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Movies of 1961
Clips from West Side Story, The Misfits and Mothra Academy Awards 1961 Best Picture: West Side Story beats
"Fanny", "The Guns of Navarone", "The Hustler"
and "Judgment at Nuremberg" Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at
Nuremberg, first movie to bring footage of the
Holocaust to the masses, beats
Charles Boyer in "Fanny", Paul Newman in "The
Hustler", Spencer Tracy in "Judgment at
Nuremberg" and Stuart Whitman in "The Mark".
Top Box Office 1961 Elvis Presley's
first movie since returning from the army. His
biggest box-office success setting the tone for
his last 16 years. Action Adventure
beating the Nazis. New Movies 1961 The Absent-Minded Professor The Alamo Breakfast at Tiffany's King of Kings Exodus Babes in Toyland |
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Entertainment News 1961
In Italy 1961, a total Solar Eclipse was captured
on the set of the movie Barabbas while filming the crucifixion scene. Taken by photographer Augusto Di
Giovanni.
George Washington Vanderbilt
III is found dead at the base of a San Francisco skyscraper.
Gail Russell, suicide by alcohol induced heart attack. Found in her Brentwood apartment surrounded by liquor bottles. She was 36.
The Misfits Starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark
Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach. Burned
out cowboys rounding up wild horses to sell for
a pittance for dog food does not set well with
the blonde free spirit. The last movie by Gable
and Monroe.
The Hustler. Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott give stunning performances but get no awards.
B Movies 1961
Atlantis, the Lost Continent Geroge Pal's worst movie with lots of footage taken from Quo Vadis and the Naked Jungle.
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