Who were the Top Movie Stars of the 1960s statistically? This page will attempt to answer that question. Our main source of information was our Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) pages that covered movie stars that made movies in the 1960s. So far we have box office grosses on 1,644 movies made between 1960 and 1969. Granted this is far from all the movies made during that time frame….but it does cover most of the major movie releases in that decade.
We have included four lists of information. List one looks at the Top 15 stars by adjusted domestic box office (the Top Star might surprise you). List two looks at the Top 15 stars by highest average rating per movie according to critics and audiences. List three looks at the Top 15 Stars by highest average UMR score per movie. List four shows our entire table of all the stars we looked at while complying these lists.
Top 15 Adjusted Domestic Box Office Leaders 1960 – 1969
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- 1st John Wayne $3,182,500,000
- 2nd Julie Andrews $2,973,600,000
- 3rd Paul Newman $2,788,000,00
- 4th Sean Connery $2,665,000,000
- 5th Richard Burton $2,656,000,000
- 6th Omar Sharif $2,441,600,000
- 7th Roddy McDowall $2,222,000,000
- 8th Dean Martin $2,212,800,000
- 9th Tony Curtis $2,071,000,000
- 10th Jack Lemmon $2,044,900,000
- 11th Rod Steiger $1,994,300,000
- 12th Henry Fonda $1,992,600,000
- 13th George Kennedy $1,980,300,000
- 14th Rod Taylor $1,920,600,000
- 15th Alec Guinness $1,902,000,000
Top 15 Average Critic/Audience Rating Leaders 1960 – 1969 (minimum 8 movies)
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- Laurence Olivier 75.6 % critic and audience voting
- Burt Lancaster 75.1 % critic and audience voting
- Steve McQueen 74.9 % critic and audience voting
- Peter O’Toole 74.3 % critic and audience voting
- Jean Simmons 74.7% critic and audience voting
- Sean Connery 73.2 % critic and audience voting
- Lee Marvin 72.6 % critic and audience voting
- Julie Christie 72.6% critic and audience voting
- Jack Lemmon 71.3 % critic and audience voting
- Alec Guinness 71.3 % critic and audience voting
- Gregory Peck 70.9 % critic and audience voting
- Michael Caine 70.3 % critic and audience voting
- Anthony Quinn 69.9 % critic and audience voting
- Henry Fonda 69.6% critic and audience voting
- Audrey Hepburn 79.9% critic and audience voting
Top 15 Average UMR Score (Box Office, Reviews, Awards) Per Movie 1960-1969 (minimum 8 movies)
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- Peter O’Toole
- Audrey Hepburn
- Jack Lemmon
- John Wayne
- Lee Marvin
- Natalie Wood
- Sean Connery
- Omar Sharif
- Steve McQueen
- Gregory Peck
- Richard Harris
- Paul Newman
- Hayley Mills
- Burt Lancaster
- Sidney Poitier
Top Movie Stars 1960-1969 Main Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by actor or actress
- Sort by movies made between 1960 and 1969
- Sort by total adjusted domestic box office from 1960 to 1969
- Sort by total adjusted worldwide box office from 1960 to 1969
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each performers’ movies earned
- Sort by highest average UMR Score (best combo of box office, reviews & awards)
| Box Office Rank | Thespian | Movies | Adj. Domestic B.O. | Adj Worldwide B.O. | AVG Review % | Oscar Noms / Wins | AVG UMR Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Wayne | 19 | $3,182,500,000 | $4,533,600,000 | 67.1 % | 025 / 07 | 74.30 | |
| Julie Andrews | 7 | $2,973,600,000 | $4,874,900,000 | 74.5 % | 046 / 11 | 87.37 | |
| Paul Newman | 20 | $2,788,000,000 | $3,090,300,000 | 67.3 % | 042 / 12 | 71.15 | |
| Sean Connery | 13 | $2,665,000,000 | $5,787,100,000 | 73.2 % | 006 / 03 | 69.98 | |
| Richard Burton | 20 | $2,656,000,000 | $3,110,200,000 | 63.0 % | 059 / 16 | 68.65 | |
| Omar Sharif | 14 | $2,441,600,000 | $3,363,400,000 | 68.3 % | 029 / 13 | 65.44 | |
| Roddy McDowall | 20 | $2,222,000,000 | $2,770,600,000 | 60.5 % | 025 / 06 | 60.32 | |
| Dean Martin | 24 | $2,212,800,000 | $2,610,700,000 | 56.9 % | 006 / 00 | 61.24 | |
| Tony Curtis | 19 | $2,071,000,000 | $2,071,000,000 | 68.9 % | 015 / 05 | 67.02 | |
| Jack Lemmon | 13 | $2,044,900,000 | $2,072,100,000 | 71.3 % | 029 / 09 | 77.07 | |
| Rod Steiger | 11 | $1,994,300,000 | $2,906,300,000 | 68.7 % | 024 / 12 | 68.75 | |
| Henry Fonda | 18 | $1,992,600,000 | $2,616,900,000 | 69.6 % | 015 / 05 | 66.64 | |
| George Kennedy | 23 | $1,980,300,000 | $1,980,200,000 | 69.5 % | 023 / 02 | 65.05 | |
| Rod Taylor | 18 | $1,920,600,000 | $2,423,000,000 | 65.7 % | 005 / 02 | 60.91 | |
| Alec Guinness | 10 | $1,902,000,000 | $2,813,600,000 | 71.3 % | 023 / 12 | 65.56 | |
| Doris Day | 14 | $1,892,800,000 | $2,016,900,000 | 64.2 % | 006 / 00 | 69.40 | |
| Natalie Wood | 12 | $1,888,800,000 | $1,939,700,000 | 68.6 % | 033 / 12 | 73.83 | |
| Peter O'Toole | 14 | $1,839,600,000 | $2,006,200,000 | 70.3 % | 034 / 11 | 72.05 | |
| Karl Malden | 19 | $1,833,500,000 | $2,660,000,000 | 66.8 % | 018 / 03 | 64.84 | |
| Katharine Ross | 8 | $1,829,600,000 | $2,652,100,000 | 67.8 % | 016 / 05 | 69.45 | |
| Elvis Presley | 27 | $1,814,400,000 | $1,814,600,000 | 55.9 % | 000 / 00 | 56.71 | |
| Sidney Poitier | 16 | $1,784,000,000 | $1,859,200,000 | 69.5 % | 036 / 09 | 69.24 | |
| Walter Matthau | 16 | $1,782,400,000 | $1,796,900,000 | 69.5 % | 015 / 05 | 69.18 | |
| Frank Sinatra | 18 | $1,780,200,000 | $2,061,600,000 | 62.0 % | 008 / 00 | 64.27 | |
| Dick Van Dyke | 11 | $1,771,000,000 | $2,679,500,000 | 63.1 % | 019 / 05 | 67.85 | |
| Gregory Peck | 12 | $1,758,000,000 | $2,365,300,000 | 70.9 % | 029 / 08 | 71.44 | |
| Richard Harris | 12 | $1,744,800,000 | $1,744,500,000 | 69.3 % | 029 / 04 | 68.81 | |
| Steve McQueen | 14 | $1,703,800,000 | $2,081,200,000 | 74.9 % | 021 / 02 | 71.84 | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 11 | $1,691,800,000 | $2,266,300,000 | 53.8 % | 028 / 12 | 65.25 | |
| Anthony Quinn | 20 | $1,676,000,000 | $1,754,300,000 | 69.9 % | 029 / 11 | 62.61 | |
| Eleanor Parker | 8 | $1,676,000,000 | $2,842,000,000 | 60.8 % | 012 / 05 | 60.62 | |
| Rex Harrison | 10 | $1,675,000,000 | $2,137,700,000 | 61.5 % | 036 / 14 | 67.60 | |
| Peter Lawford | 14 | $1,643,600,000 | $1,727,200,000 | 59.3 % | 017 / 03 | 63.40 | |
| Ralph Richardson | 13 | $1,639,300,000 | $2,554,800,000 | 72.2 % | 015 / 06 | 61.78 | |
| Robert Ryan | 14 | $1,632,400,000 | $1,632,600,000 | 68.8 % | 015 / 03 | 66.38 | |
| Robert Mitchum | 21 | $1,608,600,000 | $1,781,700,000 | 63.5 % | 014 / 02 | 60.33 | |
| Telly Savalas | 19 | $1,601,700,000 | $2,091,700,000 | 66.0 % | 015 / 01 | 62.59 | |
| David Niven | 15 | $1,593,000,000 | $1,916,800,000 | 59.2 % | 011 / 01 | 62.12 | |
| Spencer Tracy | 6 | $1,588,200,000 | $2,224,600,000 | 75.2 % | 039 / 08 | 85.46 | |
| Lee Marvin | 12 | $1,575,600,000 | $1,773,400,000 | 72.6 % | 022 / 04 | 73.89 | |
| James Garner | 19 | $1,569,400,000 | $1,587,900,000 | 69.0 % | 011 / 03 | 65.37 | |
| Eli Wallach | 18 | $1,564,200,000 | $2,680,700,000 | 66.4 % | 011 / 03 | 62.42 | |
| Charlton Heston | 13 | $1,539,200,000 | $1,614,000,000 | 68.8 % | 019 / 00 | 67.22 | |
| Christopher Plummer | 10 | $1,537,000,000 | $2,638,500,000 | 64.3 % | 014 / 05 | 57.82 | |
| George Peppard | 15 | $1,521,000,000 | $2,212,500,000 | 66.1 % | 014 / 05 | 63.08 | |
| Martin Balsam | 15 | $1,482,000,000 | $1,719,200,000 | 74.9 % | 015 / 03 | 66.64 | |
| Debbie Reynolds | 12 | $1,477,200,000 | $2,142,200,000 | 66.1 % | 023 / 03 | 68.70 | |
| John Gavin | 10 | $1,437,000,000 | $1,674,100,000 | 72.7 % | 019 / 05 | 68.54 | |
| Jack Albertson | 15 | $1,432,500,000 | $1,460,700,000 | 65.6 % | 009 / 02 | 64.49 | |
| Peter Sellers | 24 | $1,428,000,000 | $1,570,600,000 | 66.8 % | 008 / 00 | 60.45 | |
| Audrey Hepburn | 9 | $1,422,000,000 | $1,421,600,000 | 79.9 % | 025 / 10 | 78.40 | |
| Hayley Mills | 12 | $1,419,600,000 | $1,419,300,000 | 71.8 % | 003 / 00 | 68.42 | |
| Kirk Douglas | 19 | $1,417,400,000 | $1,598,000,000 | 68.1 % | 012 / 04 | 61.89 | |
| Brian Keith | 18 | $1,414,800,000 | $1,414,100,000 | 59.9 % | 011 / 00 | 59.29 | |
| James Stewart | 13 | $1,404,000,000 | $2,262,000,000 | 64.4 % | 013 / 03 | 65.36 | |
| Julie Christie | 9 | $1,384,200,000 | $2,296,700,000 | 72.6 % | 016 / 08 | 63.61 | |
| William Demarest | 6 | $1,369,800,000 | $1,428,100,000 | 69.4 % | 013 / 01 | 78.09 | |
| Rock Hudson | 15 | $1,368,000,000 | $1,367,700,000 | 64.5 % | 006 / 00 | 62.68 | |
| Shirley MacLaine | 15 | $1,363,500,000 | $1,478,900,000 | 62.2 % | 031 / 06 | 64.91 | |
| George Sanders | 11 | $1,362,900,000 | $1,430,100,000 | 63.6 % | 002 / 00 | 61.25 | |
| Edmond O'Brien | 15 | $1,345,500,000 | $1,503,600,000 | 71.6 % | 020 / 04 | 66.29 | |
| Charles Bronson | 17 | $1,343,000,000 | $1,887,400,000 | 65.6 % | 007 / 02 | 60.71 | |
| Fred MacMurray | 7 | $1,337,700,000 | $1,377,500,000 | 66.3 % | 017 / 05 | 76.49 | |
| Lee J. Cobb | 8 | $1,337,600,000 | $2,031,300,000 | 68.2 % | 012 / 04 | 72.57 | |
| Arthur Kennedy | 17 | $1,336,200,000 | $1,467,800,000 | 65.1 % | 022 / 12 | 61.19 | |
| James Coburn | 18 | $1,312,200,000 | $1,689,100,000 | 69.5 % | 005 / 00 | 63.42 | |
| Laurence Harvey | 21 | $1,262,100,000 | $1,683,200,000 | 61.5 % | 021 / 06 | 57.61 | |
| Jerry Lewis | 17 | $1,252,900,000 | $1,252,500,000 | 61.0 % | 001 / 00 | 60.18 | |
| Dustin Hoffman | 5 | $1,244,000,000 | $1,921,600,000 | 62.8 % | 014 / 04 | 68.29 | |
| Robert Duvall | 8 | $1,237,600,000 | $1,237,300,000 | 74.8 % | 015 / 05 | 73.93 | |
| Elsa Lanchester | 8 | $1,235,200,000 | $2,038,500,000 | 61.2 % | 013 / 05 | 62.13 | |
| Carroll Baker | 11 | $1,234,200,000 | $2,048,100,000 | 61.5 % | 014 / 03 | 61.46 | |
| Richard Widmark | 13 | $1,231,100,000 | $2,270,100,000 | 65.4 % | 027 / 06 | 63.09 | |
| Burt Lancaster | 16 | $1,230,400,000 | $1,393,000,000 | 75.1 % | 027 / 05 | 69.17 | |
| Jane Fonda | 17 | $1,220,600,000 | $1,240,800,000 | 64.1 % | 017 / 02 | 62.05 | |
| Dean Jones | 9 | $1,210,500,000 | $1,210,100,000 | 66.6 % | 000 / 00 | 68.38 | |
| Peter Falk | 15 | $1,189,500,000 | $1,268,900,000 | 60.5 % | 017 / 02 | 58.43 | |
| Janet Leigh | 11 | $1,174,800,000 | $1,522,100,000 | 68.6 % | 016 / 00 | 65.24 | |
| Dennis Hopper | 11 | $1,159,400,000 | $1,176,700,000 | 72.2 % | 008 / 02 | 65.64 | |
| Sophia Loren | 16 | $1,123,200,000 | $1,123,000,000 | 62.4 % | 008 / 01 | 59.25 | |
| George Segal | 15 | $1,110,000,000 | $1,187,900,000 | 64.8 % | 028 / 09 | 61.63 | |
| Trevor Howard | 16 | $1,100,800,000 | $1,100,500,000 | 65.8 % | 020 / 02 | 60.53 | |
| Marlon Brando | 13 | $1,099,800,000 | $1,099,700,000 | 65.2 % | 010 / 00 | 62.59 | |
| Thelma Ritter | 10 | $1,096,000,000 | $1,747,400,000 | 70.4 % | 014 / 03 | 67.80 | |
| Robert Redford | 9 | $1,085,400,000 | $1,229,800,000 | 67.8 % | 011 / 04 | 63.54 | |
| José Ferrer | 7 | $1,075,900,000 | $1,150,900,000 | 67.5 % | 023 / 09 | 70.59 | |
| Red Buttons | 10 | $1,069,000,000 | $1,069,000,000 | 64.5 % | 015 / 03 | 64.12 | |
| Shelley Winters | 14 | $1,069,600,000 | $1,120,700,000 | 66.8 % | 015 / 01 | 64.54 | |
| Vera Miles | 13 | $1,058,200,000 | $1,415,800,000 | 66.2 % | 006 / 00 | 60.15 | |
| Bruce Dern | 15 | $1,051,500,000 | $1,138,500,000 | 68.8 % | 016 / 01 | 63.67 | |
| Jeffrey Hunter | 21 | $1,043,700,000 | $1,059,700,000 | 58.9 % | 005 / 02 | 53.46 | |
| Sal Mineo | 8 | $1,026,400,000 | $1,232,600,000 | 58.8 % | 015 / 03 | 63.73 | |
| Michael J. Pollard | 9 | $1,024,200,000 | $1,024,000,000 | 67.9 % | 015 / 02 | 66.99 | |
| Frankie Avalon | 22 | $996,600,000 | $1,296,900,000 | 49.7 % | 007 / 01 | 49.36 | |
| Eva Marie Saint | 7 | $994,000,000 | $994,300,000 | 63.7 % | 011 / 05 | 71.29 | |
| Deborah Kerr | 12 | $991,200,000 | $1,176,100,000 | 63.0 % | 011 / 01 | 63.25 | |
| Ann-Margret | 13 | $986,700,000 | $986,900,000 | 61.0 % | 006 / 00 | 60.19 | |
| Robert Wagner | 11 | $981,200,000 | $1,065,600,000 | 61.4 % | 007 / 02 | 60.78 | |
| Peter Ustinov | 11 | $979,000,000 | $979,200,000 | 67.3 % | 014 / 05 | 64.35 | |
| Gene Hackman | 11 | $979,000,000 | $979,100,000 | 64.4 % | 021 / 03 | 60.08 | |
| Don Knotts | 9 | $969,300,000 | $969,600,000 | 67.4 % | 006 / 01 | 63.70 | |
| Robert Morley | 23 | $961,400,000 | $1,011,400,000 | 60.9 % | 003 / 01 | 54.19 | |
| Edward G. Robinson | 12 | $937,200,000 | $1,179,100,000 | 61.6 % | 010 / 00 | 61.07 | |
| Anne Bancroft | 5 | $935,500,000 | $1,613,000,000 | 78.0 % | 015 / 03 | 73.28 | |
| Clint Eastwood | 7 | $935,200,000 | $935,400,000 | 77.2 % | 001 / 00 | 75.94 | |
| Dorothy McGuire | 5 | $932,500,000 | $1,007,200,000 | 69.4 % | 006 / 00 | 72.18 | |
| James Mason | 20 | $932,000,000 | $931,100,000 | 61.1 % | 007 / 00 | 56.34 | |
| William Holden | 11 | $928,400,000 | $1,071,000,000 | 59.8 % | 003 / 00 | 60.79 | |
| Martin Landau | 4 | $923,200,000 | $1,451,900,000 | 57.8 % | 014 / 04 | 69.82 | |
| Ernest Borgnine | 12 | $920,400,000 | $920,400,000 | 66.0 % | 012 / 01 | 60.74 | |
| Jean Simmons | 9 | $904,500,000 | $904,700,000 | 73.7 % | 014 / 07 | 68.30 | |
| Cliff Robertson | 15 | $903,000,000 | $938,400,000 | 64.4 % | 002 / 01 | 60.49 | |
| Yvette Mimieux | 16 | $900,800,000 | $1,050,300,000 | 59.0 % | 006 / 02 | 56.56 | |
| Harry Morgan | 10 | $890,000,000 | $1,620,800,000 | 62.4 % | 014 / 03 | 60.81 | |
| Ray Walston | 9 | $882,000,000 | $882,400,000 | 60.6 % | 012 / 05 | 63.65 | |
| Shirley Jones | 9 | $872,100,000 | $930,200,000 | 66.7 % | 020 / 04 | 67.34 | |
| Agnes Moorehead | 8 | $865,600,000 | $1,472,700,000 | 65.0 % | 016 / 03 | 64.80 | |
| John Cassavetes | 10 | $865,000,000 | $864,700,000 | 75.4 % | 009 / 02 | 64.06 | |
| Maureen O'Hara | 7 | $863,800,000 | $864,000,000 | 68.8 % | 002 / 00 | 68.16 | |
| George Cukor | 5 | $859,500,000 | $859,500,000 | 58.8 % | 013 / 08 | 67.96 | |
| Tony Randall | 12 | $858,000,000 | $887,800,000 | 63.0 % | 003 / 00 | 58.54 | |
| Angie Dickinson | 16 | $856,000,000 | $899,800,000 | 61.1 % | 003 / 00 | 56.03 | |
| Cary Grant | 5 | $855,500,000 | $855,700,000 | 76.5 % | 007 / 01 | 81.14 | |
| Lee Grant | 9 | $846,900,000 | $847,000,000 | 60.9 % | 013 / 06 | 62.11 | |
| George C. Scott | 8 | $829,600,000 | $838,600,000 | 75.6 % | 014 / 02 | 70.08 | |
| Mickey Rooney | 12 | $826,800,000 | $831,900,000 | 55.3 % | 011 / 03 | 52.82 | |
| Carol Lynley | 13 | $819,000,000 | $818,700,000 | 60.7 % | 008 / 00 | 57.94 | |
| Charles Boyer | 10 | $815,000,000 | $1,173,500,000 | 62.7 % | 009 / 00 | 63.62 | |
| Annette Funicello | 13 | $804,700,000 | $805,300,000 | 51.2 % | 002 / 00 | 53.83 | |
| Jacqueline Bisset | 9 | $796,500,000 | $939,900,000 | 61.7 % | 004 / 01 | 58.93 | |
| Claude Rains | 4 | $789,200,000 | $864,000,000 | 64.0 % | 017 / 07 | 70.79 | |
| Peter Fonda | 8 | $779,200,000 | $778,800,000 | 66.8 % | 002 / 00 | 63.51 | |
| Robert Preston | 5 | $778,500,000 | $1,386,000,000 | 68.6 % | 015 / 04 | 69.30 | |
| Cloris Leachman | 2 | $763,800,000 | $908,600,000 | 66.2 % | 007 / 04 | 78.81 | |
| Burgess Meredith | 12 | $758,400,000 | $775,600,000 | 62.5 % | 009 / 00 | 59.46 | |
| Sandra Dee | 12 | $757,200,000 | $756,800,000 | 63.3 % | 000 / 00 | 59.07 | |
| Harry Dean Stanton | 8 | $746,400,000 | $1,383,900,000 | 61.2 % | 012 / 04 | 58.86 | |
| Walter Brennan | 5 | $734,500,000 | $1,341,900,000 | 67.7 % | 008 / 03 | 68.73 | |
| Faye Dunaway | 7 | $730,100,000 | $730,400,000 | 59.5 % | 012 / 03 | 60.11 | |
| Angela Lansbury | 12 | $720,000,000 | $795,000,000 | 64.0 % | 009 / 00 | 59.59 | |
| Warren Beatty | 8 | $716,800,000 | $752,400,000 | 66.8 % | 013 / 03 | 62.09 | |
| Orson Welles | 17 | $715,700,000 | $899,700,000 | 62.1 % | 013 / 07 | 56.25 | |
| Ava Gardner | 6 | $714,600,000 | $734,200,000 | 65.1 % | 009 / 01 | 67.00 | |
| Robert Shaw | 8 | $711,200,000 | $1,291,200,000 | 70.8 % | 008 / 06 | 65.66 | |
| Jack Benny | 3 | $708,000,000 | $708,000,000 | 67.0 % | 006 / 01 | 74.45 | |
| Robert Cummings | 6 | $704,400,000 | $809,800,000 | 55.5 % | 003 / 00 | 60.61 | |
| Susan Hayward | 8 | $703,200,000 | $703,000,000 | 57.2 % | 003 / 00 | 57.23 | |
| Jim Brown | 8 | $698,400,000 | $698,500,000 | 61.4 % | 006 / 01 | 59.37 | |
| Royal Dano | 11 | $691,900,000 | $816,600,000 | 61.6 % | 003 / 00 | 57.67 | |
| Richard Crenna | 7 | $686,700,000 | $690,300,000 | 66.5 % | 019 / 01 | 65.41 | |
| Ben Johnson | 10 | $681,000,000 | $812,300,000 | 65.8 % | 004 / 00 | 61.80 | |
| Yul Brynner | 19 | $680,200,000 | $1,057,500,000 | 58.2 % | 006 / 00 | 52.59 | |
| Kim Novak | 9 | $679,500,000 | $738,100,000 | 59.5 % | 007 / 00 | 60.12 | |
| Joanne Woodward | 10 | $680,000,000 | $734,600,000 | 60.3 % | 008 / 00 | 60.56 | |
| Gene Kelly | 6 | $667,800,000 | $802,600,000 | 69.5 % | 015 / 03 | 69.82 | |
| John Saxon | 10 | $666,000,000 | $666,100,000 | 60.7 % | 006 / 00 | 59.07 | |
| Lee Remick | 12 | $662,400,000 | $689,800,000 | 67.7 % | 005 / 01 | 60.77 | |
| Bob Hope | 11 | $660,000,000 | $659,800,000 | 53.2 % | 005 / 01 | 54.74 | |
| Richard Attenborough | 12 | $656,400,000 | $687,500,000 | 69.4 % | 021 / 02 | 60.06 | |
| Glenn Ford | 18 | $655,200,000 | $877,100,000 | 63.1 % | 009 / 00 | 55.55 | |
| Barbra Streisand | 2 | $642,800,000 | $642,700,000 | 79.6 % | 015 / 04 | 99.48 | |
| Laurence Olivier | 10 | $642,000,000 | $674,900,000 | 75.6 % | 014 / 04 | 63.88 | |
| Gig Young | 8 | $636,800,000 | $637,000,000 | 64.2 % | 012 / 01 | 61.91 | |
| Katharine Hepburn | 4 | $632,400,000 | $632,400,000 | 72.7 % | 018 / 05 | 80.27 | |
| Vincent Price | 18 | $628,200,000 | $628,600,000 | 62.7 % | 000 / 00 | 54.80 | |
| Rita Moreno | 6 | $624,600,000 | $624,500,000 | 67.5 % | 011 / 10 | 62.40 | |
| Anthony Perkins | 8 | $618,400,000 | $856,100,000 | 74.5 % | 005 / 00 | 62.86 | |
| Mel Ferrer | 9 | $618,300,000 | $624,800,000 | 62.8 % | 006 / 02 | 58.03 | |
| Michael Caine | 13 | $613,600,000 | $613,700,000 | 70.3 % | 008 / 00 | 60.56 | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 10 | $612,000,000 | $611,500,000 | 71.9 % | 018 / 09 | 64.69 | |
| Tuesday Weld | 12 | $609,600,000 | $609,900,000 | 60.2 % | 001 / 00 | 55.04 | |
| Louis Jourdan | 5 | $607,000,000 | $607,100,000 | 58.9 % | 006 / 02 | 65.15 | |
| Walter Pidgeon | 6 | $604,800,000 | $604,600,000 | 69.7 % | 008 / 01 | 64.53 | |
| Dean Jagger | 9 | $594,900,000 | $728,800,000 | 63.0 % | 006 / 03 | 60.70 | |
| Alain Delon | 25 | $592,500,000 | $1,584,100,000 | 67.7 % | 003 / 00 | 55.00 | |
| Albert Finney | 7 | $589,400,000 | $589,100,000 | 70.3 % | 012 / 04 | 63.56 | |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | 10 | $589,000,000 | $594,700,000 | 60.0 % | 004 / 02 | 54.99 | |
| Scatman Crothers | 8 | $584,000,000 | $616,700,000 | 56.8 % | 007 / 03 | 57.42 | |
| George Raft | 6 | $573,000,000 | $715,900,000 | 51.9 % | 001 / 00 | 59.33 | |
| Ethel Merman | 2 | $571,200,000 | $571,100,000 | 71.5 % | 006 / 01 | 77.46 | |
| Max Von Sydow | 5 | $567,000,000 | $661,500,000 | 57.7 % | 014 / 01 | 63.09 | |
| Warren Oates | 13 | $560,300,000 | $560,500,000 | 65.9 % | 011 / 05 | 58.56 | |
| The Beatles | 8 | $554,400,000 | $554,500,000 | 72.1 % | 003 / 01 | 64.94 | |
| Jason Robards | 13 | $551,200,000 | $568,600,000 | 70.1 % | 007 / 01 | 59.59 | |
| Sylvia Miles | 4 | $545,600,000 | $608,800,000 | 71.1 % | 007 / 03 | 69.54 | |
| Ed Begley | 10 | $543,000,000 | $563,000,000 | 61.4 % | 012 / 01 | 57.77 | |
| Jack Nicholson | 8 | $540,800,000 | $554,800,000 | 64.7 % | 002 / 00 | 58.19 | |
| Sandy Dennis | 7 | $530,600,000 | $530,600,000 | 72.8 % | 015 / 06 | 67.60 | |
| Charles Laughton | 3 | $525,900,000 | $525,800,000 | 83.0 % | 006 / 04 | 76.22 | |
| Bette Davis | 8 | $523,200,000 | $603,200,000 | 70.3 % | 016 / 01 | 65.31 | |
| Rip Torn | 6 | $520,200,000 | $520,300,000 | 69.5 % | 005 / 01 | 64.01 | |
| Ralph Bellamy | 3 | $517,800,000 | $517,900,000 | 82.9 % | 009 / 01 | 81.73 | |
| Peter Finch | 17 | $513,400,000 | $545,500,000 | 61.6 % | 004 / 00 | 53.31 | |
| Joe E. Brown | 2 | $503,200,000 | $503,100,000 | 74.3 % | 006 / 01 | 73.49 | |
| Leo G. Carroll | 5 | $501,000,000 | $500,900,000 | 67.5 % | 002 / 00 | 62.31 | |
| Pat Boone | 9 | $500,400,000 | $575,700,000 | 57.4 % | 005 / 00 | 55.54 | |
| Dana Andrews | 13 | $497,900,000 | $497,500,000 | 57.9 % | 001 / 00 | 52.98 | |
| Lucille Ball | 4 | $492,400,000 | $492,200,000 | 60.5 % | 005 / 01 | 67.12 | |
| Donald Sutherland | 6 | $492,000,000 | $491,800,000 | 69.6 % | 004 / 01 | 60.87 | |
| Alan Ladd | 6 | $489,600,000 | $489,600,000 | 54.9 % | 000 / 00 | 54.53 | |
| Kurt Russell | 7 | $489,300,000 | $489,600,000 | 58.5 % | 000 / 00 | 58.63 | |
| Alan Bates | 12 | $482,400,000 | $482,100,000 | 74.0 % | 018 / 04 | 62.43 | |
| Gene Wilder | 2 | $479,600,000 | $479,600,000 | 87.7 % | 012 / 03 | 87.61 | |
| Oliver Reed | 14 | $473,200,000 | $473,100,000 | 66.4 % | 015 / 06 | 55.73 | |
| Raquel Welch | 14 | $473,200,000 | $472,700,000 | 55.4 % | 006 / 02 | 51.72 | |
| Mia Farrow | 5 | $468,000,000 | $498,600,000 | 68.4 % | 002 / 01 | 62.41 | |
| Paul Lukas | 6 | $465,600,000 | $552,300,000 | 60.0 % | 002 / 00 | 60.36 | |
| Rosalind Russell | 7 | $460,600,000 | $472,800,000 | 67.1 % | 004 / 00 | 62.22 | |
| Patricia Neal | 5 | $447,000,000 | $447,000,000 | 75.6 % | 015 / 06 | 73.57 | |
| Gina Lollobrigida | 7 | $446,600,000 | $446,300,000 | 61.1 % | 000 / 00 | 57.82 | |
| Leslie Caron | 8 | $444,800,000 | $610,700,000 | 66.5 % | 011 / 01 | 60.92 | |
| Lee Van Cleef | 4 | $443,200,000 | $563,000,000 | 86.3 % | 001 / 00 | 75.93 | |
| Alan Arkin | 7 | $442,400,000 | $442,400,000 | 68.2 % | 007 / 00 | 62.43 | |
| Jean-Paul Belmondo | 30 | $435,000,000 | $1,703,000,000 | 66.8 % | 005 / 01 | 53.55 | |
| Lew Ayres | 2 | $421,200,000 | $421,100,000 | 70.5 % | 000 / 00 | 74.03 | |
| Woody Allen | 3 | $420,300,000 | $563,500,000 | 57.3 % | 002 / 00 | 68.15 | |
| Myrna Loy | 3 | $419,700,000 | $419,800,000 | 62.8 % | 001 / 00 | 71.36 | |
| Jean Seberg | 15 | $417,000,000 | $553,100,000 | 59.9 % | 001 / 00 | 51.77 | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 4 | $416,400,000 | $425,400,000 | 69.3 % | 002 / 01 | 68.83 | |
| Troy Donahue | 9 | $410,400,000 | $473,400,000 | 59.3 % | 000 / 00 | 54.91 | |
| Ruth Gordon | 4 | $405,600,000 | $405,700,000 | 73.1 % | 005 / 01 | 69.20 | |
| Dirk Bogarde | 18 | $401,400,000 | $420,600,000 | 67.2 % | 008 / 04 | 55.19 | |
| Jon Voight | 3 | $397,200,000 | $397,200,000 | 74.7 % | 007 / 03 | 68.86 | |
| Van Johnson | 5 | $393,000,000 | $405,200,000 | 57.6 % | 002 / 00 | 58.59 | |
| Greer Garson | 4 | $391,600,000 | $489,500,000 | 63.8 % | 013 / 00 | 67.55 | |
| Lana Turner | 7 | $389,200,000 | $389,000,000 | 54.5 % | 000 / 00 | 54.24 | |
| Bing Crosby | 4 | $387,600,000 | $466,400,000 | 55.6 % | 003 / 00 | 61.24 | |
| Don Rickles | 8 | $386,400,000 | $386,300,000 | 53.5 % | 000 / 00 | 52.47 | |
| Melvyn Douglas | 6 | $384,600,000 | $384,300,000 | 68.8 % | 010 / 03 | 64.83 | |
| Montgomery Clift | 5 | $379,000,000 | $423,000,000 | 74.5 % | 013 / 02 | 69.22 | |
| Peter Lorre | 8 | $376,800,000 | $377,100,000 | 63.5 % | 000 / 00 | 56.73 | |
| Van Heflin | 8 | $376,000,000 | $451,000,000 | 56.6 % | 005 / 00 | 53.69 | |
| Candice Bergen | 5 | $372,000,000 | $372,100,000 | 64.9 % | 009 / 00 | 59.99 | |
| Ron Howard | 4 | $364,800,000 | $364,600,000 | 55.9 % | 006 / 01 | 58.86 | |
| Mary Tyler Moore | 5 | $354,000,000 | $353,900,000 | 56.4 % | 007 / 01 | 55.46 | |
| Aldo Ray | 10 | $353,000,000 | $535,400,000 | 54.5 % | 000 / 00 | 51.64 | |
| Jack Palance | 5 | $350,000,000 | $366,900,000 | 68.2 % | 003 / 00 | 63.69 | |
| Wendy Hiller | 3 | $348,300,000 | $348,200,000 | 69.8 % | 016 / 07 | 74.94 | |
| Lillian Gish | 4 | $339,600,000 | $339,500,000 | 60.4 % | 000 / 00 | 61.53 | |
| Elliott Gould | 2 | $327,200,000 | $327,200,000 | 63.5 % | 004 / 00 | 73.02 | |
| Scott Wilson | 4 | $321,600,000 | $321,700,000 | 70.3 % | 007 / 05 | 68.17 | |
| Fred Astaire | 4 | $316,800,000 | $388,100,000 | 61.6 % | 002 / 00 | 62.07 | |
| Fredric March | 5 | $307,500,000 | $336,700,000 | 78.9 % | 006 / 00 | 67.29 | |
| Shirley Knight | 8 | $307,200,000 | $306,800,000 | 69.1 % | 004 / 01 | 59.18 | |
| Dyan Cannon | 3 | $306,300,000 | $306,400,000 | 67.3 % | 005 / 00 | 65.30 | |
| Herbert Marshall | 7 | $303,100,000 | $313,600,000 | 57.1 % | 002 / 00 | 53.15 | |
| Joseph Cotten | 7 | $294,700,000 | $314,200,000 | 59.7 % | 009 / 00 | 55.78 | |
| Geraldine Page | 8 | $294,400,000 | $333,900,000 | 66.8 % | 007 / 01 | 59.54 | |
| Brigitte Bardot | 13 | $292,500,000 | $484,000,000 | 59.4 % | 001 / 00 | 51.91 | |
| Maggie Smith | 8 | $289,600,000 | $289,400,000 | 70.1 % | 009 / 02 | 60.75 | |
| Charles Bickford | 4 | $288,400,000 | $333,800,000 | 66.0 % | 005 / 01 | 62.99 | |
| Boris Karloff | 9 | $288,000,000 | $288,200,000 | 59.6 % | 000 / 00 | 52.94 | |
| Jack Warden | 6 | $284,400,000 | $363,000,000 | 63.3 % | 000 / 00 | 57.13 | |
| Jane Russell | 4 | $282,000,000 | $281,900,000 | 59.3 % | 001 / 00 | 58.87 | |
| Joan Crawford | 6 | $281,400,000 | $336,100,000 | 56.4 % | 006 / 01 | 54.27 | |
| Mary Astor | 3 | $279,000,000 | $279,000,000 | 65.7 % | 007 / 00 | 66.22 | |
| John Gielgud | 9 | $278,100,000 | $278,100,000 | 71.4 % | 014 / 01 | 59.13 | |
| James Caan | 9 | $276,300,000 | $276,300,000 | 56.3 % | 000 / 00 | 51.30 | |
| Burl Ives | 7 | $273,700,000 | $287,700,000 | 61.0 % | 000 / 00 | 54.40 | |
| Terence Stamp | 8 | $272,000,000 | $304,800,000 | 70.5 % | 005 / 00 | 58.71 | |
| Edward Asner | 6 | $262,800,000 | $262,900,000 | 61.0 % | 002 / 00 | 55.23 | |
| Goldie Hawn | 2 | $262,000,000 | $261,900,000 | 69.8 % | 001 / 01 | 76.27 | |
| Donald Crisp | 4 | $258,000,000 | $258,100,000 | 74.6 % | 000 / 00 | 64.85 | |
| Marilyn Monroe | 2 | $254,000,000 | $297,900,000 | 74.0 % | 001 / 00 | 74.99 | |
| Lauren Bacall | 3 | $250,200,000 | $301,900,000 | 68.0 % | 000 / 00 | 64.89 | |
| Jane Wyman | 3 | $248,400,000 | $248,400,000 | 61.0 % | 002 / 00 | 61.77 | |
| Michael Redgrave | 10 | $246,000,000 | $245,500,000 | 73.6 % | 002 / 00 | 57.37 | |
| Jeff Chandler | 4 | $238,800,000 | $238,800,000 | 62.8 % | 000 / 00 | 58.73 | |
| Gena Rowlands | 6 | $237,000,000 | $237,000,000 | 71.2 % | 003 / 00 | 60.89 | |
| Art Carney | 2 | $233,800,000 | $243,000,000 | 62.0 % | 000 / 00 | 67.27 | |
| Audie Murphy | 8 | $232,000,000 | $231,900,000 | 57.7 % | 000 / 00 | 51.89 | |
| Tab Hunter | 5 | $231,500,000 | $231,600,000 | 59.0 % | 000 / 00 | 53.18 | |
| Joel Grey | 1 | $228,600,000 | $228,600,000 | 74.5 % | 000 / 00 | 86.00 | |
| Jayne Mansfield | 9 | $224,100,000 | $224,300,000 | 52.6 % | 000 / 00 | 48.57 | |
| Clark Gable | 2 | $223,800,000 | $267,700,000 | 73.6 % | 001 / 00 | 71.24 | |
| Joan Blondell | 7 | $222,600,000 | $222,500,000 | 57.6 % | 000 / 00 | 50.64 | |
| Paul Henreid | 5 | $222,000,000 | $333,600,000 | 60.7 % | 000 / 00 | 55.42 | |
| Judy Garland | 4 | $222,000,000 | $221,800,000 | 76.8 % | 011 / 02 | 68.13 | |
| Yvonne De Carlo | 6 | $220,800,000 | $221,000,000 | 59.7 % | 000 / 00 | 52.66 | |
| Christopher Lee | 17 | $221,000,000 | $220,900,000 | 58.6 % | 000 / 00 | 49.46 | |
| Claire Trevor | 4 | $219,200,000 | $271,200,000 | 63.1 % | 001 / 00 | 58.24 | |
| Cyd Charisse | 5 | $218,000,000 | $270,200,000 | 58.1 % | 000 / 00 | 54.06 | |
| Barbara Stanwyck | 3 | $217,500,000 | $217,600,000 | 60.3 % | 001 / 00 | 59.75 | |
| William Bendix | 6 | $215,400,000 | $215,600,000 | 60.6 % | 000 / 00 | 54.17 | |
| Dan Dailey | 2 | $214,200,000 | $272,400,000 | 55.5 % | 007 / 00 | 64.04 | |
| Red Skelton | 1 | $213,100,000 | $213,100,000 | 57.0 % | 000 / 00 | 77.8 | |
| Dorothy Lamour | 3 | $207,600,000 | $286,300,000 | 51.6 % | 000 / 00 | 53.76 | |
| Anne Baxter | 4 | $207,200,000 | $301,500,000 | 57.6 % | 003 / 00 | 54.40 | |
| Dorothy Malone | 3 | $204,900,000 | $242,700,000 | 61.8 % | 001 / 00 | 59.79 | |
| Anthony Hopkins | 2 | $204,400,000 | $204,300,000 | 79.6 % | 007 / 03 | 76.33 | |
| Ali MacGraw | 1 | $192,500,000 | $192,500,000 | 67.5 % | 000 / 00 | 81.54 |
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Just gave this one a facelift….I think the massive table is a lot easier to read.
4/I was also interested to see Don Knotts appearing in your 60s tables as he had done in the 50s. I am aware that you have done a page on him [rightly in my view] but I had forgotten about him until I started watching re-runs of Andy Griffith’s TV courtroom drama series Matlock [1986-1995] in which for some spells Don was special resident guest artist.
5/Don was actually an irrelevance to the plot of Matlock and simply hung about in a funny cap and cracking to me at least unfunny jokes as Matlock’s eccentric neighbour and serving as merely a “prop” for Andy.
6/However as your material on Notts’ page clearly illustrates the pair go back a long way with Don supporting Andy in the latter’s massive 1958 hit No Time for Sergeants and becoming a fixture back-up character in The Andy Griffith Show 1960-68.
7/Both come across to me on screen as potentially real life nice guys and it’s actually great to see a long lasting professional friendship as theirs appears to have been and they can probably be regarded as one of entertainment’s great duos albeit across two different types of screen. The Celebrity Net Worth site says that at the time of their respective deaths Andy had a net worth of 65 million and Don 25 million in 2019 adjusted dollars.
To think that it was way back 3 years ago that this page last attracted comments – wow! are the Cogerson surveys achieving their own immortality? Anyway as I indicated in Part One good update WH and “Voted Up!”
Hey Bob….thanks for the kind words and breakdown on Don Knotts and Andy Griffith. I actually got to meet Mr. Griffith a few times….and sadly it was not a fun experience. I worked at grocery store for a food store franchise that he strongly disliked…..he would come into my store and light us up for stuff we had no control of. He actually did commericals (supposedly for almost no pay) for a mom and pop grocery store, in an effort to hurt the chain I worked for. This took place on Nags Head/Kitty Hawk (home of the Wright Brothers) island. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE Sorry to hear that about Andy. The REAL-LIFE him sounds more like the character he played in Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd rather that the loveable Ben Matlock who comes across as a real nice guy underneath a sometimes volatile outer personality.
It goes to show that professional images can be deceptive. But the good news for followers of this site may well be that Joel might be a nice person after all and maybe that the destructive author that we are accustomed to experiencing in print is just a “paper tiger” in reality and possibly even a wimp.
Certainly that photo which you have of him on his Cogerson page suggests that he was the sort of guy that The Duke would have had to nurse if they had gone out on the trail together. Indeed one thinks of how in the1958 western ‘Cowboy’ Charlie Bill had to mollycoddle Jack Lemmon’s tenderfoot character Frank Harris.
You must though have had some high times in that store of yours back then. It could well have been for you like what they say about Picadilly Circus in London “Sit about there long enough and sooner or later everybody who’s anybody in the world will turn up!” Apparently The Great Mumbler used to sit about cafes and hang around stores to observe human nature so that he could use what he saw in the formulation his stage and screen characterisations.
Anyway I appreciate your sharing the Griffith story with me even though it did dissolusion me a bit. In his book The Fall philosophical writer Albert Camus describes human nature by making comparison with some onions. They can have many layers of skin and as you peel off one you can get another that might appear different. In music “The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion is the second album by the Scottish psychedelic folk group, The Incredible String Band (ISB), and was released in July 1967 on Elektra Records (see 1967 in music).” Anyway keep safe.
Job well done WH. It will take a while to properly analyse the update but my initial thoughts are-
1/The 60s were supposed to be a flop decade for Brando and it WAS compared with the 1950s and the 1970s when his average gross per movie was respectively $208 million [12th highest for the 50s decade] and $300 million [the 5th highest for the 70s decade].
2/However Marlon’s average of $84.6 million per movie in the 60s is respectable when one considers that Charlie Bill Stuart for the fifties was almost identical at $85 million so that that decade could be regarded as a flop for Charlie Bill at least in terms of averages if we consider the 60s a flop one for Marlon. However the 50s were in effect Charlie Bill’s most successful decade and in 1958 he was designated the top box office draw in the US.
3/Sir Maurice Micklewhite’s 60s average of $47.2 million per movie was almost half Brando’s that decade and yet the 60s are regarded rightly in my view as a star-making decade for Sir Maurice with the Zulu and Harry Palmer and Alfie movies. The GREAT M and SIR M both appeared in the same number of movies in the 1960s which was 13
Hey Bob….yep 3 years since the last comment…not sure if that means immortal….or a slow page….lol. Actually it has slowly become one of her most popular pages….it finished in our Top 10 in 2019…..coming in 9th place…and so far in 2020…it is up to 5th place. I guess that means, it is time to update all of these decade pages. Good stats on the M & Ms…Michael and Marlon….good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE: Thanks for the feedback and for the stats breakdown. Information sources such as your site and your book are often slow burners which can build up a following as movie and stats buff such as myself keep returning to them again and again in pursuit of material to feed their own particular hobby. “For the slow one now will later be fast.” – Bob Dylan.
It will not surprise me if your 60s page retains popularity because that was a pivotal decade at the movies and in the wider world as well and in the United Kingdom the new cultural scene was tagged “The Swinging Sixties” Examples of all that are-
1/Movie historians claim that the classic era of films ended and the modern one commenced in 1962.
2/There was an explosion in culture generally examples of which were the emergence of The Beatles and the revolution in pop music; and hitherto clean cut musical performers with smart haircuts and nice conservative clothes were replaced overnight with long haired singers who morphed into bearded guys for whom performing under the influence of drugs and booze became a way of life. And of course we had Flower Power and associated songs such as San Francisco.
3/The movies also underwent a sexual revolution with more daring and sexually overt flicks like the Carpetbaggers and with the raunchy on-screen and the then “scandalous” real life exploits of The Burtons.
Cogerson has been historically lucky in the timing of its own birth in that side by side it can (1) reflect the wealth of the long history that has built up to illustrate how different movies and movie stars used to be (2) provide as well information about modern films generally and mirror the advances in contemporary moviemaking such as the rise of the great franchises which only the latest technology have probably made possible.
For example the 10 Astaire/Rogers films have an overall adjusted Cogerson worldwide gross of just under $2.7 billion averaging out at $270 million per movie. Among today’s franchises Avengers for example has one movie [Avengers Endgame] that ALONE you credit with an adjusted gross worldwide of $2.8 billion.
That’s truly astonishing as years ago only the classic epics like GWTW and The Ten Commandments could have hoped to generate individually such mega grosses. Now they are becoming almost par for the course. 11 Star Wars films shown in your charts have an adjusted worldwide gross of over 16 billion dollars averaging out at around $1.5 billion per movie by my maths – amazing!
Of course on top of lucky timing if a marvellous site like this one is to materialise at all it takes people like you and your family to have the skills and dedication to take advantage of the wider information and sources available today in respect of movie stats and other matters via the internet etc. So once again “Well done!” to both you and your extended family.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS to CHARLIE SHEEN pointing in 1987’s Wall Street in turn to one down and out person and then to another obviously very affluent Individual “Are you going to tell me the difference between this man and that one is luck?”
Hello Bruce,
This is the DECADE of my first film
It was “SNow White “from Disney, in french of course…and I was so afraid with the trees and the Queen and after that I saw “West side Story “in french but songs were in English
I Never Forget that, the songs were amazing with the dance.
This is the decade with my first V O picture, an américan film , it was
“Up the down staircase “with Sandy Dennis, I did not pick one Word, i just try to read the subtiles , I was 13 and I was folowing my mother but I Never Forget that film because I wanted to understand what happened on the screen. So much noise between the students and the teachers, and I Never Forget Sandy Dennis too.
The next american film will be “M A S H “at the beginning of the 70 where I spoke better english….I remember a nurse Whose surname was “Hot LIps”
But you hnow tHis is the decade of my first Hungarie film too” Ha ça ira ” always a film with students and I think it was just before the évents of 1968 in France. But I Never see one more Hungarie film.
I remember Julie Andrews was at top even she missed My Fair lady and she was falling down with the film “STAR “which was a box office poison. But she is Number one of the decade on your page and I think it is right.
I remenber the royal couple Liz and Richard and the film Cleopatre….
I remenber the émotion for Monroe and after a year everybody was speaking of Carrol Baker but that was at the beginning of the decade.
In France,Everybody was speaking of B B / Brigitte Bardot she was everywhere during all 60.
I think my love for american movie start in that years, and of course When I met Dietrich and Cooper that was…. The Road to classical Hollywood!!!!!!!
By the way it was the DECADE of my first girl friend too but not like in American Graffiti
I am Sorry…
Good day
Pierre
Hey great comment and memories that you have of movies made in the 1960s. Sorry that I did not include Sandy Dennis on this page…but I think she deserves to be on here. I think lots of small children got scared while watching Snow White.
Julie Andrews had one awesome 1960s….I imagine she was feeling very down when she did not get the My Fair Lady role…..but I think it actually made her career better by missing that role.
Brigitte Bardot…..another one that should be on the page….though I do not think she did too well at North American box offices.
Fun comment to read.
Hi
I think by the 60’s if you were looking for iconic names, you would be looking to music rather than the movies. Groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones symbolize the 60’s more than any movie star did. But if I had to name two I would go for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The celebrity couple of the decade.
Hey Chris. Good point about music being the top influence of the 1960s. I actually think the 1960s is a pretty weak decade…when looking at all the movies….of course there are many classics…..but compared to other decades they few and far between.
Taylor and Burton were indeed the biggest celebrities of the decade. I can only imagine the coverage they would get today if they in their peaks. Probably substantially more than Pitt and Jolie. 🙂