Independence Day, 50 years ago

Below is a hodgepodge of movies playing on or around July 4th, 1969, a couple of weeks before the Apollo 11 moon landing: In Columbus, The Maltese Bippy, which killed the movie career of TV's Rowan and Martin before it really had a chance. I've seen it; it's pretty dire.

The Swedish movie, I Am Curious (Yellow), which was one of the first adult films to play in respectable theaters--in Columbus, it was at the local art houses which alternated between showing foreign movies and porn.

Goodbye, Columbus, based on a Philip Roth novel, and Bob Fosse's first movie, Sweet Charity.
 

Also in Columbus: True Grit, How to Commit Marriage, and a second-run of Funny Girl

In New York City, a couple of less-remembered melodramas: 3 Into 2 Won't Go and That Cold Day in the Park (notice the description of the "32-year-old spinster"; that would never fly today.

Finally, a classy ad for True Grit, at Radio City Music Hall, complete with splashy live stage show, which I'm surprised they were still doing. Apparently, the live shows continued right up until they closed down as a movie theater in 1978.