Julie Andrews brings "The Sound of Music" to the Von Trapp children in the Oscar-winning film. ¡Dustin Hoffman gets a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his actor-turned-actress role in "Tootsie". ╛After years of Hollywood exile, Ingrid Bergman returns to America. »In "The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman asks, "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me ?" »Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman are electric in Tennessee Williams' classic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". ªThe brilliant but irreverent screenplay M*AS*H uses humor to portray the brutality of war. ▓John Belushi as a fighter pilot and Dan Akroyd as a tank commander star in the WWII farce "1941". ╗Actors Rob Lowe, Cher, and Robert Redford support Mike Dukakis during his Presidential campaign. ─Longtime companions Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds marry in Florida. ─Tony Curtis enters the world of escapism as he ably portrays master escape artist Harry Houdini. íPenthouse and Playboy publish nude photos of Madonna on the same day. ┴Christopher Reeve as "The Man of Steel" battles Gene Hackman as villian "Lex Luthor" in the film "Superman". ║In New York, actress Carrie Fisher and singer Paul Simon wed. ┐Coincidentally, "The China Syndrome" is released just before an an actual nuclear plant accident. ╗"Ben Hur" premieres, later winning 11 Oscars, second only to "Gone With the Wind". ºWarren Beatty plays an L.A. Rams quarterback who dies and returns in another body in "Heaven Can Wait". ║F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" stars Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. ╢"Coming Home" is a moving anti-war film about veterans returning from Vietnam. ║Glenn Close makes her feature debut in "The World According to Garp". ╛William Holden is tough and controlled as a prisoner of war in "Stalag 17", his Oscar-winning role. íThe world still loves "Lucy" when Lucille Ball dies at age 77. ┼George Burns plays the title role in Carl Reiner's humorous fantasy "Oh, God!". ╣"The Day the Earth Stood Still" debuts and is viewed as a literate "warning from space" tale. ƒThe film "Chariots of Fire", along with its theme song, ignites the screen. ╜Bob Hope and Bing Crosby make the last of seven road pictures, "Road to Hong Kong". ¬Future box-office favorite, Tom Cruise, is born. ¬"Steel Magnolias" opens with a bouquet of talent, including Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts. ┼"Raging Bull", the story of prize fighter Jake LaMotta, packs a real punch. ╝"Dr. Strangelove" depicts a mad world in which nuclear destruction is just a push-button away. ¼For her role in "The Miracle Worker", Patty Duke becomes the first under-age-18 actor to win an Oscar. ¬The famous rooftop violin solo in the film "Fiddler on the Roof" is actually played by Isaac Stern. │Actress Marlo Thomas and TV talk show host Phil Donahue marry in Beverly Hills. ╝"The Magnificent Seven" opens; its music and action scenes will make it a cult favorite. ¿Sam Peckinpah replaces quick-draw cowboys with "slow motion" violence in "The Wild Bunch". ▒Before teaching Tom Cruise the fine art of playing pool, Paul Newman is "The Hustler". ⌐Dickens' "Oliver Twist" gets a new twist when the musical film version opens. ░Italy's "Hercules", with Steve Reeves, is released in the U.S., the first of many muscle-bound epics. ºH.G. Wells' classic story of a Martian invasion comes to the screen as "War of the Worlds" debuts. íExotic locations and hours of Rodgers and Hammerstein music make "South Pacific" a film treat. ªBallet sensation Rudolf Nureyev leaps over the Iron Curtain to defect to the West. ⌐After living together since 1970, Rhea Perlman and Danny DeVito marry. ╛"Gandhi" wins Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley. ╛Stand-in dancer Marine Jahan does the legwork for Jennifer Beals in "Flashdance". ┐Gig Young, who will later commit suicide, stars in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?". ▒An all-star cast registers at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the film "California Suite". ║Singer James Brown has a cameo role as a gospel preacher in "The Blues Brothers". ╝Robin Williams greets his fellow soldiers on the air waves with "Good Morning, Vietnam!". ├Warren Beatty is an amorous young hairdresser in Beverly Hills in the brilliant social comedy "Shampoo". ╖"Elizabeth Taylor's Passion" perfume is introduced, with part of the profits going to AIDS research. ├Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" is released to critical acclaim. ┼John Wayne plays an old gunman dying of cancer in "The Shootist", his last role before dying of cancer. ╕"Platoon", director Oliver Stone's account of his experiences in Vietnam, wins a Best Picture Oscar. ┬Actor-director Clint Eastwood takes on a new role as Mayor of Carmel, California. ┬Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon star in "Back to the Beach", but critics call it a "wipeout". ├Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh heat up the screen in "A Streetcar Named Desire". ƒA foreign language film first produces a Best Actress Oscar winner, Sophia Loren in "Two Women". ⌐Tourism in Kenya increases when the beautifully filmed, Oscar-winning "Out of Africa" is released. ┴One of the most expensive movies ever made, "Cleopatra", finally makes it to theatres. ½Quintessential Englishman David Niven plays James Bond in "Casino Royale". »Burt Lancaster is a jailbird with a keen interest in ornithology in "The Bird Man of Alcatraz". ¬"2001: A Space Odyssey" sets a new standard for cinematic effects in film. ░Arnold Schwarzeneggar stars a "Conan The Barbarian", a muscle-bound avenger in sandals. ╛ ╟Bluto, Otter, Flounder and the other Delta brothers are vulgar, raunchy, and oh so funny in "Animal House". ║Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" is controversial because of its final half-hour of gruesome violence. │Woody Allen, born Allen Konigsberg, makes his debut as a stand-up comic in Greenwich Village. ⌐Joanna Carson receives four of their six homes upon the end of her marriage to Johnny Carson. ┴The intelligent portrayal of the futility of war in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" enthralls moviegoers. ÑIn "Ghost", Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore create a heavenly movie and a box office smash. ╞A young man trains rats for revenge on his enemies in the classic horror film "Willard". │Out of 3030 Academy votes, Katherine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tie for the Best Actress award. ░Just when it looked like the movie musical had died, the film "Fame" arrives, bursting with life. ╝Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park", starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, opens. »Katharine Hepburn's real-life niece plays her daughter in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" »The perfect valet, John Gielgud, wins a Supporting Actor Oscar for his "Arthur" role. ╜"Star 80", the story of slain Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten starring Mariel Hemingway, comes out. ┐"Batman" breaks box-office records in a summer of record-breaking blockbusters. ┼Humphrey Bogart plays a stern, neurotic "Captain Queeg" facing a shipboard revolt in "The Caine Mutiny". óGeorge Pal's science fiction film, "When Worlds Collide", wins an Oscar for its special effects. ƒDirector Penny Marshall's film "Big", starring Tom Hanks, scores really big with its release. ─Grace Metalious' "Peyton Place" comes to the screen with Lana Turner leading an all-star cast. ÑRobots R2D2 and C3PO are two of the popular characters in the hugely successful "Star Wars". ╣In "The Shining", Jack Nicholson illustrates why not to visit a popular resort during the off-season. ╝Spencer Tracy, as an aging fisherman, makes Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" worth seeing. ªPig-tailed Patty McCormick chills audiences with her performance as a young killer in "The Bad Seed". ñ"The Lovers" premieres with its "nude" love scene, leading to a Supreme Court obscenity decision. ºDanny DeVito's feature directing debut, "Throw Momma from the Train", is released. ├ ╟Diane Keaton must choose betwwen her career and inherited motherhood in the newly-released "Baby Boom". ├Jane Fonda wins an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as the kooky call girl in "Klute". │Fred Astaire gets the American Film Institute's Life Achievement award at age 82. ╜Actor Michael Landon learns from his doctors that he has inoperable pancreatic cancer. ╟"Blazing Saddles" is Mel Brooks' wildly funny spoof of western movies. ╢"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" sends a greedy group on a bizarre race for a pot of gold. ½Much more than a talk show host, Merv Griffin outbids Donald Trump for Resorts International. ─Jack Nicholson's first leading role is the manic killer in Roger Corman's offbeat "Cry Baby Killer". ªA satellite crashes to earth releasing a lethal organism in the sci-fi thriller "The Andromeda Strain". │For "Private Lives", Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are the highest-paid Broadway performers ever. ┐Sex goddess Brigittr Bardot attempts suicide on her 26th birthday. ¿First-time Oscar nominee Art Carney wins Best Actor for his role in "Harry and Tonto". ╢In "Norma Rae", Sally Field helps a union organizer in a Southern textile mill. ╗"Convict" Burt Reynolds recruits inmates to play against the prison guards in "The Longest Yard". ╢Oscar Hammerstein, whose well-known lyrics are filled with imagery and emotion, dies. ¿Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" premieres, starring James Mason and Pat Boone. ºIn "Back to the Future", Michael J. Fox travels back to the 1950s and is pursued by his own mother. ┴The film "Glory" portrays the bravery of one of the Civil War's first all-black regiments. ┼Gregory Peck and Lee Remick have a baby who turns out to be the child of the devil in "The Omen" ╕"Apocalypse Now" is released, containing some of the best battle scenes ever filmed. ╗Errol Flynn's autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways", is published posthumously. ¿Astro and his futuristic human family hit the big screen as "Jetsons: The Movie" premieres. ╞Elvis Presley makes his last feature film, "Change of Habit", with Mary Tyler Moore as a nun. ▒Madonna's class at Adam's High in Rochester, Michigan observes its 10th year reunion. ┬The movie "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini" features Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. ¡"Sounder" tells the story of a black family of Louisiana sharecroppers during the Depression. ┤Audiences find that "Top Gun" star Tom Cruise and a slick soundtrack "take their breath away". ┬Acting legend Henry Fonda, who did not receive an Academy Award until he was 77, dies. ╛Sigourney Weaver is the driven researcher Dian Fossey in "Gorillas in the Mist". ─After starring in 159 films and working for carrots, Bugs Bunny retires from the screen. ½Rex Harrison speaks hippopotamus, among other animal languages, in "Doctor Dolittle". »"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" teams Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the legendary robbers. ▒Half-Indian war hero "Billy Jack" fights a brutal local businessman and his crazed son. │French star Brigitte Bardot exposes more than charms in her signature film, "And God Created Woman". ÑMarlon Brando stars in the sexually explicit, yet tragic, "Last Tango In Paris". ╡English actor Christopher Lee dons his fangs to portray "Dracula" for the first time in living color. ª"Slap Shot" stars Paul Newman as the player-coach of a minor league hockey team. ╣Walt Disney dies 11 years after Disneyland opens its magical doors. «Though both are nominated for an Oscar, sisters Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave lose to Elizabeth Taylor. «"Rebel Without A Cause" premieres, symbolizing and speaking to a generation of alienated youth. úA string of disaster movies begins with the release of "Airport", starring Dean Martin. ▓An unlikely pair of actors, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, play unlikely brothers in "Rain Man". ─Roy Scheider plays a womanizing, chain-smoking, pill popping director-choreographer in "All That Jazz". ╗British film director Alfred Hitchcock, known as the "Master of Suspense", dies at the age of 80. ╝James Earl Jones is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, in "The Great White Hope". ▓Ellen Burstyn wins a Best Actress Oscar for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". ╢Glenda Jackson plays a comic part in "A Touch of Class" and walks away with a Best Actress Oscar. ╡Burt Reynolds races from Georgia to Texas with a load of illegal beer in "Smokey And The Bandit". ╣Jack Lemmon's portrayal of businessman Harry Stoner in "Save The Tiger" wins him a Best Actor Oscar. ╡Judy Garland makes a special screen comeback with a virtuoso performance in "A Star Is Born". óFamous for her role as the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard Of Oz", Margaret Hamilton dies at age 82. ┴Many women have played Elizabeth I on-screen, but none so well as Bette Davis in "The Virgin Queen". úFans say "Yes!" to Sean Connery's first portrayal of James Bond in "Dr. No". ¬Woody Allen directs his first film, "Take The Money And Run", about an incompetent thief. ▒Refusing Cary Grant's marriage proposal, Sophia Loren weds Italian producer Carlo Ponti. «James Dean makes his starring debut in "East Of Eden". ú"Play Misty for Me", in which Clint Eastwood both directs and acts, is released. │Deaf actress Marlee Matlin gets an Oscar for her role in "Children of a Lesser God". ┬Bette Davis cautions, "Fasten your seatbelts...it's going to be a bumpy night", in "All About Eve". ₧The film "American Graffiti" definitively answers the question, "Where were you in '62?". ╡Kermit the Frog heads for Hollywood to audition as a singer in "The Muppet Movie". ╗Ruth Gordon wins an Oscar for playing the mysterious neighbor in Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby". ░Johnny Depp gives a cutting edge performance in "Edward Scissorhands". ╞Director Roger Vadim gives his wife, Jane Fonda, a workout in the fantasy film "Barbarella". ░A madman escapes from a mental institution to terrorize his hometown in "Halloween". ║"Saturday Night Live" star and Blues Brother John Belushi dies at age 33 of a drug overdose. ╛Russ Tamblyn's joyful acrobatic portrayal of tiny hero "Tom Thumb" delights audiences of all ages. ªDisney's "The Little Mermaid", an animated undersea adventure, is a big hit on land. ┼The release of "The Last Temptation Of Christ" sparks protests and controversy in the U.S. ─Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" debuts, a shaggy-dog story to warm the hearts of young and old alike. úJack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine stumble into love in the office-sex satire, "The Apartment". ¿Rugged and horseless John Wayne portrays an Irish-American boxer in the well-received "The Quiet Man". á"Carrie" is a horror movie featuring Sissy Spacek as a high school girl with telekinetic powers. ╕"Rocky", the Cinderella story of a young punch-drunk boxer, wins the Oscar for Best Picture. ╕Gene Hackman stars in a mystery drama about surveillance and wiretapping called "The Conversation". ╢During the Oscars, a gate crasher bypasses 125 guards and hands a homemade Oscar to Bob Hope. ¬In the film "The Music Man", Robert Preston sings, "You have trouble, right here in River City!". ¬The musical film "West Side Story" wins the Oscar for Best Picture. ⌐Hollywood replaces the "X" rating with "NC-17" (no children, with 17 as the cut-off age). ╞"King Kong" is remade more than 40 years after the original version and stars Jessica Lange. ╕"Diner" opens and becomes one of those sleeper films that moviegoers never forget. ╛Elsa is a loving lioness, but ultimately she must be returned to the wild in "Born Free". «In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is a nonconformist in a prison camp who has a "failure to communicate". »Jill Clayburgh honestly portrays a newly-divorced woman in the acclaimed "An Unmarried Woman". ║Robert Redford plays a young lawyer who is turned into a Kennedy-style U.S. Senator in "The Candidate". ┤Keeping his word, cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in the film "Terminator 2: Judgement Day." ╟Diana Ross stars in the fictionalized story of the great singer Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings The Blues". ┤Best Picture Oscar-winner "Kramer Vs. Kramer" shows the effects of divorce on a father and his young son. ╗Flamboyant pianist Liberace, known for his flashy costumes, dies at age 67. ├Former child star Natalie Wood learns how to "entertain you" in "Gypsy". ¬Paul Newman as "Hud" asks only one question to women: "What time does your husband come home?" ½The romance "Butterflies Are Free" pairs up Goldie Hawn with Edward Albert as a blind songwriter. ┤"Chinatown" gets eleven nominations but wins only one Oscar, for Best Original Screenplay. ╢In "Roxanne", Steve Martin plays a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, a man with a nose for romance. ├Richard Burton, best known for his marriages to Elizabeth Taylor and his role as King Arthur, dies. └Charleton Heston has some hairy adventures in the original "Planet Of The Apes". ░"Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice" shocks some audiences with its liberal spouse-swapping. ▒"Desperately Seeking Susan", with Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, is released by Orion Pictures. ┴Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman win Best Supporting Actor and Actress for "The Last Picture Show". │While starring as Allison MacKenzie on "Peyton Place", Mia Farrow weds Frank Sinatra. «Steven Spielberg buys "Rosebud", the famous sled from the filom "Citizen Kane", for $55,000. ╛The epic film "The Last Emperor" captures all nine of the Academy Awards for which it is nominated. ├Lee Marvin is named Best Actor for his role in "Cat Ballou" during the first color TV broadcast of the Oscars. ¡James Stewart endears himself as "Elwood P. Dowd", the man with an invisible rabbit friend, in "Harvey". ₧Hitchcock's "Rear Window" opens, and urban apartment living is never the same. óBud Abbott, Jack Benny and Walter Brennan die during the same year. ╢Bob Fosse's choreography highlights "Damn Yankees", a diabolical musical medley of baseball shenanigans. ªJimmy Stewart is driven by revenge in the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence". ¬Ronald Reagan monkeys around in "Bedtime For Bonzo". ƒ"In The Heat Of The Night" becomes the first detective movie to win Oscar for Best Picture. »
