The Opening of the Academy Awards in 1961
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- 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.
I can understand the camera zooming in on Greer Garson, she was very photogenic, the camera loved her
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.
OMG Bob was such a hoot!!!
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.
🍀🍀✨✨I truly love 💕 and appreciate the Hollywood Actors Style and Movies they all are Beautiful Stars🌟 💫 ⭐️ ✨🍀🍀
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
Bob Hope was hilarious :D
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
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.
Todays Oscar's are way too much about politics and race and not enough about entertainment. I miss the old days when Bob Hope was hosting
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Thank you so much❢
Happiest couples - Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis got divorced a few months later.
Haggis- it wasn't a transgender joke. Perkins played the character's mother, which was revealed at the end of the film.
17:16 Wow-Janet Leigh was beautiful!!!
Neil Patrick Harris is not on ????? He is very good but there will forever only be one Bob Hope !
Does anyone know where the rest of this is ?
OF THE WORLD
toni Curtis was a good LOOKING guy and it had to happen divorce in 2 yrs when toni was getting 1k letters a week from geerls and 100 more out side the studio waiting for toni
That sentence didnt make a lot of sense. It was a run on.
He had a young girlfriend, christine, whom he later married and divorced
I like the Academy Awards like this. Old Hollywood. Now it has become to political, not as glamorous, and no phones.
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17:14 Jane Leigh looks absolutely stunning in this. Very beautiful smile she had. Of course you if you steal 40.000 dollars and then a psycho murders you in the shower, you don't smile too much. A pity that in her most widely known work she didn't use that beautiful smile of hers.
+Fer Abra I guess you missed her in 'Black Shield of Falworth'.
it's probably the most attractive I've seen her..
+Jason Wilson She looked fantastic in a previous Oscar ceremony in a bronze high necked sequins sheath...probably the most beautiful ever ...loved her as a teenager. And still always a pleasure to see how good an actress she was in so many films....studio assembly line productions but her honesty and straight forward acting always shown through.
miltsar .....
Thanks for the suggestions. .
I've seen her in films as a very attractive lady, at the presentation as they say
" simply marvelous "..
According to her daughter, "mom as petite as she was always extremely cautious about her weight ". .
+Jason Wilson ..... There is an excellent bio documentary on youtube ......Janet Leigh A life In Hollywood. It has been made by a friend and associate of hers . It's well worth watching as she had full participation in its making and you get a real sense of what an honest and straight forward woman she was. One of my favorites !
Jamie Lee Curtis's parents
1972 oscars
CBCs last oscars
Days gone bye class in full bloom oh how i miss those stars there will never be a hollywood like that again only thing minorities did not fair well back then to this day halle berry is only best actress winner we have come along way the world was more classey then thay had there promblems but they cover it well time gose bye i take my hat off to all those stars rip sidney Poitier ❤ 12:22 12:24
To jest inny świat w porównaniu do 2023 roku
Very political speech from BH! Would not fly today!
Kind of stiff
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.
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.
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!
The Academy Awards in the 1960s had class, the presenters were hotter, and it was worth watching. Not anymore.
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.
Jack Lemmon at 5:15 tenderly looking at his date/wife?
Jack Lemmon -pure class
100% agree
@Liz F - A fabulous actor - I miss him.
So many stars now gone. Very surreal. I grew up watching all of them.
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.
Sad to see that many of our admired performers have passed.
Wow. Nobody was twerking, and no cell phones. Amazing!
Great candid photography in the audience during the overture!
Lovely Jack Lemmon and Felicia Farr .
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!
Janet Leigh was stunning.
Its scary to know that all these people might be dead now 🤔🤨😣😮🙄😲😖😟☹😩
Wonderful opening music that actually had a melody. No longer the case these days I'm sorry to say.
"actually"
When elegance was true to form.
Now not so much..
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 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....
The winners for best documentaries understood they were not the stars of show and gave classy brief acceptance speeches.
She was so beautiful, in every way. He was a cad
Had to like the line about movies with 2 million dollar budgets--nowadays, you couldn't get in the front door....
Not as it turned out, Holywoods happiest couple, but certainly its prettiest!
Absolutely NO class with today’s Hollywood…
This was better, I think. The video cameras were not as intrusive. The celebs could be more relaxed.
I think the happiest couple was divorced the next year, 1962.
Jamie Lee Cutis - "A Fish Called Wanda"
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Haha. Everyone thinks things were so innocent because of the time period. Hollywood has always had its dark side.
@Ed Miller what a classy man. ( sarc )
Tony Curtis was so handsome and funny loved all his movies.
Janet Leigh was too classy and beautiful for such a cad as Tony Curtis . Tony admitted in his autobiography that he married her to help his career since she at the time was a bigger star and the marriage would give him more visibility . Janet always remained regal always saying that even though the marriage did not work out she was grateful for the happy times . She took the high road because she was a more advanced human being than the limited Tony Curtis .
Wow you really dislike Tony.
What a joy to see this! Thank-you so much for the upload!!
Janet was absolutely beautiful. They were not the happiest couple, they were on the verge of a divorce but hey, it's Hollywood.
The Hope guy was funny
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.
Janet Leigh was beautiful mother to his children and Tony Curtis could not be true to her!!!!
When Hollywood had some class.
4:45-5:44 SINGIN `IN THE RAIN! :D
52 years later....lol
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.🇩🇰🇺🇸🤸🎨🌃
Was Andre Previn conducting?
Yes
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.
I was waiting for someone to walk onstage and slap the host but it didn't happen.
The year I was born.
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.
A stunning couple but it won't last much longer.
I miss a good host and a short and sweet thank you speech!
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.
Today their dauther Jamie hast an Oskar
I forgot how many times Bob Hope was the MC!
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!
The music gets better at 2:40; more appropiate for that era.
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis - Hollywood’s happiest couple?
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 UA-cam. THANKS :)
I like (many) of Bob Hope's movies but as an emcee - well, he spells out the time period.
What are you talking about?. he is often considered the greatest oscar host in the history of the awards ceremony. so anyhow, he was,such an institution at this time. he's permitted to speak as long as he wants to.
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 UA-cam somewhere... check it out
Stoney Curtis!
(an old-school Flintstones ref)
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!!!
My age right now is 33 years old same like Oscars in 1961. My father and my mother was born in 1961 also.💖💖💖
is this an oscars presentation clip or is it the bob hope show?
was this West side story year ! all these should be restored and in colour.
What percentage of that audience would you say is dead now. 90%?
Menos tecnologia en esos tiempos. Pero mas glamour y elegancia, en el vestuario, actitud, etc. Eso pienso
strange that tony and janet give out such a minor award as they were both major stars
Jump to 8:40 to see Bob Hope open the ceremonies.
Wow I was born in 1962, how amazing 😉 when was the first one?
God, does everyone have to read from cue-cards?, Jesus. You'd think at least Bob Hope could memorize a few things....but he was busy chasing women. Once, he rented out the entire top of a Casino to bring tons of women in for a salacious party.
Yup, Thanks for the Mammeries - BH
on the verge of the Viet Nam war
Back when they knew how to do it.
Did they air live?