Year In Film 1961

mikegallagherartApril 27, 2023April 27, 2023year in film60s, academy awards, beautiful woman, box office, Cannes, celebrity, cinema, cinema history, famous, golden globes, Hollywood, Liz Taylor, movie history, movie illustration, movies, Superman

Number of Releases: 462
CinemaScope releases: 35
Number of theatres: 21,000 (6,000 are drive ins)
Average weekly attendance: 42,000,000
Average ticket price: $0.69
Box office receipts: $921,000,000

Top box office stars- Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Sandra Dee, Jerry Lewis, William Holden, Tony Curtis, Elvis Presley

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Top grossing films- The Guns of Navarone $8.6m, The Absent-Minded Professor $8.2m, The Parent Trap $8m, Swiss Family Robinson $7.5m, Exodus $7.4m

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Palme d’Or- Viridiana & Une Aussi Longue Absence
Academy Award- West Side Story
Golden Globes- The Guns of Navarone, A Mojority of One, West Side Story
NY Film Critics- West Side Story

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