1961 in film

Events

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
2. El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
3. The Last Time I Saw Archie
4. Teen Kanya
5. Posto, Il

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

Births

• 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

Deaths

• February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
• October 11 - Chico Marx, member of the Marx Brothers

Other Movies Released

• West Side Story
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
• Fanny

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