1960 in film

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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.

Events

• April 20 - 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)
• November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt wed.

Top grossing films (US)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Psycho	Universal and Paramount	Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, and Janet Leigh	$32,000,000
2.	Swiss Family Robinson	Walt Disney Productions	John Mills and Dorothy McGuire	$20,178,000
3.	Spartacus	Universal	Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis	$11,100,000
4.	Exodus	United Artists	Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint	$8,332,000
5.	The Alamo	United Artists	John Wayne and Richard Widmark	$7,919,000
6.	BUtterfield 8	MGM	Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey	$7,552,000
7.	The World of Suzie Wong	Paramount	William Holden and Nancy Kwan	$7,500,000
8.	The Apartment	United Artists	Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine	$6,680,000
9.	Ocean's 11	Warner Bros.	Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.	$5,650,000
10.	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	MGM	Doris Day and David Niven	$5,369,000

(*) 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

Films released in 1960

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle

A

• Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret - (Italy)
• Alakazam the Great, an anime film - (Japan)
• The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark and Laurence Harvey
• The Amazing Transparent Man
• The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• Anuradha - (India)
• The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
• L'avventura, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)

B

• Bad Luck - (Poland)
• The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Beat Girl - (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 - (Italy)
• Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
• Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg - (France)
• The Brides of Dracula - (U.K.)
• BUtterfield 8, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey

C

• Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan
• Carry On Constable - (U.K.)
• The Challenge (US: It Takes A Thief), starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
• Cimarron, starring Glenn Ford
• Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
• El Cochecito - (Spain)
• College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Comanche Station, starring Randolph Scott
• Come Back, Africa, documentary film - (South Africa)
• The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
• Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語), 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.)
• Devi (aka The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• The Devil's Eye, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson - (Sweden)
• La dolce vita, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg - (Italy)

E

• Elmer Gantry, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones
• 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) - (Italy)
• Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo
• Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage) - (France)

F

• The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• A False Student (Nise daigakusei) - (Japan)
• Faust - (West Germany)
• Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
• From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, Myrna Loy

G

• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
• The Gallant Hours, a Biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
• Goliath II
• The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons

H

• Hell is a City, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
• Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
• High Time, starring Bing Crosby
• Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
• The Hole (Le Trou) (aka The Night Watch) - (France)
• Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum
• House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
• The Housemaid (Hanyeo) - (South Korea)

I

• Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
• It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren

J

• Jigoku - (Japan)
• Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, starring Raj Kapoor - (India)

K

• Kanoon - (India)
• Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford - (Poland)

L

• The Lady with the Dog - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
• Last Woman on Earth
• Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujiro 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 Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
• Linda - (U.K.)
• The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
• Love in Simla - (India)
• The Loves of Hercules, starring Jayne Mansfield and her husband Mickey Hargitay - (Italy/France)

M

• Macario - (Mexico)
• Macumba Love - (U.S./Brazil)
• The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach
• Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
• Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
• 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
• Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals) - (India)
• Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan

N

• Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri - (Greece/U.S.)
• Never Take Sweets from a Stranger - (U.K.)
• Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
• North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Capucine, Fabian

O

• Ocean's Eleven, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson

P

• Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
• 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 with Anthony Quinn and Sandra Dee
• The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
• Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's - (U.K.)
• Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) (aka Blazing Sun), directed by Rene Clement, starring Alain Delon - (France)

Q

• The Queen of Spades - (U.S.S.R.)

R

• The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
• Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon - (Italy/France)
• Romeo, Juliet and Darkness - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film - (U.K.)

S

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field and Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
• The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
• Scent of Mystery
• School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
• Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
• Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
• Sex Kittens Go to College, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour - (France)
• Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
• Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
• Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
• Space Men - (Italy)
• 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 based on Ruth
• Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
• The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum - (U.S./U.K./Australia)
• Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as FDR) and Greer Garson
• Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire

T

• Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang - (West Germany)
• The Three Worlds of Gulliver
• The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor
• Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield
• 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.)
• 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

V

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

W

• Watch Your Stern - (U.K.)
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki) - (Japan)
• Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
• The White Horse Inn - (West Germany/Austria)
• Who Was That Lady? starring Dean Martin and Tony Curtis
• 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 Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)/U.S.)

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 3 - Joan Chen, actress
• January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
• January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)
• April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born actor
• March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, American actress (d. 2010)
• May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
• May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
• August 16 - Timothy Hutton, actor
• August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
• September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
• September 10 - Colin Firth, actor
• November 5 - Tilda Swinton, British actress
• November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
• December 3 - Daryl Hannah, actress
• December 3 - Julianne Moore, actress
• December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, actor and film director

Deaths

• 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 11 - Yuri Gadyukin, Russian-born 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