1960 in film

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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• March 5 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues
• August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
• November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in)

Top grossing films (US)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross rental
1.	Spartacus	Universal	Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis	$14,000,000
2.	Psycho	Universal and Paramount	Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Janet Leigh	$9,100,000
3.	Exodus	United Artists	Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth	$8,500,000
4.	Swiss Family Robinson	Walt Disney Productions	John Mills and Dorothy McGuire	$7,900,000
5.	The Alamo	United Artists	John Wayne and Richard Widmark	$7,900,000
6.	The Apartment	United Artists	Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine	$6,700,000
7.	Butterfield 8	MGM	Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey	$6,000,000
8.	Ocean's 11	Warner Bros.	Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.	$5,500,000
9.	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	MGM	Doris Day and David Niven	$5,300,000
10.	From the Terrace	20th Century Fox	Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward	$5,200,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists

Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Apartment

Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry

Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus

Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry

Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Spartacus

Best Actor: Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry

Best Actress: Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): The Apartment

Best Picture (tie): Song Without End

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon – The Apartment

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment

Other

Best Director: Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Le passage du Rhin (The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavín, Spain / Italy

Notable films released in 1960

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• The 3rd Voice, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
• 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles and Barbara Bel Geddes
• 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle

A

• Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret - (Italy)
• Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film - (Japan)
• The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
• Ali Baba Bujang Lapok - (Malaysia/Singapore)
• The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• Anuradha - (India)
• The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams
• Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
• L'avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)

B

• Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) - (Poland)
• The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• Beat Girl, starring David Farrar and Gillian Hills - (U.K.)
• The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
• The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo and Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
• Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) - (Italy)
• Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
• The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
• Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg - (France)
• The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
• The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) - (Turkey)
• BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey

C

• Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan
• Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker - (U.K.)
• Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
• The Challenge, aka It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
• Cidade Ameaçada (aka Jerry the Gangster) - (Brazil)
• Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter
• Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
• Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence - (U.K.)
• Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
• El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri - (Spain)
• College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
• Come Back, Africa, documentary film - (South Africa)
• Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Greco
• The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
• Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)

D

• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
• Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor - (U.K.)
• Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
• Devi (aka The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• The Devil's Eye (Djävulens öga), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson - (Sweden)
• La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg - (Italy)

E

• Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
• The Enchanting Shadow (Ching nu yu hun) - (Hong Kong)
• The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
• Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan - (U.S./Italy)
• Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa), directed by Luigi Comencini - (Italy)
• Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
• Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli - (France)

F

• The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• A False Student (Nise daigakusei) - (Japan)
• Faust - (West Germany)
• Five Cartridges (Fünf Patronenhülsen) - (East Germany)
• Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
• Fortunat (Fortunate), starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan - (France/Italy)
• From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy

G

• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
• The Gallant Hours, a biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
• Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
• Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (Kutabare gurentai) - (Japan)
• Goliath II, a Disney animated short
• The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
• Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd

H

• Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
• Hell is a City, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
• Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
• Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
• Her Brother (Otôto), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• High Time, starring Bing Crosby
• Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
• The Hole (Le Trou) (aka The Night Watch), directed by Jacques Becker - (France)
• Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
• House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
• The Housemaid (Hanyeo) - (South Korea)
• The Human Vapor (Gasu Ningen dai Ichigo), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)

I

• Il Mattatore, directed by Dino Risi
• I Aim at the Stars, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Curd Jurgens, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
• Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
• Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
• It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren

J

• Jigoku (Hell) - (Japan)
• Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)

K

• Kanoon (The Law), starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
• Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford - (Poland)

L

• The Lady with the Dog (Dama s sobachkoy) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
• The Last Witness (Der Letzte Zeuge) - (West Germany)
• Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
• Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
• Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
• The Little Soldier (Le petit soldat), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina - (France)
• The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
• Linda, starring Carol White - (U.K.)
• The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
• Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana - (India)

M

• Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón - (Mexico)
• Macumba Love - (U.S.A./Brazil)
• The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
• Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
• Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (aka That Joyous Eve), directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands)
• Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
• Manzil (Destination), starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
• The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
• The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
• Mrs. Warren's Profession (Frau Warrens Gewerbe), starring Lilli Palmer (West Germany)
• Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals), starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
• Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan

N

• The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) - (Japan)
• Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri - (Greece/U.S.A.)
• Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford - (U.K.)
• Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
• The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) - (Yugoslavia)
• North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian

O

• Obaltan (aka The Stray Bullet) - (South Korea)
• Ocean's Eleven, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
• Once More, with Feeling!, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner
• Our Last Spring (aka Eroica), directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)

P

• Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
• The Party Is Over (Fin de fiesta) - (Argentina)
• Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour - (France/Italy/West Germany)
• Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell - (U.K.)
• Pepe, starring Cantinflas
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
• Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
• Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
• The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
• Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell - (U.K.)
• Purple Noon (Plein Soleil), aka Blazing Sun, directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon - (France)

Q

• The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) - (U.S.S.R.)

R

• The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
• Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon - (Italy/France)
• Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)

S

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
• The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
• Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
• School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
• September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
• Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
• Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile), starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
• Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
• Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour - (France)
• Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
• The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora Morales), starring Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
• Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
• Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
• Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
• The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K.)
• The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
• Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
• Struggle for Eagle Peak (Venner) - (Norway)
• The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum - (U.S.A./U.K./Australia)
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, aka Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
• Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Greer Garson
• Surprise Package, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward
• Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire

T

• Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda and Anthony Perkins
• Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
• A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
• Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
• There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang - (West Germany)
• The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
• The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
• Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch - (U.K.)
• The Truth (La Vérité), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
• Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Mirandos and Barbara Eden
• Two Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
• Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren - (Italy)

U

• The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
• Universe - (Canada)

V

• Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley - (U.K.)
• The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
• Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis

W

• The Wackiest Ship in the Army, starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson
• Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips - (U.K.)
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
• Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
• The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) - (West Germany/Austria)
• Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
• Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
• The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden - (U.K./U.S.)

Y

• The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) - (Greece)
• The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico/U.S.A.)

Z

• Zazie dans le metro, directed by Louis Malle - (France)

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Births

• January 12 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
• January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• February 7 - James Spader, actor
• February 18 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
• February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
• April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born actor
• April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian & professional poker-player
• March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, actress and singer (died 2010)
• May 24 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor and comedian
• July 14- Jane Lynch, Actress
• August 7 - David Duchovny, actor
• August 16 - Timothy Hutton, actor
• August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
• September 9 - Hugh Grant, English actor
• September 10 - Colin Firth, English actor
• October 18 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
• November 5 - Tilda Swinton, English actress
• November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director
• December 3 - Daryl Hannah, actress
  • Julianne Moore, actress
• December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and film director

Deaths

• January 1 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress
• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and director
• January 20 - Matt Moore, Irish-born American actor
• February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
• November 3 - Paul Willis, American actor
• November 5 - Mack Sennett, American producer and director
• November 16 - Clark Gable, American actor
• November 19 - Phyllis Haver, American actress

Film debuts

• Alan Bates
• Albert Finney
• Jane Fonda
• Peter O'Toole
• Robert Redford
• Gian Maria Volonte
• Susannah York