film "The Misfits"
starred Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe.
It was directed by John Huston, written by Arthur Miller and Produced
by Frank E. Taylor (d.1999 at 83). It was Gable's last film.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB
p.37)(SFEC, 7/11/99, DB p.41)(SFC, 11/24/99, p.C7)
1961 Marguerite Henry (d.1997 at
95) wrote her children’s novel "Misty of Chincoteague" in 1947. The
book was made into a movie in 1961. It focused on the annual swim of
wild ponies between the islands of Assateague and Chincoteague off the
coast of Virginia. In all she wrote 59 books.
(SFC,11/28/97, p.B8)
1961 The film "One-Eyed Jacks"
starred Marlon Brando and Karl Malden. It was directed by Marlon Brando.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.530)
1961 The Disney cartoon "101
Dalmatians" was released on Jan 25. 300 animators worked 3 years to
tell the story of Cruella De Vil and the pups she tried to turn into a
coat. Betty Lou Gerson (d.1999 at 84) was the voice of Cruella.
(WSJ, 1/7/97, p.A16)(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.63)(SFC,
1/16/99, p.A18)
1961 The comedy film "One Two
Three" starred James Cagney and was directed by Billy Wilder.
(TVM, 1975, p.423)(SFEC, 2/7/99, BR p.5)
1961 The French film "Only For
Love" (La Bride Sur le Cue) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1961 The film "Operation Eichmann"
was written by Lester Cole. He was blacklisted during the McCarthy era
and use the pseudonym Lester Copley.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.C10)
1961 The film "The Outsider"
starred Tony Curtis and was directed by Delbert Mann.
(SSFC, 12/15/02, Par p.26)(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1961 The film "Parrish" starred
Troy Donohue.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)
1961 The film "The Parent Trap"
starred Brian Keith (d.1997 at 75) and Hayley Mills. It was directed by
David Swift.
(SFC, 6/25/97, p.A16)(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A17)
1961 The film "Paris Blues"
starred Paul Newman, Joan Woodward, Sidney Poitier and Louis Armstrong.
It was directed by Martin Ritt.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.D5)(TVM, 1975, p.435)
1961 The film “Pocketful Of
Miracles” starred Glenn Ford. It was a remake of Frank Capra’s “Lady
for a Day.”
(SFC, 8/31/06, p.B7)
1961 The film "A Raisin in the
Sun" starred Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Stephen Perry. It was based on a
play by Lorraine Hansbury and loosely based on an anti-segregation case
won be her father. In 2005 it was selected for preservation by the US
National Film Registry.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB
p.46)(SFC, 12/28/05, p.E6)
1961 The film "Romanoff and
Juliet" featured Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1961 The film "Something Wild"
starred Doris Roberts.
(SSFC, 11/23/03, Par p.24)
1961 The film "Splendor in the
Grass" starred Warren Beatty, Phyllis Diller and Natalie Wood.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.E1)(SFEC, 9/26/99, DB p.35)
1961 The film “Tammy Tell Me True”
starred Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1961 The film "A Taste of Honey"
by Tony Richardson starred Murray Melvin and Rita Tushingham.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A14)
1961 The film "Then There Were
Three" was produced.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A20)
1961 The film "Town Without Pity"
with E.G. Marshall was produced.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Par p.22)
1961 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Two Road Together."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1961 The film "Viridiana" from
Spain was directed by Luis Bunuel.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1961 The film "Voyage to the
Bottom of the Sea" was about a nuclear submarine and its crew who
attempt to put out a burning radiation belt.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.D1)
1961 The film "West Side Story"
starred George Chakiris and Rita Moreno. It was co-directed by Robert
Wise and choreographer Jerome Robbins and took 10 Oscars. Composer Saul
Chaplin (d.1997 at 85) shared the Oscar for the best musical score with
Leonard Bernstein. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics. It was rated #41
by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. Ernest Lehman was the screenwriter.
(SFC, 3/25/97, p.A15)(SFEM, 9/28/97,
p.14)(SFC,11/18/97, p.A19)(SFEC, 3/22/98, DB p.52)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1961 The film "Whistle Down the
Wind" starred Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1961 Jimmy Stewart narrated in the
film "X-15" which featured Mary Tyler Moore.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFEC, 1/30/00, Par. p.14)
1961 The film "Yojimbo" starred
Toshiro Mifune and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. The Western film
"For a Few Dollars More" by Sergio Leone in 1964 was a remake of
"Yojimbo."
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)
1961 The film "The Young Doctors"
starred George Segal.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.26)
1961 The film "Young Savages"
starred Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A25)(SSFC, 1/15/06, p.B7)
1961 Gary Cooper, actor, died.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.C8)
1962 Apr 9, In the 34th Academy
Awards "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell won.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1962 The film "Advise and Consent"
starred Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton. It was based on the 1959
novel by Allen Drury.
(SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.28)(SFC, 9/3/98, p.C6)
1962 The film "Antoine and
Colette" was a short film directed by Francois Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1962 The film "Barabbas" starred
Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado and Douglas Fowley. It was directed by
Richard Fleischer and was based on the Lagerkvist novel.
(TVM, 1975, p.33)(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D7)(SFC, 7/6/02,
p.A19)
1962 The film "Billy Budd" starred
Terence Stamp and was directed by Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 2/25/98, p.E1)
1962 The film "Birdman of
Alcatraz" starred Burt Lancaster and Karl Malden. It was directed by
John Frankenheimer. It had been shot in the SF Bay Area.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.39)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)(SFC,
7/2/09, p.A8)
1962 The film "Blue Hawaii"
starred Elvis Presley. It was shot around the Coco Palms Hotel on Kauai.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1962 The Russian film
"Bootleggers" starred Georgy Vitsin and was directed by Leonid Gaidai.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A25)
1962 The noir film "Cape Fear"
starred Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum as a psychopath out to get even
with an attorney who put him away. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson
(d.2002).
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFEC,10/26/97, DB p.44)(SFC,
9/9/02, p.A22)
1962 The horror film "Carnival of
Souls" starred Candace Hilligoss.
(SFEC, 8/1/99, DB p.48)
1962 The film "The Chapman Report"
starred Shelley Winters.
(SSFC, 1/15/06, p.B7)
1962 The Japanese film
"Chuchingura" was based on a true story.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.C13)
1962 The film "Days of Wine and
Roses" starred Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in a portrayal of alcoholics.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)
1962 The film "The Day the Earth
Caught Fire" was about nuclear tests sending the Earth careening toward
the sun.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.D1)
1962 The film "Donovan’s Reef"
starred John Wayne and Lee Marvin. It was filmed on Kauai, Hawaii.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.T4)
1962 The Mexican film "El Santo
Against the Vampire Woman" starred Rodolfo Guzman.
(SFEC, 9/19/99, p.A19)
1962 The noir film "Experiment in
Terror" starred Ross Martin and was directed by Blake Edwards.
(SFC, 1/14/03, p.D2)
1962 The film "55 Days at Peking"
starred Charlton Heston and was produced by Samuel Bronston. The
screenplay was by Philip Yordan.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1962 The remade film "Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse" starred Ingrid Thulman.
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A21)
1962 The film “A Girl Named
Tamiko” starred Miyoshi Umeki.
(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A17)
1962 The film "Girls, Girls,
Girls" starred Elvis Presley.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A24)
1962 The musical film "Gypsy"
starred Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden. It was directed
by Mervyn LeRoy and was about Gypsy Rose Lee. It featured the songs:
"Let me Entertain You" and "Everything’s Coming up Roses."
(SFEC, 10/25/98, DB p.11)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1962 The Japanese film “Harakiri”
starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1962 The film "Hell Is for Heroes"
starred Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, James Coburn and Bob Newhart. It
was directed by Don Siegel.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB p.44)(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1962 The film “Hemingway’s
Adventures of a Young Man” starred Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1962 The film "Heroes Island"
starred James Mason. It was written by Leslie Stevens (d.1998).
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C2)
1962 The film “Horizontal
Lieutenant” starred Miyoshi Umeki.
(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A17)
1962 The film "How the West Was
Won" starred Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck and Karl Malden.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)(SFC,
7/2/09, p.A8)
1962 George C. Scott refused an
Oscar nomination for "The Hustler" on grounds that actors should not
have to compete against each other. He refused again in 1971 for his
performance in "Patton."
(WSJ, 5/13/96, p.A16)
1962 The French film "The Iron
Mask" starred Germaine Montero and was directed by Henri Decoin.
(SFC, 7/1/00, p.C2)
1962 The film "Kid Galahad" with
Elvis Presley was produced. It was a remake of a 1937 film by Michael
Curtiz.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1962 The film "A Kind of Loving"
was directed by John Schlesinger (d.2003).
(SFC, 7/26/03, p.A22)
1962 The film "La Jette" was
directed by Chris Marker and produced by Anatole Dauman.
(SFC, 1/2/98, p.C14)
1962 The film: "Lawrence of
Arabia" with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Anthony Quinn and Alec Guinness
was directed by David Lean. O’Toole and Lean won Academy Awards for the
film. It was rated # 5 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. Freddie Young
(d.1998) was the cinematographer and made the famous 3-minute shot
where Omar Sharif emerges from the shimmering desert haze. In 2001 it
was rated the #23 most thrilling film.
(V. Sun, 11/3/95, p.A20)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC,
12/5/98, p.C2)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
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1962 The film "Lolita" starred Sue
Lyon, Shelley Winters and James Mason as Humbert Humbert. It was
directed by Stanley Kubrick and was based on the book by Vladimir
Nabakov. A French version was released in 1997.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.B1)(SFC, 7/30/97, p.E3)(SFC,
3/8/99, p.A7)
1962 The film "Lonely Are the
Brave" starred Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, Par p.12)(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1962 The film "Long Day's Journey
Into Night" starred Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards
and Dean Stockwell. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and based on the
play by Eugene O'Neill.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.46)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1962 The film "The Longest Day"
starred Mel Ferrer, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry
Fonda, Red Buttons, Paul Anka and Rod Steiger. It was about D-Day and
won an Oscar for photography.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.52)(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFEC,
1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB p.33)(SFEC, 8/2/98, Z1 p.6)(SFC,
6/4/08, p.B11)
1962 The French film "Love On a
Pillow" (Le Repos du Guerrier) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1962 The film "Madison Avenue"
starred Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews. It was directed by H. Bruce
Humberstone.
(SFC, 12/15/03, p.A24)(MoTV, 1977, p.441)
1962 The Italian film "Mafioso"
starred Alberto Sordi.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.E3)
1962 The Italian film "Momma Roma"
was directed by Paolo Pasolini.
(SFC, 11/11/99, p.B1)
1962 The movie thriller "The
Manchurian Candidate" starred Lawrence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela
Lansbury, Janet Leigh and Margaret Mason (d.1999 at 58). It was based
on a novel by Richard Condon. John Frankenheimer echoed the Cold War
scare in the film which was rated #67 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
In 2001 it was rated the #17 most thrilling film.
(SFC, 5/19/96, p.A13)(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 4/1/99, p.C4)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1962 The film "The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance" starred Jimmy Stewart and was directed by John Ford.
Also featured was Denver Pyle (d.1997 at 77). In 2007 it was added as a
classic to the American national registry.
(SFEM, 3/23/97, p.18)(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFEC,
11/8/98, DB p.51)(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1962 Arthur Penn directed the film
"The Miracle Worker" with Patty Duke as Helen Keller and Anne Bancroft
(born 1931 as Anna Maria Italiano) as the teacher. Bancroft won an
Academy Award for her role as Annie Sullivan.
(SFC, 4/14/96, EM, p.25)(SFEC, 7/16/00, DB p.48)
1962 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1962 The film "The Music Man"
starred Robert Preston and Buddy Hackett. In 2005 it was selected for
preservation by the US National Film Registry.
(SFC, 7/1/03, p.A2)(SFC, 12/28/05, p.E6)
1962 The film "Mutiny on the
Bounty" starred Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1962 The film "O Pagador de
Promesas" (The Payer of Promises) was made into a film by Brazilian
writer Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes (d.1999 at 77) and won this year's
top prize at Cannes.
(SFC, 5/19/99, p.A21)
1962 The film "Period of
Adjustment" starred Tony Franciosa and was directed by George Roy Hill.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A2)(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)
1962 The film "Playboy of the
Western World" with Siobhan McKenna was an adaptation of a play by J.M.
Synge.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, DB p.57)
1962 The film “Premature Burial”
featured British actress Hazel Court and was based on a story by Edgar
Allan Poe.
(SFC, 4/19/08, p.B5)
1962 The film "Pressure Point"
starred Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin and Peter Falk. It was directed by
Hubert Cornfield and produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.453)
1962 The film "Requiem for a
Heavyweight" starred Anthony Quinn and Jackie Gleason.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A25)(SFC, 10/10/02, p.D1)
1962 The film "The Road to Hong
Kong" starred Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1962 The film "Roman Adventure"
starred Troy Donohue.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)
1962 The documentary film "Robert
Frost: A Lovers Quarrel with the World" was commissioned by Pres.
Kennedy and made by Shirley Clarke (d.1997 at 72).
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.B2)
1962 The film "Sanjuro" (Tsubaki
Sanjuro) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1962 The film "Sergeants 3"
starred Frank Sinatra and the whole Rat Pack.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.56)
1962 The film "The Seven Deadly
Sins" (Les Sept Peches Capitaux) starred Jean-Pierre Aumont. It was
directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)(SFC, 1/31/01, p.C2)
1962 The Swedish film “The
Silence” was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1962 The French film "Un Singe en
Hiver" (A Monkey in Winter) starred Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
It was directed by Henri Verneuil (d.2002).
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A19)
1962 The musical film "State Fair"
was a remake of the 1945 version directed by Jose Ferrer. It starred
Pat Boone, Ann-Margret and Alice Faye.
(TVM, 1975, p.545)(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.C8)
1962 The film "Sweet Bird of
Youth" starred Geraldine Page, Paul Newman and Ed Begley. Begley won an
Oscar for best supporting actor.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, DB p.58)
1962 The film "Taras Bulba"
starred Yul Brynner. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson (d.2002).
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1962 The film "Tender Is the
Night" starred Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1962 The film "That Touch of Mink"
with Cary Grant was directed by Delbert Mann.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A18)(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1962 The film "To Kill a
Mockingbird Bird" with Robert Duvall and Gregory Peck as Atticus
Fynch was directed by Robert Mulligan. It was based on the
autobiographical novel by Harper Lee. He won an Oscar for his role. It
was rated #34 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. The screenplay was by
Horton Foote.
(WSJ, 7/26/96, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/18/97, p.A20)(SFEC,
3/1/98, Par p.18)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC, 6/6/99, DB p.51)
1962 The film "The Trial of Joan
of Arc" was directed by Robert Bresson.
(SFEC, 12/5/99, DB p.59)
1962 The film "Two for the Seesaw"
starred Robert Mitchum. It was directed by Robert Wise.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)
1962 The film “Two Weeks in
Another Town” featured Cyd Charisse.
(SFC, 6/18/08, p.A2)
1962 Marlon Brando starred in "The
Ugly American."
(WSJ, 12/12/95, p.A1)
1962 Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996), Italian actor, and Brigitte Bardot starred in "A Very
Private Affair." It was directed by Louis Malle.
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)(SFEM, 2/9/97, p.33)
1962 The French film "Vice and
Virtue" (Le Vice et la Vertu) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1962 The film "Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane" starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
(SFEM, 8/24/97, p.6)
1962 The film "Who’s Got the
Action" starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1962 The film "Wild Westerners"
featured Guy Mitchell.
(SFC, 7/6/99, p.B2)
1963 Apr 8, In the 35th Academy
Awards "Lawrence of Arabia," Anne Bancroft and Gregory Peck won.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1963 The film "Act One" starred
Jason Robards. It featured the debut of David Doyle, later known as
Bosley in TV’s Charlie’s Angels.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.C3)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1963 The film "All Night Long" was
screen written by Paul Jarrico. His credit was under the name Peter
Achilles.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)
1963 The film "Behold the Pale
Horse" was directed by Fred Zinnemann.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1963 The film "Billy Liar" starred
Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. It was directed by John Schlesinger.
(SFC, 7/26/03, p.A22)
1963 Alfred Hitchcock directed
"The Birds" with Tippi Hedren set in California’s Bodega Bay. It had no
music in the soundtrack. Rear-projection technique was used to project
footage of real birds with actors in front of the screen. In 2001 it
was rated the #7 most thrilling film.
(SFC, 5/19/96,Mag, p.27)(SFEC,10/26/97, Z1 p.2)(WSJ,
3/19/98, p.R4)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1963 The film "Bye Bye Birdie" was
produced.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.56)
1963 The film "Call Me Bwana"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1963 The film "Captain Newman"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1963 Ossie Davis was in the film
"The Cardinal."
(SFEC, 10/20/96, Par, p.24)
1963 The film "Charade" starred
Walter Matthau and James Coburn.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1963 The film "A Child Is Waiting"
starred Burt Lancaster, Lawrence Tierney and Judy Garland. It was
directed by John Cassavetes and produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.453)(SFC, 3/1/02,
p.A33)
1963 The film "Cleopatra" starred
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Roddy McDowall and ran for 243
minutes. Taylor was the 1st Hollywood actress to earn a $ 1 million for
a film.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.16)(SFEC, 10/4/98,
p.B10)(SSFC, 4/6/03, Par p.2)
1963 The comedy film "Come Blow
Your Horn" starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.55)
1963 The film "Come fly With Me"
starred Dolores Hart and Karl Malden. It was directed by Henry Levin.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.143)
1963 The documentary film "The
Cool World" was about a poor black teenager trapped in the Harlem
ghetto and made by Shirley Clarke (d.1997 at 72).
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.B2)
1963 The film "Contempt" by
Jean-Luc Godard starred Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli and Jack
Palance.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.41)(SFEM, 8/10/97, p.6)
1963 The film "Critic’s Choice"
starred Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.
(SFEC, 8/23/98, DB p.42)
1963 The German film "Delay in
Marienborn" was directed by Will Tremper.
(SFC, 12/17/98, p.C11)
1963 The horror film "Dementia 13"
was shot in Ireland and was the first film directed by Francis Ford
Coppola (24).
(SFEC, 11/22/98, DB p.54)
1963 The film "Dr. No" premiered
in US on May 8. Sean Connery starred in the James Bond movie "Doctor
No." World wide receipts totaled $60 mil.
(MC, 5/8/02)(WSJ, 11/7/95, p. A1)
1963 The film "Duel of the Titans"
starred Steve Reeves.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.C4)
1963 The film "8 1/2" by Federico
Fellini was edited by Ruggero Mastroianni (1930-1996) and starred
Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996). It was somewhat autobiographical and
eliminated the boundaries between waking experiences, dreams and
reveries.
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.6)
1963 The film "Forty Pounds of
Trouble" featured Stubby Kaye.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1963 The film "Four for Texas"
starred Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the Three Stooges. It was
directed by Robert Aldrich.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1963 The British film “The Girl
Hunters” was based on a Mickey Spillane novel and starred Mickey
Spillane and Shirley Eaton. It was directed by Roy Rowland.
(SFC, 7/18/06, p.B5)(MoTV, 1977, p.273)
1963 The film "The Great Escape"
starred Steve McQueen and James Coburn. It was directed by John
Sturges. It was based on Allied POW escape from Stalag Luft III in
Germany during WW II as told in the 1949 book "The Great Escape" by
Paul Brickall. Newman's character was based on the Jackson Barrett
Mahon (d.1999 at 78), an American fighter pilot, who provided technical
advice for the film. In 2001 it was rated the #19 most thrilling film.
Bud Eakins (1930-2007), standing in for McQueen, performed the film’s
famous motorcycle jump over barbed wire.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.C5)(SFC, 12/23/99, p.A27)(SFC,
6/14/01, p.E5)(SFC, 10/12/07, p.B11)
1963 The psychological thriller
film "The Haunting" was directed by Robert Wise.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.E3)(SFC,10/29/97, p.E3)
1963 The film "High and Low"
(Tengoku to jigoku) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by Akira
Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1963 The film "Hud" with Patricia
Neal and Paul Newman was directed by Martin Ritt. It was based on a
novel by Larry McMurtry. Melvyn Douglas won an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actor.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)(SFEC, 4/4/99, DB p.39)
1963 The film "I Could Go On
Singing" starred Judy Garland.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.C15)
1963 The film "Irma La Douce"
starred Shirley MacLaine, James Caan and Jack Lemmon and was directed
by Billy Wilder.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, DB p.49)(SFEC, 4/5/98, Par
p.22)(SSFC, 10/11/03, Par p.16)
1963 The film "Island of Love"
starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1963 The film “Jason and the
Argonauts” was produced. Ray Harryhausen (b.1920) was responsible for
the special effects.
(SSFC, 5/16/04, p.M6)(SFC, 2/27/08, p.E5)
1963 The film "Lady in a Cage"
starred James Caan.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, Par p.7)
1963 The comedy film "It’s a Mad,
Mad, Mad, Mad World" starred Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Milton
Berle, Buddy Hackett and Bobo Lewis (d.1998 at 72). It was directed by
Stanley Kramer. It won an Oscar in 1964 for sound effects. It premiered
at Hollywood’s new Cinerama Theatre on Nov 7 in a lengthy 195 minute
version.
(SFC, 11/14/98, p.A23)(WSJ, 2/13/02, p.A1)
1963 The film "Kings of the Sun"
starred Yul Brynner. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson (d.2002).
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1963 Charles O’Neil (1904-1996)
co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Lassie’s Great Adventure."
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.C2)
1963 The film "Le Lit Conjugal"
(The Conjugal Bed) by Italian director Marco Ferreri was produced.
(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A20)
1963 The film "Leopard" starred
Burt Lancaster as the prince who makes the ceremonial cut into the
timballo (pasta dish). It was directed Luchino Visconti and based on
the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa.
(SFC, 10/2/96, zz1 p.8)
1963 The film "Lilies of the
Field" with Sidney Poitier was produced. Poitier won an Oscar for his
performance.
(SFC, 3/25/97, p.A15)
1963 The film "The List of Adrian
Messenger" starred Frank Sinatra, George C. Scott and Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFC,
9/24/99, p.D2)
1963 The film "Lord of the Flies"
was directed by Peter Brook.
(WSJ, 6/15/98, p.A26)
1963 The film "Love With the
Proper Stranger" starred Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen.
(SFC,11/14/97, p.C18)
1963 The film "Mary, Mary" was
produced. It was based on the Broadway play by Jean Kerr.
(SFC, 1/7/03, p.A22)
1963 The film “Murder at the
Gallop” starred Margaret Rutherford (d.1972).
(WSJ, 3/4/06, p.P2)
1963 The film "Now About These
Women" featured Jarl Kulle (d. 1997 at 70) and was directed by Ingmar
Bergman.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A20)
1963 The film "The Nutty
Professor" starred Jerry Lewis and Stella Stevens. Lewis also directed
the film. In 2004 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(TVM, 1975, p.414)(SFC, 6/29/96, p.E1)(SFC,
12/31/04, p.E6)
1963 The film "The Organizer" was
made by Mario Monicelli.
(WSJ, 10/25/96, p.A15)
1963 The film "A New Kind of Love"
starred Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, DB p.54)
1963 The French film "Nutty,
Naughty Chateau" (Un Chateau en Suede) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1963 The film "The Organizer"
starred Marcello Mastroianni and was directed by Mario Monicelli.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.B6)
1963 The film "Palms Springs
Weekend" starred Troy Donohue.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)
1963 The film "Papa’s Delicate
Condition" starred Jackie Gleason.
(SFC, 10/10/02, p.D9)
1963 The film “The Prize” starred
Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1963 The film "PT 109" with Cliff
Robertson as John F. Kennedy was produced.
(SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.27)
1963 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Rampage."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1963 The film “The Raven” featured
British actress Hazel Court and Vincent Price. It was based on a story
by Edgar Allan Poe.
(SFC, 4/19/08, p.B5)
1963 The film "The Sadist" by
James Landis was produced.
(SFEM, 4/27/97, p.6)
1963 The Mexican film "The Saint
Against the Strangler" starred Begona Palacios (d.2000 at 58).
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.d5)
1963 The Mexican film "The Saint
Against the Ghost and the Strangler" starred Begona Palacios. Palacios
later married director Sam Peckinpah.
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.d5)
1963 The British film “The
Servant” starred Dirk Bogarde and was directed by Joseph Losey.
(WSJ, 3/23/05, p.D8)
1963 The film "Shock Corridor" was
a melodrama written and directed by Sam Fuller (d.1997 at 86). It was
the story of a reporter undercover at a mental institution. It starred
Peter Breck, Constance Towers and Hari Rhodes.
(SFC, 10/10/97, p.C10)(SFC,11/1/97,
p.A17)(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)
1963 The 8-hour film “Sleep” was
produced by Andy Warhol.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.E5)
1963 The French film "Songs in the
Basement" starred Germaine Montero and was directed by Henri Verneuil.
(SFC, 7/1/00, p.C2)
1963 The film "Spencer's Mountain"
starred Maureen O'Hara.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, Par p.16)
1963 The film "The Sporting Life"
starred Richard Harris as a Yorkshire coal miner who becomes a
successful professional rugby player. It was directed by Lindsay
Anderson.
(WSJ, 2/22/02, p.W5)
1963 The film "Tammy and the
Doctor" starred Sandra Dee and featured the debut of Peter Fonda.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par. p.18)
1963 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Take Her She’s Mine."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1963 The 4* British film "Tom
Jones" was directed by Tony Richardson. It starred Albert Finney, Joyce
Redman and Susannah York.
(SFC, 4/2/98, p.E1)(TVM, 1975, p.597)(SFEC, 12/6/98,
DB p.58)
1963 The film "Three Stooges Go
Around the World in a Daze" was produced.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A28)
1963 The film "Toys in the Attic"
starred Wendy Hiller and was directed by George Roy Hill.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A2)(SFC, 5/17/03, p.A16)
1963 The film "The Trial" starred
Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Elsa
Martinelli. It was based on the Kafka novel.
(SFC, 6/7/99, p.B2)
1963 The film "Twilight of Honor"
featured the debut of Linda Evans.
(SFEC, 8/24/97, Par p.18)
1963 The film “The V.I.P.s”
starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Margaret Rutherford, who
won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. It was directed by Anthony
Asquith.
(AARP, 6/03, p.22)(MoTV, 1977, p.769)
1963 The film “Who’s Been Sleeping
in My Bed” starred Carol Burnett.
(SSFC, 12/18/05, Par p.22)
1963 Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996), Italian actor, starred in "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)
1963 The film “The Young Swingers”
starred country singer Molly Bee (1939-2009).
(SFC, 2/12/09, p.B4)
1963 The film "Zorba the Greek"
starred Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas and Lila Kedrova
(d.2000). Kedrova won an Oscar for best supporting actress.
(SFC, 4/21/00, p.D4)
1964 The film "The Americanization
of Emily" starred James Garner Julie Andrews and James Coburn.
(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.D8)(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1964 The French film "Bande a
Part" was directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.M4)
1964 The film "Becket" starred
Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton and John Gielgud. It was directed by
Peter Glenville. It was written by Edward Anhalt (d.2000 at 86) and won
him an Oscar.
(TVM, 1975, p.7)(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A24)
1964 The film “Bedtime Story”
starred Marlon Brando and David Niven.” It was written by Paul Henning
(1912-2005).
(SFC, 3/26/05, p.B5)
1964 Bernardo Bertolucci directed
"Before the Revolution" which he wrote in 1962 at age 22.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A7)
1964 The film "Behold a Pale
Horse" starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1964 The film "The Best Man" with
Henry Fonda was produced.
(SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.28)
1964 The Brazilian film "Black
God, White Devil" was directed by Glauber Rocha.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1964 The film "Black Like Me" was
produced by Bernard J. Cherin. It was based on the book by John Howard
Griffith.
(SFC, 1/19/99, p.A16)
1964 The film "The Brass Bottle"
starred Tony Randall, Burl Ives and Kathie Browne (d.2003).
(SFC, 4/17/03, p.A23)
1964 The film "The Chalk Garden"
starred Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1964 The film "Cheyenne Autumn"
starred Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1964 The film "Chimes at Midnight"
starred John Gielgud.
(SFC, 5/23/00, p.A13)
1964 The French film "Circle of
Love" (La Ronde) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1964 The film "Circus World"
starred John Wayne and Rita Hayworth and was produced by Samuel
Bronston. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1964 The film "The Curse of the
Living Corpse" starred Roy Schneider.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, Par p.14)
1964 The film "Curse of the
Mummy's Tomb" starred Dickie Owen.
(SFEC, 5/16/99, DB p.56)
1964 The film "Dead Birds" was
directed by Robert Gardner. It was named a Library of Congress Classic
in 1998.
(SFC, 11/30/98, p.D3)
1964 The film “Dear Heart” was
directed by Delbert Mann.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1964 The film "Dead Ringer"
starred Bette Davis and Karl Malden. It was directed by Paul Henreid.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.174)
1964 The film "The Disorderly
Orderly" starred Jerry Lewis.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1964 The film "Dog Star Man" was
made by experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (d.2003 at 70).
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A22)
1964 The film "Dr. Strangelove;
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" starred George C.
Scott and was directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic. It was rated #26 by the Amer. Film
Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC,12/28/97, BR p.8)(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1964 The film “Empire” was
produced. In 2004 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/31/04, p.E6)
1964 The French film "L’Empire de
la Nuit" featured the tap dancing of the Harold Nicholas.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A19)
1964 The documentary surfing film
“Endless Summer” was shot by Bruce Brown.
(SFC, 5/31/05, p.B4)
1964 The film "Ensign Pulver"
starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1964 The film "Fail-Safe" starred
Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. It was based on a 1962 novel by Eugene
Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
(SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.28)(SFC, 9/18/04, p.B7)
1964 The film "Film" starred
Buster Keaton and was directed by Samuel Beckett.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, BR p.7)
1964 Sergio Leone directed
"Fistful of Dollars" with Clint Eastwood.
(SFC, 12/3/96, p.E3)
1964 The Western film "For a Few
Dollars More" with Clint Eastwood by Sergio Leone was a remake of
Kurosawa’s 1961 film "Yojimbo."
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)
1964 The James Bond movie "From
Russia With Love" starred Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi. World wide
receipts totaled $79 mil. Desmon Llewelyn (d.1999 at 85) starred as Q.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p. A1)(Hem., 7/96, p.55)(TVM, 1975,
p.198)
1964 The documentary film "Give Me
a Riddle" was made by David Schickele in Nigeria after his service in
the Peace Corps.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C6)
1964 The film "A Global Affair"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1964 The James Bond movie
"Goldfinger" starred Sean Connery. It grossed $125 mil. The theme song
was sung by Shirley Bassey with lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie
Bricusse.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p. A1)(Hem., 7/96, p.55)(SFC,
4/15/99, p.C4)
1964 The film "Goodbye Charlie"
starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1964 The film “Good Neighbor Sam”
featured Charles Lane.
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.A2)
1964 The Beatles’ film "A Hard
Day’s Night" was directed by Richard Lester.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.58)(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)
1964 The film "Having a Wild
Weekend" featured the Dave Clark Five and the fabled T.A.M.I show with
James Brown, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones and the Supremes.
(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.3)
1964 The Japanese film "High and
Low" starred Toshiro Mifune as a factory owner standing up to his son’s
kidnapper.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)
1964 The film "Hush Hush Sweet
Charlotte" with Bette Davis was produced. The music was written by
Frank DeVol (d.1999 at 88).
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)(SFC, 10/30/99, p.C2)
1964 The film "I Am Cuba" was
directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. It was made as a propaganda film about
Soviet-Cuban friendship.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, DB p.52)
1964 The film "The Incredible Mr.
Limpet" starred Don Knotts (1924-2006).
(SFEC, 11/29/98, DB p.48)
1964 The film "Invitation to a
Gunfighter" starred Yul Brynner and George Segal. It was directed by
Richard Wilson and produced by Stanley Kramer.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.283)
1964 The film "It Happened Here"
was co-directed by Andrew Mollow and Kevin Brownlow. It depicted a
Britain occupied by Nazi Germany.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, DB p.42)
1964 The film "The Killers"
starred Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson and
Ronal Reagan in his last film role.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.C13)
1964 The film "Kissin’ Cousins"
with Elvis Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1964 The film "Kiss Me Stupid"
starred Dean Martin and was written and directed by Billy Wilder.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.E3)(SFEC, 4/23/00, DB p.46)
1964 "Kiss of the Vampire" was a
British Hammer Film production.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.67)
1964 The film “Lady in a Cage” was
written and produced by Luther Davis (1916-2008).
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.B4)
1964 The film "Lilith" starred
Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Jean Seberg and Gene Hackman.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par. p.18)(SSFC, 12/30/01, Par
p.16)(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A26)
1964 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Man in the Middle."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1964 The film "Marnie" starred
Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren and Melody Thomas Scott. It was directed by
Alfred Hitchcock and based on a 1961 novel by Winston Graham (d.2003).
(TVM, 1975, p.367)(SSFC, 2/24/02, Par p.12)(SFC,
7/11/03, p.A19)
1964 Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996), Italian actor, starred with Sophia Loren in "Marriage
Italian Style."
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)
1964 The film "Mary Poppins"
featured the debut of Julie Andrews. Andrews won an Oscar for her
performance.
(SFEM, 5/4/97, p.6)(SFC, 8/22/97, p.D14)(SFC,
3/18/02, p.D1)
1964 The film “The Masque of the
Red Death” starred British actress Hazel Court and Vincent Price. It
was based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.
(SFC, 4/19/08, p.B5)
1964 The film "The Misadventures
of Merlin Jones" was produced.
(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A15)
1964 The film "Moonspinners"
starred Hayley Mills in her transition from child actor to romantic
lead.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, DB p.46)
1964 The film "My Fair Lady"
starred Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway and Rex Harrison. It was rated
#91 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(SFEC,11/16/97, DB p.16)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1964 The film "The Naked Kiss"
starred Constance Towers and Anthony Eisley. It was directed by Sam
Fuller (d.1997) and was about a prostitute who flees her pimp and hides
in a small town.
(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)(SFEM,
1/11/98, p.2)
1964 The film "Nightmare in
Chicago" was directed by Robert Altman.
(SFC, 11/22/06, p.A14)
1964 The John Huston film "Night
of the Iguana" starred Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue
Lyon and Elizabeth Taylor. It was filmed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and
featured the work of cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1908-1997).
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A20)(USAT, 1/16/04, p.1D)
1964 The film "Nothing But the
Best" with Willie Rushton (1937-1996) was produced.
(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1964 The comedy film "Paris - When
It Sizzles" starred William Holden and Audrey Hepburn.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, DB p.45)
1964 The film "The Patsy" starred
Jerry Lewis.
(SFC, 10/10/02, p.A21)
1964 The documentary film "Point
of Order" was a distilling of the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings.
It was directed by Emile de Antonio and Daniel Talbot.
(SFC, 11/12/98, p.E3)
1964 The film "Pumpkin Eater" with
Anne Bancroft was produced.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E4)
1964 The film "Red Desert" starred
Monica Vitti and Richard Harris and was directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni. It was Antonioni’s 1st color film. The cinematography was by
Carlo Di Palma (d.2004)
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)(WSJ, 11/10/00, p.W11)(SFC,
7/15/04, p.B7)
1964 The film "Rio Conchos"
starred Tony Franciosa and Richard Boone. It was directed by Gordon
Douglas.
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)(MoTV, 1977, p.601)
1964 The film "Robin and the Seven
Hoods" starred Frank Sinatra, Dean martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.56)
1964 The film “Santa Claus
Conquers the Martians” was produced.
(SSFC, 12/19/04, Par p.11)
1964 The Polish film "The
Saragosso Manuscript" starred Zbigniev Cybulski (d.1967 at 39) and was
directed by Wojciech Has (d.2000 at 75). It was based on the novel "The
Manuscript," found in Saragosso and written by Jan Potocki, a Polish
expatriate.
(SFEM, 8/1/99, p.2)(SFC, 8/5/99, p.B1,5)(SFC,
10/4/00, p.B2)
1964 The film "Seven Days in May"
starred Kirk Douglas and was directed by John Frankenheimer.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, Par p.12)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)
1964 The film "Sex and the Single
Girl" featured Stubby Kaye.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1964 The film "A Shot in the Dark"
was ranked 48th most funny film in 2000.
(SFC, 6/15/00, p.E3)
1964 Luis Bunuel made his film
"Simon del Desierto" (Simon of the Desert) in Mexico. It was his last
film before returning to Europe. It features an ascetic who gets
transported to a go-go bar in Greenwich Village.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.E3)
1964 The film "Soft Skin" starred
Francoise Dorleac and Jean-Louis Trintignant as illicit lovers.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1964 The film “That Man from Rio”
was directed by Philippe de Broca. It represented part of the new wave
in French film making.
(SFC, 12/3/04, p.B7)
1964 The film "The Thirteen Most
Beautiful Boys of 1964" was produced by Andy Warhol.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.A15)
1964 The film "36 Hours" starred
James Garner as a WW II POW.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB p.46)
1964 The film "Topkapi" featured
Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1964 The film "The Umbrellas of
Cherbourg" starred Catherine Deneuve and was produced by Jacques
Demy.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.E1)(SFEC, 4/16/00, DB p.50)
1964 The film "The Unsinkable
Molly Brown" starred Debbie Reynolds as Molly Brown, the richest woman
in Denver, who survived the sinking of the Titanic. The film was based
on a Broadway play and incorporated the song-and-dance routine "I Ain’t
Down yet."
(SFEC,12/797, DB p.41)
1964 The film “The Visit” starred
Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn. A Broadway production had starred
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and was based on a 1956 play by Swiss
playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt. The film was directed by Bernhard
Wicki.
(WSJ, 10/21/06, p.P8)(MoTV, 1977, p.770)
1964 The film "Viva Las Vegas"
with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret was produced. Nicky Blair (d.1998 at
70) played Elvis’ sidekick.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)(SFC, 11/25/98, p.B4)
1964 The film "What a Way to Go"
starred Robert Mitchum and Paul Newman.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1964 The film "The World of Henry
Orient" starred Peter Sellers and was directed by George Roy Hill.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A2)
1964 The film "World Without Sun"
by Jacques Cousteau won an Academy Award.
(SFC, 6/26/97, p.A7)
1964 The film "The Yellow
Rolls-Royce" starred George C. Scott with the film script by Terence
Rattigan.
(SFC, 6/23/97, p.E3)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1964 The film "Your Cheatin’
Heart" starred George Hamilton as singer Hank Williams.
(WSJ, 11/27/01, p.A20)
1964 The film "Zulu" with Michael
Caine was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)
1965 Mar 2, The movie version of
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie
Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere at New York’s
Rivoli Theater. The musical, about the Trapp Family, was a hit on the
Great White Way for 3-1/2 years and one of the most popular motion
pictures of all time. It remains a classic even today. The movie
brought instant stardom for Miss Andrews, who went on to star in other
singing roles in the theatre, on television, in movies and as a popular
recording artist.
(AP, 3/2/05)
1965 Apr 5, In the 37th Academy
Awards "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews won.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1965 Leslie Halliwell, British
movie maven, published "The Filmgoer’s Companion," a rudimentary Who’s
Who for films.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.C1)
1965 The film "The Agony and the
Ecstasy" starred Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. It was based on a
novel by Irving Stone.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, DB p.52)
1965 The film "Alphaville was
directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The musical score was by Paul Misraki
(d.1998 at 90). Misraki composed music on over 150 film soundtracks.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)
1965 The film "The Art of Love"
starred Dick Van Dyke, James Garner, Elke Sommer and Ethel Merman.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, DB p.52)
1965 The film "Baby the Rain Must
Fall" starred Josephine Hutchinson and Steve McQueen. The screenplay
was by Horton Foote.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C3)(SFEC, 6/6/99, DB p.51)
1965 The film "Beach Blanket
Bingo" with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon was produced. It was
the 5th and best of the 7 "Beach Party " movies.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, DB p.57)
1965 The film "The Bedford
Incident" starred Sidney Poitier.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)
1965 The film "Blindfold" starred
Rock Hudson. It was directed by Philip Dunne and was based on a story
by Lucille Fletcher.
(TVM, 1975, p.536)(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A24)
1965 The film "Brainstorm" starred
Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews and Kathie Browne.
(SFC, 4/17/03, p.A23)
1965 The film "Cat Ballou" with
Lee Marvin was produced. It featured Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole as
the strolling minstrel narrators.
(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A16)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1965 The film "Cincinnati Kid"
starred Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, DB p.51)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1965 William Wyler directed the
film "The Collector."
(WSJ, 1/4/96, p.A8)
1965 The film "Darling" starred
Julie Christie. It was directed by John Schlesinger (40). Christie won
an Academy Award for her role.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, DB p.34)(SFC, 7/26/03, p.A22)
1965 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Dear Brigitte."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1965 The film "Diary of a
Chambermaid" starred Jeanne Moreau and was directed by Luis Bunuel.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.D5)
1965 The film "Die! Die! My
Darling" starred Tallulah Bankhead (d.1968).
(SSFC, 1/14/01, DB p.34)
1965 Bob Dylan (23) did a tour of
England that was chronicled in the film "Don’t Look Back" by D.A.
Pennebaker.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D5)
1965 The film "Doctor Zhivago"
starred Omar Shariff, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness and Julie Christie. It
was directed by David Lean and rated #39 by the Amer. Film Inst. in
1998. Lara's Theme was written by Maurice Jarre. A TV version on PBS
came out in 2003.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFEC, 2/1/98, DB
p.34)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 11/1/03, p.D1)
1965 The film "Do Not Disturb"
starred Doris Day.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A19)
1965 The film "Father Goose" won
an Academy Award for scriptwriter Frank Tarloff (d.1999 at 83). Tarloff
was one of the Hollywood writers blacklisted in the 1950s for refusing
to cooperate with the HUAC hearings.
(SFC, 6/29/99, p.A19)
1965 The film “The Fool Killer”
starred Anthony Perkins and featured the debut of Edward Albert (14).
(SFC, 9/28/06, p.B5)
1965 The film “Funny Things Happen
Down Under” featured Olivia Newton-John (17).
(SSFC, 9/11/05, p.26)
1965 The film "Frankie and Johnny"
with Elvis Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1965 The film "Four in the
Morning" starred Dame Judi Dench.
(SSFC, 3/24/02, Par p.26)
1965 The film "Girl Happy" with
Elvis Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1965 The film "The Greatest Story
Ever Told" was produced.
(SFC, 6/19/97, p.A22)
1965 The film "The Great Race"
starred Tony Curtis.
(SSFC, 12/15/02, Par p.26)
1965 The film "Harum Scarum" with
Elvis Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1965 The film "Having a Wild
Weekend" starred the Dave Clark Five and was directed by John Boorman.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, DB p.50)
1965 The film "Hawks and Sparrows"
starred Toto and was directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.D1)
1965 The British film "He Who
Rides a Tiger" was directed by Charles Crichton.
(SFC, 9/16/99, p.A19)
1965 Ossie Davis was in the film
"The Hill."
(SFEC, 10/20/96, Par, p.24)
1965 The film "In Harm’s Way"
starred John Wayne, and Kirk Douglas and was directed by Otto
Preminger. It was set during WW II in the Pacific.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.53)(TVM, 1975, p.276)
1965 The film "I'll Take Sweden"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1965 The film "The Ipcress File"
with Michael Caine (32) was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)(SSFC, 2/9/03, Par p.4)
1965 The film "John Goldfarb
Please Come Home" featured Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1965 The film "King Rat" starred
George Segal.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.26)
1965 The film "The Knack and How
To Get It" starred Charlotte Rampling.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, Par p.15)
1965 The film "Lady L" starred
Paul Newman and was directed by Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1965 The film "Looking for Love"
featured Johnny Carson.
(SFEC, 10/11/98, DB p.45)
1965 The film "The Loved One"
starred Rod Steiger and Ed Reimers (1912-2009, the spokesman for
Allstate ads since 1957.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFC, 8/17/09, p.C4)
1965 Milos Forman directed the
film "Loves of a Blond."
(WSJ, 12/27/96, p.A5)
1965 The film "Major Dundee"
starred Richard Harris and James Coburn.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1965 The film "Marriage on the
Rocks" starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1965 Arthur Penn directed "Mickey
One" with Warren Beatty.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, EM p.8)
1965 The film "Mirage" starred
Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A9)
1965 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "Mister Moses."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1965 The film "The Monkey’s Uncle"
was produced.
(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A15)
1965 The film "Never Too Late"
starred Maureen O’Sullivan.
(SJM, 6/24/98, p.4A)
1965 The film "None But the Brave"
starred Frank Sinatra and Brad Dexter.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFC, 12/16/02, p.A23)
1965 The Russian film "Operation Y
and Other Adventures of Shurik" starred Georgy Vitsin and was directed
by Leonid Gaidai.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A25)
1965 The film "Othello" with
Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith and Joyce Redman was
produced.
(USAT, 8/16/96, p.3D)
1965 The film "Our Man Flint" was
produced.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A28)
1965 The film "A Patch of Blue"
starred Sidney Poitier and Shelly Winters.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.44)
1965 The film "The Pawnbroker"
starred Rod Steiger.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)
1965 The Swedish film “Persona”
was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1965 The film "Pierrot le Fou"
starred Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. It was directed by Jean-Luc
Godard.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.B5)
1965 The film "The Pleasure
Seekers" starred Tony Franciosa and Ann-Margret. It was a remake of
“Three Coins in The Fountain.”
(SFC, 1/21/06, p.B5)(MoTV, 1977, p.601)
1965 The film "Red Beard"
(Akahige) starred Toshiro Mifune as a pioneering physician. It was
directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1965 The French film "Repulsion"
with Catherine Deneuve was directed by Roman Polanski. It was a tale of
female madness and paranoia.
(SFC, 5/22/98, p.C3)
1965 The film "The Rounders" was
directed Burt Kennedy.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A24)
1965 The film "The Sandpiper"
starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It featured the song "The
Shadow of Your Smile" by Johnny Mandel for which he won an Academy
Award. The screenplay was by Dalton Trumbo.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A18)(SFC, 3/3/05, p.E3)
1965 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Shenandoah."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1965 The film "Ship of Fools"
starred George Segal, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin and
Vivien Leigh. This was Leigh's last film. It was directed by Stanley
Kramer.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.26)(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB
p.37)(TVM, 1975, p.516)
1965 The film "The Slender Thread"
featured Dabney Coleman.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.16)
1965 The film "Sound of Music"
starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and was directed by
Robert Wise. It was rated #55 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. Ernest
Lehman was the screenwriter.
(SFEM, 9/28/97, p.14)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SSFC,
1/12/03, Par p.20)
1965 The film "Swingin’ Summer"
starred Raquel Welch."
(SSFC, 3/17/02, Par p.26)
1965 The film “That Funny Feeling”
starred Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1965 The film "A Thousand Clowns"
with Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Barry Gordon and Barbara Harris was
produced.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)(SSFC, 1/7/01, DB p.42)
1965 The film "Those Magnificent
Men in their Flying Machines" with Willie Rushton (1937-1996) was
produced.
(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1965 The James Bond movie
"Thunderball" starred Sean Connery. World wide receipts total $141 mil.
The screenplay was by John R. Hopkins. It premiered in US on Dec 29.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p. A1)(MC, 12/29/01)
1965 The film "The Train" was
directed by John Frankenheimer. It was about French Resistance fighters
trying to stop the Nazis from shipping away art treasures.
(WSJ, 9/25/98, p.W2)
1965 The film "Treasure of the
Aztecs" was screen written by Paul Jarrico.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)
1965 The film "The Truth About
Spring" starred Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1965 The film "Von Ryan’s Express"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1966 Apr 28, In the 38th Academy
Awards "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and Lee Marvin won.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1966 The film "Alfie" starred
Michael Caine and Shelley Winters.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)(SSFC, 1/15/06, p.B7)
1966 The film "Arabesque" starred
Gregory Peck.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)
1966 The film "Assault on a Queen"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1966 The film "The Bible" starred
George C. Scott.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1966 The film "The Big Gundown"
starred Lee Van Cleef and was directed by Sergio Sollima. The score was
by Ennio Morricone.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.E3)
1966 The film "A Big Hand for the
Little Lady" starred Jason Robards, Joanne Woodward and Henry Fonda.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.A31)
1966 The film "Blowup" starred
David Hemmings (1941-2003) and was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.E3)(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)(SFC,
12/5/03, p.A27)
1966 The film "Born Free" was shot
in Kenya and based on the true story of Joy Adamson raising a lioness.
It was produced by Paul B. Radin (d.2001 at 88) It won 2 Oscars for
original score and title song.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A18)
1966 The film "Boy Did I Get a
Wrong Number" featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1966 The film "Cast a Giant
Shadow" starred Frank Sinatra. It was written, produced and directed by
Melville Shavelson (1917-2007).
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(SFC, 8/10/07, p.B9)
1966 The documentary film "Castro
Street" was directed by Kenneth Anger. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic.
(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)
1966 The film "Chappaqua" was
written and directed by Conrad Rooks. It featured William S. Burroughs,
Allen Ginsberg, Ornette Coleman, Paula Pritchett, and music by Ravi
Shankar and the Fugs. It was an autobiographical account of how Rooks
pursued a 'Sleeping cure" in France for his addictions. A New print was
released in 1999.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.C5)
1966 The film "The Chase" with
E.G. Marshall and Robert Duvall was produced.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Par p.22)(SFEC, 8/16/98, Par p.16)
1966 The film "Chimes At Midnight"
with Orson Welles as Falstaff and John Gielgud as Henry IV, was
produced. It enacted the Battle of Shrewsbury.
(WSJ, 7/12/96, p.A9)
1966 The film "The Countess From
Hong Kong" was made by Charlie Chaplin.
(SFEC, 12/13/98, BR p.6)
1966 The film "The Crazy Quilt"
was directed by John Korty.
(SFEM, 3/29/98, p.6)
1966 The film "Dead Heat on a
Merry-Go-Round" starred James Coburn.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1966 The film "Double Trouble"
with Elvis Presley, Norman Rossington (d.1999 at 70) and Annette Day
was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)(SFC, 5/25/99, p.B2)
1966 The documentary film "Endless
Summer" by Bruce Brown was about 2 surfers following the summer around
the globe. In 2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, p.T2)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1966 The Japanese film “The Face
of Another” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Hiroshi
Teshigahara.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1966 The film "Fahrenheit 451" by
Francis Truffaut starred Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. It was based
on the novel by Ray Bradbury.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.D5)(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1966 The film "The Family Way"
starred Hayley Mills in her first truly adult role. It was directed by
Roy Boulting, whom she married in 1971.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, DB p.47)
1966 The film "Fantastic Voyage"
starred Raquel Welch."
(SSFC, 3/17/02, Par p.26)
1966 The film "Faster Pussycat!
Kill! Kill!" was about three karate-chopping dolls in the desert who
plan to steal the loot of an old man and his retarded son. It was
directed by Russ Meyer (1922-2004)
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)(SFC, 9/22/04, p.A2)
1966 The Disney film "The Fighting
Prince of Donegal" was set in the 16th century as Irish clans rose up
against the British.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, DB p.57)
1966 The film "A Fine Madness"
starred Sean Connery as a compulsive truth-telling poet. It was
directed by Irvin Kershner.
(WSJ, 5/15/98, p.W5)
1966 The film "The Flight of the
Phoenix" starred Jimmy Stewart and Ian Bannen. It was directed by
Robert Aldrich.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(TVM, 1975, p.184)
1966 The film "The Fortune Cookie"
starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and was directed by Billy Wilder
.
(SFEC,11/2/97, DB p.60)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A14)
1966 The French film "The Game Is
Over" (La Curee) was directed by Roger Vadim.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)
1966 The film "Georgy Girl"
starred Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, Par p.15)(SFC, 12/29/03, p.A12)
1966 The film "The Ghost and Mr.
Chicken" starred Don Knotts.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, p.56)(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.B7)
1966 Clint Eastwood starred in
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
(SFEM, 1/12/97, Par, p.4)
1966 The film "The Group" featured
the debut of Hal Holbrook.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, Par p.14)
1966 The film "Harper" starred
Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman and Shelley Winters.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.6)(SSFC, 1/15/06, p.B7)
1966 The film "Hawaii" starred
Richard Harris and Julie Andrews. It was directed by George Roy Hill.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A2)
1966 The Swedish film “Hour of the
Wolf” was directed by Ingmar Bergman.
(SFC, 7/31/07, p.E3)
1966 The film "Inside Daisy
Clover" starred Robert Redford and Natalie Wood.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.E1)
1966 The film "Is Paris Burning"
starred Kirk Douglas and Robert Stack. It was directed by Rene Clement.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.E3)(SFEC, 1/23/00, Par p.12)
1966 The film “King of Hearts”
starred Alan Bates and was directed by Philippe de Broca (1933-2004).
(SFC, 12/3/04, p.B7)
1966 The film "A Man Called Adam"
starred Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong and Mel Torme. It was written
by Lester Pine (d.2001 at 84).
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.E3)
1966 The film “A Man Could Get
Killed” featured Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1966 The film "A Man for All
Seasons" starred Paul Scofield and Wendy Hiller. It won an Oscar for
best picture. It was based on a play by Robert Bolt.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.54)(WSJ,
10/22/98, p.A20)
1966 The film "A Man Is Not a
Bird" was directed by Dusan Makavejev and featured in the SF film
festival.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.42)
1966 The Czech film "Marketa
Lazarova" was directed by Frantisek Vlacil.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1966 Jean Luc Godard’s film
"Masculine-Feminine" was produced.
(WSJ, 5/31/96, p.A10)
1966 The film "A Midsummer Night’s
Dream" with Suzanne Farrell was made.
(SFEC, 6/8/97, Par p.18)(TVM, 1975, p.375)
1966 The film "Modesty Blaise"
starred Monica Vitti.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB p.29)
1966 The noir film "The Money
Trap" starred Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.E2)
1966 The film "Morgan: A Suitable
Case for Treatment" was directed by Czech-born Karel Reisz (d.2002).
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
1966 The film "Murderer’s Row"
starred Dean Martin and Karl Malden. It was directed by Henry Levin.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.493)
1966 The film "Nevada Smith"
starred Steve McQueen and Karl Malden. It was directed by Henry
Hathaway.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.505)
1966 The film "Not With My Life,
You Don't" starred George C. Scott.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1966 The film "One Million Years
B.C." starred Raquel Welch."
(SSFC, 3/17/02, Par p.26)
1966 The film "The Oscar" starred
Tony Bennett and Stephen Boyd.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, DB p.61)(SFEC, 11/28/99, DB p.48)
1966 The film "Our Man Flint"
starred James Coburn.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1966 The film "The Professionals"
starred Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin and Claudia Cardinale.
It was directed by Richard Brooks.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.B3)
1966 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "The Rare Breed."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1966 The film "The Sand Pebbles"
starred Steve McQueen, Mako (1933-2006) and Richard Crenna (d.2003). It
was directed by Robert Wise.
(SFC, 1/20/03, p.B4)(SFC, 7/24/06, p.B8)
1966 The noir sci-fi film
"Seconds" starred Rock Hudson and was directed by John Frankenheimer.
(SFEM, 8/31/97, p.3)(SFEC, 4/30/00, DB p.58)
1966 The Russian film "Shadows of
Forgotten Ancestors" was directed by Sergei Paradjanov and featured in
the SF film festival.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.42)
1966 The film "The Shop on Main
Street" was directed by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos and featured in the SF
film festival.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.42)
1966 The film "Spinout" with Elvis
Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1966 The Japanese film “The Sword
of Doom” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1966 The film "The Taming of the
Shrew" had its screen set designed by Renzo Mongiardino (d.1998 at 81).
It was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starred Elizabeth Taylor and
Richard Burton.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A15)(TVM, 1975, p.565)
1966 The film "Three on a Couch"
starred Jerry Lewis. He also directed the film.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1966 The film "Through Navajo
Eyes" was produced. In 2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1966 The film “Time for Burning”
was produced. In 2005 it was selected for preservation by the US
National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/05, p.E6)
1966 The screenplay for the film
"Tobruk" was by Leo Gordon.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B11)
1966 The film “Torn Curtain”
starred Julie Andrews and Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 10/17/04, Par p.16)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1966 The film "The Trouble With
Angels" starred Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1966 The film "Viva Maria" starred
Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot. It was directed by Luis Malle.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.D5)
1966 The film "Walk Don't Run"
starred Cary Grant. This was Grant's last film.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB p.37)
1966 The film "What’s Up, Tiger
Lily" was the debut for director Woody Allen. It was produced by Henry
Saperstein (d.1998).
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D4)
1966 The film "Who Killed Johnny
Ringo" was screen written by Paul Jarrico. His credit due to
blacklisting was under the name Peter Achilles.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A26)
1966 The film "Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf" starred George Segal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth
Taylor as a downtrodden professor and his drunken wife. Ernest Lehman
was the screenwriter.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.54)(SFC, 7/30/97, p.E3)
1966 The film "The Wild Angels"
starred Peter Fonda.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par. p.18)
1966 The British comedy film “The
Wrong Box” starred John Mills.
(SSFC, 4/24/05, p.A2)
1966 The comedy film "You’re a Big
Boy Now" was Francis Coppola’s first full-scale feature.
(WSJ, 11/21/97, p.A20)
1967 Apr 10, In the 39th Academy
Awards "A Man For All Seasons" won for Best Picture; Elizabeth Taylor
won as Best Actress for “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; and Paul
Scofield won as Best Actor for “A Man For All Seasons.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Academy_Awards)
1967 The film "Accident" was
directed by Joseph Losey.
(SFC, 4/21/00, p.D4)
1967 The film "Barefoot in the
Park" starred Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.E1)
1967 The film "Bedazzled" starred
Peter Cook as the devil and Dudley Moore as a short order cook. It was
directed by Stanley Donen.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.F3)
1967 The film "Belle de Jour" by
Luis Bunuel starred Catherine Deneuve.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.A7)
1967 The film "The Big Mouth"
starred Jerry Lewis. He also directed the film.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1967 The film "Billion Dollar
Brain" starred Michael Caine and Karl Malden. It was directed by Andre
de Toth.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1967 Arthur Penn directed the film
"Bonnie and Clyde" starred Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty and Faye
Dunaway. It was rated #27 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. In 2001 it
was rated the #13 most thrilling film.
(SFC, 4/14/96, EM, p.25)(SFC, 7/13/96, p. A19)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1967 The film "The Bride Wore
Black" starred Jeanne Moreau and Charles Denner and was directed by
Francois Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1967 The musical film "Camelot"
starred Richard Harris and David Hemmings.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A27)
1967 Columbia Pictures released
"Casino Royale," a James Bond spoof film with David Niven. Jacqueline
Bisset played Giovanna Goodthighs. The screenplay was written by Billy
Wilder.
(WSJ, 11/9/95, p.A2(SFEM, 1/12/97, Par p.18)
1967 Yuri Nikulin (1921-1997)
starred in the Russian film "Caucasian Prisoner" as the leader of an
incompetent bunch of crooks.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A24)
1967 The film "The Circle" starred
Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1967 The film "Clambake" starred
Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1967 The Czech film "Closely
Watched Trains" was directed by Jiri Menzel. It was based on the novel
by Bohumil Hrabal (1915-1997).
(SFC, 2/4/97, p.A16)
1967 The film “Cool Hand Luke”
starred Paul Newman. In 2005 it was selected for preservation by the US
National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/05, p.E6)
1967 The film "The Comedians"
starred Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A15)
1967 The film "Dirty Dozen" was
made with Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Hanley
Jaeckel (d.1997) and Charles Bronson. It was directed by Robert Aldrich.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.5)
1967 The film "Divorce American
Style" starred Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1967 The musical film "Doctor
Dolittle" was produced.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)
1967 The film "Don’t Look Back"
featured Joan Baez as Bob Dylan’s touring companion on a 1965 tour of
England. It was directed by D.A. Pennebaker. It was named a Library of
Congress Classic in 1998.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.52)(SFC, 11/30/98, p.D3)
1967 The film "Don't Make Waves"
starred Tony Curtis and Sharon Tate. It was directed by Alexander
Mackendrick.
(SFEC, 1/24/99, DB p.37)
1967 The documentary film "Eat the
Document" covered the Bob Dylan tour of the United Kingdom and was shot
for an ABC screening that never happened. It screened in New York in
the 1970s and again in 1999.
(SFC, 2/18/99, p.D6)
1967 The film "Eight on the Lam"
featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1967 The film "El Dorado" starred
James Caan, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFEC, 3/5/00, Par p.2)(SSFC,
10/11/03, Par p.16)
1967 The film "Far From the
Maddening Crowd" starred Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Terence Stamp.
John Schlesinger directed his first big-budget movie.
(SFC, 5/19/96, BR, p.31)(WSJ, 10/8/99, p.W6)(SFC,
7/26/03, p.A22)
1967 The film “Fitzwilly” was
directed by Delbert Mann.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1967 The film "The Flim-Flam Man"
starred George C. Scott.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1967 The film "Funeral in Berlin"
with Michael Caine was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)
1967 The film "Gentle Giant"
starred Huntz Hall.
(SFC, 2/2/99, p.A19)
1967 The film "The Graduate"
starred Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman and was directed by Mike
Nichols. The song Mrs. Robinson was originally written by Simon and
Garfunkel for Mrs. Roosevelt. It was rated # 7 by the Amer. Film Inst.
in 1998.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, DB p.37)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)
1967 The film "Grand Prix" starred
Toshiro Mifune of Japan in his first US film. It was directed by John
Frankenheimer.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A25)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SSFC,
7/7/02, p.A23)
1967 The film "Guess Who’s Coming
to Dinner" starred Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier.
It was directed by Stanley Kramer and rated # 99 by the Amer. Film
Inst. in 1998. The music was written by Frank DeVol.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB p.37)(SFC,
10/30/99, p.C2)(TVM, 1975, p.228)
1967 The film "A Guide for a
Married Man" starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1967 The musical film "Half a
Sixpence" was produced.
(SFC, 12/26/02, p.E14)
1967 The film "The Happening"
starred Faye Dunaway.
(SFEC, 8/6/00, Par p.18)
1967 The film "The Happiest
Millionaire" with Lesley Ann Warren was produced.
(SFEC, 5/25/97, Par p.C14)
1967 The film "Hombre" starred
Paul Newman and was directed by Martin Ritt. It was based on a novel by
Elmore Leonard.
(TVM, 1975, p.254)(SFEC, 12/27/98, BR p.6)
1967 The film “Hotel” starred Rod
Taylor and Karl Malden. It was directed by Richard Quine.
(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)(TVM, 1977, p.329)
1967 The film "Hour of the Gun"
starred Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1967 The film "Hurry Sundown"
with Michael Caine, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda, John Philip Law and
singer Steve Sanders (d.1998 at 45) was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C3)(SFC,
5/16/08, p.B11)
1967 The film "The Incident"
starred Beau Bridges.
(SFEC, 8/9/98, Par p.18)
1967 The film "In Cold Blood" with
Robert Blake, based on the Truman Capote non-fiction novel, was
directed by Richard Brooks.
(WSJ, 11/18/96, p.A10)
1967 The film "The Incident"
featured Ed McMahon.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, Par p.18)
1967 The film "In the Heat of the
Night" starred Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It was later made into a
TV series (1988-1994). It won an Oscar for best picture. Rod Steiger
won an Oscar for his role. In 2002 it was added to the National Film
Registry.
(SFC, 12/10/96, p.D2)(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.38)(SFEC,
1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1967 The film "In Like Flint"
starred James Coburn.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1967 The French film noir "Le
Samourai" was produced with Alain Delan.
(SFC, 2/28/97, p.D3)
1967 The Western film "Lonesome
Cowboys" was produced.
(SFEM, 6/27/99, p.6)
1967 The film "A Manner of
Innocence" starred Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1967 The film "The Mummy’s Shroud"
was a British Hammer Film production.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.67)
1967 The film "Naked Runner"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1967 The film "Navajo Joe" starred
Burt Reynolds.
(SFEC, 2/15/98, Par p.22)
1967 The film "Pitch People"
featured Ed McMahon.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, Par p.18)
1967 The French film "Playtime"
was directed by Jacques Tati.
(WSJ, 8/1/00, p.A20)
1967 John Boorman’s thriller film
"Point Blank" with Angie Dickinson, Lee Marvin and Carroll O'Connor was
produced. It was remade in 1999 as "Playback."
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.E3)(SFC, 11/21/96, p.C3)
1967 The documentary film
"Portrait of Jason" was about a black homosexual hustler and made by
Shirley Clarke (d.1997 at 72).
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.B2)
1967 The film "The President’s
Analyst" starred James Coburn.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.D3)
1967 The Russian film "Prisoner of
Caucasus" starred Georgy Vitsin (d.2001 at 83) and was directed by
Leonid Gaidai.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A25)
1967 The film "The Reluctant
Astronaut" starred Don Knotts.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.B7)
1967 The film "Romeo and Juliet"
had its screen set designed by Renzo Mongiardino. It was directed by
Franco Zeffirelli and starred Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A15)(TVM, 1975, p.485)
1967 The film "Rosie" starred
Vanessa Brown.
(SFC, 5/24/99, p.C4)
1967 The film "The Sailor from
Gibraltar" starred Jeanne Moreau and was directed by Tony Richardson.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.D5)
1967 The film "The St. Valentine’s
Day Massacre" starred Jason Robards as al Capone. It was directed by
Roger Corman.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)(SSFC, 1/7/01, DB p.42)
1967 The film "The Three Faces of
Eve" was written and produced by Margaret Fowler (d.2003 at 82). Joanne
Woodward won a best actress Oscar for her performance.
(SFC, 7/24/03, p.A22)
1967 The musical film "Thoroughly
Modern Millie" starred Mary Tyler Moore and Julie Andrews. Richard
Morris wrote the screenplay and George Roy Hill directed. Elmer
Bernstein (d.2004) received an Academy Award for his score.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, Par. p.14)(WSJ, 4/24/02, p.D9)(SFC,
8/20/04, p.B6)
1967 The film “Titicut Follies”
was directed by Frederick Wiseman. It was banned by the Massachusetts
Supreme Court for its stark portrayal of inmate conditions in
Bridgewater, Mass.
(WSJ, 11/11/06, p.P2)
1967 The film "Tony Rome" starred
Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1967 The film "To Sir With Love"
starred Sidney Poitier.
(SFEC, 11/1/98, Par p.18)
1967 The film "Two for the Road"
starred Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney.
(SFEC, 8/22/99, DB p.37)
1967 The film "Valley of the
Dolls" with Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate and Susan Hayword was
released. Hayword replaced Judy Garland who was fired from the picture.
(SFEM, 7/13/97, p.6)
1967 The film "Wait Until Dark"
with Audrey Hepburn, Richard Crenna and Alan Arkin. It was directed by
Terence Young and based on a 1966 play by Frederick Knott. Mel Ferrer
produced the film.
(TVM, 1975, p.629)(WSJ, 4/8/98, p.A20)(SFC, 6/4/08,
p.B11)
1967 The 6 hour 40 min. Russian
film "War and Peace" was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, who also played
Pierre.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)(SFC,12/24/97, p.C1)
1967 The 2* film "The War Wagon"
starred John Wayne and Kirk Douglas and was directed by Burt Kennedy
(d.2001 at 78).
(TVM, 1975, p.633)(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A24)
1967 The film "The Way West"
featured Stubby Kaye and starred Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1967 The film "Weekend" was
directed by Jean-Luc Godard and depicted consumer greed turned to
anarchy.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.B5)
1967 The film "Welcome to Hard
Times" with Henry Fonda was produced.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.E2)
1967 The French musical film
"Young Girls of Rochefort" was directed by Jacques Demy. It starred
Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly in his last major dance role. It was
restored and released again in 1998.
(SFC, 8/18/98, p.D4)(SFC, 9/18/98, p.C3)(SFC,
12/30/99, p.E3)
1967 Sean Connery starred in the
James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice." World wide receipts totaled
$112 mil.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p. A1)
1967 Andy Warhol’s film "****"
showed once in its 25-hour form in New York.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.16)
1967 Kevin Brownlow published "The
Parade's Gone By," a history of the American silent film.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, DB p.42)
1967 Alfred Hitchcock won the
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
(SSFC, 3/25/01, DB p.51)
1968 Apr 2, The influential
science-fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey," produced and directed by
Stanley Kubrick, had its world premiere in Washington.
(AP, 4/2/08)
1968 Apr 8, The Academy Awards and
Baseball's Opening Day were postponed because of the M.L. King
assassination.
(www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Assassination-of-Martin-Luther-King-201065.html)
1968 Apr 10, In the 40th Academy
Awards "In the Heat of the Night" won as best film. Rod Steiger won as
best actor for his role in the film. Katherine Hepburn won as best
actress for her role in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Academy_Awards)
1968 Jul 17, Beatle's animated
film "Yellow Submarine" premiered in London. The US premiere was on
November 13.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqUKJj0gGkM)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0063823/releaseinfo)
1968 Oct 7, The Motion Picture
Association of America adopted its film-rating system (G,M,R,X),
ranging from "G" for "general" audiences to "X" for adult patrons only.
The system was fathered by Jack Valenti (1921-2007), head of the MPAA.
(AP, 10/7/97)(SFC, 1/21/04, p.D2)(SFC, 4/27/07, p.B9)
1968 Nov 1, The Motion Picture
Association of America unveiled its new voluntary film rating system: G
for general audiences, M for mature audiences (later changed to GP,
then PG), R for restricted audiences, and X (later changed to NC-17)
for adults only.
(AP, 11/1/08)
1968 The British-French film
"Adieu l'Ami" (Farewell Friend) starred Charles Bronson.
(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A2)
1968 The film "Anzio" starred
Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1968 The film "Bandolero"
starred Jimmy Stewart.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1968 The film "Barbarella" starred
Jane Fonda, David Hemmings and John Phillip Law. It was directed by
Roger Vadim and featured the evil scientist Duran Duran.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, DB p.11)(SFC, 11/16/96, p.E4)
1968 The film "The Battle of
Britain" with Michael Caine was produced.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, Par p.16)
1968 The film "The Bed" was
directed by James Broughton.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.E3)
1968 The film "Blackbeard's Ghost"
was produced.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)
1968 The film "Boom" starred
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and was directed by Joseph Losey
and was an adaptation of Tennessee Williams.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E17)
1968 The film "Boston Strangler"
starred Henry Fonda and Tony Curtis.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A24)(SSFC, 12/15/02, Par p.26)
1968 Francois Truffaut produced
his film "The Bride Wore Black" based on the Cornell Woolrich novel
published under the pseudonym William Irish.
(WSJ, 4/19/96, p.A11)
1968 The 3 1/2* film
"Bullitt" with Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset was directed
by Peter Yates. It had been shot in the SF Bay Area and was based on a
book by Alan Trustman. In 2001 it was rated the #36 most thrilling
film. In 2007 it was added as a classic to the American national
registry.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.39)(A.Com, 1/25/98)(SFC,
2/20/98, p.C13)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1968 The film "Candy" starred
Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1968 The film "Charge of the Light
Brigade" starred David Hemmings."
(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A27)
1968 Albert Broccoli produced
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," a film based on an Ian Fleming children’s
story.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.B6)
1968 The film "Coogan’s Bluff"
starred Clint Eastwood and was directed by Don Siegel. Dean Riesner
wrote the screenplay.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A20)
1968 The film "Countdown" starred
Robert Duvall and was directed by Robert Altman.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, Par p.16)(SFC, 11/22/06, p.A14)
1968 The documentary film
"Czechoslovakia 1968" was a 20-minute production by the US Information
Agency.
(SFC,11/21/97, p.C17)
1968 Yuri Nikulin (1921-1997)
starred in the Russian comedy film "Diamond Arm" as a mild-mannered man
caught in a diamond smuggling scheme.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A24)
1968 The film "The Detective"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1968 The British film "The Devil
Rides Out" was produced. The score was by James Bernard.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C16)
1968 The Polish film "The Doll"
was directed by Wojciech Has.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.B2)
1968 The film "Don't Just Stand
There" starred Mary Tyler Moore.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, Par. p.14)
1968 The Polish film "Everything
for Sale" was directed by Andrzej Wajda.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1968 The film "Faces" was directed
by John Cassavetes.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, DB p.38)
1968 The film "Fade In" was an
Alan Smithee production.
(SFC, 2/26/98, p.E4)
1968 The musical film "Finian’s
Rainbow" was produced.
(SFC, 12/26/02, p.E14)
1968 Jimmy Stewart starred in the
film "Firecreek."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1968 The film "The Fireman’s Ball"
was directed by Milos Forman and featured in the SF film festival.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.42)
1968 The film "5 Card Stud"
starred Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1968 The film "The Fixer" starred
Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde. The screenplay was by Dalton Trumbo.
(SFC, 12/29/03, p.A12)(SFC, 3/3/05, p.E3)
1968 The film "Flesh" starred Joe
Dallesandro.
(SFC, 7/28/97, p.E3)
1968 The musical film "Funny Girl"
was produced by Ray Stark. It starred Barbra Streisand and was based on
the life of Broadway singer Fanny Brice, Stark's mother-in-law.
(SFC, 12/29/96, DB p.39)(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.A14)
1968 The film "The Green Berets"
starred John Wayne as US Army Captain Larry Thorne, killed when his
helicopter was downed during a special forces mission in Vietnam in
1965.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, Z1 p.6)(SFC, 5/29/99, p.A14)
1968 The film "Head" featured The
Monkeys musical group. It was written by Bob Rafelson and Jack
Nicholson.
(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)
1968 The film “Hellfighter”
starred John Wayne. It was based on the life of oil field firefighter
Paul N. Adair (d.2004).
(SFC, 8/9/04, p.B6)
1968 The film "Hell in the
Pacific" was directed by John Boorman.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB p.44)
1968 The documentary film "High
School" was directed by Frederick Wiseman. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic.
(SFC, 1/21/98, p.E1,6)
1968 The animated Disney film "The
Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit" was produced.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A18)
1968 The film "Hot Millions"
starred Peter Ustinov and Bob Newhart.
(SFC, 3/30/04, p.A2)(SSFC, 7/17/05, Par p.14)
1968 The film "How to Save a
Marriage (and Ruin Your Life)" starred Dean Martin, Stella Stevens and
Eli Wallach.
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.A31)
1968 The film "Ice Station Zebra"
featured Jim Brown, Tony Bill and Patrick McGoohan.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.5)
1968 The film "Isadora" starred
Jason Robards and Vanessa Redgrave. It was directed by Karel Reisz. The
long film was cut from 168 minutes to 131 and re-released as "The Loves
of Isadora."
(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1968 The film "Je t'aime, je
t'aime" was directed by Alain Resnais.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.E8)
1968 The film "Lady in Cement"
starred Frank Sinatra.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)
1968 The film "The Lion in Winter"
starred Anthony Quinn, Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn. It was
directed by Anthony Harvey with the screenplay by James Goldman (d.1998
at 71). It was based on Goldman’s Broadway play.
(SFC, 10/30/98, p.D4)
1968 The film "Live A Little, Love
A Little" with Elvis Presley was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1968 The film "Lonesome Cowboys"
starred Joe Dallesandro Taylor Mead and Viva. It was directed by Andy
Warhol and monitored by the FBI.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.E3)
1968 The film “Madigan” by Don
Siegel introduced Detective Sgt. Daniel Madigan played by Richard
Widmark.
(SFC, 3/27/08, p.A2)
1968 The film "Me and My Brother"
was completed by Peter Orlovsky, the companion of Allen Ginsberg. It
was begun in 1965 and was about Peter's mentally ill brother, Julius.
It was shown at the 1998 SF film festival and Peter received the Golden
Gate Persistence of Vision Award.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.E3)
1968 Cuban film director Tomas
Gutierrez Alea produced his film "Memories of Underdevelopment"
(Memorias del Subdesarrollo).
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.E3)
1968 The film "Monterey Pop" was
directed by D.A. Pennebaker. It featured Jimi Hendrix, Country Joe and
the Fish, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Jefferson
Airplane.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.54)
1968 The film "The Night of the
Living Dead" was made for $114,000 by George A. Romero. He made another
version in 1990. The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had
its world premiere in Pittsburgh Oct 1. It was added to the National
Registry of films in 1999.
(SFC, 5/23/97, p.C11)(SFC,10/29/97, p.E3)(AP,
10/1/98)(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E10)
1968 The film "The Night They
Raided Minsky’s" starred Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1968 The film "No Way To Treat a
Lady" starred Rod Steiger.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)
1968 The film "Odd Couple" with
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon was produced.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)(SFEC, 4/5/98, Par p.22)
1968 The film "The Omega
Imperative" was an Alan Smithee production.
(SFC, 2/26/98, p.E4)
1968 The film "Once Upon a Time in
the West" starred Charles Bronson and was directed by Sergio Leone.
(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A2)
1968 The film "Paper Lion" starred
Alan Alda, Roy Schneider and Lauren Hutton. It was based on the 1966
book by George Plimpton (1927-2003).
(SFEC, 1/31/99, Par p.14)(SFEC, 10/24/99, Par
p.18)(SFC, 9/27/03, p.A2)
1968 The film "Petulia" starred
George C. Scott and Julie Christie. David Hicks (d.1998 at 69) served
as the set design consultant.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, DB p.34)(SFC, 4/2/98, p.A23)(SFC,
9/24/99, p.D2)
1968 The sci-fi film "The Planet
of the Apes" starred Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter. In 1998 James
Cameron planned a remake.
(NH, 11/96, p.12)(SFC, 1/8/98, p.E4)(SFC, 9/12/02,
p.A26)
1968 The film "Play Dirty" starred
Michael Caine and was directed by Andre de Toth.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
1968 The film "Pretty Poison" with
Tuesday Weld was directed by Noel Black.
(WSJ, 8/1/97, p.A12)
1968 The film "The Private Navy of
Sergeant O'Farrell" featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1968 The film "The Producers" was
ranked 11th most funny film in 2000. It starred Dick Shawn (d.1987).
(SFC, 6/15/00, p.E3)(SSFC, 8/12/01, Par p.2)
1968 The film “Rachel Rachel”
featured Geraldine Fitzgerald and was directed by Paul Newman.
(SFC, 7/20/05, p.B7)(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1968 The film "Revolution," a
"definitive hippie documentary," by Jack O’Connell was produced. It
opened at the Straight Theater on Haight St. in San Francisco.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.E4)
1968 The film "Right On! The
Original Last Poets" was made by Herbert Danska. It was not released
until 1970.
(SFEM, 5/9/99, p.6)
1968 The documentary film "The
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was made by William Shirer.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.A48)
1968 The film "Romeo and Juliet"
with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey was directed by Franco
Zeffirelli.
(SFC, 2/14/97, p.D5)(SFEC, 5/11/97, DB p.37)
1968 Roman Polanski made his film
"Rosemary’s Baby" with Mia Farrow as a naive young wife from Omaha who
is impregnated by Satan. John Cassavetes played her treacherous
actor-husband. In 2001 it was rated the #9 most thrilling film. Ruth
Gordon won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
(WSJ, 1/12/95, A14)(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A9)(SFC,
6/14/01, p.E5)
1968 The film "The Scalphunters"
starred Ossie Davis and was directed by Sydney Pollack (1934-2008).
(SFEC, 10/20/96, Par, p.24)(SFC, 5/27/08, p.A2)
1968 The film "The Secret War of
Harry Frigg" starred Paul Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
1968 The film “The Sergeant”
starred Rod Steiger and John Philip Law. Dennis Murphy wrote the
screenplay based on his 1958 novel.
(SFC, 10/11/05, p.B9)(SFC, 5/16/08, p.B11)
1968 The film "Sebastian" was
directed by David Greene.
(SFC, 12/26/02, p.E14)(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A30)
1968 The film "Secret Ceremony"
starred Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1968 The film "The Secret Life of
an American Wife" starred Walter Matthau.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1968 The film "Shalako" starred
Sean Connery in a western based on a story by Louis L’Amour.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.55)
1968 The film "Shoes of a
Fisherman" starred Anthony Quinn.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)
1968 The film "Skidoo" with Jackie
Gleason was shot in part in South San Francisco.
(PI, 3/21/98, p.5)(SFC, 10/10/02, p.D9)
1968 The film "Speedway" starred
Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1968 The musical film "Star!" was
produced. It was a flop.
(SFC, 3/25/97, p.A15)
1968 The film "Stay Away, Joe"
with Elvis Presley and Joan Blondell was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1968 The film "Stolen Kisses"
starred Leaud, Delphine Seyrig and Jade and was directed by Francois
Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1968 The film "The Subject Was
Roses" starred Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen, Jack Albertson.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, DB p.39)
1968 The film "The Swimmer"
starred Burt Lancaster, who hops his way across the pools of Fairfield
County, Conn.
(WSJ, 5/8/98, p.W1)
1968 The film "Take the Money and
Run" was directed by Woody Allen.
(SFEC, 5/25/97, BR p.5)
1968 The animated short "Thank You
Mask Man" was made by Jeff Hale.
(SFC,11/15/97, p.C6)
1968 The 3* film "The Thomas Crown
Affair" starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and was based on a book
by Alan Trustman. It was directed by Norman Jewison.
(A.Com, 1/25/98)(TVM, 1975, p.585)
1968 The $10 million film "2001: A
Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick was produced. It was based on the
book, The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke. It was later selected as a
Library of Congress film classic. It was rated #22 by the Amer. Film
Inst. in 1998. In 2001 it was rated the #40 most thrilling film.
(TL, 1988, p.117)(Wired, 3/97, p.163)(SFC, 1/21/98,
p.E1,6)(WSJ, 3/19/98, p.R4)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.E5)
1968 The film "Villa Rides"
starred Robert Mitchum.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1968 The film "The Virgin
President" featured Severn Darden, Peter Boyle and the Second City
Group.
(SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.28)
1968 The film "War and Peace"
starred Sergei Bondarchuk, who also directed the 6 1/2 hour work based
on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
(SFEC, 8/22/99, DB p.37)
1968 The film "Who’s That Knocking
at My Door" was a first effort by martin Scorsese. It was filmed in New
York’s Little Italy. It starred Harvey Keitel and Zina Bethune.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, DB p.54)
1968 The film "Why Man Creates"
was produced. In 2002 it was added to the National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1968 Disney’s animated film
“Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day,” featured the voice of Paul
Winchell (1922-2005).
(SFC, 6/27/05, p.A2)
1968 The film "With Six You Get
Eggroll" starred Doris Day and featured comedian George Carlin.
(SFC, 11/29/97, p.C1)
1968 The film "Yellow Submarine
from England" was directed by George Dunning.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1968 The film "Young Runaways"
starred Patty McCormack.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, DB p.44)
1968 The film "Yours, Mine and
Ours" starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. It was based on the true
story of Helen Eileen Beardsley (d.2000 at 70), mother of 20 children,
and her 1964 book "Who Gets the Drumstick.".
(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A26)
1969 Apr 14, In the 41st Academy
Awards "Oliver" won as best picture, Cliff Robertson won as best actor
(Charly), Katherine Hepburn tied as best actress (Lion in Winter) with
Barbara Streisand (Funny Girl).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Academy_Awards)
1969 May 8, The Academy Award
Oscar for best 1968 documentary was given to runner-up “Journey Into
Self,” after it was found that “Young Americans,” the original winner
had been shown in a theater in October, 1967, making it ineligible for
the 1968 award. Alex Grasshoff had directed the “Young Americans,” a
chronicle of a summer tour by the singing group.
(SFC, 4/22/08,
p.B5)(http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1968/journeyintoself.htm)
1969 May 25, "Midnight Cowboy" was
released with an X rating. It was based on the novel by James Leo
Herlihy and became the only x-rated film to win an Oscar.
(www.nndb.com/films/794/000032698/)
1969 Arthur Penn directed the film
"Alice’s Restaurant" with Arlo Guthrie as Arlo Guthrie.
(SFC, 4/14/96, EM, p.25)
1969 The film "Alfred the Great"
starred David Hemmings."
(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A27)
1969 The Brazilian film "Antonio
da Mortes" was directed by Glauber Rocha.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.44)
1969 The film "The Arrangement"
starred Kirk Douglas, Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) and Faye Dunaway. It was
directed by Elia Kazan.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.403)(SFC, 10/19/07, p.A11)
1969 The film "The Big Bounce"
starred Ryan O’Neal.
(TVM, 1975, p.44)
1969 The film "Bob & Carol
& Ted & Alice" with Dyan Cannon depicted a story of
wife-swapping.
(SFC, 6/23/96, BR, p.32)(SFEC, 7/13/97, DB p.55)
1969 The film "The Bridge at
Remagen" with E.G. Marshall was produced.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Par p.22)
1969 The film "Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid" starred Paul Newman and was directed by George Roy
Hill. It was rated #50 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A2)(SSFC,
9/28/08, p.A16)
1969 The film "Cactus Flower"
starred Goldie Hawn and Walter Matthau. Hawn won an Oscar for best
supporting actress in her debut role.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)
1969 The film “Castle Keep” was
directed by Sydney Pollack.
(SFC, 5/27/08, p.A2)(
www.filmreference.com/Directors-Pe-Ri/Pollack-Sydney.html)
1969 The film "The Chairman"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1969 The film "Change of Habit"
starred Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair and Elvis Presley.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, Par. p.14)(SFC, 2/6/07, p.B5)
1969 The film "Coming Apart"
starred Rip Torn and Sally Kirkland and was directed by Milton
Ginsberg. It was about a psychiatrist's voyeuristic experiment and was
re-released in a new print in 1999.
(SFC, 7/5/99, p.B3)
1969 The New Wave in Iranian film
was begun by Dariush Mehrjui with "The Cow." It was about a poor
village that loses its only cow.
(SFEC, 4/23/00, DB p.52)
1969 The film "The Damned" starred
Charlotte Rampling.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, Par p.15)
1969 The film "Death of a
Gunfighter" was an Alan Smithee production. It had 2 directors, neither
of whom wanted to be associated with the film, so the Directors Guild
of America came up with the Alan Smithee pseudonym.
(SFC, 2/26/98, p.E4)
1969 The film "Death Rides a
Horse" starred Lee Van Cleef and John Philip Law. Giulio Petroni
directed this spaghetti Western with a score of by Ennio Morricone.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.E3)
1969 The film "Dillinger Is Dead"
by Italian director Marco Ferreri was produced.
(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A20)
1969 The film "Dragnet" was
directed by and starred Jack Webb.
(TVM, 1975, p.152)
1969 Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper
produced and starred in "Easy Rider" on a budget of $400,000. Later the
two actors fought in a lawsuit over recognition and credit for their
individual roles in the film which was made without a written contract.
It was rated #88 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. It was named a
Library of Congress Classic in 1998.
(WSJ, 2/9/96, p.A1)(USAT, 6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC,
11/30/98, p.D3)
1969 The film "La Femme Douce" was
directed by Robert Bresson.
(SFC, 12/22/99, p.A27)
1969 The film "First Time" starred
Jacqueline Bisset and was produced by Allan Carr.
(SFC, 6/30/99, p.C2)
1969 The musical film "Goodbye Mr.
Chips" starred John Mills. It was directed by Herbert Ross (d.2001).
The film script was written by Terence Rattigan.
(SFC, 6/23/97, p.E3)(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A16)
1969 Robert Mitchum played in the
film "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1969 The film “The Great Bank
Robbery” starred Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Ruth Warrick (1916-2005), and
Clint Walker. It was directed by Hy Averback.
(MoTV, 1977, p.286)(SFC, 1/19/05, p.B7)
1969 The film "Hamlet" starred
Anthony Hopkins and Marianne Faithfull and was directed by Tony
Richardson. It was a version of his London theater production.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, DB p.58)
1969 The film "Hang Your Hat on
the Wind" was produced by Lawrence Lansburgh (d.2001 at 89).
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A18)
1969 The musical film "Hello
Dolly" starred Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)(SFC, 7/3/00, p.B5)
1969 The film "How to Commit
Marriage" featured Bob Hope.
(SFC, 7/29/03, p.D5)
1969 The film “The Italian Job”
starred Michael Caine and Noel Coward. The crime fable was set in
Turin, Italy.
(SFC, 2/11/06, p.E10)
1969 The film "John and Mary"
starred Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow.
(SFC,11/14/97, p.C18)
1969 The film "Krakatoa, East of
Java" was produced. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan. The volcano is
actually west of Java.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1969 The Russian film "Krasnaya
palatka" (1969), starring Sean Connery, detailed the 1928 Nobile
expedition and attempted rescue. This movie was released in North
America under the title "The Red Tent."
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0067315/)
1969 The film "The Love Bug" was
produced.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.D5)
1969 The film "MacKenna’s Gold"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)
1969 The film "The Mad Woman of
Chaillot" starred Katharine Hepburn.
(SFC, 6/30/03, p.A11)
1969 The film "Marlowe" starred
James Garner with a brief appearance by Bruce Lee.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.D3)
1969 The film "Marooned" starred
Gregory Peck and Richard Crenna. It was based on a book by Martin
Caidin and the film won an Oscar for special effects.
(SFC, 3/26/97, p.C3)(SFC, 1/20/03, p.B4)
1969 The film "Medium Cool"
starred Robert Forster and Verna Bloom. It was directed by Haskell
Wexler and set during the Chicago Convention riots of 1968. It was
about a TV cameraman who falls in love with a Virginia schoolteacher.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, DB p.52)
1969 The film "Me, Natalie"
featured Philip Sterling (d.1998 at 76) and introduced Al Pacino.
(SFC, 12/7/98, p.A25)
1969 The film "Midnight
Cowboy" starred Dustin Hoffman and John Voight. It was rated #36 by the
Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. It won best picture and John Schlesinger won
an Oscar for his direction.
(SFC, 5/9/96, p.A1)(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)
1969 The film "Mississippi
Mermaid" starred Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve and was
directed by Francois Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1969 The film "Monte Carlo Or
Bust" with Willie Rushton (1937-1996) was produced.
(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1969 The British film "Oliver!"
was directed by Carol Reed and won the best picture Oscar.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, DB p.36)
1969 The film "Once Upon a Time in
the West" starred Jason Robards, Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale and
was directed by Sergio Leone.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)(SSFC, 1/7/01, DB p.42)
1969 George Lazenby starred in the
James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." World wide receipts
totaled $65 mil.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p. A1)
1969 The film "Partner" starred
Pierre Clementi and was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It was based
on Dostoyevsky's story "The Double."
(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB p.54)
1969 The film "The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie" featured a nude sitting.
(SFC, 1/3/98, p.C7)
1969 The Italian film
"Qeimada" starred Marlon Brando in a tale against colonialism. It was
directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (1919-2006).
(AP, 10/13/06)
1969 The film "Rain People"
starred James Caan.
(SSFC, 10/11/03, Par p.16)
1969 The film “Tom, Tom the
Piper’s Son” was produced. In 2007 it was added as a classic to the
American national registry.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0378889/)(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1969 The film “Topaz” was directed
by Alfred Hitchcock. It was based on a best-seller by Leon Uris.
(www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=109452)
1969 The Italian film "Satyricon"
was directed by Federico Fellini with music by Nino Rota. It was based
on a satiric novel by Petronius Arbiter.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.E3)
1969 The film "The Savage Land"
starred George C. Scott.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)
1969 The film "Secret of Santa
Vittoria" starred Anthony Quinn. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and
based on the book by Robert Crichton
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.504)
1969 The film "The Stalking Moon"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1969 The film "Sterile Cuckoo"
with Liza Minnelli was produced. It was directed by Alan Pakula.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.22)(SFC, 11/20/98, p.C10)
1969 Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996), Italian actor, starred in "Sunflowers."
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)
1969 The film "Support Your Local
Sheriff" starred Jack Elam and James Garner.
(SFC, 10/23/03, p.A22)
1969 The musical film "Sweet
Charity" featured Stubby Kaye and Shirley MacLaine. It was the
directorial debut of Bob Fosse.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)(SFEC, 11/8/98, DB p.40)
1968 The film "That Cold Day in
the Park" was directed by Robert Altman.
(SFC, 11/22/06, p.A14)
1969 The film "The Trouble With
Girls" with Elvis Presley and Marilyn Mason was produced.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, DB p.35)
1969 The John Wayne film "True
Grit" was produced. It won an Oscar for best picture and Wayne won an
Oscar for Best Actor.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)
1969 The Italian film “Una Storia
d’Amore” featured American opera star Anna Moffo (1932-2006) in what
appeared to be a nude scene.
(SSFC, 3/12/06, p.B7)
1969 The film "Undefeated" starred
John Wayne, Rock Hudson and Marian McCargo Bell (d.2004). It was
directed by Andrew McLaglen.
(MoTV, 1977, p.759)(SFC, 4/10/04, p.B7)
1969 The film “The Valley of
Gwangi” was produced. Ray Harryhausen (b.1920) was responsible for the
special effects.
(SFC, 2/27/08, p.E5)
1969 The film "Viva Max" featured
Peter Ustinov.
(MoTV, 1977, p.770)
1969 The film "A Walk With Love
and Death" was directed by John Huston and starred his daughter
Anjelica Huston (17).
(SFEC,11/23/97, DB p.56)
1969 The 3 1/2* film "The Wild
Bunch" was directed by Sam Peckinpah. It starred William Holden, Ernest
Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brian, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Jaime
Sanchez, Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones. It was about a 1913 gang,
hired by a renegade Mexican Gen'l., out for one last fling. It was
rated #80 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. It was added to the National
Registry of films in 1999.
(TVM, 1975, p.648)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E17)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E10)
1969 The film "The Wild Child" was
directed by Francois Truffaut. He also acted in the film.
(WSJ, 7/11/97, p.A12)
1969 The film "Winning" starred
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. It was directed by James Goldstone.
(TVM, 1975, p.652)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C2)
1969 The film "Women in Love"
starred Glenda Jackson and Alan Bates.
(SFC, 12/29/03, p.A12)
1969 The film "Young Billy Young"
starred Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker and Angie Dickinson.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.55)(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1969 The film "Z" starred Irene
Papas and Yves Montand and was directed by Constantin Costa-Gavras and
featured in the SF film festival.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, DB p.42)(SFC,11/6/97, p.E1)
1969 The film "Zabriskie Point"
starred Daria Halprin and Mark Frachette was directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni. The music was by guitarist John Fahey (d.2001 at 61).
(SFEC, 1/17/99, DB p.43)
1970 Jan 25, The Robert Altman
film "M*A*S*H" premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(film))
1970 Jan 27, Movie rating system
modified "M" rating to "PG."
(www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2006/01/)
1970 Apr 7, In the 42nd Academy
Awards "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith won.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1970 May 20, The Beatles movie
"Let it Be" premiered in Britain.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065976/)
1970 Jun 24, The film "Catch-22,"
directed by Mike Nichols, opened. It was based on the novel by Joseph
Heller.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB
p.44)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/)
1970 The film "Adam at 6 a.m."
starred Michael Douglas.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, Par p.24)
1970 The film "Airport" starred
Maureen Stapleton. It was one of the three top grossing films of the
year. Gross revenues for the year were $1,429 million with 920.6
million admissions and the average ticket price was $1.55.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(SFC, 3/14/06, p.B5)
1970 The British Monty Python film
"And Now for Something Completely Different" was produced. [see 1971]
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.E3)
1970 The film "Anne of a Thousand
Days" starred Richard Burton and John Colicos (d.2000 at 71).
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.C8)
1970 The film "The Ballad of Cable
Hogue" starred Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1970 The film "Bed and Board"
starred Leaud and Claude Jade and was directed by Francois Truffaut.
(SFEC, 5/9/99, DB p.53)
1970 The film "Beneath the Planet
of the Apes" starred Kim Hunter.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A26)
1970 The film "The Boys in the
Band" starred Robert Latourneaux and was directed by William Fridekin
and adopted from a play by Mart Crowley. It was the first mainstream
work to deal with homosexuality.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB p.38)(SFC, 1/15/99, p.D4)
1970 The film "Brand X" was a quiz
show spoof.
(SFC, 7/28/97, p.E3)
1970 The film "Brewster McCloud"
was directed by Robert Altman.
(SFC, 11/22/06, p.A14)
1970 The film "Brother Sun, Sister
Moon" was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and shot in Assisi, Italy. Its
screen set was designed by Renzo Mongiardino.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A21)(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A15)
1970 The film "Catch-22" was
directed by Mike Nichols and was based on the novel by Joseph Heller.
It opened Jun 24. It featured Bob Newhart.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB p.44)(MC, 6/24/02)
1970 The film "C.C. and Company"
starred Ann-Margret and Joe Namath and was produced by Allan Carr.
(SFC, 6/30/99, p.C2)
1970 James Stewart starred in the
film "The Cheyenne Social Club."
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)
1970 The biopic film "The
Christine Jorgensen Story" starred John Hansen as the first male to
undergo a sex change in 1952.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, DB p.43)
1970 The film "The Cockeyed
Cowboys of Calico County" featured Stubby Kaye.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B4)
1970 The film "Connecting Rooms"
starred Bette Davis as a cellist. Her playing was done by stand-in
celebrated cellist Amaryllis Fleming (d.1999 at 73)
(SFC, 7/31/99, p.A17)
1970 The film "Cotton Comes to
Harlem" starred Godfrey Cambridge. It was based on the 1965 crime novel
by Chester Himes.
(SFC, 5/9/03, p.E7)
1970 The film "Cromwell" starred
Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1970 The musical film "Darling
Lili" starred Julie Andrews.
(SSFC, 10/17/04, Par p.16)
1970 The film "David Copperfield"
starred Wendy Hiller.
(SFC, 5/17/03, p.A16)
1970 The film "Diary of a Mad
Housewife" starred Carrie Snodgrass (d.2004) and was directed by Frank
Perry.
(MoTV, 1977, p.191)(SFC, 4/10/04, p.B7)
1970 The film "Dirty Dingus McGee"
starred Frank Sinatra and George Kennedy. It was directed by Burt
Kennedy.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E6)(WUD, 1994 p.143)
1970 The Japanese film "Dodes
ka-den" was directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1970 The film “The Dunwich Horror”
starred Sandra Dee.
(SFC, 2/21/05, p.A2)
1970 The Swedish film "The
Emigrants" by Jan Troell starred Max von Sydow.
(SFEC, 4/20/97, DB p.48)(MoTV, 1977, p.216)
1970 The film "Events" was
directed by Fred Baker.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0210031/)
1970 The film "Five Easy Pieces"
with Jack Nicholson and Karen Black was directed by Bob Rafelson.
Carole Eastman (d.2004) wrote the screenplay.
(SFC, 12/11/96, p.E5)(SFC, 2/27/04, p.A24)
1970 The film "Fools" starred
Jason Robards.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1970 The documentary film "Gimme
Shelter" by the Maysles Brothers was about the Rolling Stones 1969
American tour and their concert at Altamount. It was directed by
Charlotte Zwerin (d.2004).
(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB p.47)(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.54)
1970 The film "Great White Hope"
starred James Earl Jones as the boxer Jack Jefferson. The film was
based on the 1968 stage show of the same name.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, DB p.67)(LSA, Fall, 2007, p.27)
1970 The film “Hercules in New
York” starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in his 1st film.
(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A1)
1970 The film "Honeymoon Killers"
was directed by Leonard Kastle. It was about the serial killers Martha
Beck and Ray Fernandez.
(SFEC, 10/11/97, DB p.36)
1970 The German film "How Did a
Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business" was directed by Will Tremper
(e.1998 at 70).
(SFC, 12/17/98, p.C11)
1970 The film "Husbands" starred
Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk. It was directed by John Cassavetes.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.D5)(TVM, 1975, p.266)
1970 The film "I love My Wife"
starred Elliot Gould and Brenda Vaccaro was directed by Mel Stuart.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B4)
1970 The film "I Never Sang for My
Father" starred Gene Hackman.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, Par p.16)
1970 The film "I Walk the Line"
starred Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
1970 The film “Jenny” featured
“Marlo Thomas.”
(SSFC, 11/21/04, Par p.28)
1970 The film "Joe" starred Peter
Boyle and was directed by John Avildsen.
(SFC, 5/30/03, p.D5)
1970 The film "Julius Caesar"
starred Jason Robards, Charlton Heston, John Gielgud, Robert Vaughn,
Richard Chamberlain and Diana Rigg.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)(SSFC, 1/7/01, DB p.42)
1970 The French film "Jusqu'a la
victorie" (Until Victory) was directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.M4)
1970 The film "Kelly's Heroes"
starred Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas and was directed by Brian G.
Hutton.
(TVM, 1975, p.301)
1970 The film "King: A Filmed
Record… Montgomery to Memphis" was produced and added to the National
Film Registry in 1999.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E10)
1970 The film "The Kremlin Letter"
was directed by John Huston and starred Orson Welles. It was based on a
book by Noel Behn (d.1998 at 70).
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A19)
1970 The film "The Landlord"
starred Hector Elizondo."
(SSFC, 7/15/01, Par p.18)
1970 The film "Leo the Last" was
directed by John Boorman. It won a best director prize at Cannes.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, DB p.50)
1970 The documentary film "Let It
Be" was about a Beatles’ recording session. It premiered in Britain on
May 20.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB
p.47)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065976/)
1970 The film “The Liberation of
L.B. Jones featured Fayard Nicholas.
(SSFC, 1/29/06, p.B7)
1970 The film "Little Big Man"
starred Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.E7)(SFEC, 8/6/00, Par p.18)
1970 The film "Little Fauss and
Big Halsy" starred Lauren Hutton.
(SFEC, 10/24/99, Par p.18)
1970 The film "A Long Ride from
Hell" starred Steve Reeves (d.2000 at 74). Reeves retired after this
film.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.C4)
1970 The film “Lovers and Other
Strangers” featured Bea Arthur (1922-2009).
(SSFC, 4/26/09, p.B6)
1970 The film “Love Story” starred
Tommy Lee Jones.
(SSFC, 1/29/06, Par p.22)
1970 The film "A Man Called Horse"
starred Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1970 "M*A*S*H" was released on Jan
25. It became one of the three top grossing films of the year. It was
directed by Robert Altman and starred Robert Duvall. It was rated #56
by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A12)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)
1970 The film "The Molly Maguires"
starred Richard Harris.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)
1970 The film "The Moonshine War"
starred Richard Widmark and Alan Alda.
(TVM, 1975, p.387)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.D18)
1970 The film "Move" starring
Elliot Gould and Paula Prentiss was produced by Pandro S. Berman.
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C8)
1970 The film "Multiple Maniacs"
was directed by John Waters.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, DB p.40)
1970 The film "Multiple Sidosis"
was produced. In 2000 it was selected for preservation in the National
Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1970 The film "My Night at Maud's"
was produced.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.B7)
1970 The film "Myra Breckenridge"
starred Tom Selleck, Raquel Welsh and Mae West.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, Par p.22)(SSFC, 4/15/01, DB
p.50)(SSFC, 3/17/02, Par p.26)
1970 The musical film "On a Clear
Day You Can See Forever" was produced.
(SFC, 12/26/02, p.E14)
1970 The film "The Owl and the
Pussycat" starred George Segal.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.26)
1970 The film "Patton" starred
George C. Scott and Karl Malden. It was directed by Franklin Schaffner.
It was one of the three top grossing films of the year and was rated
#89 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(SFEC, 3/22/98, DB p.52)(USAT,
6/17/98, p.9D)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A8)
1970 The film "The People Next
Door" with Hal Holbrook was produced.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, Par p.14)
1970 The film "Performance"
starred Mick Jagger and was directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald
Cammell.
(WSJ, 11/6/98, p.W2)(SFEC, 5/2/99, DB p.54)
1970 Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996), Italian actor, starred in "The Pizza Triangle."
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)
1970 The film "The Private Life of
Sherlock Holmes" was directed by Billy Wilder.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A14)
1970 The film “Red Baron” starred
John Philip Law (1937-2008).
(SFC, 5/16/08, p.B11)
1970 German film director Rainer
Werner Fassbinder made "Rio das Mortes."
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.E5)
1970 The film "R.P.M." starred
Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret. It was directed by Stanley Kramer with a
script by Erich Segal.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(TVM, 1975, p.463)
1970 The film "Ryan’s Daughter"
starred Robert Mitchum and John Mills. It was directed by David Lean.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)(SSFC, 4/24/05, p.A2)
1970 The film "Take a Girl Like
You" starred Hayley Mills.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, Par p.26)
1970 The film "Tell Me That You
Love Me, Junie Moon" featured Ken Howard.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, Par p.17)
1970 The rockumentary film "That’s
the Way It Is" with Elvis Presley was produced. It features Elvis
during a 4-week engagement at the Int’l. Hotel in Las Vegas.
(SFC, 8/15/96, p.D5)
1970 The film “Tomorrow” featured
Olivia Newton-John.
(SSFC, 9/11/05, p.26)
1970 The film "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
starred Jason Robards. It was a joint US Japanese production set in WW
II and won an Oscar for special effects.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.E7)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A17)
1970 The comedy film "Trash"
starred Holly Woodlawn and was directed by Paul Morissey.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.B1)
1970 The film "Tristana" by Luis
Bunuel starred Catherine Deneuve.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.A7)
1970 The film “The Twelve Chairs”
was directed by Mel Brooks and featured Dom DeLuise (1933-2009).
(SFC, 5/6/09, p.A9)
1970 The film "Two Mules for
Sister Sarah" starred Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine. It was
directed by Don Siegel and written by Budd Boetticher.
(SFEC, 12/5/99, p.C15)(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A28)
1970 The film "Walkabout" by
Nicolas Roeg was produced. It was about the Australian aborigines.
(SFC, 12/29/96, DB p.8)
1970 The film "Waterloo" starred
Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SSFC, 1/12/03, Par p.20)
1970 The film "Watermelon Man" was
directed by Melvin Van Peebles for Columbia Pictures. This was the
first Hollywood film by a black director.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, DB p.62)
1970 The film "What Do You Say to
a Naked Lady" was made by Allen Funt (d.1999) of Candid Camera.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.C2)
1970 The film “Gertrude Stein:
When This You See, Remember Me” was directed by Perry Miller Adato. It
was a biography of Ms. Stein.
(WSJ, 11/11/06, p.P2)
1970 The film "Where's Poppa?"
starred George Segal.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.26)
1970 The film "Which Way to the
Front" starred Jerry Lewis. He also directed the film.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, Par p.14)
1970 The film "Women in Love"
starred Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and was directed by Ken Russell.
It was based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence.
(TVM, 1975, p.65)(SFC, 7/30/99, p.D4)
1970 The documentary film
"Woodstock" by Michael Wadleigh was released. It featured Sly and the
Family Stone, Jerry Garcia and Santana among others.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.C10)(SFEC, 6/28/98, DB p.54)
1970 The film "WUSA" starred Paul
Newman.
(SSFC, 9/28/08, p.A16)
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