60s Movie Quiz – 10 Random Questions

True Grit is a 1969 American western directed by Henry Hathaway. It is the first adaptation of Charles Portis' novel True Grit. John Wayne plays the role as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. For this performance, John Wayne won his only Academy Award (Best Actor). He had one Actor nomination from 1949 (Sands of Iwo Jima) and one as a producer of The Alamo (1960).

A film sequel, Rooster Cogburn, was made in 1975, with Wayne playing against Katharine Hepburn. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed a re-make of the film with Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn.

Goldfinger (1964) is the third film in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as James Bond. Honor Blackman plays the Bond girl Pussy Galore and Shirley Eaton plays Jill Masterson who is painted in gold paint.

The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The role as the older woman, Mrs. Robinson, is played by Anne Bancroft.

Katharine Hepburn also won two awards in category Best Actress during the sixties: 1968 for her role as Christina Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and 1969 for her role as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968). Hepburn's award 1969 was shared with Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl).

Elizabeth Taylor was also awarded two Academy Awards during the sixties.

She won her first Academy Award for her role as Gloria Wandrous in BUtterfield 8. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, Taylor won her second Award for her role as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Audrey Hepburn was nominated twice (1962 and 1968), but did not win. Shirley MacLaine was also nominated twice without winning (1961 and 1964).

Anne Bancroft had three nominations and won one Award during the sixties.

That Darn Cat! premiered in 1965. It is an American Walt Disney Productions film starring Hayley Mills.

Lolita is a 1962 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film revolves around a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a teenage girl. It stars James Mason and Sue Lyon. Sue Lyon was only 14 at the time of filming. The film was very controversial in the early 60s, but a commercial success.

Vladimir Nabokov won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American film directed by Robert Mulligan. Gregory Peck plays the role as Atticus Finch, who is appointed to defend a black man against an accusation of rape of a white teenaged girl. Mary Badham plays the role as Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch. Robert Duvall makes his film debut as Arthur 'Boo' Radley.

The film is based on a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. The book was an immediate success, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and is today a classic of modern American literature. It was adapted to film by Horton Foote.

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science-fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

For the 1965 film adaptation of Thunderball, Dominetta Vitali, known simply as Domino, became Dominique Derval. She was portrayed by French actress Claudine Auger. In the 1983 film adaptation Never Say Never Again, the character was renamed once again to Domino Petachi.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 film that satirizes the fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film is directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott.