Best Women Biography movies of 1960s

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, Omar Sharif,
Directors : William Wyler,

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Haydn, Eleanor Parker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Gogi Gegechkori, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Debbie Reynolds,
Directors : Charles Walters,

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.

Actors : James Fox, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

Actors : Carlos Romero, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Celia Milius,
Directors : James B. Clark,

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Actors : Peter van Eyck, Ruth Leuwerik, Robert Graf, Harry Meyen,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Mueller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly ...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Folco Lulli, Michel Le Royer, Pascale Audret,
Directors : Jean Dréville,

During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman La Fayette comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command.

Actors : Mel Welles, Alicia Brandet, Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Robert Spafford,

A teenage prostitute in England gets involved with high-level politicians and becomes enmeshed in a sex-and-spy scandal.

Actors : María Luisa Lamata, Jesús Maella, Amalia Aviles, Rufino Inglés,
Directors : Agustín Navarro,

Biographical film about the venezolan physician José Gregorio Hernández.