Unquestionably, the ’60s was the golden era in Hollywood. Some of the most influential classic films such as Psycho, The Graduate, 2001: Space Odyssey and Cleopatra has been released in this decade.
There is something quaintly beautiful about the counterculture movies of the ‘60s: the classiness, the costumes, that slangy dialogue.
Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the 1960s.Historical drama films continued to include epics, in the style of Ben-Hur from 1959, with Cleopatra (1963), but also evolving with 20th-century settings, such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Louis Jordan and cast play host to visiting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the set of Can-Can (1960).
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
G.I. Blues (1960) behind the scenes
Janet Leigh and John Gavin share an intimate moment with at least four other people and tons of equipment in Psycho (1960)
Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard behind the scenes of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961
The cast warm up and stretch prior to shooting the Prologue number in West Side Story (1961).
Sean Connery as James Bond and Noel Coward in a behind the scenes photo from Dr. No
Richard Burton, Rex Harrison & Joseph L.Mankiewicz ‘Cleopatra’, behind the scenes. 1963.
Irene Sharaff with Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra 1963.
Director Billy Wilder vividly demontrates to Jack Lemmon how he wants the scene to progress on the set of Irma La Douce (1963)
Actor Slim Pickens gets ready to ride a nuclear missile to oblivion in the climax of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
On the set of ‘2001’ with Kubrick and Keir Dullea 1968
Slant boards keep Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn’s elegant attire wrinkle-free during a break on the Burbank set of My Fair Lady (1964)
Sharon Tate behind the scenes of Eye of the Devil, 1965.
Behind the scenes on the 1966 Batman movie.
Behind the scenes on The Graduate 1967
Katharine Hepburn on the set of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1967.
There is something quaintly beautiful about the counterculture movies of the ‘60s: the classiness, the costumes, that slangy dialogue.
Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the 1960s.Historical drama films continued to include epics, in the style of Ben-Hur from 1959, with Cleopatra (1963), but also evolving with 20th-century settings, such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
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