Business
Harold M. Hecht, civic leader and former chairman of the J.W.
Dec. 4, 1996
Movies
Harold Hecht, who broke Hollywood tradition in the late 1940s by forming his own production company and made such Academy Award-winning movies as “Marty,” “Cat Ballou” and “Separate Tables,” has died of cancer at his Beverly Hills home.
May 28, 1985
Everyone’s first time was different.
May 30, 2015
World & Nation
In a political drama that peaked Tuesday in Washington, the Pentagon abruptly shelved plans to unveil details of its super-secret stealth fighter plane because of angry objections about its possible impact on national security and on the presidential race.
Oct. 5, 1988
California
The squirrels in a remote Thousand Oaks neighborhood near Wildwood Regional Park seem to know where they’re wanted. * Two of them frolicked Tuesday in a tree in front of the home of Kathleen Adams, a 13-year resident of Silver Spur Court who has set up a sign in her front yard announcing, “Squirrel’s Welcome.”
March 16, 1994
Read Edwin Schallert’s 1955 review of “Marty”
Aug. 19, 1955
Entertainment & Arts
Stage director Harold Clurman wrote of going to extreme lengths to get the young Brando to speak up.
July 3, 2004
Books
Over lunch recently, Harold Robbins was discoursing on the ups and downs of being a novelist whose international sales were edging past the quarter of a billion mark.
March 17, 1985
Obituaries
Ernest Borgnine remembers once-blacklisted, Oscar-nominated co-star as the ‘nicest person you could ever want to meet.’
March 20, 2009
Actress Betsy Blair, of ‘Marty,’ at age 85