Clips from Pyscho, The Bell Boy, Spartacus and Inherit the Wind
Academy Awards 1960
Best
Picture: The Apartment beats "The Alamo", "Elmer
Gantry", "Sons and Lovers" and "The Sundowners".
Screen adaptation of
Sinclair Lewis' 1927 novel of religious fraud.
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".
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".
Best
Actress:
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)
Best Actor in a
Supporting Role: Peter Ustinov in Spartacus beats Peter Falk in "Murder,
Inc.", Jack Kruschen in "The Apartment", Sal
Mineo in "Exodus" and Chill Wills in "The
Alamo".
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.
Best Foreign Language Film:The
Virgin Spring - Ingmar Bergman
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 Tony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and Martin
Balsam . Director Alfred Hitchcockand
distributor Paramount mandate that no one will
be admitted to theaters after the film has
begun.
On
the Beach
Directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins.
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini directs Marcello Mastroianni, and Swedish actress Anita Ekburg.
Inherit
the Wind Stanley Kramer directs Spencer Tracy,
Fredric March and Gene Kelly who play Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, and H.L. Mencken
in the famous 1925 Scope's Trial which held it a
crime to teach evolution in public schools
in Tennessee.
Entertainment
News 1960
The Rat Pack
While filming Ocean's Elevenin
the Fall of 1960; Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis
Jr, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawfordbecame 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.
Angie Dickinson,
Juliet Prowse,and Shirley MacLaine were
the Rat Pack groupies of the day. The group became political by backing JFK, but Sinatra's ties to the Mafia cooled
the relationship after Kennedy became
President. The Rat Pack does deserve
historical credit for changing Nevada
politics when they refused
to work in segregated venues. It
changed the face of the Las Vegas strip
in just a few weeks, helping change the face of
America in just a few years.
59
year old Clark Gable dies at the
end of filming The Misfits with Marilyn
Monroe.
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 givenGhost
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 HorrorsandLast Woman on Earth.
Village
of the Damned
George Sanders stars
in this British horror classic.
The Time Machine George Pal directs
starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux in this
H.G. Wells Classic
The Lost World
Director Irwin
Allendoes 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.
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
Where the Boys Are
Never on Sunday
Exodus
Macumba Love
Best Actor in a
Supporting Role: Peter Ustinov in Spartacus beats Peter Falk in "Murder,
Inc.", Jack Kruschen in "The Apartment", Sal
Mineo in "Exodus" and Chill Wills in "The
Alamo".
Inherit
the Wind Stanley Kramer directs Spencer Tracy,
Fredric March and Gene Kelly who play Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, and H.L. Mencken
in the famous 1925 Scope's Trial which held it a
crime to teach evolution in public schools
in Tennessee. 
