1960 in film

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)

(*) 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 â€" Elmer Gantry

Best Actress: Greer Garson â€" Sunrise at Campobello

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): The Apartment

Best Picture (tie): Song Without End

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon â€" The Apartment

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine â€" The Apartment

Other

Best Director: Jack Cardiff â€" 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
• Five Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau
• 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, Jack Kruschen, 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, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith & Christopher Lee - (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, Juliet Prowse
• Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker - (U.K.)
• Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
• The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
• Cidade Ameaçada (a.k.a. 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 Gréco
• 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 (a.k.a. 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, John Derek
• 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) (a.k.a. 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 Jürgens, 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 Men 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 (a.k.a. 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 Let Go, directed by John Guillermin, starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith - (U.K.)
• 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 Forte

O

• Obaltan (a.k.a. The Stray Bullet) - (South Korea)
• Ocean's 11, 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 (a.k.a. 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, starring Karl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer - (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), a.k.a. 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 Anne 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, a.k.a. 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, Anthony Perkins, Ray Walston
• 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 Minardos 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, 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 Métro, directed by Louis Malle - (France)

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940â€"1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945â€"1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953â€"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)
• March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, actress and singer (died 2010)
• April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born actor
• April 14 â€" Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian & professional poker-player
• May 21 - Mohanlal , Indian actor
• May 24 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor and comedian
• June 17 - Thomas Haden Church, actor
• July 14 - Jane Lynch, actress
• August 7 - David Duchovny, actor
• August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• August 16 - Timothy Hutton, 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, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
• January 3 â€" Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
• January 20 - Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
• February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
• April 25 - Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
• May 27 - George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
• July 26 - Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
• November 3 - Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor
• November 5
  • Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
  • Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
• November 16 - Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Gone with the Wind
• November 19 - Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore

Film debuts

• Alan Bates - The Entertainer
• Albert Finney - The Entertainer
• Jane Fonda - Tall Story
• Norman Jewison - director, The Fabulous Fifties
• Peter O'Toole - Kidnapped
• Robert Redford - Tall Story
• Gian Maria Volonté - Under Ten Flags
• Susannah York - Tunes of Glory

References