*Movie Stars*

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Movie Stars

• Of the 1960s

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Julie Andrews

• Julie Andrews played in many movies and was
  extremely popular. Her most classic roles in
  movies were Mary Poppins, for which she won
  Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards in
  1964. She also played Maria in the musical The
  Sound of Music.

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Sean Connery

• Sean Connery was the largest and most popular
  known James Bond actor. He starred in many of the
  James Bond movies such as From Russia, With
  Love. He won Best Supporting Actor Award at the
  Academy Awards for role in The Untouchables.

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Doris Day

• Doris Day, started her career with singing and
  dancing, instead of movies. Her movie career
  started with Pillow Talk and followed with The
  Touch of Mink. She ended with With Six You Get
  Egg Roll.

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Gregory Peck

• Gregory Peck is a known Hollywood star for his
  awesome performances, but most people are
  enthralled by his great-speaking voice. The
  largest movie was the classic, To Kill A
  Mockingbird. For the performance he received
  Best Actor Award in the 1962 Academy Awards.

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Audrey Hepburn

• Audrey Hepburns career landed her into her first
  large movie called, Roman Holiday with Gregory
  Peck. Her other roles in movies included
  Breakfast at Tiffanys and a huge hit, My Fair
  Lady.

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John Wayne

• John Wayne was an extremely big star, but he
  mainly was known for his leading roles in western
  movies. Such as True Grit in which he received
  Best Actor Award at the 1969 Academy Awards. He
  starred in other movies like, The Longest Day
  and The Quiet Man.

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Natalie Wood

• Natalie Woods star performance was in the great
  hit musical, that will forever remain a classic
  West Side Story in which she played and won an
  Academy Award for her character Maria. Her other
  film that she starred in was The Great Race.

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Sidney Poitier

• Sidney Poitier opened the door for African
  Americans everywhere to act in movies. His first
  movie was In The Heat of The Night. His most
  famous movie was Lilies of The Field in which
  he was one of the first African Americans to win
  a Best Actor Award.

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Elizabeth Taylor

• Elizabeth Taylors movie Butterfield 8 was
  widely known and also won her a Best Actress
  Award at the 1960s Academy Awards. Her next
  movie was just as splendid, when she played the
  great Cleopatra in the movie Cleopatra.
  Elizabeths last movie, Whos afraid of Virginia
  Woolf earned her another Best Actress Award.

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Paul Newman

• Paul Newman started off with a huge hit called
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in which he starred in
  with Elizabeth Taylor. He then moved on to act
  out a character in the film HUD. Finally in
  1969 he finished his movie Butch Cassidy and the
  Sundance Kid.

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In the 1930s the greatest feat of technology was
having movies with color and sound. Also another
good portion of the movies during the 1960s were
romance. This was probably because there was a
lot of hippies who strongly treasured love.
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Sources

• http//www.movieactors.com/60s.htm
• http//www.allposters.com/
• Pekkala, K., Interview, 5 May 2003.

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