1960 in film
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
:North America Ben-Hur Can Can Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Operation Petticoat Suddenly, Last Summer The Apartment Solomon and Sheba On the Beach
Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United ArtistsBest Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
BirthsJanuary 1 - Dawn Mazzella, American actressJanuary 3 - Joan Chen, actress January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actorFebruary 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actressMay 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actressMay 31 - Chris Elliott, actor September 9 - Hugh Grant, actorOctober 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actorDecember 3 - Daryl Hannah,actressDecember 3 - Julianne Moore,actress
DeathsJanuary 3 Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and directorJanuary 20 - Matt Moore, actor February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singerNovember 5 - Mack Sennett, pioneer producer/directorNovember 16 - Clark Gable, actor
Other movies released - Ā bout de souffle
- The Alamo, starring John Wayne
- The Apartment
- L'Avventura
- Butterfield 8
- Devi
- La Dolce Vita Palme d'Or winner
- Elmer Gantry
- Exodus
- Flaming Star starring Elvis Presley
- G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley
- Herod the Great (originally: Erode il grande)
- Inherit the Wind
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Last Woman on Earth
- Macumba Love
- The Magnificent Seven
- Noi duri, starring Fred Buscaglione and Totō
- La Passage du Rhine, Golden Lion winner
- Peeping Tom
- Pollyanna, produced by Walt Disney, starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman
- Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis.
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Swiss Family Robinson (Walt Disney)
- 13 Ghosts with ghosts that only appeared when viewed through red glasses
- The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman
- The White Horse Inn
- The World of Apu
- The Young One
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