The year 1962 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Actors | Gross | | 1. | Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia | Peter O'Toole | $20,310,000 | | 2. | The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox | | $17,600,000 | | 3. | In Search of the Castaways | Disney | Haley Mills and Maurice Chevalier | $9,975,000 | | 4. | The Music Man | Warner Brothers | Robert Preston and Shirley Jones | $8,100,000 | | 5. | That Touch of Mink | Universal | Cary Grant and Doris Day | $7,942,000 | | 6. | Mutiny on the Bounty | MGM | Marlon Brando | $7,410,000 | | 7. | To Kill a Mockingbird | Universal | Gregory Peck | $7,112,000 | | 8. | Gypsy | Warner Brothers | Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood | $6,350,000 | | 9. | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Warner Brothers | Bette Davis and Joan Crawford | $6,000,000 | | 10. | Lolita | MGM | James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and Sue Lyon | $5,000,000 | [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
- Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
- Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth
- Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
- Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink
- Best Picture (tie): The Music Man
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy
- Other
- Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): - Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): - Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy
- My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom
[edit] Films released in 1962 - The 300 Spartans
- A Symposium on Popular Songs
- Advise and Consent, starring Henry Fonda
- The Amphibian Man
- Billy Budd
- Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Doris Day
- Birdman of Alcatraz, starring Burt Lancaster
- Bon Voyage!
- Boys' Night Out
- Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen
- Carry On Cruising
- David and Lisa
- The Day of the Triffids
- Days of Wine and Roses, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick
- Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana), starring Marcello Mastroianni
- Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Dr. No. The First James Bond film. Starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress
- L'Eclisse
- Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
- Freud, starring Montgomery Clift
- Follow That Dream
- Gigot
- Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
- Gorath
- The Given Word (O Pagador de Promessas)
- Gypsy, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood
- Hatari!, starring John Wayne
- How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, George Peppard etc.
- Hussar of the Dead (Restored)
- In Search of the Castaways
- It Happened In Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield
- It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
- Keeper of Promises
- Kid Galahad
- A Kind of Loving
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Knife in the Water
- Last Year at Marienbad (U.S. release)
- Lawrence of Arabia, starring Peter O'Toole
- Lisa
- Lolita, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and Sue Lyon
- Lonely are the Brave
- Long Day's Journey into Night, starring Katharine Hepburn
- The Longest Day
- Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot
- Lycanthropus
- The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Merrill's Marauders
- The Miracle Worker, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
- The Music Man, starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones
- Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
- My Geisha
- My Name is Ivan
- Panic in Year Zero!
- Phaedra
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Period of Adjustment, starring Jane Fonda
- The Premature Burial (film mentioned in article)
- Requiem for a Heavyweight (film mentioned in article)
- Ride the High Country
- State Fair
- Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
- Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page
- The Tale of Zatoichi
- Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
- Taras Bulba
- That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
- To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck
- Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
- The Trial
- Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
- Tudor
- Two for the Seesaw, starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
- A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot
- War of the Buttons
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
- Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
[edit] Short Film Series [edit] Births - January 1 - Nancy Mette, actress
- January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
- February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
- February 27 - Adam Baldwin, actor
- March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor
- May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor
- June 13 - Ally Sheedy, actress
- July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
- September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
- September 11 - Kristy McNichol, actress
- September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
- October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
- October 11 - Joan Cusack, actress
- October 13 - Kelly Preston, actress
- November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
- November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director
- December 22 - Ralph Fiennes, actor
[edit] Deaths - January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor
- April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
- April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
- May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
- June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
- June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
- July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
- August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
- August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
- October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
- October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
- December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
- December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress
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