1964 in film

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The year **1964 in film** involved some significant events, including two highly successful musical films, *My Fair Lady* and *Mary Poppins*.

## Events

* 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.
* October - In *Photoplay* magazine, Hedda Hopper announces that Sophia Loren and Paul Newman will star in the film version of Arthur Miller's play *After the Fall*, with Loren in the role that was written about Marilyn Monroe. The film is never made.

## 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
Best Picture: ***Becket***
Best Actor: **Peter O'Toole** - *Becket*
Best Actress: **Anne Bancroft** - *The Pumpkin Eater*
Best Supporting Actress: **Agnes Moorehead** - *Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte*
Best Supporting Actor: **Edmund O'Brien** - *Seven Days in May*
**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
## 1964 film releases

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Woman in the Dunes
3. Red Desert
4. A Fistful of Dollars
5. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. Goldfinger
8. Zulu
9. Mary Poppins
10. My Fair Lady
11. The Lively Set

## Action films released in 1964

1. Goldfinger
2. Three Outlaw Samurai
3. That Man from Rio

## Short film series

* *Looney Tunes* (1930–1969)
* *Terrytoons* (1930-**1964**)
* *Merrie Melodies* (1931–1969)
* *Speedy Gonzales* (1953–1968)
* *Bugs Bunny* (1940-**1964**)

## 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
* April 20 - Crispin Glover, actor
* May 12 - Pierre Morel, French film director
* May 25 - Ray Stevenson, Irish actor
* June 9 - Gloria Reuben, actress/singer
* June 15 - Courteney Cox, actress
* July 26 - Sandra Bullock, actress
* August 2 - Mary-Louise Parker, actress
* August 16 - William Salyers, actor and voice actor
* September 2 - Keanu Reeves, actor
* December 4 - Marisa Tomei, actress
* December 8 - Teri Hatcher, actress

## Deaths

* January 21 - Joseph Schildkraut, 67, Austrian actor, *The Diary of Anne Frank*, *The Life of Emile Zola*, *Viva Villa!*
* January 27 - Norman Z. McLeod, 65, American director, *The Paleface*, *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty*
* January 29 - Alan Ladd, 50, American actor, *Shane*, *The Blue Dahlia*
* February 24 - Frank Conroy, 73, British actor, *The Ox-Bow Incident*, *The Naked City*
* February 27 - Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian costume designer, *Casablanca*, *The Maltese Falcon*
* February 29 - Frank Albertson, 55, American actor, *It's a Wonderful Life*, *Psycho*
* March 23 - Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian actor, *Casablanca*, *The Maltese Falcon*
* April 18 - Ben Hecht, 70, American playwright and screenwriter, *Notorious*, *His Girl Friday*
* May 10 - Carol Haney, 39, American dancer, actress, *The Pajama Game*, *Invitation to the Dance*
* May 13 - Diana Wynyard, 58, British actress, *Cavalcade*, *Gaslight*
* June 27 - Mona Barrie, 54, British actress, *Mystery Woman*, *Ladies Love Danger*
* July 26 - William A. Seiter, 73, American film director, *The Beautiful and Damned, Sons of the Desert, Roberta*
* August 6
	+ Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor, *Rope*, *Suspicion*
	+ Reed Howes, 64, American model and actor, *The Dawn Rider*, *Paradise Canyon*
* August 12 - Ian Fleming, 56, British author of *James Bond* novels, *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*
* August 27 - Gracie Allen, 69, American comedy actress, *A Damsel in Distress*, *The Big Broadcast of 1936*
* September 28
	+ Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor (The Marx Brothers), *Duck Soup*, *A Night at the Opera*
	+ Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer, *The Broadway Melody*, *Glorifying the American Girl*
* October 10 - Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian, *Whoopee!*, *Kid Millions*
* October 15 - Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter, *Night and Day*, *High Society*
* October 19 - Russ Brown, American actor, *Damn Yankees*, *Anatomy of a Murder*
* October 23 - Jo Swerling, 71, American screenwriter, *It's a Wonderful Life*, *Guys and Dolls*
* October 27 - Rudolph Maté, 66, Hungarian cinematographer and director, *D.O.A.*, *When Worlds Collide*
* December 9 - Edith Sitwell, 77, British actress
* December 11 - Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor, *The Southerner*, *State Fair*
* December 14 - William Bendix, 58, American actor, *Lifeboat*, *Detective Story*
* December 31 - Gertrude Michael, 53, American actress, *Murder at the Vanities*, *Women in Bondage*

## Film debuts

* Jenny Agutter - *East of Sudan*
* The Beatles - *A Hard Day's Night*
* Ellen Burstyn - *For Those Who Think Young*
* Judi Dench - *The Third Secret*
* Karen Dotrice - *The Three Lives of Thomasina*
* Olympia Dukakis - *Twice a Man*
* Morgan Freeman - *The Pawnbroker*
* James Earl Jones - *Dr. Strangelove*
* Raquel Welch - *A House Is Not a Home*

## References

1. ↑ "My Fair Lady (1964)". Box Office Mojo.
2. ↑ "Box Office Information for *Goldfinger*". Box Office Mojo. 1964-12-22. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
3. ↑ "Box Office Information for *Mary Poppins*". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
4. ↑ Box Office Information for *The Carpetbaggers*. The Numbers. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
5. ↑ Box Office Information for *From Russia with Love*. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
6. ↑ Box Office Information for *A Fistful of Dollars*. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
7. ↑ Box Office Information for *Father Goose*. The Numbers. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
8. ↑ "A Shot in the Dark (1964)". Box Office Mojo. 1964-06-23. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
9. ↑ Box Office Information for *A Hard Day's Night*. The Numbers. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
10. ↑ Box Office Information for *The Night of the Iguana*. IMDb. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
11. ↑ Box Office Information for *What a Way to Go!* The Numbers. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
12. ↑ Box Office Information for *The Unsinkable Molly Brown* The Numbers. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
13. ↑ "The Pink Panther (1964) (1964)". Box Office Mojo. 1964-04-11. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
14. ↑ Box Office Information for *Viva Las Vegas*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
15. ↑ Box Office Information for *Dr. Strangelove*. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
16. ↑ Box Office Information for *Becket*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
17. ↑ Box Office Information for *Send Me No Flowers*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
18. ↑ Box Office Information for *Good Neighbor Sam*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
19. ↑ Box Office Information for *Zorba the Greek*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
20. ↑ "All-Time B.O. Champs", *Variety*, 3 January 1968 p 25.
21. ↑ "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", *Variety*, 5 January 1966 p 6.
22. ↑ Box Office Information for *Marnie*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
23. ↑ Box Office Information for *Topkapi*. The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
24. ↑ Box Office Information for *Man's Favorite Sport?* The Numbers. Retrieved May 19, 2013.

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