1961 in film - Definition
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Contents
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Other movies released
Events
Last Year at Marienbad
(
L'année dernière à Marienbad
) released
Top grossing films
North America
The Guns of Navarone
Exodus
The Parent Trap
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Alamo
Swiss Family Robinson
Come September
The World of Suzie Wong
Gone with the Wind
reissue, to commemorate the
American Civil War
centennial
101 Dalmatians
La Dolce Vita
Academy Awards
Best Picture
:
West Side Story
- Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
Best Actor
:
Maximilian Schell
-
Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress
:
Sophia Loren
-
Two Women
Births
January 5
-
Suzy Amis
, actress
January 13
-
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
, actress
February 11
-
Carey Lowell
, actress
April 6
-
Gene Eugene
, actor, lead singer of
Adam Again
October 31
-
Peter Jackson
, director
November 19
-
Meg Ryan
,US actress
Deaths
February 11
-
Eduard R Verkade
, Dutch actor/director
August 4
–
Maurice Tourneur
, French film director
October 11
-
Chico Marx
, member of the
Marx Brothers
October 22
-
Joseph Schenck
, pioneer motion picture executive
November 15
-
Elsie Ferguson
, American stage and film actress
Other movies released
Ballad of a Soldier
Blue Hawaii
starring
Elvis Presley
(his biggest box-office success)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
El Cid
, starring
Charlton Heston
and
Sophia Loren
Fanny
Flower Drum Song
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
La Notte
Golden Bear winner
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Last Year at Marienbad
, Golden Lion winner
Never on Sunday
North to Alaska
Pit and the Pendulum
with
Vincent Price
Posto, Il
Return to Peyton Place
Splendor in the Grass
Such a Long Absence
Palme d'Or winner
Teen Kanya
Two Rode Together
, starring
James Stewart
and
Richard Widmark
Two Women
Viridiana
Palme d'Or winner
West Side Story
Where the Boys Are
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