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.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	My Fair Lady	Warner Bros.	$72,000,000^[1]
2.	Goldfinger	United Artists	$51,081,062^[2]
3.	Mary Poppins	Disney	$31,000,000^[3]
4.	The Carpetbaggers	Paramount	$28,409,547^[4]
5.	From Russia with Love	United Artists	$24,796,765^[5]
6.	A Fistful of Dollars	United Artists	$14,500,000^[6]
7.	Father Goose	Universal International	$12,500,000^[7]
8.	A Shot in the Dark	United Artists	$12,368,234^[8]
9.	A Hard Day's Night	United Artists	$12,299,668^[9]
10.	The Night of the Iguana	MGM	$12,000,000^[10]
11.	What a Way to Go!	Fox	$11,180,531^[11]
12.	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	MGM	$11,070,559^[12]
13.	The Pink Panther	United Artists	$10,878,107^[13]
14.	Viva Las Vegas	MGM	$9,442,967^[14]
15.	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Columbia	$9,440,272^[15]
16.	Becket	Paramount	$9,164,370^[16]
17.	Send Me No Flowers	Universal International	$9,129,247^[17]
18.	Good Neighbor Sam	Columbia	$9,072,726^[18]
19.	Zorba the Greek	Fox	$9,000,000^[19]
20.	Sex and the Single Girl	Warner Bros.	$8,000,000^[20]
21.	Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Fox	$8,000,000^[21]
22.	Marnie	Universal International	$7,000,000^[22]
23.	Topkapi	United Artists	$7,000,000^[23]
24.	Man's Favorite Sport?	Universal International	$6,000,000^[24]

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 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 Actor: Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins

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

U.S.A. unless stated

Notable films released in 1964

U.S.A. unless stated

Joy House (Les Felins), directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon and Jane Fonda – (France)

Short film series

Births

January 7 – Nicolas Cage, actor, producer and director
January 13 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress
January 18 – Jane Horrocks, actress
January 23 - Mariska Hargitay, 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 and actor
March 9 – Juliette Binoche, actress
March 17 – Rob Lowe, actor
April 4 – David Cross, actor and comedian
April 7 – Russell Crowe, actor
April 20
- Crispin Glover, actor
- Andy Serkis, actor
April 24
- Djimon Hounsou, actor
- Cedric the Entertainer, actor and comedian
April 25 – Hank Azaria, actor, voice actor, comedian and producer
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 3 – Yeardley Smith, actress, voice actress, writer, author, comedian and painter
July 22
- John Leguizamo, actor, voice actor, comedian and producer
- David Spade, actor, comedian, writer
July 26 – Sandra Bullock, actress
July 28 — Lori Loughlin, actress
July 30 – Vivica A. Fox, actress
August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker, actress
August 16 – William Salyers, actor and voice actor
September 2 – Keanu Reeves, actor
October 3 – Clive Owen, actor
November 29 – Don Cheadle, 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 22 – Lissy Arna, 63, German actress, Eva in Silk, The Dance Goes On
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 10 – Arthur Hohl, 74, American actor, Cleopatra, Private Detective 62
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 15 – Myles Connolly, 66, American screenwriter, State of the Union, Hans Christian Andersen
July 26 – William A. Seiter, 73, American film director, The Beautiful and Damned, Sons of the Desert, Roberta
August 5 – Charles Quigley, 58, American actor, The Shadow, The Game That Kills
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 23 – Fred M. Wilcox, 56, American director, Forbidden Planet, Lassie Come Home
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 22 – Whip Wilson, 53, American actor, Night Raiders
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
November 10 – Sam Newfield, 64, American director, The Terror of Tiny Town, I Accuse My Parents
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

References

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