1961 in film Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Events

• Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) released

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Nuremburg
• 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
• 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

This is an Article on 1961 in film. Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About 1961 in film

	Web www.E-paranoids.com