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The History of American Cinema: 1967

January - June

20/1 -

An announcement from MGM in a number of newspapers emphasises the fact that the value of the studio’s shares has risen by 150% since Robert O'Brien took over as president in January 1963. [ADD]

20/2 -

Yakima Canutt is awarded an honorary Oscar for his work as a stuntman and for developing safety devices to protect all stuntmen. [ADD]

2/3 -

Judy Garland announces her return to the screen in Valley of the Dolls, an adaptation of the Jacqueline Susann bestseller. It will be the actress’s first screen appearance since 1963’s I Could Go on Singing. [ADD]

8/3 -

Shirley MacLaine is awarded $800,000 in a lawsuit brought against 20th Century-Fox in 1966 because of the studio’s failure to pay her for a film that was not made. Her contract states that she was entitled to payment whether the film was made or not. [ADD]

15/3 -

Philip Levin brings legal proceedings against MGM in the Delaware Federal court, accusing Robert O’Brien’s consortium of buying shareholders votes to ensure that Levin’s supporters would be in a minority at the general meeting. [ADD]

15/3 -

in San Francisco, insurance and financial services corporation Transamerica Company make a public offer for United Artists. UA’s board of directors encourages its shareholders to accept the offer. [ADD]

17/3 -

Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles’ adaptation of the Falstaff scenes from Henry IV Parts I & II, is released. [ADD]

10/4 -

The televising of the 39th Annual Academy Award ceremony is endangered by a threatened strike, but the broadcast goes ahead. Fred Zinnemann’s A Man for all Seasons wins Best Picture award. [MORE]

6/5 -

Gloria Swanson attends the premiere of the restored version of Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly in New York. Although a shortened version was released in Europe in 1929, the film had never been distributed in the US. [ADD]

8/5 -

Robin Moore, the author of The Green Berets, claims in a radio interview that the Pentagon has made strenuous efforts to prevent production of a forthcoming film starring John Wayne. [ADD]

28/5 -

Actress Dyan Cannon is granted a divorce from Cary Grant after two years of marriage on the grounds of brutal and inhuman treatment. She claimed Grant locked her up, beat her, and forced her to take LSD. [ADD]

5/6 -

The American Film Institute is founded in Washington DC. Its aims are to train young filmmakers, to stock and preserve the country’s film heritage, and to publish a catalogue of all American-produced films. It will receive an annual budget of $5 million jointly funded by the federal government, the MPAA, the Ford Foundation and a number of other private organisations. The Institute is headed by George Stevens Jr. [ADD]

7/6 -

Doris Day’s latest vehicle, Caprice, is released. The film is directed by Frank Tashlin, and Richard Harris is Day’s leading man. [ADD]

10/6 -

Movie legend Spencer Tracy dies of a heart attack following lung congestion in Hollywood at the age of 67. In films since 1930, Tracy enjoyed a 25-year romance with regular leading lady Katharine Hepburn, despite never divorcing his wife, Louise Treadwell, whom he married in 1923. [ADD]

21/6 -

Bud Yorkin’s Divorce American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards and Jean Simmons, is released. [ADD]

29/6 -

34-year-old Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash in New Orleans with her lawyer Sam Brody and driver Ronnie Harrison. The stars’ three children, sitting in the back seat of the car, all survived. [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1967