The Opening of the Academy Awards in 1961
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- Host Bob Hope opens the 33rd Academy Awards in 1961, and Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis present the Oscars® for Documentary (Feature) to Larry Lansburgh for "The Horse with the Flying Tail" and Documentary (Short Subject) to James Hill for "Giuseppina." Introduced by Academy President Valentine Davies.
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I remember watching this 1961 Academy Awards show when I was a young boy. After seeing West Side Story win 10 Oscars on this show- I later made a special trip to a theater and saw West Side Story. This began a life long appreciation of movie musicals.
Beautiful ball gowns, tuxedos, class, and elegance........completely missing from today.
When was the last time you wore a tuxedo or fur coat? Glad people don't wear fur coats any more!
I see plenty of elegance. Remember this is 1961. The 60s were going to explode! Wake up!
@@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet : Oh for Pete’s sake, please! Go get some hot chocolate to drink in your safe space. Let me guess: Trump was never your president, your a tree-hugging Leftie, and all the Hollywood whack jobs who come dressed half naked to the award shows are empowering women.
So once again, I say there is no class or elegance or respect in today’s secular society.
It is so surreal to see Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh here, their daughter Jamie Lee Curtis got her first Oscar nomination this year 2023!
So many stars now gone. Very surreal. I grew up watching all of them.
I can understand the camera zooming in on Greer Garson, she was very photogenic, the camera loved her
Sad to see that many of our admired performers have passed.
Jack Lemmon -pure class
100% agree
@Liz F - A fabulous actor - I miss him.
I prefer an opening to the Academy Awards like this, the classic film music
is so under-rated, and this is much more dignified than what we see today.
"under-rated"
And your name is cat pajamas?
@@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet It's "cats pajamas" (should be "cat's pajamas") but good job with the non-sequitur, I guess.
The only thing classical is that it is old now. It wasn't old then!!
Remember this is 1961. The world was still recovering from WW2, wars were going on and the 1960s were about to explode. That was a horrible 10 years!! I would never want to go back. Today is much better and safer for all. The only people who had anything was white men. For everyone else, life sucked!!
I sure miss old Hollywood- Todays Oscars show is boring - I long for the days when stars who looked like stars and the women looked like a million bucks thanx for sharing
Fred Hough
I'm back then the women didn't all have a bunch of cosmetic surgery and facial fillers and all that fake stuff... maybe a little bit but not like today
Me too.
I couldn’t agree more. Who is still dreaming about Hollywood nowadays when you see the trash lifestyle of the so called « stars »? I went to Los Angeles last year and saw « Hollywood » The so famous boulevard with the stars, ill-maintained, stinking urine, homeless people sleeping everywhere, not one classy shop only tourists souvenirs. Not even classy people: red, blue, yellow haired tattooed strange I’ll-dressed people wandering along....Same with the legendary Sunset boulevard.... what a disappointment! Golden Hollywood has definitely gone with the wind.
it is shown today as mockery; it has been over for a while, at least a decade probably more.
Great candid photography in the audience during the overture!
Tony Curtis was so handsome and funny loved all his movies.
Janet Leigh was stunning.
As always, it's nice watching an old Awards show, namely The 33rd Academy Awards 1961 where Andre Previn conducted the music. Among the movie stars, old-timer Greer Garson was first spotted and the camera seemed to linger on her, not once but twice. Seen briefly were youngsters Sal Mineo and Tuesday Weld, as also Jack Lemon and wife, Felicia Farr. Many long shots were used to capture the sea of faces in the auditorium. Bob Hope, the usual Master of Ceremonies, was also prominent in 1961. It was noticed that during his speech, he says a few lines, then stares at the audience deadpan [like he's forgotten what to say next] before he continues. There's probably some brand of humor to his speech delivery. Those perennial favorites, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, who never miss a year at the awards, were the announcer and presenter, respectively. Janet, as always, looked radiant. If you look closely, Tony looks like he has used a toupee in the form of a deep widower's peak with a slight kiss-curl [Bill Haley style]. These are my findings as I like to write on what I see.
Janet Leigh in full bloom, following her awesome ‘Psycho’ performance.👏
I think that Janet Leigh who should have won for Psycho in 1960 would have been very shocked that 62 years later her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis would win the Oscar for best supporting actress in the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
OMG Bob was such a hoot!!!
Wow. Nobody was twerking, and no cell phones. Amazing!
This was the first time they were held in Santa Monica. Great opening. Cameraman must've had some love for Greer Garson. But who the hell didn't?
Shes stunning
So classy and beautiful and pure hearted
She was so beautiful, in every way. He was a cad
What a joy to see this! Thank-you so much for the upload!!
Jack Lemmon at 5:15 tenderly looking at his date/wife?
Bob Hope was hilarious :D
My age right now is 33 years old same like Oscars in 1961. My father and my mother was born in 1961 also.💖💖💖
When the thank you's where shortly done - instead of ON & ON & ON of long boring speaches like now a days! Bob Hope was always so funny! lOVED HIM!
Lovely Jack Lemmon and Felicia Farr .
she was so wonderful in 3:10 To Yuma. small but indelible role.
Is that who he was married to??
Ruby
Hi Ruby, yes they were married from 1961 until Jacks death in 2001 .
Hope you are well.
@@elizabethf1591 That's right, now I remember! Gosh.... weren't they an attractive couple?? And, Jack was such a gentleman! She was beautiful for sure! Not many ' Hollywood couples' like them anymore!
Thank you, best to you too!
I never knew until recently that Greer Garson lived in America and one of their main homes was Dallas... she married a very very well off man and she became quite a philanthropist and some call her the First Lady of Dallas.
, I was very surprised what I read about her in Wikipedia
one of my favorite actresses--- thank you for int info.. Dallas? interesting.
reality chick... yeah I thought it was really strange because there's no way I would have ever associated her with places like Texas or even further west, where they had their other home.
To me she was always representative of the United Kingdom and I never ever could have imagined her spending the rest of her life in America.
You can find out more about her and how generous she was.
@@gardensofthegods hyuk
Sal Mineo, Greer Garson, Tuesday Weld, Peter Ustinov, Patty Duke, Jack Lemmon. Everyone had a program, lots of mink stoles, 100 piece orchestra playing songs of classic movie music. Kennedys in the White House, no war, no counter culture the early 60’s were the best of times.
No, it wasn't the best. Luckily we no longer wear all those fur coats. Wake up! The only people who had good lives were white men. For everyone else, life sucked!!
Only for white men! Otherwise life sucked!!
Your lack of knowledge of the history of the Vietnam war 1955 until 1975 includes the United States involvement.
The Cold War 1946-1991' and Bay of Pigs along with beats enters the chat dipstick.
Not as it turned out, Holywoods happiest couple, but certainly its prettiest!
Great kinescope recording. Hank Simms did the voiceover for the awards until 1988. He died just last year.
His voice is probably more recognizable from the dozens of Quinn Martin productions he announced.
beautiful just beautiful 🎵
Wow! That happiest couple award would blow up soon!!
The year I was born.
The winners for best documentaries understood they were not the stars of show and gave classy brief acceptance speeches.
🍀🍀✨✨I truly love 💕 and appreciate the Hollywood Actors Style and Movies they all are Beautiful Stars🌟 💫 ⭐️ ✨🍀🍀
No one else can emcee like Bob Hope in his prime.
I forgot how many times Bob Hope was the MC!
My Mother and My Father was born at that year!
Wonderful opening music that actually had a melody. No longer the case these days I'm sorry to say.
"actually"
love the lights in the 60s & the glasses!
I miss a good host and a short and sweet thank you speech!
At least Jamie lee Curtis can watch and show her kids and grandkids Her parents and how much they was a big deal in hollywood and how cute they was as a couple
Janet Leigh was beautiful mother to his children and Tony Curtis could not be true to her!!!!
This was better, I think. The video cameras were not as intrusive. The celebs could be more relaxed.
The music gets better at 2:40; more appropiate for that era.
Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis - the parents of Jamie Lee Curtis. The awards were much classier then, it seems. No vulgar language and jokes.
Elaine Culbert
: Jamie Lee was two years old when her parents appeared here and her older sister was five.
They had to follow a code of conduct in terms of behaviour, language, dress code and keeping weight under control IF the actors wanted to stay in the movies. Take it or leave it. Most followed these codes.
menos cachetadas como willy Smith.
If you ever get to look up what Bob Hope's house in Palm Springs looked like , you would be really surprised... it was huge and ultra-modern and made a geodesic dome home look old fashioned ... it's right here on TH-cam somewhere... check it out
it really makes a fabulous museum. a terrible home.
I loved Toni Curtis as a kid .UK .growing up had Crush on him
I love アカデミー賞！
Thank you so much❢
When Hollywood had some class.
Check the "Time traveler" at the 2:38 point. He appears to be using a cell phone camera then turns and is gone.
Probably a light meter.
Janet and Tony..."Happiest married couple "........they were divorced within in 2 years....I remember how upset I was as a teen age fan !
Not only that Curtis bragged he was having an affair non stop with Marilyn Monroe while making the movie 'Some Like It Hot' of which the jokes here were indicating his previous role and his very next picture involved his to be second wife Christine Kaufmann a mere teenager when he made the movie Taras Bulba released in 1962.. If you listen to his interview, he says it bluntly that he needed f---ing privileges in his marriage.. All a false persona....
a television event every year for me back then
my cousin joe and I always made bets who would win what...
was this West side story year ! all these should be restored and in colour.
It's amazing that in 1961 rather than showing interminable interviews with stars arriving on the Red Carpet, as they have done for the last ten years, the simply panned through the audience and allowed the camera to linger on certain stars; how much did Greer Garson, who was nominated for her Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello, pay the cameraman to stay on her for seemingly five minutes? Sad to see people like Sal Mineo and Jack Lemmon, nominated for The Apartment, no longer with us.
This was the same year that Tony Curtis spoke the immortal line, "I love you, Thpartacuth."
Actually I was told Bob Hope told a transgender joke about Tony Perkins. I thought it might have been in the monologue but maybe somewhere else in the ceremony. Hope said something like, "Tony Perkins is disappointed he wasn't nominated for the movie, Psycho, but the Academy couldn't make up its mind whether to nominate him in the Best Actor or Best Actress category."
4:45-5:44 SINGIN `IN THE RAIN! :D
thank you~thank you~thank you
As a couple, they always reminded me of Debbie and Eddie.
Saw Missing Persons and Devo there in the early 80's.
What a great lineup!!
2 of my favorite 80's bands!
Jump to 8:40 to see Bob Hope open the ceremonies.
Great ! By the way... Ann-Margret performing "Bachelor in Paradise" on the 1962 Oscar Show : is this available in your archives ? I'd love to see that on TH-cam. THANKS :)
A great and legendary year in american movie industry! We had The Apartment, Elmer Gantry and Psycho! Burt Lancaster, Billy Wilder and Liz Taylor won their Oscars this year! :D Actually, I think the entire decade of 1960s was great for films. Thanks, Academy Channel for share with us these precious moments! Can you please upload the Opening of The Academy Awards in 1998 (my favorite Oscar year), when Titanic won every award, including the red carpet? Please. Thank You!
Elmer Fudd Gantry.
Was Andre Previn conducting?
Yes
Not only this was the first Oscars held outside of Hollywood, but ABC's first telecast of the awards as well (they first had them from 1961-70, and again from 1976 on); prior to 1953, they were on radio only.
For me this is like seeing 2020 Oscars, I can't recognize 90% of the actors
@Kid Sundance:. Goes without saying....you must really be young!! But, true .... even if I ' recognized ' some of them lately, most are forgettable!!!
52 years later....lol
Stoney Curtis!
(an old-school Flintstones ref)
Haggis- it wasn't a transgender joke. Perkins played the character's mother, which was revealed at the end of the film.
I think the happiest couple was divorced the next year, 1962.
Jamie Lee Cutis - "A Fish Called Wanda"
Scott Ferrell e34
@Ed Miller what a classy man. ( sarc )
The Hope guy was funny
Had to like the line about movies with 2 million dollar budgets--nowadays, you couldn't get in the front door....
and that is the castle of my fadda.
Belated, but fadda knows best.
Janet was absolutely beautiful. They were not the happiest couple, they were on the verge of a divorce but hey, it's Hollywood.
Love 61
17:16 Wow-Janet Leigh was beautiful!!!
Did they air live?
is this an oscars presentation clip or is it the bob hope show?
Wow I was born in 1962, how amazing 😉 when was the first one?
Does anyone know where the rest of this is ?
There are just a few videos missing from this ceremony. Please post them!
Upload Best Animated Short Oscar winner William Synder
1:37 - Mr. Andrew Preview himself 😎
man it was packed back in those days, black and white lol
Makes me sad looking at this because they are all dead now.
Everyone of us watching this will be dead 💀 too so what?
@@allanfuentes9694 , Barry's an Oscar killer.
😮 esto sí era el glamour
Did not know Tony Curtis had alcohol/drug issues. But, not unusual in Hollywood. Did not do any off it working there, it parties,..worked. But as an Artist loved the creative energy. And working with my son.🇩🇰🇺🇸🤸🎨🌃
I would've thought that by 61 the Oscar's would be done in color considering such a special occasion and as such the money for using color cameras would've been available.
+sonyhandycam520 Color tvs weren't invented yet. So there would've been no point...
Neil Patrick Harris is not on ????? He is very good but there will forever only be one Bob Hope !
OF THE WORLD
Short speeches! Bring them back.
could theynot colorize this video clip?
if i say PLEEZ, would they?
Of course not. Why are you watching a show about old movies if you don't like black & white?
Black & White doesn't have any relevance to an award show its not like its part of a film design. Colour would bring more life to the proceedings, I feel.
What kind of dullard would want this historic clip colorized? Imbecile.
Elvis would have just filmed his latest picture, Wild In The Country at this stage and is now preparing to go to Hawaii to perform a concert then film Blue Hawaii.
When elegance was true to form.
Now not so much..
What a great time in America, everyone is well dressed and meticulously full of respect and class, nothing like this much anymore, what a horrible shame and it's awful and unforgivable as well PERIOD!!!!!
Are you smoking meth. literally Cold War is heating up, Bay of Pigs turns into dumpster fire the Cuba Missile Crisis brought the Soviet Union & USA to the edge of a nuclear sh*t show. The Vietnam War not to mention JFK getting assassinated on live TV greatness.
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis - Hollywood’s happiest couple?
A stunning couple but it won't last much longer.
strange that tony and janet give out such a minor award as they were both major stars
hey they were first.
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where is the videotape
STAR
There is No Kim Kardashian and Cardi B at that Time!
And the world was so much better for it
But there was still Marilyn Monroe...who, sadly, had only a year left on this Earth.