The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney film.
Year In Review Video Timeline. To Experience Mr. Pop's Ultimate 1. Timeline – Simply Scroll Down Page Or Click Categories: Year 1. Music/Entertainment/Celebrity/Hollywood Info/Trends/Trivia/TV News Gary Cooper Dies. Arizona Memorial on March 2. Tom Parker, Presley’s manager, says everyone attending will have to buy a ticket - no promotional giveaways.
Presley himself is buying one or $1. Remarks Parker - “I don’t believe in part- time charities.
There’s no excuse for Presley to leave the islands and not raise $5. Presley will be in the area to begin filming “Hawaiian Beachboy”. Those paying $1. 00 a ticket will no doubt get to see the new president and first lady and a slew of stars including Nat King Cole, Gene Kelly, Milton Berle, Sidney Poitier Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Sammy Kahn, Jimmy Van Heusen and Peter Lawford. Just before President- elect Kennedy entered his box, Conductor Leonard Bernstein led the 7. John Philip Sousa’s march “The Stars and Strips Forever.” The show was performed at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D. C. Frank Sinatra took turns emceeing with many of the stars.
She charges an “incompatibility of character. Blanc was pinned in the wreckage of his hardtop sports car until officials could free him. Besides creating the voices for such characters such as “Porky Pig” and “Bugs Bunny” – Blanc appears on the CBS- TV Jack Benny show as the deadpan Mexican “si, si” wanderer.
Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, Count Basie, Mahalia Jackson and others, pay tribute to King at Carnegie Hall. Said Davis: “We look to him as our leader, not as American Negroes, or as a minority or ethnic group, but as human beings.” Funds from the performance will be used to further new integration movements in the South. Music/Television news - Singer Bobby Darin hosts his first TV special this week - “Bobby Darin and Friends.” He promises viewers a Bobby Darin they’ve never seen before. Also on the show - Bob Hope, folk singing duo Bud and Travis and Joanie Sommers. It’s announced that President Kennedy as chosen Edward R. Murrow, radio and television commentator, as director of the U.
S. For the past two months, Hollywood thought Marilyn Monroe was studying acting and readying herself for a television role. Turns out she’s been quietly undergoing treatment at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic of New York Hospital and Cornell Medical Center. She is registered under the name - “Miss Faye Miller”.
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According to the hard words of the Communist court, Rock- and- roll music is an expression of opposition to the Red government and just to prove its point, it has jailed 1. Elvis fans, who were found guilty of breaking up an anti- jazz lecture with cries of “we want rock- and roll and “we want Presley.” The court said they compounded the problem by dancing in the aisles.
Furness will host “At Your Beck And Call” in what the station is calling a viewer participation show. A spokesman says that Chevy came up with a new offer, but only for specials. NBC says that Chevrolet will retain sponsorship of the 9- 1. Sunday night hour and there’s a rumor that the western – Bonanza may be moved there from its Saturday night slot. Top Pop Hit Music Single – “Calcutta” – Lawrence Welk. Buford Ellington proclaimed “Elvis Presley Day” in the Volunteer State. Tom Parker - “This affair cost me $1.
I was happy to do it for all these fine charities along with Elvis. Among the 2. 7 charitable projects benefiting were Danny Thomas’ St. Kodak says the reason is color. It will become an alternate sponsor with Radio Corporation of America of the new “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” debuting in the fall on NBC- TV. Ed Sullivan and Ozzie are seen in living Black and White.
I have never aimed at children. In fact, I test all the films I make only with adults; I don’t know what age the children are I’m supposed to appeal to and I haven’t aimed at them. The Mickey Mouse program was the first time in my life I built anything for children . The series replaces Steve Mc. Queen’s “Wanted Dead or Alive”.
The President couldn’t take his call because he was preparing for a telecast. The plane took- off without him.
He finally received an emergency extension and boarded a plane to Miami. Everyone was wondering about him after James Stewart nearly broke down into tears at the Academy Awards last week while accepting a special honorary award for Cooper. He signed the Pittsburgh- based group - The Marcels back in February. They recorded four songs for Stu rather quickly. Doe. May- assing - Gary Cooper (6. Hollywood. Cooper is a two- time academy award winner with a career which spanned 3.
Cooper had a malignancy removed from his prostate a year ago. Five weeks later, a cancerous part of his colon was removed. An audience of 2. Democratic Party’s 1.
On the bill - Chubby Checker, Freddy Cannon, the Shirelles, Duane Eddy and the Rebels. Other stops will include the Hollywood Bowl, the Kansas Centennial Exposition and the Michigan State Fair. Clark believes that the development of a cheap 3. Rumored as a possibility later this year) will be a big boost for the singles record market. She’s taking 1. 0- weeks off to go to Europe and work.
- Buy The Audrey Hepburn DVD Collection: Roman Holiday / Sabrina / Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Widescreen) at Walmart.com.
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- The Bill Black's Combo's performance of Smokie Part 2 and Yogi in the motion picture 'Teenage Millionaire' (1961). In 1959, Bill Black joined a group of.
- Program Profile The Hathaways Friday nights at 8:00 ABC / 1961-1962.
She’s set to make a movie in Munich and Berlin, playing opposite Jimmy Cagney in a modern high comedy written and directed by Billy Wilder. Judy Garland lands a starring role in a full- length animated cartoon called “Gay Pur- ee,” with all the characters being cats. She’ll be the voice of Mewsette, a house pet on a French farm who longs for champagne and gaiety of Paris. First - Instead of Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley plays Gidget.
Returning is James Darren , but he’s now called Jeff Mather and not Moondog. The scene this time is in Hawaii, not Malibu. All the other characters have been replaced, but are still in the same spirit as the original Gidget. BTW - Gidget (real name Francie) is a contraction of girl- midget. Patsy Cline lands in the hospital this week with a fractured and dislocated right hip and severe head injuries sustained in a fatal auto crash in Madison, Tenn. She was a passenger in a car driven by her brother, Sam Hensley. Their car was struck head- on by another car which was attempting to pass another vehicle.
Her condition is described as fair. Her current hit is, I Fall To Pieces”? So pull up your canvasback chair, and dig the redbrick walls inside. We’re still trying to discern - did Mort Sahl discovery “the i” or was it the other way around?.
Nat King Cole signs with Capitol Records for another 1. Currently in production is “The Nat King Cole Story,” a three- record set complete with booklet tracing Cole’s career.
Cole has been with the label for 1. Now at record stores - “James Darren Sings the Movies” on Colpix Records. He sings several songs from his recent Gidget movie as well as “Because They’re Young” and others. Broadway news - Don’t miss Julie Andrews in Camelot. Hollywood news - Marilyn Monroe undergoes emergency surgery for removal of her gall bladder because of an acute inflammation.
Kirby has been the announcer for the Garry Moore show since 1. He’ll retain those duties on the popular CBS- TV program. Candid Camera, a successful radio show, was a part of the Garry Moore show beginning in 1. Ed - a comedy series about a talking horse, begins on CBS- TV in the fall. It had been in syndication to individual stations. The show should be seen in reruns for years to come.
For his final show, he has a contestant that looks like Khrushchev. I was very strained after a two- day trip to Moscow. The actress had been taken directly to the stadium from the airport without a chance to bathe, make- up or change her clothes. She walked out just before the feature film of the evening - a documentary about Soviet spaceman Yuri Gagarin. Music news - Columbia records signs another folk artist - Pete Seegar .
His first LP “A Baker’s Dozen” will be made- up of traditional folk songs. The American acts have all been exposed over and over again. I think their managers are a little unwise. It seems to me that if you have a big act, you should only do two or four spots a year on variety shows. That way, you can go on indefinitely. But the quick money is very compelling.” Sullivan began searching for acts in Europe 1. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Sammy Davis Jr.
The event was supposed to be Eddie Fisher’s opening there. Some show- biz types in the audience say the four ruined Eddie’s opening, but Groucho Marx thought otherwise: “The pros objected to it; the audience loved it .. I was among those who thought it saved the evening from being a monumental bore .. Fisher is, at best, a small talent”. Billy May arranges on both albums. Sounds like each wants to capitalize on the other.
Frank recently left Capitol because he wasn’t happy with the label and formed his own “Reprise” label. Lewis is multitalented; she’s a singer, dancer, musician (violin and piano), magician,, mime, author, puppeteer and ventriloquist, thinks that cartoons are a waste of time.
His new show debuts next month on NBC “The Wonderful World of Color.” The show will bring back the Disney variety seen on the earlier “Disneyland” broadcasts on ABC - cartoons, live stories and nature. Walt says he got himself into a bind at ABC, when network execs told him they wanted more westerns on the show. I’m not listening now. I’m an absolute dictator about what goes into my show”.
After all - “Father Knows Best” had a good six- year run (still high in the ratings), plus he had done the show on radio for over four years. But CBS made him a great offer to do another series.
So after 1. 5 months of essentially vacation - playing golf etc., Young will be back in a new series - “Window on Main Street.” The funny thing is - “Father Knows Best” - seen in prime time reruns on CBS, continues in prime time reruns until 1. The interpretation serving a dramatic situation, coupled with the visual action, needs an entirely different emphasis and approach to register in the album”.