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Movies of 1960
Academy Awards 1960
Screen adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1927 novel of religious fraud. The Apartment
Best Director: Billy Wilder beats Jack Cardiff for "Sons and Lovers", Jules Dassin for "Never on Sunday", Alfred Hitchcock for "Psycho" and Fred Zinnemann for "The Sundowners".
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry beats Trevor Howard in "Sons and Lovers", Jack Lemmon in "The Apartment", Laurence Olivier in "The Entertainer" and Spencer Tracy in "Inherit the Wind". Elmer Gantry
Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry beats Glynis Johns in "The Sundowners", Shirley Knight in "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs", Janet Leigh in "Psycho", Mary Ure in "Sons and Lovers".
Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 beats Greer Garson in "Sunrise at Campobello", Deborah Kerr in "The Sundowners", Shirley MacLaine in "The Apartment" and Melina Mercouri in "Never on Sunday" Adaptation of 1935 John O'Hara's novel of a prostitute almost saved from the business by love. (Laurence Harvey)
Director Stanley Kubrick made a name for himself with this movie, though he later disowned it because of creative friction between himself, writer Dalton Trumbo and Actor/Producer Kirk Douglas who referred to Kubrick as a "talented shit." More importantly, Kirk Douglas used the movie to break the Hollywood Blacklist by hiring Dalton Trumbo (one of The Hollywood Ten jailed by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950. In the same year Trumbo received full credit for his work on Exodus.
Top Box Office 1960
The Magnificent Seven John Sturges directs Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and Eli Wallach in this Western precursor to The Dirty Dozen.
Psycho - Starring Tony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and Martin Balsam . Director Alfred Hitchcock and distributor Paramount mandate that no one will be admitted to theaters after the film has begun. Psycho
Directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins.
Federico Fellini directs Marcello Mastroianni, and Swedish actress Anita Ekburg.
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Entertainment News 1960
The Rat Pack
While filming Ocean's Eleven in the Fall of 1960; Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford became the celebrity talk of the year. After a day's filming they would carouse the Strip and end each night doing a show at the Sands. The Sand's ballroom becomes the place to be at Midnight for every who's who in America. Tickets were scalped for thousands and some of the biggest names in show business and politics were turned away. Ocean's Eleven
59 year old Clark Gable dies at the end of filming The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe. Clark Gable
49 year old 1940's actress Margaret Sullavan commits suicide with an overdose of barbiturates. Once married to Henry Fonda and Director William Wyler.
B Movies 1960
It was the height of
the Drive-in
Theater where B Movies made
their money and teenage boys made their
girlfriends.
13 Ghosts - Here Martin Milner is crushed to death by one of the Ghosts. Director William Castle's (The King of Ballyhoo) gimmick for this movie was called Illusion-O. The audience was given Ghost Viewers so they could see the ghosts hidden by color shading in this B&W movie which otherwise could not be seen.
Roger Corman became king of the B Movie with three films in one year: House of Usher, Little Shop of Horrors and Last Woman on Earth.
George Sanders stars in this British horror classic.
The Time Machine
Director Irwin Allen does a poor job of bringing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 19th Century book to life. With Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, Jill St.Johns and Fernando Lamas. The Lost World.
Smell-O-Vision - Bottles of scent were held on a rotating drum and the process was triggered by a signal on the film and sprayed over the audience. Only one film, Scent of a Mystery, was made in Smell-O-Vision. This became one of the classic failures of the business. Mike Todd, Jr., son of the famed director, lost his entire inheritance and left the film business.
New Movies
Can-Can Operation Petticoat Suddenly Last Summer Solomon and Sheba
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