Clips from Liberty Valance, Lolita, Touch of Mink, The Manchurian Candidate and To Kill a Mockingbird
Academy Awards 1962
Best
Picture: Lawrence of Arabia beats The Longest Day, The Music Mbean,
Mutiny on the Bounty and To Kill a
Mockingbird.
The story of T. E. Lawrence, one
of the few Westerners who had a clue to the mind
of the Arab World.
Best Director: David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia beats Pietro Germi
for Divorce - Italian Style, Robert
Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird,
Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker and
Frank Perry for David and Lisa.
Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird beats Burt Lancaster in "Birdman
of Alcatraz", Jack Lemmon in "Days of Wine and
Roses", Marcello Mastroianni in "Divorce -
Italian Style", Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of
Arabia"Peck plays Atticus
Finch, a believable rendition of the perfect
man. This, like Lawrence of Arabia is one
of those great movies which has us arguing which
was better the book or the movie.
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - TheMiracle Worker beats Bette Davis
in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", Katharine
Hepburn in "Long Day's Journey Into Night",
Geraldine Page in "Sweet Bird of Youth," Lee
Remick in "Days of Wine and Roses"
Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker beats Mary Badham in "To Kill a Mockingbird",
Shirley Knight in "Sweet Bird of Youth", Angela
Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate", Thelma
Ritter in "Birdman of Alcatraz"
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley
in Sweet Bird of
Youth beats
Victor Buono in "What Ever Happened to Baby
Jane?", Telly Savalas in "Birdman of Alcatraz",
Omar Sharif in "Lawrence of Arabia", Terence
Stamp in "Billy Budd"
Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele, France
Top Box Office 1962
That Touch of Mink
A Doris Day and Cary Grant romp that is
the top box office of the year.
Dr. No
The first of the
longest movie series of all time. Making big
stars out of Sean Connery and Ursula Andress
The Music Man
Robert Preston brings his character Professor Henry Hill from
its 1957 debut on Broadway to Film.
Hatari!
John Wayne stars in this African roundup in which he
doesn't kill lots of people!
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star, but it was Lee Marvin who
stole the show sending him on the road to
stardom.
New Movies 1962
Mutiny on the Bounty
Requiem for a Heavyweigh
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Elvis)
Kid Galahad (Elvis)
Lonely are the Brave
Boys' Night Out
Billy Budd
Birdman of Alcatraz
Divorce, Italian Style
Gypsy
It's Only Money (Jerry Lewis)
Ride the High Country
State Fair
Marilyn Monroe,
commits suicide. During her last days Monroe was fired from the production of Something's Got to Give. The film ended up as a Doris
Day vehicle Move Over, Darling. She
was found in her home dead from a barbiturate overdoseat age 36. Monroe was suspected of being intimate once with
President Kennedy on
March 24, 1962, when both were guests at Bing Crosby’s house
in Palm Springs.
Ernie Kovacs was killed in a car accident
supposedly losing control when lighting
his cigar. One of the great innovators
of television humor. He was 42.
Clara Blandick, suicide by
sleeping pills and putting a plastic bag
over her head. Remembered as Auntie Em in The Wizard
of Oz. She suffered arthritis and was going blind. She was 81
.
Good Movies 1962
The Manchurian Candidate Directed by John Frankenheimer and
starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury in her acclaimed role as the
ultimate evil mother. The movie was taken out of syndication
after the Kennedy assassination, but now holds as one of the
best 100 movies of all time.
Cape FearRobert Mitchum plays the evil man
as well as can be done while he seeks revenge on the lawyer and his
family who sent him to prison.
Days
of Wine and RosesJack Lemon and Lee Remick gain critical acclaim for their roles succumbing to alcoholism.
LolitaStanley Kubrick directed James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelly Winters and Peter
Sellers in this controversial, censored and funny film
of Nabokov's classic novel of an old man falling
in love with a young girl.
What
Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Bette Davis wows the critics in
this Gothic thriller of sisters at odds. Joan Crawford co-stars.
The Longest Day
And the longest movie running 3 hours with the
biggest cast. Most remembered moment is Red Buttons' demise hanging in his parachute from a steeple. And of course
the little toy thumb clicker that troops used to identify
themselves.
B Movies 1962
King Kong vs. Godzilla - Japanese men in monster
suits goes Technicolor! Spoiler: Kong wins.
Day of the Triffids - British film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Howard Keel. A meteror shower not only blinds humans in Britian but spores grow into intelligent killer plants.
The Premature Burial Another Roger Corman Edgar
Allen Poe vehicle, this time with Ray Milland rather than
Vincent Price.
The
Brain That Wouldn't Die,
was renamed to The Head That Wouldn't Die,
because it was the whole head of the evil
misunderstood scientist's finance.
Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird beats Burt Lancaster in "Birdman
of Alcatraz", Jack Lemmon in "Days of Wine and
Roses", Marcello Mastroianni in "Divorce -
Italian Style", Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of
Arabia"
Marilyn Monroe,
commits suicide. 
The Manchurian Candidate Directed by John Frankenheimer and
starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury in her acclaimed role as the
ultimate evil mother. The movie was taken out of syndication
after the Kennedy assassination, but now holds as one of the
best 100 movies of all time.
