Movies In The 1960s
Retro Futurism: 1969's 'Moon Zero Two' Was Set In The Y...
March 6, 2021
What will the year 2021 hold? In 1969, Moon Zero Two, a film from the Hammer studio famous for horror movies, pondered just that question. Starring Catherine...
Anouk Aimee: Muse Of 'Dolce Vita' And '8 1/2,' Then And...
February 5, 2021
With the Fellini movies La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 1/2 (1963), as well as the global hit A Man And A Woman (1966), Anouk Aimée became one of a few French act...
Barbarella, Jane Fonda's Horny Sci-Fi Sex Kitten: Facts...
October 11, 2020
The 1968 film Barbarella gives us Jane Fonda at the peak of her sex-kitten phase. A pleasure-seeking, galaxy-hopping adventurer, the titular heroine came to ...
Martine Beswick, Double Bond Girl Of The '60s, Then And...
September 26, 2020
Left: Martine Beswick on the set of 'Thunderball' at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, 12th March 1965. Right: Beswick in 'Prehistoric Women.' Sources: Photo b...
Mary Poppins: Facts, Trivia About 1964's Biggest Movie
August 27, 2020
With a chart-topping soundtrack, Disney animation and the screen debut of Julie Andrews, the Oscar-winning Mary Poppins was one of the films that packed movie th...
'Lawrence Of Arabia,' Starring Peter O'Toole: Facts And...
August 2, 2020
At nearly four hours long, Lawrence of Arabia is a career defining performance by Peter O’Toole, and it’s one of the greatest films ever made. Directed by Da...
Herbie 'The Love Bug' Behind-The-Scenes And How A Volks...
March 13, 2020
In 1969, Herbie the "Love Bug" became Hollywood's first four-wheeled movie star, and the Volkswagen Beetle's popularity persisted through three sequels and t...
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: Behind-The-Scenes Of T...
February 29, 2020
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, the 1966 western starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef, reminds us that there are films -- and then there ar...
The Original Walking Dead: How George Romero Created Zo...
October 19, 2019
Zombies are everywhere these days, from The Walking Dead to Zombieland: Double Tap, but these horror and Halloween mainstays are not the age-old phenomenon y...
Mie Hama: Bond Girl Kissy Suzuki, Then And Now
October 11, 2019
In 1967's You Only Live Twice, Mie Hama played Kissy Suzuki, one of the attractions awaiting Sean Connery's James Bond in Japan. Along with Akiko Wakabayashi, who playe...
'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner' Was A Racial Reality Che...
September 14, 2019
In Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Sidney Poitier plays John, a black man meeting his white fiancee's parents, who are played by Spencer Tracy and Katharine He...
How Ninjas, As You Know Them, Only Date Back To The '60...
September 2, 2019
How old are ninjas?Pop culture in the U.S. and Japan has long been fascinated by the ninja, a black-clad assassin practicing ancient Japanese martial arts an...
How '60s And '70s TV And Movies Made Us Scared Of Quick...
August 31, 2019
Why were we afraid of quicksand? On TV shows and in movies of the '60s and '70s, quicksand was a go-to plot twist that could be inserted virtually anywhere f...
Carroll Baker, 'Baby Doll's Scandalous Star: Her Rise A...
July 31, 2019
Left: Carroll Baker as depicted on the lurid poster for 'Baby Doll.' Right: Baker in character in the title role of 'Sylvia.' Sources: IMPAwards.com; Sunset Bou...
Dr. Strangelove Or: How Stanley Kubrick Invented Black ...
June 11, 2019
Stanley Kubrick's 1964 nuclear-war farce Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb has been called the first black comedy in film ...
1960: As 'Suzie Wong,' Asian Actress Nancy Kwan Broke B...
May 16, 2019
Left: Tony Curtis and Nancy Kwan in 'Arrivederci, Baby!' (1966). Right: Nancy Kwan and William Holden in 'The World Of Suzie Wong' (1960). Source: ullstein bild...
Hammer Horror: How Christopher Lee's Dracula Rebooted A...
May 14, 2019
Left: Veronica Carlson with Christopher Lee in a publicity portrait issued for the film, 'Dracula Has Risen from the Grave', United Kingdom, 1968. (Photo by Sil...
The Tough Guys And Misfits Who Beat The Germans In 'The...
March 24, 2019
The Dirty Dozen's cast list includes some of the greatest movie tough-guys of the late '60s, as well as a few stars you might not place in a rollicking WWII ...
The Graduate: Rare Facts About An Era-Defining Film
January 11, 2019
Released in 1967, The Graduate launched Dustin Hoffman's career -- but do you know your Graduate trivia? The movie has been endlessly analyzed as a document of the ...
'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid:' Why That Ending?
January 3, 2019
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid's ending, a freeze-frame of our outlaw heroes right before they charge half of the Bolivian army, is sudden and might even mak...
Odd Couples And Midnight Cowboys: Dynamic Duos of TV an...
October 28, 2018
Laverne and Shirley, Butch and Sundance -- call them partners in crime or dynamic duos, a well-matched TV or movie team is comedy or drama gold. The buddy mo...
Brando, McQueen, Mitchum, Burton: Hollywood Bad Boys Of...
October 4, 2018
Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) We've always been interested in celebrity antics and m...
How 'Where The Boys Are' Created Spring Break As We Kno...
October 2, 2018
Where The Boys Are, a 1960 book by Glendon Swarthout that became a hit movie starring Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Yvette Mimieux, and Paula Prentiss, chang...
Jack Klugman: 'Odd Couple's Oscar Madison Was A Regular...
August 8, 2018
Jack Klugman photographed June 4, 1974. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via GettyImages) As Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple, Jack Klugman became American TV ...
Hollywood's Leading Men Who Defined The Art Of Cool
July 24, 2018
Hip, macho, athletic, outdoorsy, musical, and smooth…the men of the sixties were a lot of things, but above all, they were COOL. This collection of photographs will remi...
The Hottest Actresses From The 1960s
March 5, 2018
Actress Tina Louise Reclining on Hay Bales (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) The counterculture movement of the 60’s had a quite an impact on f...
“Planet of the Apes” - 1968
January 15, 2018
Charlton Heston hears his fate being decided by a council of apes in a scene from the film 'Planet Of The Apes', 1968. (Photo by 20th-Century Fox/Getty Images) Up until the late 1960s, ...
The Legacy Of '2001:' How Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece...
December 14, 2017
Actors Keir Dullea & Gary Lockwood in publicity still from motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Image...
In 'Easy Rider,' The 1960s Were A Time Of Freedom, And ...
November 8, 2017
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gilbert TOURTE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Released in July 1969, the month before Woodst...
Steve McQueen's Car Chase In 'Bullitt' Set The Standard...
November 7, 2017
Every movie car chase has to be compared to Steve McQueen's car chase in Bullitt (1968). In the film, a '68 Mustang GT fastback driven by McQueen runs wild i...
Brigitte Bardot's Beautiful Life In Pictures
June 29, 2017
Left: Brigitte Bardot on the set of 'Les Femmes' (1969). Right: A production still of Bardot from 'Le Mepris' (1963). Sources: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images; IMDB ...
