60s Movie Quiz – 10 Random Questions

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American film by Blake Edwards. It stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly (Lula Mae Barnes) and George Peppard as Paul Varjak (Fred). Mickey Rooney appears in the film as the neighbor I.Y. Yunioshi.

The film is loosely based on a novella by Truman Capote.

Henry Mancini won an Academy Award for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Together with Johnny Mercer, he also won the Award for Best Original Song (Moon River). Audrey Hepburn was nominated for an Award in the category Best Actress in a Leading Role, but did not win.

Bullitt is a 1968 American action film. The leading character Frank Bullitt is played by Steve McQueen. Some of the other characters are played by Robert Duvall, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset.

The film (Frank P. Keller) won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

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.

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.

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) stars Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, and Robert Blake. The film won 2 BAFTA Film Awards.

Spartacus is an American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas as the rebellious slave. The film received four academy awards in 1961, including an Oscar to Peter Ustinov for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

The Birds is a 1963 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.

Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond film and novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version.

My Fair Lady is a 1964 film adapted from a stage musical based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins.

The Unforgiven is a 1960 American western film. It was Audrey Hepburn's only Western film.

The film was directed by John Huston. Besides Audrey Hepburn, it stars Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford, and Lillian Gish.

The film is perhaps most notable for its behind-the-scenes problems. Filming was suspended for several months, after Hepburn fell off a horse during rehearsals and broke her back.