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12 April 1961 () (Melbourne) [1] The Abduction from the Seraglio is a 1961 Australian TV version of Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail and sung in English. It was one of a number of operas broadcast by the ABC in the early days of Australian television.
The project was announced in April 1961 and the cast finalised in May. It was going to be CBS's "major dramatic production" for the year. [4] The budget was a reported $500,000. [5] A Mexican township worth $125,000 was built for the production, which was shot at NBC studios, in two studios (although broadcast by CBS).
Battle at Bloody Beach, (aka Battle on the Beach in the UK and Australia), [3] is a 1961 American CinemaScope drama war film directed by Herbert Coleman and starring Audie Murphy who had previously worked together in Posse from Hell. The film also features Gary Crosby and introduces Alejandro Rey.
Very Important Person (U.S. title: A Coming Out Party [1]) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth. [2] The cast includes several well-known British comedy and character actors, including James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter in a dual role as a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, Eric Sykes, John Le ...
The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co-winners for West Side Story .
Flight of the Lost Balloon is a 1961 film produced, written and directed by Nathan Juran and starring Mala Powers and Marshall Thompson. [2] [3]The film was inspired by Jules Verne's 1863 novel Five Weeks in a Balloon and beat the major Irwin Allen film release of the book to the cinemas. [4]
The plot was about an English professor at Hunter College who got involved with a group of 17 year olds on the loose from boarding school. It was to take place in Greenwich Village and was to be shot on location in New York in 1961. [6] Eventually the action was relocated to Malibu, where the film was shot starting April 1961. [7]
In April 1961, it was reported that Warner Bros. had purchased the rights to produce a film adaptation of the stage musical with Alan Jay Lerner hired to pen the screenplay. [4] [5] That month, it was reported that Rock Hudson had signed as King Arthur. [6] In May 1961, Shirley Jones was reportedly in talks to play Guenevere. [7]