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The History of American Cinema: 1960

January - June

6/1 -

Jack Cardiff’s Scent of Mystery, the only film to use Smell-o-Vision, is released. [ADD]

16/1 -

The Screen Writers Guild calls for a strike to demand that its members receive a percentage of TV rights for films. [ADD]

18/1 -

Shooting begins on 20^th Century-Fox’s Let’s Make Love.   Yves Montand stars opposite Marilyn Monroe after his role as a tycoon who falls in love with an actress appearing in a satirical play about him was turned down by Rock Hudson, William Holden, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Cary Grant and James Stewart.   Bing Crosby, Marlon Brando and Gene Kelly appear in cameo roles. [ADD]

9/2 -

The first star – dedicated to actress Joanne Woodward – is placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [ADD]

29/2 -

George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights, about a theatrical troupe travelling across the far west, is released.   Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn star. [ADD]

7/3 -

Members of the Screen Actor’s Guild go on strike. [ADD]

5/4 -

Just one year after Gone With the Wind’s record for Academy Awards was beaten by Gigi, MGM’s Ben-Hur wins a staggering eleven statuettes at the 32nd Annual Academy Awards. [MORE]

6/4 -

John Huston’s western The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn and veteran actress Lillian Gish is released. [ADD]

6/4 -

Jane Fonda makes her film debut opposite Anthony Perkins in Joshua Logan’s Tall Story. [ADD]

10/4 -

Blacklisted actors and writers begin to find work in Hollywood again as the 50s hysteria over communist infiltration in the movie industry fades. [ADD]

22/4 -

The strike by the Screen Actors Guild comes to an end after agreements are reached over salaries, benefits and film and television royalties. [ADD]

16/6 -

Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic Psycho, ‘a new – and altogether different screen excitement’ – is released by Paramount.  Made on a low budget for Universal, Hitchcock disposes of his leading lady one-third of the way through the film, and practically relates the entire plot in the film’s trailer.   Anthony Perkins gives a memorable performance as Norman ‘A boy’s best friend is his mother’ Bates, son of the owner of the Bates Motel.   The proviso that nobody is allowed to enter the cinema after the screening has begun marks the beginning of the end for continuous screenings in cinemas. [ADD]

21/6 -

Billy Wilder’s comedy The Apartment, co-written with I. A. L. Diamond is released.   Jack Lemmon once again stars for Wilder as CC Baxter, an unmarried office clerk who is pressured into lending the key to his apartment to his bosses for their extra-marital affairs.   Shirley Maclaine also stars. [ADD]

22/6 -

The Fall of the House of Usher, a departure from low budget black-and-white B-pictures for Roger Corman, and the first of his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, is released.   Vincent Price, Mark Damon and Myrna Fahey star. [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1960