1964 in film

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The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1964 5 Short Film Series 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Film Debuts

[edit] Events

• January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released.
• March 6 - Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins is released to theaters.
• July 6 - A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.

[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Mary Poppins*	Disney	Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke	$45,000,000
2.	My Fair Lady*	Warner Brothers	Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison	$34,000,000
3.	Goldfinger	United Artists	Sean Connery, Gert Frobe and Honor Blackman	$22,998,000
4.	The Carpetbaggers	Paramount	George Peppard and Carroll Baker	$15,500,000
5.	From Russia With Love	United Artists	Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi	$9,924,000
6.	Viva Las Vegas	MGM	Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret	$9,442,967
7.	A Shot in the Dark	United Artists	Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer	$6,748,000
8.	A Hard Day's Night	United Artists	The Beatles	$6,165,000
9.	The Night of the Iguana	MGM	Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr	$6,040,000
10.	The Pink Panther	United Artists	Peter Sellers, David Niven and Robert Wagner	$5,935,000
11.	Father Goose	Universal	Cary Grant and Leslie Caron	$6,200,000
12.	Sex and the Single Girl	Warner Brothers	Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis	$6,200,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady - Warner Bros.

Best Director: George Cukor - My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Topkapi

Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek

Best Foreign Language Film: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Becket

Best Actor: Peter O'Toole - Becket

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

Other

Best Director: George Cukor - My Fair Lady

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), directed by Ismail Metin, Turkey

[edit] Films released in 1964

#

• 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt, starring Mamie Van Doren and Tommy Noonan
• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
• 633 Squadron

A

• The Americanization of Emily
• At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

B

• Band of Outsiders (Bande à part), directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• The Beauty Jungle
• Becket, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton
• Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones
• Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Best Man, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson
• Black Like Me
• Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava

C

• The Carpetbaggers
• Carry On Cleo
• Carry On Spying
• The Chalk Garden
• Cheyenne Autumn, starring Carroll Baker
• Children of the Damned
• Circus World, starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth
• Crooks in Cloisters, starring Barbara Windsor

D

• Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d'une femme de chambre), directed by Luis Bunuel, starring Jeanne Moreau
• The Disorderly Orderly, starring Jerry Lewis
• Dog Eat Dog, starring Jayne Mansfield
• Dogora
• Dosti
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers

E

• Ensign Pulver

F

• Face of the Screaming Werewolf
• Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau
• The Fall of the Roman Empire
• Fate Is the Hunter
• Father Goose
• A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood - (Italy release)
• The Flesh Eaters
• From Russia with Love (U.S. release)

G

• Gertrude, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
• Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham
• Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery with Honor Blackman and Gert Frobe
• Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il Vangelo secondo Matteo), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Guns at Batasi

H

• Hamlet (aka Richard Burton's Hamlet)
• Hamlet (Russian adaptation)
• A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles
• Hey There It's Yogi Bear
• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland

I

• I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts
• Invitation to a Gunfighter

J

• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

K

• The Killers. A remake of the 1946 film. directed by Don Seigel, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and John Cassavetes
• King and Country, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay
• Kiss Me, Stupid
• Kissin' Cousins, starring Elvis Presley
• Kitten with a Whip, starring Ann-Margret and John Forsythe

L

• The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Rita Tushingham
• Lemonade Joe (Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera)
• Lilith
• The Lonely Wife (চারুলতা), directed by Satyajit Ray

M

• Man's Favourite Sport
• Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery
• Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'italiana), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
• A Married Woman (Une femme mariée), directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke - winner of 5 Academy Awards
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills
• Mothra vs. Godzilla
• My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison - winner of 8 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and BAFTA for best film

N

• The Naked Kiss, directed by Samuel Fuller
• The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon
• Nothing But a Man
• Nothing But the Best

O

• One Potato, Two Potato
• Onibaba (Demon Woman)
• The Outrage, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom

P

• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve - winner of Palme d'Or
• Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn with cameos by Tony Curtis and Marlene Dietrich
• The Patsy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
• The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger
• The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and David Niven
• The Pumpkin Eater, starring Anne Bancroft

R

• A Ravishing Idiot, starring Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins
• Red Desert (Il deserto rosso), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris
• Rhythm and Greens, starring The Shadows (Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett and John Rostill)
• Ring of Spies
• Robin and the 7 Hoods, starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
• Robinson Crusoe on Mars
• Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

S

• Séance on a Wet Afternoon, starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough
• Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata)
• Send Me No Flowers
• Seven Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
• Seven Up!
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv)
• Shehar Aur Sapna (Indian)
• A Shot in the Dark, starring Peter Sellers
• The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce), directed by Francois Truffaut, starring Francoise Dorleac
• Strait-Jacket, starring Joan Crawford

T

• That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio)
• The Thin Red Line
• The Three Lives of Thomasina, starring Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber
• Topkapi, starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov
• The Train

U

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds

V

• The Visit
• Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret

W

• Welcome, or No Trespassing, starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
• What a Way to Go!
• Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna)
• Woman of Straw
• Wonderful Life, starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows

Y

• The Yellow Rolls-Royce
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani), directed by Vittorio de Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Your Cheatin' Heart (film), a biopic of Hank Williams

Z

• Zorba the Greek, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates
• Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine and Jack Hawkins

[edit] Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Nicolas Cage, actor/producer/director
• January 13 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress
• January 18 - Jane Horrocks, actress
• January 27 - Bridget Fonda, actress
• February 5 - Laura Linney, actress
• February 15 - Chris Farley, actor (d. 1997)
• February 18 - Matt Dillon, actor
• February 24 - Todd Field, director/actor
• March 9 - Juliette Binoche, actress
• March 17 - Rob Lowe, actor
• April 7 - Russell Crowe, actor
• June 15 - Courteney Cox, actress
• July 26 - Sandra Bullock, actress
• August 2 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress
• September 2 - Keanu Reeves, actor
• December 4 - Marisa Tomei, actress
• December 8 - Teri Hatcher, actress

[edit] Deaths

• January 29 - Alan Ladd, 50, American actor
• February 27 - Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian-born costume designer for American films
• March 23 - Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian actor, later career in American films
• April 18 - Ben Hecht, 70, American playwright and screenwriter
• May 10 - Carol Haney, 39, American dancer, actress
• May 13 - Diana Wynyard, 58, British actress
• August 6 - Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor
• August 12 - Ian Fleming, 56, British author of James Bond novels
• August 28 - Gracie Allen, 69 American actress, comedienne
• September 28 - Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor (The Marx Brothers)
• September 28 - Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer
• October 10 - Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian
• October 15 - Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter
• October 23 - Jo Swerling, 71, American screenwriter
• December 9 - Edith Sitwell, 77, British actress
• December 11 - Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor
• December 14 - William Bendix, 58, American actor

[edit] Film Debuts

• Julie Andrews
• The Beatles
• Karen Dotrice
• Judi Dench
• Matthew Garber
• Gene Hackman
• Donald Sutherland