1961 in film

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The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1961 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1961
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	West Side Story	United Artists/The Mirisch Company	$19,500,000[1]
2	The Guns of Navarone	Columbia Pictures	$13,000,000[1]
3	El Cid	Allied Artists/Samuel Bronston Productions	$12,000,000[1]
4	The Parent Trap	Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution	$11,300,000[1]
5	The Absent-Minded Professor	Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution	$11,100,000[1]
6	Lover Come Back	Universal Pictures	$7,625,000[2]
7	King of Kings	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$6,520,000[2]
8	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution	$6,200,000[3]
9	La Dolce Vita	Cineriz/Pathé Consortium Cinéma	$6,000,000[4]
10	Come September	Universal Pictures	$5,772,000[2]

Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1961 films from countries outside of North America.

Country	Title	Studio	Gross
India	Gunga Jumna	Mehboob Studio	$14,610,000[n 2] </ref>
Soviet Union	Striped Trip	Lenfilm[6]	$12,720,000[n 3]

Events

May 13 – Legendary actor Gary Cooper dies at the age of 60 in Los Angeles from colon and prostate cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as Wings, Meet John Doe, Sergeant York, For Whom the Bell Tolls and High Noon, Cooper was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and won two Academy Awards for Best Actor.

October 18 – The film version of the musical West Side Story is released. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris, it becomes the year's highest-grossing film and goes on to win ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for Wise and Robbins), Best Supporting Actor (for Chakiris) and Best Supporting Actress (for Moreno).

Awards

Category/Organization	19th Golden Globe Awards March 5, 1962		34th Academy Awards April 9, 1962
Category/Organization	Drama	Comedy or Musical	34th Academy Awards April 9, 1962
Best Film	The Guns of Navarone	A Majority of One (Comedy) West Side Story (Musical)	West Side Story
Best Director	Stanley Kramer Judgment at Nuremberg		Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins West Side Story
Best Actor	Maximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg	Glenn Ford Pocketful of Miracles	Maximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress	Geraldine Page Summer and Smoke	Rosalind Russell A Majority of One	Sophia Loren Two Women
Best Supporting Actor	George Chakiris West Side Story
Best Supporting Actress	Rita Moreno West Side Story
Best Original Score	Dimitri Tiomkin The Guns of Navarone		Henry Mancini Breakfast at Tiffany's (Drama or Comedy) Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal West Side Story (Musical)
Best Original Song	"Town Without Pity" Town Without Pity		"Moon River" Breakfast at Tiffany's
Best Foreign Language Film	Two Women		Through a Glass Darkly

Notable films released in 1961

US unless stated

A

The Absent-Minded Professor, starring Fred MacMurray
Accattone, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy)
Ada, starring Dean Martin and Susan Hayward
All in a Night's Work, starring Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine
And Love Has Vanished (Dvoje) – (Yugoslavia)
Angel Baby, starring Salome Jens and Mercedes McCambridge
Antigone, starring Irene Papas – (Greece)
Armored Command, starring Howard Keel and Tina Louise
The Artillery Sergeant Kalen (Ogniomistrz Kaleń) – (Poland)
The Assassin (L'Assassino), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
Atlantis, the Lost Continent, starring John Dall

B

Babes in Toyland, starring Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello
Bachelor in Paradise, starring Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss
Back Street, starring Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles
Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo) – (Italy)
Barabbas, starring Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano and Jack Palance – (Italy)
The Big Bankroll, aka King of the Roaring 20s, starring David Janssen, Mickey Rooney, Diana Dors
The Big Gamble, starring Stephen Boyd
Black Silk (Prae Dum) – (Thailand)
Blast of Silence, directed by and starring Allen Baron
The Blonde from Buenos Aires (Una Americana en Buenos Aires), starring Mamie Van Doren and Jean-Pierre Aumont – (Argentina/France)
Blue Hawaii, starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success), with Joan Blackman and Angela Lansbury
Boatmen of Thessaloniki (Солунските Атентатори) – (Yugoslavia)
A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bombă) – (Romania)
Bootleggers (Samogonshchiki) – (USSR)
Breakfast at Tiffany's, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Bridge to the Sun, starring Carroll Baker and James Shigeta – (France/US)
By Love Possessed, starring Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., George Hamilton

C

Carry On Regardless, starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey – (UK)
Cash on Demand, starring Peter Cushing and André Morell – (UK)
On The Tiger's Back (aka A Cavallo Della Tigre ), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
The Children's Hour, starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner and Miriam Hopkins (who also starred in the original film These Three)
Chronicle of Flaming Years (Povest plamennykh let) – (USSR)
Claudelle Inglish, starring Diane McBain and Arthur Kennedy
The Coachman (Mabu) – (South Korea)
The Colossus of Rhodes, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Rory Calhoun – (Italy)
The Comancheros, starring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Ina Balin
Come September, starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin
Cry for Happy, starring Glenn Ford, Miyoshi Umeki, Donald O'Connor
The Curse of the Werewolf, starring Clifford Evans and Oliver Reed – (UK)

D

The Day the Earth Caught Fire, starring Edward Judd – (UK)
The Deadly Companions, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith
Dersu Uzala – (USSR)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy, Grégoire Aslan
A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana), directed by Pietro Germi, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
Dondi, starring David Janssen

E

El Cid, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren – (US/Italy)
The End of Summer (Kohayagawa-ke no aki), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
The End of the Cancageiros (A Morte Comanda o Cangaço) – (Brazil)
The Errand Boy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
Everything's Ducky, starring Buddy Hackett
The Exiles – documentary
The Explosive Generation, starring William Shatner and Patty McCormack

F

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Fanny, starring Charles Boyer and Leslie Caron
The Fascist (Il Federale), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
A Fever in the Blood, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Angie Dickinson, Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Carroll O'Connor
Five Golden Hours, starring Robert Wagner, Cyd Charisse, Ernie Kovacs
Five Minutes to Live, starring Johnny Cash
Flight of the Lost Balloon
Flooded Out (Los Inundados) – (Argentina)
Flower Drum Song, starring Nancy Kwan
Francis of Assisi, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bradford Dillman and Dolores Hart
The Frightened City, starring Sean Connery, John Gregson, Yvonne Romain

G

The George Raft Story, starring Jayne Mansfield and Ray Danton
Gidget Goes Hawaiian, starring Deborah Walley
Girl with a Suitcase (La Ragazza con la valigia), starring Claudia Cardinale – (Italy)
Go Naked in the World, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Franciosa – (Italy)
Goliath Against the Giants
Goodbye Again, starring Ingrid Bergman and Yves Montand – (France/U.S.)
Gorgo, starring Bill Travers – (UK)
The Great Impostor, starring Tony Curtis
The Greengage Summer, starring Kenneth More and Susannah York – (UK)
Gunga Jumna, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
The Guns of Navarone, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn – (UK)

H

Harry and the Butler (Harry og kammertjeneren) – (Denmark)
Havoc in Heaven (aka The Monkey King), an animated films – (China)
Hogs and Warships (Buta to gunkan), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
Homicidal, directed by William Castle
The Honeymoon Machine, starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss
Hoodlum Priest, starring Don Murray
The Human Condition (Ningen no jōken), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan)
The Houseguest and My Mother (Sarangbang sonnimgwa eomeoni) – (South Korea)
The Hustler, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason

I

Immortal Love (Eien no hito) – (Japan)
The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr – (UK)

J

Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Richard Widmark, William Shatner

K

King of Kings, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Ryan, Siobhán McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Rita Gam, Rip Torn
The Knife (Het Mes), directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands)

L

The Ladies Man, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
The Last Judgement (Il Giudizio universale), directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
The Last Sunset, starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley
The Last Time I Saw Archie, starring Robert Mitchum and Jack Webb
The Last War (Sekai Daisensō) – (Japan)
Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig – Golden Lion winner – (France)
Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France)
Lola, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Anouk Aimée – (France)
The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) – Palme d'Or winner – (France)
The Long and the Short and the Tall, starring Laurence Harvey and Richard Harris – (UK)
Look in Any Window, starring Paul Anka and Ruth Roman
The Lovemakers (La Viaccia), starring Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo – (Italy)
Lover Come Back, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson

M

Mad Dog Coll (Gene Hackman's debut)
A Majority of One, starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness
Man-Trap, starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens
Marines, Let's Go, starring Tom Tryon and David Hedison
The Mark, starring Stuart Whitman and Maria Schell – (UK)
The Marriage-Go-Round, starring James Mason and Julie Newmar
The Mask, starring Paul Stevens – (Canada)
Master of the World
The Miracle of Father Malachia (Das Wunder des Malachias), directed by Bernhard Wicki – (West Germany)
The Misfits, directed by John Huston, starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable (in both their last screen roles) and Montgomery Clift
Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) – (Poland)
Mothra, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
Murder, She Said, starring Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, James Robertson Justice, Stringer Davis – (UK)
Mysterious Island, starring Michael Craig, Michael Callan, Joan Greenwood

N

The Naked Edge, starring Gary Cooper (in his final film) and Deborah Kerr
Nazrana (Gift), starring Raj Kapoor and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile (Nefertiti, regina del Nilo), starring Jeanne Crain and Vincent Price – (Italy)
No Love for Johnnie, starring Peter Finch – (UK)
La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau – Golden Bear winner – (Italy/France)
Nude on the Moon, directed by Doris Wishman

Short film series

Births

January 2 – Todd Haynes, American director
January 13 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
January 24 – Nastassja Kinski, German actress
February 11 – Carey Lowell, American actress
February 21 – Christopher Atkins, American actor
March 8 – Camryn Manheim, American actress
March 21 – Kassie DePaiva, American actress and singer
March 29 - Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedian and writer
April 3 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
April 6 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor, lead singer of Adam Again (died 2000)
April 14 – Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor
April 18 - Jane Leeves, English actress
April 23
- Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Icelandic actor
- George Lopez, American comedian and actor
May 6
- George Clooney American actor, writer, director and producer
- Wally Wingert, American actor, voice actor, singer and former radio personality
May 8 – David Winning, Canadian-American director, producer and screenwriter
May 14 – Tim Roth, English actor
May 16 - Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian
May 31 – Lea Thompson, American Actress
June 5 – Catherine McGille, American actress
June 9 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor
June 25 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, producer and director
June 27 - Tim Whitnall, English playwright, screenwriter and actor
July 14 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
July 15 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
July 18 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
July 23 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
July 30 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
August 5 – Janet McTeer, English actress
August 22 - Stephen Stanton, American actor, voice actor, comedian and visual effects artist
August 28 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
September 11 – Elizabeth Daily, American actress
September 15 - Colin McFarlane, English actor
September 16 - Jen Tolley, American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer
September 18 – James Gandolfini, American actor (died 2013)
September 22 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress and comedian
September 25 - Heather Locklear, American actress
October 25 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director
October 26 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
October 31 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand director
November 4 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
November 14 – D. B. Sweeney, American actor
November 19 – Meg Ryan, American actress
November 22 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
November 28 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican director
November 29 – Tom Sizemore, American actor

Deaths

January 13 – Blanche Ring, 89, American singer and actress, The Yankee Girl, It's the Old Army Game
January 14 – Barry Fitzgerald, 72, Irish actor, Going My Way, The Quiet Man
February 2 – Anna May Wong, 56, American actress, Shanghai Express, The Thief of Bagdad
February 17 – Nita Naldi, 66, American actress, Blood and Sand, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
February 26 – Harry Bannister, 71, American actor, The Girl of the Golden West
March 6 – George Formby, 56, British actor, entertainer, It's in the Air, Off the Dole
March 12 – Belinda Lee, 25, British actress, Long Night in 1943, The Goddess of Love
March 29 – Fritzi Ridgeway, 62, American actress, Ruggles of Red Gap, This Is Heaven
April 27 – Roy Del Ruth, 67, American director, The Maltese Falcon, Broadway Melody of 1938
May 4 – Anita Stewart, 66, American silent-film actress, The Combat, The Suspect
May 13 – Gary Cooper, 60, American actor, High Noon, Meet John Doe, The Pride of the Yankees, Sergeant York
May 18 – Henry O'Neill, 69, American actor, Shadow of the Thin Man, Anchors Aweigh
May 19 – Ben Corbett, 69, American actor, The Fighting Renegade, Six-Gun Trail
May 22
- Joan Davis, 53, American actress, Hold That Ghost, If You Knew Susie
- Edward F. Cline, 69, American director, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
June 2 – George S. Kaufman, 71, American playwright, A Night at the Opera
June 10 – Vivienne Osborne, 64, American actress, Supernatural, Luxury Liner
June 14 – Eddie Polo, 86, Austrian-American actor, The Vanishing Dagger
June 15 – Luther Reed, 72, American director, Rio Rita, Hit the Deck
June 17 – Jeff Chandler, 42, American actor, Broken Arrow, Merrill's Marauders
June 27 – Paul Guilfoyle, 58, American actor, Winterset, The Grapes of Wrath
June 30 – Lee de Forest, 87, American inventor of Phonofilm
July 4 – Franklyn Farnum, 83, American actor, The Life of Emile Zola, The Lost Weekend, The Greatest Show on Earth
July 9 – Alan Marshal, 52, Australian actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, House on Haunted Hill
July 23 – Valentine Davies, 55, American screenwriter and director, The Glenn Miller Story, The Benny Goodman Story
July 28 – Harry Gribbon, 76, American silent comedy actor, Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition, Down on the Farm, A Small Town Idol, The Cameraman
August 4 – Maurice Tourneur, 85, French director, The Last of the Mohicans, The Poor Little Rich Girl
August 17 – Violet Kemble-Cooper, 74, British actress, The Invisible Ray, David Copperfield
August 20 – Dorothy Burgess, 54, American actress, In Old Arizona, Black Moon
August 27 – Gail Russell, 36, American actress, Angel and the Badman, Seven Men from Now
August 30 – Charles Coburn, 84, American actor, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Lady Eve
September 10 – Leo Carrillo, 81, American actor, Viva Villa!, Phantom of the Opera
September 22 – Marion Davies, 64, American actress, Show People, Cain and Mabel
September 23
- John Eldredge, 57, American actor, The Woman in Red, His Brother's Wife
- Billy House, 72, American actor, Rogues of Sherwood Forest, Bedlam
September 25 – Frank Fay, 69, American actor, Under a Texas Moon, The Matrimonial Bed
September 26 – Juanita Hansen, 66, American actress, The Magic Cloak of Oz, The Phantom Foe
October 1 – Donald Cook, 60, American actor, The Public Enemy, Baby Face
October 11 – Chico Marx, 74, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Duck Soup
October 13
- Maya Deren, 44, American experimental filmmaker, Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land
- Zoltan Korda, 66, Hungarian director, The Four Feathers, Cry, the Beloved Country
October 18 – Tsuru Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American actress, The Dragon Painter
October 22 – Joseph Schenck, 82, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive, The General, Sherlock Jr.
October 29 – Astrid Holm, 68, Danish actress, The Phantom Carriage, Häxan
November 15
- Elsie Ferguson, 78, American actress, The Witness for the Defense, Scarlet Pages
- Douglas Walton, 51, Canadian actor, Bride of Frankenstein, Murder, My Sweet
November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, 68, American actress, Dodsworth, Female
December 20 – Moss Hart. 57, American playwright, Gentleman's Agreement, A Star Is Born
December 27 – Bernard McConville, 74, American screenwriter, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Phantom of the Opera

Film debuts

Ann-Margret – Pocketful of Miracles
Warren Beatty – Splendor in the Grass
Sandy Dennis – Splendor in the Grass
Louis Gossett Jr. – A Raisin in the Sun
Gene Hackman – Mad Dog Coll
Lance Henriksen – The Outsider
Ron Howard – Five Minutes to Live
George Kennedy – The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Dudley Moore – The Third Alibi
Mary Tyler Moore – X-15
Joe Pesci – Hey, Let's Twist!
Burt Reynolds – Angel Baby
George Segal – The Young Doctors

Notes

4.79 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1948 to 1966<ref>"Rupee's journey since Independence: Down by 65 times against dollar", The Economic Times, 24 August 2013
₹7 crore[5] (US$14.61 million)[n 1]
11.45 million Soviet rubles (45.8 million tickets sold,[7] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[8] 0.9 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1961 to 1971[9]

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References

Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
Top 20 Films of 1961 by Domestic Revenue
Gabler, Neal (2006). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Vintage Books. p. 586. ISBN 978-0679757474.
"All-time top film grossers", Variety 8 January 1964 p 37.
"Box Office 1961". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
Striped Trip on IMDb
Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls

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[RupeeUSD-6] 4.79 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1948 to 1966<ref>"Rupee's journey since Independence: Down by 65 times against dollar", The Economic Times, 24 August 2013

[Gunga-7] ₹7 crore[5] (US$14.61 million)[n 1]

[12] 11.45 million Soviet rubles (45.8 million tickets sold,[7] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[8] 0.9 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1961 to 1971[9]

[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1961DomesticRevenue-2] Top 20 Films of 1961 by Domestic Revenue

[3] Gabler, Neal (2006). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Vintage Books. p. 586. ISBN 978-0679757474.

[4] "All-time top film grossers", Variety 8 January 1964 p 37.

[boi61-5] "Box Office 1961". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2011-12-21.

[8] Striped Trip on IMDb

[9] Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".

[moscow-10] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011

[russia-11] Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls