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The History of American Cinema: 1966

January - August

20/1 -

Otto Preminger loses his legal action to prevent cuts or extensive commercial interruptions to the TV broadcast of his film Anatomy of a Murder. [ADD]

30/1 -

Hedy Lamarr, former Hollywood star of the 40s, is imprisoned for shoplifting. [ADD]

31/1 -

Barbara Rooney, actor Mickey Rooney’s fifth wife, is found dead with her lover, Milos Milocevic, in the actor’s Los Angeles home. Milocevic is believed to have murdered her in a rage before committing suicide. [ADD]

25/3 -

Seymour Poe, 20^th Century-Fox’s executive vice-president reports that Cleopatra has earned $38,042,000 up to 16^th March. The film, which cost $31,115,000 to produce needs to make $41,358,000 to break even. [ADD]

18/4 -

This year’s Academy Awards ceremony is televised in colour for the first time. A Man for all Seasons wins the award for Best Picture. [MORE]

24/4 -

MGM announce that their entire stock of silent films are to be transferred to non-flammable film. [ADD]

4/5 -

7 Women, the final film of veteran director John Ford, is released. [ADD]

22/6 -

Mike Nichol’s directorial debut, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, is released. Married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as a college professor and his blowsy wife locked in a love-hate relationship whose frustrations overflow during a drinks party with a young couple (George Segal and Sandy Dennis). The film features the first use on screen of the word ‘bugger.’ [ADD]

12/7 -

An article in Variety quotes Allied Artists as claiming that Claude Lelouch’s Un Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) is the most profitable film in their history. The film, which cost $100,000 has made $2 million. [ADD]

14/7 -

Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, is released. [ADD]

18/7 -

In Nashville, the police seize a local cinema’s copy of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and arrest the manager for breaking a municipal order that bans entertainment of an obscene nature. [ADD]

12/8 -

According to a report in Variety, 62 of the 136 American films in production are being made overseas. [ADD]

16/8 -

Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA recommends to studio heads that the classification of films by the government be avoided at all costs. [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1966