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 writ-ten 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 Ger-son.
(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
mak-ing.
(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 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 and Helen Westcott (d.1998 at 70). It was
directed by Andre de Toth.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Par p.18)(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
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 "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
Zin-nemann 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
mak-ing.
(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 nu-clear 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 Ing-mar
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 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 op-erative during WW II.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.C2)
1950 Gross Hollywood revenues
for the year were $1,379 million with 3,107 million admis-sions 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 pro-duced. 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 Boet-ticher
(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 Bene-dek.
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 "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 Dal-ton
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 Valentina Cortese.
(SFC, 1/14/03, p.D2)
1951 The film "The Idiot"
(Hakuchi) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by Akira
Kuro-sawa.
(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 "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 Macken-drick
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
Har-old 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 Mur-phy. 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 Stanely 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 un-der 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 "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 re-made 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. Her-man
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 Siod-mak.
(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 Flei-scher. 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 Zinne-man. 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
Flei-scher.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.C9)
1952 The film "Night Into
Morning" with Nancy Davis, Ray Milland and John Hodiak was
pro-duced.
(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 news-paper
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 pro-duced. 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 Com-mando 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 Stanely 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 Win-dsor. It
was directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was written by Edward and Anna
Anhalt and pro-duced 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 adap-tation 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 spe-cial 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 di-rected
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 Mac-Rae. 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 Li-brary
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, Mont-gomery
Clift and Burt Lancaster was made. Sinatra was an Oscar winner. The
film won an Os-car 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
Reg-istry.
(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."
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.40)
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 Al-fred
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 Mon-roe
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 Acad-emy 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 pupeteer.
(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 Dis-ney
"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 di-rected by
Ron Ormand and Herbert Trevos and was about a mad scientist who
injects the pitui-tary 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 di-rected
bvy 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 "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 se-lected
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 "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 film "Torch Song"
starred Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding. It was about a ro-mance
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 Lollabrigida. The surrealis-tic
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
an-guished 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 Bela-fonte. 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 Pi-geon,
Cyd Charisse, james Mitchell and William Olvis (d.1998 at 70). It
was directed by Stanely 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 honey-moon.
(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 di-rected 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 and Marlon Brando as an ex-boxer
working on the docks and Rod Steiger. It was directed by Elia Kazan
and won 7 Oscars. It was rated # 8 by the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998.
(WSJ,5/20/96,p.A1)(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)
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 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 bin-oculars. 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 Aud-rey
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. Mar-shall.
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 se-lected 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 mu-sic
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 re-made
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,
phi-landerer, 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 Sim-mons 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 protes-tor.
(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. Ray
Har-ryhausen directed the animation.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.D5)(SSFC, 5/16/04, p.M6)
1955 The film "Interrupted
Melody" was the story of opera star Marjorie Lawrence and fea-tured
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. Mat-thau 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 concentra-tion
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 Con-gress 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
Havil-land. 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 regis-try.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)(SFC, 7/10/02,
p.A6)(SFC, 12/28/07, p.E3)
1955 The film "Pather Panchali"
by Satyajit Ray (d.1992) was produced.
(SFC, 4/30/97, p.E6)
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 Mi-fune. 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
Egyp-tian-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 di-rected
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)
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Subject = Film, Filmstar
Films 1956-xxxx
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 "The Bad Seed"
starred Patty McCormack as the evil child Rhoda Penmark. The film
received 4 Academy Award nominations and became a camp classic.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, DB p.44)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.E12)
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 power-ful 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
Sal-vatore 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 Ste-vens 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 Si-natra.
(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
pro-duced.
(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 uni-corn.
(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 direc-tor 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 fea-tured 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 Lollabrigida 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 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 Ey-man
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, Yhe 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 Stew-art, 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 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 di-rected by Sam
Fuller.
(SFC,12/5/97, p.C12)
1957 The "Curse of
Frankenstein" featured Hazel Court. It was a British Hammer Film
produc-tion 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 Ed-ward 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,
An-thony 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 Na-tional
Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.D5)
1957 Robert Mitchum played in
the film "Fire Down Below."
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.E2)
1957 The musical film "Funny
Face" starred Fred Astaire, Suzy Parker (d.2003 at 69) and Audrey
Hepburn. It was directed by Stanely 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 Biber-man.
(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 fea-tured 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.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.54)(SFC, 6/20/06, p.B5)
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 Mon-tand
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 preserva-tion
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 di-rected
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 mor-phine. 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 Her-sey.
(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
ad-aptation of a Rogers and Hart musical.
(SFC, 1/15/98, p.E7)(SFC, 10/22/99, p.C3)
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), pio-neer
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 Heming-way novel.
(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B3)
1957 The film "The Sweet Smell
of Success" starred Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster as gos-sip
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 Kuro-sawa
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. Mar-shall 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 re-sponsible
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 Man-tley
(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 Na-ruse.
(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 se-lected 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 di-rected 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
cour-tesan-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
"Ste-ven," 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 di-rected
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 di-rected 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 “Queen of Outer
Space” starred Zsa Zsa Gabor.
(SSFC, 10/9/11, p.A12)
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. It was based on the 1955 novel by US Navy
Capt. Edward L. Beach Jr.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Silent,_Run_Deep)(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 thrill-ing 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 sui-cide of
lemmings herded off a cliff by the film maker supporting the myth of
lemming foolish-ness 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 Callen-bach. In 1999
Brian Henderson and Ann Martin edited "Film Quarterly: Forty Years -
A Selec-tion."
(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 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 was shot near Yakima.
(PNI, 2/5/97, p.14)
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 Reg-istry
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 Far-row.
(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 Di-ane
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
concentra-tion 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, Shel-ley
Winters and Gloria Grahame was directed by Robert Wise. It was a
bitter study of race ha-tred.
(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 psycho-path 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 ac-quired 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
Lol-lobrigida.
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 14)
1959 The film "Some Came
Running" starred Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra and Dean Mar-tin.
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 Wil-liams 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, di-rected 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 “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 Mar-guerite
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 To-shiro 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 "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.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
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 ap-peared 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 and Jane Wyman. 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)
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 pro-duced. 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.
(SFC, 5/17/03, p.A16)
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 The film "The
Subterraneans" was an adaptation of Kerouac’s On the Road.
(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 aver-age
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 Pep-pard
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 Bron-ston. 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 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 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. Tay-lor (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 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 Ger-son (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
Tush-ingham.
(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 was directed by John
Franken-heimer. It had been shot in the SF Bay Area.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.39)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)
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
Gai-dai.
(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
ca-reening 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 Ed-wards.
(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 and Natalie Wood. 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)
1962 The Japanese film
“Harakiri” starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Masaki
Ko-bayashi.
(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 and Gregory Peck.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.E4)(SFC, 6/13/03, p.A16)
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 cinema-tographer and made the
famous 3-minute shot where Omar Sharif emerges from the shimmer-ing
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)
http://www.bigstar.com/search/detail.ff?pid=1012067
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 di-rected
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 commis-sioned 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 Au-mont. 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)
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Films 1963-xxxx
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 Gar-land.
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 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 Fran-cis
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 di-rected 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 charac-ter was based on the Jackson
Barrett Mahon (d.1999 at 78), an American fighter pilot, who
pro-vided 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 Cann 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 re-sponsible
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 Adven-ture."
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.C2)
1963 The film "Le Lit Conjugal"
(The Conjugal Bed) by Italian director Marco Ferreri was pro-duced.
(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A20)
1963 The film "Leopard" starred
Burt Lancaster as the prince who makes the ceremonial cut into the
timballo. 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 di-rected by
Ingmar Bergman.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A20)
1963 The film "The Nutty
Professor" starred Jerry Lewis and Stella Stevens. Lewis also
di-rected 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 Moni-celli.
(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 Pala-cios.
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 be-comes
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 Fin-ney,
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
To-morrow."
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.A4)
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 di-rected 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 "Circel 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 Con-gress
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 "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 Sterling hayden. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick and
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)(SSFC, 5/22/11, DB
p.46)
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's 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 di-rected
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 Dickin-son
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 roman-tic
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 di-rected 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, Deb-orah
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 Sen-ate
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 Franken-heimer.
(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
lov-ers.
(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 filmscript 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 Mu-sic,” 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
to-day. 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 rudi-mentary
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 pro-duced. 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 and Edward G. Robinson.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, DB p.51)
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 Al-bert
(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.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.18)
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 re-make 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 di-rected 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 Resis-tance
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 Michelan-gelo
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
di-rected 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
se-lected 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 di-rected
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 di-rected 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 Os-car
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 "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 Bennet 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
Franken-heimer.
(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 fea-tured 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 Bur-ton.
(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 "Man For All Seasons," Elizabeth Taylor and Paul
Scofield won.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1967 Jun 10, Spencer Tracy
(b.1900), American film star, died. His work included 75 feature
films and two Oscars. In 2011 James Curtis authored “Spencer Tracy:
A Biography.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Tracy)(SSFC, 10/30/11, p.F6)
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 was directed by Andre de Toth.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
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 Ni-ven.
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 preserva-tion 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 "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
An-drews. 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
Mas-sachusetts 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 re-leased 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 re-ceipts
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 di-rected
by Stanley Kubrick, had its world premiere in Washington.
(AP, 4/2/08)
1968 Apr 10, In the 40th
Academy Awards "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger & Katharine
Hep-burn won.
(MC, 4/10/02)
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 Jo-seph
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 Wool-rich 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 Pe-ter 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
chil-dren’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 Dal-ton
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 Ste-vens
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 Hep-burn.
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 Underdevel-opment"
(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 New-man.
(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 pro-duced. 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 Con-gress 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,
nei-ther 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 filmscript 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 cam-eraman 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 San Francisco's hardcore
pioneer director/producer Alex de Renzy, in his directorial de-but
with reputed sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, conducted
interviews with unin-hibited Danes, along with closeups of every
detail of conventional sexual intercourse and depic-tions of
lesbianism, fellatio, and cunnilingus. A 90-minute version screened
in San Francisco was later confiscated and the film was banned in a
number of states. In the wake of the land-mark decision in People v.
Alex de Renzy the documentary film “Pornography in Denmark” went
into wide release.
(www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms21.html)(SFC,
7/12/11, p.E1)
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 Pa-kula.
(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 respon-sible 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 Mexi-can 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 Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and was directed by Ken
Russell (1927-2011). It was based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence.
Glenda Jackson won a best actress Academy Award for her role.
(TVM, 1975, p.65)(SFC, 7/30/99, p.D4)(SFC,
11/29/11, p.C5)
1969 The film "Young Billy
Young" starred Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker and Angie Dickin-son.
(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)
Go to http://www.timelinesdb.com
Subject = Film, Filmstar
Films 1970-xxxx
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 pro-duced.
[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 Wil-liam
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 Jo-seph
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 di-rected 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 di-rected 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.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, DB p.67)
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
Cas-savetes.
(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 “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 British film “The
Music Lovers” was directed by ken Russell. It was about Russian
composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
(SFC, 11/29/11, p.C5)
1970 The film "My Night at
Maud's" was produced.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.B7)
1970 The film "Myra
Breckenridge" starred Tom Selleck, Racquel 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 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)
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 The film "Red Sky at
Morning" starred Richard Thomas, John Colicos and Catherine Burns.
It was directed by James Goldstone (d.1999 at 68). It was based on
the 1968 novel by Richard Bradford (d.2002 at 70).
(TVM, 1975, p.470)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C2)
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 produc-tion
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 "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 abo-rigines.
(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 Can-did 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 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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