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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)

Top Grossing Films of the Year

North America

1. Ben Hur
2. Can Can
3. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
4. Operation Petticoat
5. Suddenly, Last Summer
6. The Apartment
7. Solomon and Sheba
8. On the Beach

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists
• Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
• Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8

Births

• January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
• January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor
• January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
• January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
• May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
• October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• December 3 - Daryl Hannah,actress
• December 3 - Julianne Moore,actress

Deaths

• January 20 - Matt Moore, actor
• November 5 - Mack Sennett, pioneer producer/director
• November 16 - Clark Gable, actor

Other Movies Released

• The Apartment
• Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis.
• Exodus
• The Alamo, starring John Wayne
• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley
• Macumba Love
• Devi
• Swiss Family Robinson (Walt Disney)
• Peeping Tom
• À bout de souffle
• Butterfield 8
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• The Magnificent Seven
• 13 Ghosts with ghosts that only appeared when viewed through red glasses
• La Dolce Vita Palme d'Or winner
• Pollyanna, produced by Walt Disney, starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman
• La Passage du Rhine, Golden Lion winner
• The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman
• The Young One
• L'Avventura
• The White Horse Inn
• The World of Apu
• Elmer Gantry
• Inherit the Wind