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The 16 Greatest Musical Films of the 1960s

by YPB Team

Sweeping Hollywood spectacles, Broadway adaptations, and Beatles-fueled romps from a golden decade of song. Which reigns supreme? Cast your vote!

  1. The Sound of Music — ranked #11
    The Sound of Music
    1965 Best Picture winner about a governess and the von Trapp family in pre-war Austria.
    1000pts
  2. West Side Story — ranked #22
    West Side Story
    1961 Best Picture winner reimagining Romeo and Juliet amid rival New York street gangs.
    833pts
  3. My Fair Lady — ranked #33
    My Fair Lady
    1964 Best Picture winner adapting the tale of a phonetics professor transforming a flower girl.
    750pts
  4. A Hard Day's Night — ranked #44
    A Hard Day's Night
    1964 musical comedy capturing a frenzied day in the life of The Beatles.
    500pts
  5. Half a Sixpence — ranked #55
    Half a Sixpence
    1967 musical following a draper's apprentice who unexpectedly inherits a fortune.
    500pts
  6. Bye Bye Birdie — ranked #66
    Bye Bye Birdie
    1963 musical comedy satirizing rock-and-roll mania around a drafted teen idol.
    500pts
  7. Yellow Submarine — ranked #77
    Yellow Submarine
    1968 animated musical fantasy set to the songs of The Beatles.
    500pts
  8. Hello, Dolly! — ranked #88
    Hello, Dolly!
    1969 musical starring Barbra Streisand as a meddling turn-of-the-century matchmaker.
    500pts
  9. Oliver! — ranked #99
    Oliver!
    1968 Best Picture winner adapting Dickens's orphan tale into a sweeping stage musical.
    409pts
  10. Mary Poppins — ranked #1010
    Mary Poppins
    Disney's 1964 musical about a magical nanny who transforms a London family.
    409pts
  11. The Music Man — ranked #1111
    The Music Man
    1962 musical about a charming con man who poses as a boys' band leader in Iowa.
    300pts
  12. Sweet Charity — ranked #1212
    Sweet Charity
    1969 Bob Fosse musical about a hopeful dance-hall hostess searching for love.
    300pts
  13. Gypsy — ranked #1313
    Gypsy
    1962 musical about an overbearing stage mother and the rise of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee.
    300pts
  14. Funny Girl — ranked #1414
    Funny Girl
    1968 musical biopic that won Barbra Streisand an Oscar as comedienne Fanny Brice.
    0pts
  15. Camelot — ranked #1515
    Camelot
    1967 musical retelling the Arthurian legend of love and betrayal at the Round Table.
    0pts
  16. Doctor Dolittle — ranked #1616
    Doctor Dolittle
    1967 musical fantasy about an eccentric physician who can talk to animals.
    0pts

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