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Contents
Articles
Yul Brynner
1
1949 in film
8
1956 in film
16
1958 in film
25
1959 in film
33
1960 in film
42
1962 in film
51
1963 in film
60
1964 in film
69
1965 in film
79
1966 in film
89
1967 in film
99
1969 in film
110
1971 in film
120
1972 in film
131
1973 in film
142
1975 in film
152
Academy Award for Best Actor
163
Adiós, Sabata
183
Anastasia (1956 film)
185
Anna and the King (TV series)
188
Battle of Neretva (film)
191
Cast a Giant Shadow
194
Catlow
197
Cecil B. DeMille
199
Death Rage
208
Escape from Zahrain
210
Flight from Ashiya
212
Futureworld
214
Fuzz (film)
218
George Platt Lynes
219
Gertrude Lawrence
222
Goodbye Again (1961 film)
232
Invitation to a Gunfighter
235
Kings of the Sun
237
Lute Song (musical)
239
Marlene Dietrich
241
Mary Beth Peil
254
Michael Chekhov
256
Mongkut
259
Morituri (1965 film)
269
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
270
Night Flight from Moscow
275
Once More, with Feeling!
277
One Night in Bangkok
278
Orson Welles
284
Port of New York (film)
315
Ramesses II
317
Return of the Seven
331
Rodgers and Hammerstein
333
Solomon and Sheba
340
Surprise Package (film)
343
Taras Bulba (1962 film)
345
Testament of Orpheus
347
The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)
348
The Buccaneer (1958 film)
350
The Consul
351
The Double Man (1967 film)
354
The File of the Golden Goose
356
The Journey (1959 film)
358
The King and I
360
The King and I (1956 film)
384
The Light at the Edge of the World
390
The Long Duel
393
The Madwoman of Chaillot (film)
395
The Magic Christian (film)
397
The Magnificent Seven
401
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
407
The Sound and the Fury (film)
409
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
410
The Ultimate Warrior (1975 film)
419
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
421
Triple Cross (1966 film)
428
Villa Rides
430
Virginia Gilmore
432
Vladivostok
434
Westworld
445
References
Article Sources and Contributors
449
Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors
457
Article Licenses
License
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Yul Brynner
1
Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner
from the trailer for The Ten Commandments (1956)
Born
Yuliy Borisovich Briner
July 11, 1920
Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic
Died
October 10, 1985 (aged 65)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active 1941–85
Spouse(s)
Virginia Gilmore (m. 1944 – 1960) (divorced)
Doris Kleiner (m. 1960 – 1967) (divorced)
Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume (m. 1971 – 1981)
(divorced)
Kathy Lee (m. 1983 – 1985) (his death)
Parents
Boris Yuliyevich Brinner
Marusya Dmitrievna Blagovidova
Yul Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Yuliy Borisovich Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985)[1]
was a Russian-born American stage and film actor.[2] He was best known for his portrayal of the king of Siam in the
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for
the film version; he played the role 4,625 times on stage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B.
DeMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia and Chris Adams in The
Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a
personal trademark long after adopting it in 1951 for his role in The King and I. Earlier, he was a model and
television director, and later a photographer and the author of two books.
Yul Brynner
Early life
Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner in 1920.[3][4] He
exaggerated his background and early life for the press, claiming that
he was born Taidje Khan of part-Mongol parentage, on the Russian
island of Sakhalin.[5] In reality, he was born at home in a four-storey
residence at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok, in the Far East Russian
Republic (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia).[6] He also occasionally
referred to himself as Julius Briner,[1] Jules Bryner, or Youl
Bryner.[3] A 1989 biography by his son, Rock Brynner, clarified these
issues.
His father, Boris Yuliyevich Bryner, was a mining engineer whose
father, Jules Bryner, was a Swiss citizen who moved to Vladivostok in
[7]
the 1870s and established a successful import-export company.
Brynner's paternal grandmother, Natalya Yosifovna Kurkutova, was a
Statue of Yul Brynner in front of his birthplace in
Vladivostok, Russia
native of Irkutsk and was partly of Buryat ancestry. His mother,
Marousia Dimitrievna (née Blagovidova), came from the intelligentsia
and studied to be an actress and singer. He felt a strong personal connection to the Romani people. In 1977, he was
[8][9]
named Honorary President of the International Romani Union, an office that he kept until his death.
Boris Bryner's work required extensive travel, and in 1923 he fell in love with an actress, Katya Kornukova, at the
Moscow Art Theatre, and soon after abandoned his family. Yul's mother took him and his sister, Vera Brynner, to
Harbin, Manchuria (present day China), where they attended a school run by the YMCA. In 1932, fearing a war
between China and Japan, she took them to Paris.[7] Brynner played his guitar in Russian nightclubs in Paris,
sometimes accompanying his sister, playing Russian and gypsy songs. He trained as a trapeze acrobat and worked in
a French circus troupe for three years, but after sustaining a back injury, he turned to acting.[7][10] In 1938, his
mother was diagnosed with leukemia, and they briefly moved back to Harbin.[7] In 1940, speaking very little
English, Brynner and his mother emigrated to the U.S. aboard the S.S. President Cleveland, arriving in New York
City on October 25, 1940, where his sister already lived.[7][3] Vera, a singer, starred in The Consul on Broadway in
1950[11] and appeared at The Metropolitan Opera as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and on television in the title
role of Carmen. She later taught voice in New York.[12]
Career
During World War II, Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer and commentator for the U.S. Office of
War Information, broadcasting propaganda to occupied France.[13] At the same time, he studied acting in
Connecticut with the Russian teacher Michael Chekhov. Brynner’s first Broadway performance was a small part in
[7]
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in December 1941. Brynner found little acting work during the next few years, but
among other acting stints, he co-starred in a 1946 production of Lute Song with Mary Martin. He also did some
modeling work and was photographed nude by George Platt Lynes.[14]
Brynner married his first wife, actress Virginia Gilmore, in 1944, and soon after began working as a director at the
new CBS television studios, directing Studio One, among other shows. In 1949, he made his film debut in Port of
New York, his only film with his natural head of hair. The next year, at the urging of Martin, he auditioned for
Rodgers and Hammerstein's new musical in New York. He recalled that, as he was finding success as a director on
television, he was reluctant to go back on the stage. Once he read the script, however, he was fascinated by the
character of the King and was eager to do the project.[15]
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His best-known role remains that of King Mongkut of Siam in The
King and I which he played 4,625 times on stage over the span of his
career. He appeared in the original 1951 production and later touring
productions as well as a 1977 Broadway revival, a London Production
in 1979 and another Broadway revival in 1985. He won Tony Award
for both the first and the last of these Broadway productions. He also
appeared in the 1956 film version, for which he won an Academy
Award as Best Actor and in a short-lived TV version (Anna and the
King) on CBS in 1972. Brynner is one of only nine people who have
won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the same role. His
Brynner with Gertrude Lawrence in the original
connection to the story and the role of King Mongkut is so deep that he
production of The King and I, 1951
was mentioned in the song "One Night in Bangkok" from the 1984
musical Chess whose second act is set in Bangkok.
[16][17]
Following the huge success of the Broadway
In 1951 Brynner shaved his head for his role in The King and I.
production and subsequent film, Brynner continued to shave his head for the rest of his life, though he would
sometimes wear a wig for certain roles. Brynner's shaved head was unusual at the time, and his striking appearance
helped to give him an iconic appeal.[18] Some fans shaved off their hair to emulate him,[19] and a shaved head was
often referred to as the "Yul Brynner look".[20][21][22]
Brynner made an immediate impact upon launching his mainstream film career in 1956 and quickly gained superstar
status after appearing not only in The King and I that year but also in starring roles in The Ten Commandments, and
Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman. Brynner, at 5'10", was reportedly concerned about being overshadowed by costar
Charlton Heston's height and physical presence in The Ten Commandments and prepared his impressive physique
seen in the film with an intensive weight-lifting program.
He appeared in more than 40 other films over the next two decades,[7] including the epic Solomon and Sheba (1959),
The Magnificent Seven (1960), Taras Bulba (1962) and Kings of the Sun (1963). He co-starred with Marlon Brando
in Morituri (1965), Katharine Hepburn in The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) and Lee J. Cobb in a film version of
The Brothers Karamazov (1958). He played the titular role of The Ultimate Warrior (1975) and starred with Barbara
Bouchet in Death Rage (1976). Among his final feature film appearances were in Michael Crichton's Westworld
(1973) and its sequel Futureworld (1976). Brynner also appeared in drag (as a torch singer) in an unbilled role in the
Peter Sellers comedy The Magic Christian (1969).[23]
Photographer, author, and musician
In addition to his work as a director and performer, Brynner was an active photographer and wrote two books. His
daughter Victoria put together Yul Brynner: Photographer (ISBN 0-8109-3144-3) a collection of his photographs of
family, friends, and fellow actors, as well as those he took while serving as a UN special consultant on refugees.
Brynner wrote Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East (1960),
with photographs by himself and Magnum photographer Inge Morath, and also The Yul Brynner Cookbook: Food Fit
for the King and You (1983 ISBN 0-8128-2882-8).
A student of music from childhood, Brynner was an accomplished guitarist. In his early period in Europe he often
played and sang gypsy songs in Parisian nightclubs with Aliosha Dimitrievitch. He sang some of those same songs in
the film The Brothers Karamazov. In 1967 he and Dimitrievitch released a record album The Gypsy and I: Yul
Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs (Vanguard VSD 79265).
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Personal life
Brynner was married four times, the first three ending in divorce. He fathered three children and adopted two.
He and his first wife, actress Virginia Gilmore (1944–1960), had one child, Rock Yul Brynner, born on December
23, 1946. His father nicknamed him "Rock" when he was six years old in honor of boxer Rocky Graziano. Rock is a
historian, novelist, and university history lecturer at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York and Western
Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. In 2006, Rock wrote a book about his father and his family
history titled Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond. Rock regularly returns to
Vladivostok, the city of his father's birth, for the "Pacific Meridian" Film Festival. Yul Brynner had a long affair
with Marlene Dietrich, who was 19 years his senior, during the first production of The King and I.[24]
Brynner's daughter Lark Brynner was born out of wedlock in 1959 and raised by her mother, Frankie Tilden, who
was 20 years old when Lark was born. Brynner supported her financially. His second wife, from 1960 to 1967, Doris
Kleiner, was a Chilean model whom he married on the set during shooting of The Magnificent Seven in 1960. They
had one child, Victoria Brynner (born November 1962), whose godmother was Audrey Hepburn.[25]
His third wife, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume (1971–1981), was a French socialite, the widow of Philippe de
Croisset (he was the son of French playwright Francis de Croisset and a publishing executive).[24] Brynner and
Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974) and Melody (1975). The first house that he ever owned
was the Manoir de Criqueboeuf, a sixteenth-century manor house that he and Jacqueline purchased.[24] His 1980
announcement that he would continue in the role of the King for another long tour and Broadway run, together with
his affairs with female fans and his neglect of his wife and children, broke up their marriage.[26]
At the age of 63, he married his fourth wife, Kathy Lee, a 24-year-old ballerina from a small town in Malaysia whom
he had met in a production of The King and I in which she had a small dancing role. They remained married for the
last 2 years (1983–1985) of Brynner's life.[27]
Citizenship
Brynner, a Swiss citizen, was naturalized as a US citizen, but in June 1965, he renounced his US citizenship at the
US Embassy in Berne, Switzerland for tax reasons. He had lost his tax exemption as an American resident abroad by
working too long in the U.S. and would have been bankrupted by his tax and penalty debt.[24]
Illness and Death
Brynner began smoking heavily at age 12, and his promotional photos almost always showed him with a cigarette in
his hand, but he quit in 1971. In September 1983, Brynner found a lump on his vocal chords. In Los Angeles, only
hours before his 4,000th performance in The King and I, he received the test results. His throat would be fine, but he
had inoperable lung cancer. Brynner and the national tour of the musical were forced to take off a few months while
he underwent radiation therapy, which hurt his throat and made it impossible for him to sing or speak easily.[7] The
tour then resumed.[28][29]
In January 1985, nine months before his death, the tour reached New York for a farewell Broadway run. Aware he
was dying, Brynner gave an interview on Good Morning America discussing the dangers of smoking and expressing
his desire to make an anti-smoking commercial. The Broadway production of The King and I ran from January 7 to
June 30 of that year, with Mary Beth Peil as Anna. His last performance marked the 4,625th time he had played the
role of the King. Meanwhile, Brynner and the American Cancer Society created a public service announcement
using a clip from the Good Morning America interview. Brynner died of lung cancer on October 10, 1985 in New
York City on the same day as his Battle of Neretva co-star Orson Welles.[30][31] Only a few days after his death, the
public service announcement was showing on all the major U.S. television networks and was shown in many other
countries around the world. He then looked directly into the camera for 30 seconds, "his distinctive voice uttering
one last haunting plea: 'Now that I’m gone, I tell you: Don’t smoke. Whatever you do, just don’t smoke.'"[7]
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His remains are interred in France on the grounds of the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry Russian Orthodox monastery
near Luzé between Tours and Poitiers.
Honors and awards
On September 28, 2012, an eight-foot-tall statue was inaugurated at Yul Brynner Park, in front of the home where he
was born at Aleutskaya St. No. 15 in Vladivostok, Russia. Created by local sculptor Alexei Bokiy, the monument
was carved in granite from China. The grounds for the park were donated by the city of Vladivostok, which also paid
additional costs. Vladivostok Mayor Igor Pushkariov, U.S. Consul General Sylvia Curran, and Rock Brynner
participated in the ceremony, along with hundreds of city residents.
Brynner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6162 Hollywood Blvd.
Other
The cottage at his childhood country home, at Sidimi near Vladivostok, is now a family museum.
In 1952 he received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of The King in The King
and I (musical).
He won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the King of Siam in The King and I and made
the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" list in both 1957 and 1958.
In 1985 he received a Special Tony Award honoring his 4,525 performances in The King and I.
Filmography
Features:
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Port of New York (1949)
The King and I (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Anastasia (1956)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
The Buccaneer (1958)
The Journey (1959)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
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Once More, with Feeling! (1960)
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Surprise Package (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Goodbye Again (1961)
Escape from Zahrain (1962)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Kings of the Sun (1963)
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
Morituri (1965)
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
Return of the Seven (1966)
Triple Cross (1966)
[32]
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The Double Man (1967)
The Long Duel (1967)
Villa Rides (1968)
The Picasso Summer (1969)
The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
Battle of Neretva (1969)
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Adiós, Sabata (1971)
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
Catlow (1971)
Fuzz (1972)
Night Flight from Moscow (1973)
Westworld (1973)
The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
Death Rage (1976)
Futureworld (1976)
Short subjects:
• On Location with Westworld (1973)
• Lost to the Revolution (1980) (narrator)
Stage work
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Twelfth Night (December 2–13, 1941) (Broadway)
The Moon Vine (February 11–27, 1943) (Broadway)
Lute Song (February 6 – June 8, 1946) (Broadway)
The King and I (March 29, 1951 – December 17, 1955) (Broadway and national tour)
Home Sweet Homer (January 4, 1976) (Broadway)
The King and I (Revival) (May 2, 1977 – December 30, 1978) (Broadway and national tour)
The King and I (Revival) (January 7 – June 30, 1985) (Broadway)
References
[1] Record of Yul Brynner, #108-18-2984. Social Security Administration. Born in 1920 according to the Social Security Death Index (although
some sources indicate the year was 1915) (http:/ / ssdi. rootsweb. com/ ) Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006; In his book, Brynner's son,
Rock Yul Brynner, asserts that his father was born in 1920.
[2] Obituary Variety, October 16, 1985.
[3] United States Declaration of Intent (Document No. 541593), Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2004,
filed June 4, 1943
[4] Some sources cite July 7, 1915 as his date of birth, though Brynner himself always gave the 1920 date in immigration and naturalization
documents. (http:/ / www. imninalu. net/ famousGypsies. htm)
[5] Brynner, Rock. Yul: The Man Who Would Be King Berkeley Books: 1991. ISBN 0-425-12547-5
[6] Bryner Residence (http:/ / www. wsulibs. wsu. edu/ Vladivostok/ Bryner. htm)
[7] Rochman, Sue. "A King's Legacy" (http:/ / www. cancertodaymag. org/ Winter2011/ Pages/ yul-brynner-lung-cancer. aspx), Cancer Today
magazine, Winter 2011 (December 5, 2011), accessed January 20, 2013
[8] "'Gypsies Appeal to U.N. for Aid And Protection of Civil Rights'" (http:/ / select. nytimes. com/ gst/ abstract.
html?res=F50D17FA385513728DDDAD0894DE405B888BF1D3). The New York Times. June 4, 1978. . Retrieved September 19, 2008.
[9] "Yul Brynner: Biography" (http:/ / www. filmreference. com/ film/ 8/ Yul-Brynner. html). filmreference.com. . Retrieved 2009-10-13.
[10] Seiler, Michael. "Yul Brynner Dies at 65; 30 Years in King and I" (http:/ / articles. latimes. com/ 1985-10-10/ news/
mn-15605_1_gypsy-troupe), Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1985, accessed January 5, 2013
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[11] Vera Brynner (http:/ / ibdb. com/ person. php?id=94435), at the Internet Broadway Database, accessed January 20, 2013
[12] "EBONY 10/1966" (http:/ / books. google. ru/ books?id=OkbpkXl3lMwC& lpg=PA56& ots=p1RRbda7cL& dq=vera brynner& pg=PA56&
output=embed)
[13] Brynner, Rock. Yul: The Man Who Would Be King (p. 30) Berkeley Books: 1991. ISBN 0-425-12547-5
[14] Leddick, David. George Platt Lynes. New York: Taschen, 2000
[15] Capua, pp. 26, 28
[16] "Yul Brynner, 65, dies of cancer in N.Y. hospital". The Baltimore Sun. 10 October 1985.
[17] "'Lost' actor stars in West End's 'King'" (http:/ / www. upi. com/ Entertainment_News/ 2009/ 06/ 18/ Lost-actor-stars-in-West-Ends-King/
UPI-54921245381356/ ). UPI.com. .
[18] Brynner, Rock (2006). Empire & odyssey: the Brynners in Far East Russia and beyond. Steerforth Press.
[19] Crouse, Richard (2005). Reel Winners: Movie Award Trivia (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=q5Q4l1AhELcC& pg=PA171). .
[20] Doyle, Hubert (2008). Ventures with the World of Celebrities, Movies & TV (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=IywAvmhXLPkC&
pg=PA112). .
[21] Douty, Linda (2011). How Did I Get to Be 70 When I'm 35 Inside?: Spiritual Surprises of Later Life (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=WWL0FrvB0PIC& pg=PA50). .
[22] Yacowar, Maurice (1999). The Bold Testament (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=9eX060DD19MC& pg=PA139). .
[23] Krafsur, Richard P., ed. American Film Institute Catalog, Feature Films 1961-1970 (p. 662), R.R. Bowker Company, 1976; ISBN
0-8352-0453-7
[24] Capua, Michelangelo (2006). Yul Brynner, A Biography. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-2461-3.
[25] Elsur.cl (http:/ / www. elsur. cl/ archivo/ marzo2000/ 22marzo2000/ elsur/ despacho/ opinion4. htm)
[26] Capua, p 151.
[27] tv.com. "Yul Brynner: Biography" (http:/ / www. tv. com/ yul-brynner/ person/ 18963/ biography. html). .
[28] Capua, pp. 151–57
[29] Rosenfeld, Megan. "Classic King and I (https:/ / secure. pqarchiver. com/ washingtonpost_historical/ access/ 124184102. html?FMT=AI&
FMTS=ABS:AI& date=Dec+ 6,+ 1984& author=By+ Megan+ Rosenfeld+ Washington+ Post+ Staff+ Writer& desc=Classic+ 'King+ and+
I')". The Washington Post, December 6, 1984, p. B13. Retrieved December 28, 2012. (subscription required)
[30] "A King's Legacy", Cancer Today magazine,Winter 2011 (http:/ / www. cancertodaymag. org/ Winter2011/ Pages/ yul-brynner-lung-cancer.
aspx)
[31] Anti-smoking PSA (http:/ / boss. streamos. com/ wmedia/ musc/ ybpsa2. wvx)
[32] IBDB (http:/ / www. ibdb. com/ production. php?id=4357)
Further reading
• Michelangelo, Capua (2006). Yul Brynner: A Biography. ISBN 0-7864-2461-3.
External links
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Yul Brynner (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=33507) at the Internet Broadway Database
Yul Brynner (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm989/) at the Internet Movie Database
Yul Brynner (http://tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?participantId=24425) at the TCM Movie Database
Yul Brynner (http://www.allrovi.com/name/p9264) at AllRovi
Yul Brynner: The Magnificent King (http://yulbrynner.site90.net)
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The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Rank
Title
Studio
Actors
Gross
1.
Samson and Delilah
Paramount
Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature
$11,500,000
2.
Battleground
MGM
Van Johnson and John Hodiak
$5,051,000
3.
Jolson Sings Again
Sands of Iwo Jima
Columbia
Republic
Larry Parks
John Wayne
$5,000,000
5.
I Was a Male War Bride
20th Century Fox Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan
$4,100,000
6.
Twelve O'Clock High
20th Century Fox Gregory Peck
$4,025,000
7.
A Letter to Three Wives
20th Century Fox Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
$3,800,000
8.
The Heiress
Paramount
9.
Pinky
20th Century Fox Jeanne Crain
$3,600,000
10.
All the King's Men
Columbia
Broderick Crawford and John Ireland
$3,500,000
11.
Little Women
MGM
June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor
$3,500,000
12.
Look for the Silver Lining 20th Century Fox June Haver and Ray Bolger
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Miriam Hopkins $3,700,000
Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia
Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
Best Actor: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
Golden Globe Awards:
Best Picture: All the King's Men
Best Director: Robert Rossen – All the King's Men
Best Actor: Broderick Crawford – All the King's Men
$3,250,000
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Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland – The Heiress
Best Foreign Language Film: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette), Italy
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival):
The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
Manon, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, France
Top Ten Money Making Stars
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Bob Hope
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Bing Crosby
3. (tie) Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
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John Wayne
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Gary Cooper
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Cary Grant
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Betty Grable
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Esther Williams
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Humphrey Bogart
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Clark Gable
Notable films released in 1949
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• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Accused, starring Loretta Young and Robert Cummings
• Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, David Wayne, Tom Ewell,
Judy Holliday
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, narrated by Basil Rathbone and Bing Crosby
• Africa Screams, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Alexander Popov, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
• Alias Nick Beal, starring Ray Milland and Audrey Totter
• All the King's Men, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes
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• Always Leave Them Laughing, starring Milton Berle and Bert Lahr
• Any Number Can Play, starring Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Audrey Totter
• Aventurera (Adventuress) - (Mexico)
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• The Barkleys of Broadway, the last of 10 films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Barsaat (Rain), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
• Battleground, starring Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, starring Betty Grable
Begone Dull Care, experimental animated film featuring music of Oscar Peterson - (Canada)
Beyond the Forest, starring Bette Davis
The Big Cat, starring Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Peggy Ann Garner
The Big Steal, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Patric Knowles
Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro), starring Vittorio Gassman and Silvana Mangano - (Italy)
The Blue Lagoon, starring Jean Simmons - (Britain)
Border Incident, starring Ricardo Montalbán
Boys from the Streets (Gategutter) - (Norway)
The Bribe, starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak
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Caught, directed by Max Ophüls, starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Ryan
Champion, starring Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Chicken Every Sunday, directed by George Seaton, starring Dan Dailey and Celeste Holm
The Chiltern Hundreds, directed by John Paddy Carstairs - (Britain)
Christopher Columbus, directed by David MacDonald, starring Frederic March - (Britain)
City Across the River, starring Stephen McNally
Colorado Territory, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo
• Come to the Stable, starring Loretta Young and Celeste Holm
• Criss Cross, starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo
• Crows and Sparrows (Wuya yu maque), directed by Zheng Junli - (China)
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• Distant Journey (Daleká cesta) - (Czechoslovakia)
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Edward, My Son, directed by George Cukor, starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr
Easy Living, starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball
The Emperor of Capri (L'imperatore di Capri), directed by Luigi Comencini - (Italy)
The Emperor's Nightingale (Císařův slavík), an animated film narrated by Boris Karloff - (Czechoslovakia)
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Flamingo Road, starring Joan Crawford
For Them That Trespass, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Richard Todd - (Britain)
The Fountainhead, directed by King Vidor, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal
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• Give Us This Day, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Sam Wanamaker - (Britain)
• The Great Gatsby, starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Ruth Hussey
• The Great Madcap (El Gran Calavera), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Soler - (Mexico)
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The Hasty Heart, starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal - (U.S./Britain)
The Heiress, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Miriam Hopkins
Holiday Affair, starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh
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• Home of the Brave, starring Jeff Corey
• House of Strangers, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Susan
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I Shot Jesse James, starring Preston Foster and John Ireland
I Was a Male War Bride, starring Cary Grant
Impact, starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines
In the Good Old Summertime, starring Judy Garland and Van Johnson
In the Name of the Law (In nome della legge), directed by Pietro Germi - (Italy)
The Inspector General, starring Danny Kaye
The Interrupted Journey, starring Richard Todd and Valerie Hobson - (Britain)
Intruder in the Dust, directed by Clarence Brown
It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray Milland
It's Not Cricket directed by Alfred Roome, starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne - (Britain)
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• Jolson Sings Again, starring Larry Parks and Barbara Hale
• Jour de fête (Festival Day), directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
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• Kind Hearts and Coronets, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson (Britain)
• King of the Rocket Men, starring Tristram Coffin and Mae Clarke
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• Late Spring (Banshun), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Life (Vazhkai), directed by A. V. Meiyappan, starring Vyjayanthimala in her screen debut - (India)
• A Letter to Three Wives, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern,
Paul Douglas, Kirk Douglas
• Little Women, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Margaret
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• Lust for Gold, starring Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford
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Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones and James Mason
Mahal (The Mansion), starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
Malaya, starring Spencer Tracy and James Stewart
Manon, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - (France)
The Marriage of Figaro (Figaros Hochzeit) - (East Germany)
Mighty Joe Young, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Terry Moore and Ben Johnson
Mother Is a Freshman, starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson
My Foolish Heart, starring Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews
• My Friend Irma, film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
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• Neptune's Daughter, starring Esther Williams
• Night Unto Night, directed by Don Siegel, starring Ronald Reagan
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• No Way Back, starring Terence De Marney, Eleanor Summerfield - (Britain)
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• Obsession, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Robert Newton - (Britain)
• Oh, You Beautiful Doll, starring June Haver
• On the Town, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett
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Passport to Pimlico, starring Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford - (Britain)
Pinky, starring Jeanne Crain
Prince of Foxes, starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles
Prison (Fängelse), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
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• The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto), starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
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Red, Hot and Blue, starring Betty Hutton and Victor Mature
Red Light, starring George Raft and Virginia Mayo
The Red Pony, starring Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum
The Rocking Horse Winner, starring Valerie Hobson and John Howard Davies - (Britain)
Rope of Sand, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Rotation (Sowjetische Zone) - (East Germany)
Rustlers, starring Tim Holt and Martha Hyer
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Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne
The Secret Garden, starring Margaret O'Brien and Herbert Marshall
The Set-Up, starring Robert Ryan
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, starring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, Ben Johnson
Shockproof, starring Cornel Wilde
Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach), directed by Yves Allégret - (France)
Le Silence de la mer, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - (France)
Slattery's Hurricane, starring Richard Widmark, Veronica Lake, Linda Darnell
The Small Back Room, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - (Britain)
Sons of Matthew (aka The Rugged O'Riordans) - (Australia)
South of St. Louis, starring Joel McCrea and Alexis Smith
The Stratton Story, starring James Stewart and June Allyson
Stray Dog (Nora inu), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
Streets of Laredo, starring William Holden, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix
The Sun Comes Up, starring Jeannette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Lassie
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That Dangerous Age, starring Myrna Loy and Peggy Cummins
That Forsyte Woman, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
That Midnight Kiss, starring Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza
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• They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell
• Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Conte
• The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles (Britain)
• Too Late for Tears, starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea
• Tulsa, starring Susan Hayward and Robert Preston
• Twelve O'Clock High, starring Gregory Peck
• Under Capricorn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman - (Britain)
• The Undercover Man, starring Glenn Ford and Nina Foch
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Waga koi wa moenu (Flame of My Love), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles), directed by René Clément, starring Jean Gabin - (France/Italy)
We Were Strangers, starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield
Whirlpool, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney
Whisky Galore!, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood - (Britain)
White Heat, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
The Window, starring Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy
Without Honor, starring Laraine Day
You, the Rich (Ustedes los ricos), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
• You're My Everything, directed by Walter Lang, starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter
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Batman and Robin, starring Robert Lowery
Bruce Gentry, starring Tom Neal
Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc, starring Kirk Alyn and Rosemary LaPlanche
Ghost of Zorro, starring Clayton Moore and Pamela Blake
The James Brothers of Missouri, starring Keith Richards and Noel Neill
King of the Rocket Men, starring Tristram Coffin and Mae Clarke
Radar Patrol vs Spy King, starring Kirk Alyn
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Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Popeye (1933–1957)
Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Donald Duck (1934–1956)
Pluto (1937–1951)
Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
Andy Panda (1939-1949)
Goofy (1939–1953)
Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
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Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
Droopy (1943–1958)
Blackie the Sheep (1947-1949)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943-1949)
Jan Wickman Shorts (1949-1994)
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January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
January 16 - Caroline Munro, English actress and model
January 17 - Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (died 1984)
January 24 - John Belushi, American actor and comedian (died 1982)
January 27 - Zbigniew Rybczyński, Polish film and video cinematographer and director
February 8 - Brooke Adams, American actress
March 12 - Rob Cohen, American director, producer and writer
March 16 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
April 14 - John Shea, American actor
April 20 - Jessica Lange, American actress
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May 24 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
May 26 - Pam Grier, American actress
May 31 - Tom Berenger, American actor
June 15 - Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (died 2000)
June 22 - Meryl Streep, American actress
July 7 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
August 17 - Julian Fellowes, British actor, writer, director and screenwriter
August 23 - Shelley Long, American actress
August 31 - Richard Gere, American actor
September 16 - Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
October 4 - Armand Assante, American actor
October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
December 4 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
December 25 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
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April 15 – Wallace Beery, American s actor (born 1885)
April 18 – Will Hay, English comedian, actor and film director (born 1888)
April 22 – Charles B. Middleton, American actor (born 1874)
September 4 – Olof Ås, Swedish actor, stage manager (born 1892)
September 14 – Romuald Joubé, French actor (born 1876)
September 18 – Frank Morgan, American actor (born 1890)
October 14 – Fritz Leiber, Sr., American actor (born 1882)
December 16 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian-born American film director (born 1873)
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The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.
Events
• October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular
movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers (when adjusted for inflation)
• February 5 - First showing of documentary films by the Free Cinema movement, at the National Film Theatre,
London.
• August 4 - The last film serial, Blazing the Overland Trail from Columbia Pictures, is released.
• November 15 - Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, opens.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
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Title
Leading Star
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The Ten Commandments
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter
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Around the World in Eighty Days David Niven, Cantinflas and Shirley MacLaine
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Giant
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Studio
Gross
Paramount
$43,000,000
United Artists
$23,120,000
Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean
Warner Bros.
$14,000,000
War and Peace
Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda
Paramount
$12,500,000
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The King and I
Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner
20th Century Fox $9,000,000
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The Searchers
John Wayne
Warner Bros.
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Bus Stop
Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray
20th Century Fox $7,269,000
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The Girl Can't Help It
Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmund O'Brien
20th Century Fox $6,250,000
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High Society
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra
MGM
$5,878,000
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Written on the Wind
Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone
Universal
$5,712,000
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Julie
Doris Day
MGM
$4,500,000
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The Eddy Duchin Story
Tyrone Power and Kim Novak
Columbia
$4,396,000
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Tom Ewell and Sheree North
20th Century Fox $4,390,000
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Baby Doll
Carroll Baker and Karl Malden
Warner Bros.
$4,285,000
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Zarak
Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, and Anita Ekberg
Columbia
$4,252,000
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Love Me Tender
Elvis Presley and Debra Paget
20th Century Fox $4,225,000
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Between Heaven and Hell
Robert Wagner, Buddy Ebsen, Broderick Crawford, and Terry Moore 20th Century Fox $4,200,000
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
James Stewart and Doris Day
Paramount
$8,500,000
$4,153,000
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The Best Things in Life Are Free
Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, and Sheree North
20th Century Fox $4,129,000
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Star in the Dust
John Agar, Richard Boone, and Mamie Van Doren
Universal
$4,122,000
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists
Best Director: George Stevens - Giant
Best Actor: Yul Brynner - The King and I
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
Best Foreign Language Film: La strada, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days
Best Actor: Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: The King and I
Best Actor: Cantinflas - Around the World in Eighty Days
Best Actress: Deborah Kerr - The King and I
Other
Best Director: Elia Kazan - Baby Doll
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture: Earl Holliman - The Rainmaker
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture: Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed
Best Foreign Film: Before Sundown, West Germany
Best Foreign Film: The Girl in Black, Greece
Best Foreign Film: Richard III, United Kingdom
Best Foreign Film: Roses on the Arm, Japan
Best Foreign Film: War and Peace, Italy
Best Foreign Film: The White Reindeer, Finland
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Silent World (Le monde du silence), directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Not awarded
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Invitation to the Dance, directed by Gene Kelly, United States
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Top Ten Money Making Stars
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Actor/Actress
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William Holden
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John Wayne
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James Stewart
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Burt Lancaster
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Glenn Ford
6. (tie) Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
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Marilyn Monroe
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Gary Cooper
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Kim Novak
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Frank Sinatra
Notable films released in 1956
U.S.A. unless stated
• 7th Cavalry, starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Hale
• 23 Paces to Baker Street, starring Van Johnson and Vera Miles
• 1984, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Edmond O'Brien and Michael Redgrave - (Britain)
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Alexander the Great, starring Richard Burton
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum) - (India)
The Ambassador's Daughter, starring Olivia de Havilland, Myrna Loy, John Forsythe
Anastasia, starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner
And God Created Woman, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
Aparajito (The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
Around the World in 80 Days, directed by Michael Anderson, starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine
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At Gunpoint, starring Fred MacMurray, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Malone
Attack, aka Attack!, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin
Autumn Leaves, starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson
Away All Boats, starring Jeff Chandler
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Back from Eternity, starring Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger
Backlash, starring Richard Widmark and Donna Reed
The Bad Seed, starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack
Bandido, starring Robert Mitchum
The Battle of the River Plate, aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger,
starring John Gregson and Peter Finch - (Britain)
• Behind the Headlines, starring Paul Carpenter and Hazel Court
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The Benny Goodman Story, starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed
The Best Things in Life Are Free, starring Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Sheree North
Between Heaven and Hell, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Robert Wagner and Buddy Ebsen
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine
Bhowani Junction, starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger - (Britain/U.S.A.)
Bigger Than Life, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
The Birds and the Bees, starring George Gobel and Mitzi Gaynor
Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - (France)
The Bold and the Brave, starring Wendell Corey and Mickey Rooney
The Boss, starring John Payne and Doe Avedon
The Bottom of the Bottle, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman
The Brave One, directed by Irving Rapper
The Burmese Harp (Biruma no tategoto), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
The Burning Hills, starring Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter
Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray
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• Calabuch (aka The Rocket from Calabuch), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Edmund Gwenn and
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Carnival Night (Karnavalnaya noch) - (USSR)
Carousel, directed by Henry King, starring Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, comedy short starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery (Britain)
The Catered Affair, starring Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
Child of Sorrow (Anak dalita) - (Philippines)
Chori Chori, starring Nargis and Raj Kapoor - (India)
Comanche, starring Dana Andrews and Linda Cristal
Come Next Spring, starring Ann Sheridan and Steve Cochran
Congo Crossing, starring Virginia Mayo and Peter Lorre
The Conqueror, directed by Dick Powell, starring John Wayne (as Genghis Khan)
The Court Jester, starring Danny Kaye
Crazed Fruit (Kurutta kajitsu), directed by Ko Nakahira - (Japan)
Crime in the Streets, directed by Don Siegel, starring James Whitmore and John Cassavetes
A Cry in the Night, starring Edmond O'Brien, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
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Dakota Incident, starring Dale Robertson
Dance With Me Henry, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Death in the Garden (La mort en ce jardin), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Simone Signoret and Charles Vanel
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Diane, starring Lana Turner in her final MGM film after nearly 20 years with the studio
Donatella, directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Elsa Martinelli - (Italy)
Don't Look Back, My Son (Ne okreći se sine) - (Yugoslavia)
The Dragon (O Drakos) - (Greece)
Early Spring (Soshun), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, starring Hugh Marlowe
The Eddy Duchin Story, starring Tyrone Power and Kim Novak
Elena and Her Men, starring Ingrid Bergman - (France/Italy)
The Fastest Gun Alive, starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford
The First Texan, starring Joel McCrea
The First Traveling Saleslady, starring Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing
Forbidden Planet, starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis
Forever, Darling, starring Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, James Mason
Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler, starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
Funtoosh (Funny Man), starring Dev Anand - (India)
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Gervaise, directed by René Clément, starring Maria Schell - (France)
Giant, directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean in his final film
The Girl Can't Help It, starring Tom Ewell and Jayne Mansfield in her first starring role
The Girl He Left Behind, starring Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood
A Girl in Black, directed by Michael Cacoyannis - winner of Golden Globe - (Greece)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, starring Raymond Burr and Takashi Shimura - (Japan/U.S.A.)
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Great Day in the Morning, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Stack and Virginia Mayo
The Great Locomotive Chase, starring Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter
The Great Man, directed by and starring José Ferrer, with Julie London, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn
The Green Man, starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas - (Britain)
Gun the Man Down, starring James Arness and Angie Dickinson in her film debut
Gunslinger, directed by Roger Corman, starring John Ireland and Beverly Garland
The Harder They Fall, starring Humphrey Bogart in his final film
The Harvest Month (Elokuu) - (Finland)
Helen of Troy, starring Rossana Podesta, Stanley Baker
High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly in her final film
Hilda Crane, starring Jean Simmons
Hold Back the Night, starring John Payne
Hollywood or Bust, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, with Anita Ekberg, in the final Martin and Lewis film
Hot Blood, starring Jane Russell and Cornel Wilde
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn - (France/Italy)
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Ich suche Dich (I Seek You), starring O.W. Fischer and Anouk Aimée - (West Germany)
The Indian Fighter, starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, starring Kevin McCarthy
Invitation to the Dance, directed by and starring Gene Kelly
Jagte Raho (Stay Awake), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
Johnny Concho, starring Frank Sinatra
Jubal, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Steiger, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson
Julie, starring Doris Day and Louis Jourdan
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• Kanal, directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
• The Killer Is Loose, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
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The Killers, a short film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
The Killing, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Vince Edwards
The King and Four Queens, starring Clark Gable
The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner
A Kiss Before Dying, starring Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward
The Last Hunt, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger
The Last Wagon, starring Richard Widmark
The Leech (Shabab emraa) - (Egypt)
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Tom Ewell and Sheree North
Lisbon, directed by and starring Ray Milland, with Maureen O'Hara and Claude Rains
The Long Arm, starring Jack Hawkins - (Britain)
Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley in his film debut
Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas (as Vincent van Gogh) and Anthony Quinn
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• A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut), directed by Robert Bresson (France)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Keenan Wynn, Lee J.
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• Man on the Tracks (Człowiek na torze) - (Poland)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (a remake of his own 1934 British film), starring
James Stewart and Doris Day
• The Man Who Never Was, starring Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame - (Britain)
• Meet Me in Las Vegas, starring Cyd Charisse
• Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta) - (Hungary)
• Miracle in the Rain, starring Jane Wyman
• Moby Dick, directed by John Huston, starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
• Naked Gun starring Mara Corday and Willard Parker
• Nagareru (Flowing), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
• Navy Wife, starring Joan Bennett
• Never Say Goodbye, starring Rock Hudson, David Janssen, Cornell Borchers
• New Delhi - (India)
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Old Khottabych (Starik Khottabych) - (U.S.S.R.)
On the Threshold of Space, starring Guy Madison
Over-Exposed, starring Cleo Moore
Pardners, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Patterns, starring Van Heflin and Ed Begley
Pillars of the Sky, starring Jeff Chandler and Dorothy Malone
Please Murder Me, starring Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr
Poor but Handsome (Poveri ma belli) - (Italy)
The Power and the Prize, starring Robert Taylor, Burl Ives, Mary Astor, Cedric Hardwicke, Elisabeth Muller
Private's Progress, a Boulting Brothers film starring Ian Carmichael and Richard Attenborough - (Britain)
Professor Hannibal (Hannibál tanár úr), directed by Zoltán Fábri (Hungary)
The Proud and Profane, starring William Holden and Deborah Kerr
The Proud Ones, starring Robert Ryan and Virginia Mayo
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The Rack, starring Paul Newman, Edmund O'Brien, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis
The Railroad Man (Il Ferroviere), directed by and starring Pietro Germi - (Italy)
The Rainmaker, starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn
Ransom!, starring Glenn Ford and Donna Reed
Reach for the Sky, a biopic of Douglas Bader starring Kenneth More - (Britain)
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge) - (France)
The Road of Life (El camino de la vida) - (Mexico)
Rock Around the Clock, featuring Bill Haley and His Comets
Rodan, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
The Roof (Il Tetto), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
Run for the Sun, starring Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer
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• Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• The Searchers, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis,
Natalie Wood
• Serenade, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Mario Lanza and Joan Fontaine
• Seven Men from Now, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin
• Seven Wonders of the World, a documentary film directed by Tay Garnett and others
• Seven Years in Tibet - (Britain)
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The Silent World, a marine documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle - (France)
Sira` Fi al-Mina (aka Dark Water), directed by Youssef Chahine, starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
The Solid Gold Cadillac, starring Judy Holliday
Somebody Up There Likes Me, starring Paul Newman
The Spanish Gardener, starring Dirk Bogarde - (Britain)
The Square Jungle, starring Tony Curtis and Patricia Crowley
Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Mamie Van Doren
Stars in Your Eyes - (Britain)
Storm Center, starring Bette Davis and Kim Hunter
Street of Shame (Akasen chitai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
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• Tea and Sympathy, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Deborah Kerr and John Kerr
• The Teahouse of the August Moon, starring Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford
• The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. de Mille, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter,
Yvonne De Carlo, Edward G. Robinson
• There's Always Tomorrow, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett
• Three Brave Men, starring Ray Milland
• Time Table, directed by and starring Mark Stevens, with Felicia Farr
• Toward the Unknown, starring William Holden and Virginia Leith
• A Town Like Alice, starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch - (Britain)
• Trapeze, directed by Carol Reed, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
• Tribute to a Bad Man, directed by Robert Wise, starring James Cagney, Irene Papas, Stephen McNally, Don
Dubbins, Vic Morrow
• The Twelve Months (Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) - (USSR)
• Uncle Hyacynth (Mi tío Jacinto) - (Spain)
• Valley of Peace (Dolina miru) - (Yugoslavia)
• I Vampiri (The Vampire) - (Italy)
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War and Peace, directed by King Vidor, starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Anita Ekberg
What a Woman!, starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
While the City Sleeps, starring Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price
Who Done It?, starring Benny Hill - (Britain)
Written on the Wind, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy
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The Wrong Man, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles
X the Unknown, starring Dean Jagger and Leo McKern - (Britain)
Yield to the Night, starring Diana Dors - (Britain)
You Can't Run Away from It, directed by Dick Powell, starring June Allyson and Jack Lemmon
Zarak, starring Victor Mature - (Britain)
Serials
• Blazing the Overland Trail, starring Lee Roberts and Dennis Moore
• Perils of the Wilderness
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Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Popeye (1933–1957)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
Droopy (1943–1958)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
Ending this year
• Donald Duck (1934-1956)
• Chip and Dale (1943-1956)
• Ranger Don (1953-1956)
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January 7 - David Caruso, actor
January 9 - Kimberly Beck, actress
January 21 - Geena Davis, actress
January 27 - Mimi Rogers, actress
February 3 - Nathan Lane, actor
February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress
March 1 - Tim Daly, actor
March 7 - Bryan Cranston, actor and director
March 13 - Dana Delany, actress
April 12 - Andy García, Cuban-American actor
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July 1 - Alan Ruck, actor
July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor and director
July 11 - Sela Ward, actress
July 31 - Michael Biehn, actor
August 12 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
August 20 - Joan Allen, actress
August 21 - Kim Cattrall, English-born Canadian actress
September 16 - Mickey Rourke ,American actor
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September 26 - Linda Hamilton, actress
October 20 - Danny Boyle, English director and producer
October 21 - Carrie Fisher, actress
November 8 - Richard Curtis, New Zealand-born British director and screenwriter
November 20 - Bo Derek, actress and model
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January 12 - Norman Kerry, American actor (born 1894)
January 23 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director, the founder of London Films (born 1893)
March 25 - Robert Newton, English actor (born 1905)
April 15 - Kathleen Howard, Canadian-American opera singer & film character actress (born 1884)
June 6 - Margaret Wycherly, English stage & screen actress born of American parents (born 1881)
June 30 - Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (born 1880)
July 8 - Mona Mårtenson, Swedish actress (born 1902)
July 16 - Olof Winnerstrand, Swedish actor (born 1875)
August 16 - Béla Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (born 1882)
October 9 - Marie Doro, American actress (born 1882)
November 30 - Viggo Wiehe, Danish actor (born 1874)
December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director (born 1891)
December 26 - Holmes Herbert, British actor (born 1882)
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James Garner
Robert Morse
Leslie Nielsen
Elvis Presley
Rip Torn
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The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.
Events
• February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of
The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946.
• The second instalment of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible is officially released, having previously been
shelved for political reasons. It would be the last of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible trilogy as the director died
during production on part III.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
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Title
Studio
Actors
Gross rental
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South Pacific
Magna/20th Century Fox Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi
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$16,300,000
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Auntie Mame
Warner Brothers
Rosalind Russell
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$9,100,000
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
MGM
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman
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$7,800,000
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No Time for Sergeants
Warner Brothers
Andy Griffith
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$7,500,000
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Gigi
MGM
Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier
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$6,700,000
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The Vikings
20th Century Fox
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
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$6,000,000
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Vertigo
Paramount/Universal
James Stewart and Kim Novak
$5,306,000
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The Young Lions
20th Century Fox
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
$4,480,000
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Some Came Running
MGM
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
$4,442,000
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw 20th Century Fox
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, and Bruce Cabot $4,410,000
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Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Gigi – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
Best Actor: David Niven – Separate Tables
Best Actress: Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives – The Big Country
Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
Best Foreign Language Film: Mon Oncle (My Uncle), directed by Jacques Tati, France
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Defiant Ones
Best Actor: David Niven – Separate Tables
Best Actress: Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Gigi
Best Actor: Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel
Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
Other
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Soviet Union
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Notable films released in 1958
U.S.A. unless stated
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Amar Deep, remake of Amara Deepam, starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini - (India)
Ambush at Cimarron Pass, starring Scott Brady and Clint Eastwood
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) - (U.S.S.R.)
Andy Hardy Comes Home, starring Mickey Rooney
Another Time, Another Place, starring Lana Turner and Sean Connery - (Britain)
Apache Territory, starring Rory Calhoun
Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu, starring N.T. Rama Rao - (India)
Arms and the Man (Helden) - (West Germany)
Ash Wednesday (Miércoles de ceniza), starring María Félix and Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament), directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Zbigniew Cybulski - (Poland)
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, starring Allison Hayes
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• Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, Coral Browne, Forrest Tucker, Roger Smith, Peggy Cass
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The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama Bushiko) - (Japan)
Le Beau Serge (Handsome Serge), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
Bell, Book and Candle, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
The Big Country, directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll
Baker, Burl Ives
Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti), starring Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni
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The Black Orchid, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
The Blob, starring Steve McQueen
Bonjour Tristesse, directed by Otto Preminger, starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Jean Seberg
The Bonnie Parker Story, starring Dorothy Provine
The Bravados, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins
Brink of Life (Nära livet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Eva Dahlbeck and Ingrid Thulin - (Sweden)
The Brothers Karamazov, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Lee J. Cobb, Claire
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The Buccaneer, directed by Anthony Quinn, starring Yul Brynner and Claire Bloom
Buchanan Rides Alone, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Craig Stevens
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• Carry On Sergeant, the first in the Carry On film series, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring William Hartnell,
Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor - (Britain)
• Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and Paul Schofield - (Britain)
• The Castle of the Monsters (El Castillo de los Monstruos) - (Mexico)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack
Carson, Judith Anderson
• A Certain Smile, starring Rossano Brazzi and Joan Fontaine
• Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (That which runs is a car), starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
• Chase a Crooked Shadow, starring Richard Todd and Anne Baxter - (Britain)
• China Doll, starring Victor Mature
• The Colossus of New York, starring Ross Martin and Mala Powers
• Cowboy, starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon
• The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror), directed by Quentin Lawrence, starring Forrest Tucker and Janet
Munro - (Britain)
• The Cry Baby Killer, directed by Roger Corman, featuring Jack Nicholson in his film debut
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Damn Yankees, directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, starring Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
Darby's Rangers, directed by William Wellman, starring James Garner
The Deep Six, starring Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
The Defiant Ones, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier
Desire (Touha) - (Czechoslovakia)
Desire Under the Elms, starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
The Doctor's Dilemma, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde (Britain)
Dunkirk, starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough - (Britain)
Édes Anna, directed by Zoltán Fábri - (Hungary)
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
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Endless Desire (Hateshinaki yokubo), directed by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
Equinox Flower (Higanbana), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (aka Vynález zkázy) - (Czechoslovakia)
Fanfare - (Netherlands)
A Flower in Hell (Jiokhwa) - (South Korea)
The Fly, starring Vincent Price
Fort Massacre, starring Joel McCrea
From Hell to Texas, starring Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Dennis Hopper
From the Earth to the Moon, starring Joseph Cotten
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The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
Giants and Toys (Kyojin to gangu) - (Japan)
The Gift of Love, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack
Gigi, directed by Vincente Minelli, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Girl on the Run, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
God's Little Acre, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Fay Spain, Tina Louise
The Goddess, starring Kim Stanley
Goha, starring Omar Sharif - (France/Tunisia)
Gunman's Walk, starring Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant
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The H-Man, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
Hercules (Le fatiche di Ercole), starring Steve Reeves - (Italy)
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi toride no san akunin), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune (Japan)
High School Confidential, starring Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren
The Horror of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - (Britain)
The Horse's Mouth, starring Alec Guinness - (Britain)
Houseboat, starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren
The Hunters, starring Robert Mitchum
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I Accuse!, directed by and starring José Ferrer - (Britain)
I Want to Live!, starring Susan Hayward (winner of Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress)
I Was Monty's Double, starring M. E. Clifton James and John Mills - (Britain)
Ice Cold in Alex, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring John Mills and Sylvia Sims - (Britain)
The Idiot - (USSR)
Imitation General, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg
In Case of Adversity (En Cas de Malheur), starring Jean Gabin and Brigitte Bardot - (France)
In the Money, starring the Bowery Boys
Indiscreet, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman - (Britain)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, directed by Mark Robson, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jurgens, Robert Donat
Intent to Kill, starring Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom
Iron Flower (Vasvirág) - (Hungary)
The Iron Gate (Bab el Hadid), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
It Happened in Broad Daylight (Es geschah am hellichten Tag) - (West Germany)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space, directed by Edward L. Cahn, starring Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton and
Ray Corrigan as the monster of the title
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Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (Ivan Grozniy), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
Jalsaghar (The Music Room), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
Kala Pani (Life Sentence), starring Dev Anand and Madhubala - (India)
The Key, starring William Holden and Sophia Loren, based on Jan de Hartog novel - (Britain)
King Creole, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Elvis Presley, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Walter Matthau
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Lafayette Escadrille, World War I film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
Lake of the Dead (De dødes tjern) - (Norway)
The Last Hurrah, starring Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone
The Law and Jake Wade, starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark
The Law Is the Law (La loi, c'est la loi), starring Totò and Fernandel - (France/Italy)
The Left Handed Gun, starring Paul Newman
The Light in the Forest, starring Fess Parker
The Lineup, starring Eli Wallach
Lonelyhearts, starring Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Maureen Stapleton
The Long, Hot Summer, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Tony
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• The Lovers (Les amants), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Alain Cuny - (France)
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Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform), starring Lilli Palmer and Romy Schneider (West Germany)
Madhumati, directed by Bimal Roy, starring Vyjayanthimala in triple role and Dilip Kumar - (India)
The Magician (Ansiktet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège), starring Jean Gabin - (France)
The Man Inside, starring Jack Palance and Anita Ekberg - (Britain)
A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia), directed by and starring Pietro Germi - (Italy)
Man of the West, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Lord, Julie London
Marjorie Morningstar, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly
The Matchmaker, starring Shirley MacLaine
Me and the Colonel, starring Danny Kaye
Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye
Les miserables, starring Jean Gabin - (France)
Mon Oncle, directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
Monster on the Campus, directed by Jack Arnold
Murder by Contract, starring Vince Edwards
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• The Naked Maja, starring Ava Gardner and Anthony Franciosa - (Italy/France/U.S.)
• The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune), directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot (France)
• A Night to Remember, directed by Roy Baker, starring Kenneth More - (Britain)
• No Time for Sergeants, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams
• The Old Man and the Sea – based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, starring Spencer Tracy
• Onionhead, starring Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Felicia Farr, Joey Bishop
• Orders to Kill, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Eddie Albert - (Britain)
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The Outlaws (Oi paranomoi) - (Greece)
Party Girl, starring Cyd Charisse and Robert Taylor
The Proud Rebel, starring Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland
The Quiet American, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins
The Reluctant Debutante, starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee
The Revenge of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing - (Britain)
The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho), starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
Ride a Crooked Trail, starring Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau
Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) - (Argentina)
Run Silent, Run Deep, directed by Robert Wise, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster
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Sadhna, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt - (India)
Screaming Mimi, starring Anita Ekberg
Separate Tables, starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, starring Kerwin Mathews
The Sheepman, starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, starring Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth More - (Britain)
Sing, Boy, Sing, directed by Henry Ephron, starring Tommy Sands
Solva Saal (Sixteenth Year), starring Dev Anand - (India)
Some Came Running, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
South Pacific, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor
Stage Struck, starring Henry Fonda and Susan Strasberg
St. Louis Blues, featuring Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway and Ella Fitzgerald
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Tamango, starring Dorothy Dandridge
The Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone
Teacher's Pet, starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren
Ten North Frederick, starring Gary Cooper and Suzy Parker
Terror in a Texas Town, starring Sterling Hayden
This Happy Feeling, starring Debbie Reynolds, John Saxon, Alexis Smith
Thunder Road, starring Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith
A Time to Love and a Time to Die, starring John Gavin
The Tinder Box (Das Feuerzeug) - (East Germany)
tom thumb, starring Russ Tamblyn and Terry-Thomas - (Britain/USA)
Too Much, Too Soon, starring Dorothy Malone, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Errol Flynn
Torpedo Run, starring Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine
Touch of Evil, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich
Tread Softly Stranger, starring Diana Dors - (Britain)
The True Story of Lynn Stuart, starring Betsy Palmer
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• The Tunnel of Love, starring Doris Day and Richard Widmark
• Twilight for the Gods, starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse
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• Underworld Beauty (Ankokugai no bijo) - (Japan)
• Vanjikottai Valiban (The Youth from Vanji Fort), starring Gemini Ganesan, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini (India)
• Varan the Unbelievable (Daikaijū Baran), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• Vengeance (La venganza), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Raf Vallone - (Spain)
• Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak
• The Vikings, starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis
• The Village on the River (Dorp aan de rivier) - (Netherlands)
• White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
• The Young Lions, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
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Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
Ending this year
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• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
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January 25 – Dinah Manoff, actress and director
February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
March 7 – Donna Murphy, actress & singer
March 10 – Sharon Stone, actress & producer
March 20 – Holly Hunter, actress
March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor & filmmaker
April 3 – Alec Baldwin, actor
April 21 – Andie MacDowell, actress
April 29 – Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
May 29 – Annette Bening, actress
June 22 – Bruce Campbell, actor & director
July 8 – Kevin Bacon, actor
August 3 – Lambert Wilson, actor
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August 16 – Angela Bassett, actress
August 18 – Madeleine Stowe, actress
August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, actor & comedian
August 25 – Tim Burton, director, producer & screenwriter
September 10 – Chris Columbus, director, producer & screenwriter
September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, Canadian-American actress
October 9 – Michael Paré, actor
October 16 – Tim Robbins, actor, screenwriter, producer & director
October 20 – Viggo Mortensen, actor
October 26 – Rita Wilson, actress & producer
November 16 – Marg Helgenberger, actress
November 17 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress & singer
November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
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January 13 – Jesse L. Lasky, film producer
February 27 – Harry Cohn, Co-Founder of CBS Sales Association (Columbia Pictures)
March 22 – Mike Todd, producer
April 15 – Estelle Taylor, actress
May 19 – Ronald Colman, actor
October 4 – Ida Wüst, actress
November 15 – Tyrone Power, actor
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Jack Nicholson
Suzanne Pleshette
Christopher Plummer
Vanessa Redgrave
Oliver Reed
Maggie Smith
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[1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359 (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/ books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&
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The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters.
September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loews Theater in New York City.
Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt start dating.
The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison for Gael Linn, is premiered at the Cork Film Festival, the first
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Ben-Hur
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Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd
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Sleeping Beauty*
Disney
Mary Costa and Eleanor Audley
$21.998 m
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North by Northwest
MGM
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
$12.703 m
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Some Like It Hot
United Artists Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
$10.128 m
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Pillow Talk
Universal
Doris Day and Rock Hudson
$9.670 m
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Imitation of Life
Universal
Lana Turner and John Gavin
$9.618 m
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Suddenly, Last Summer Columbia
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The Nun's Story
Warner Bros.
Audrey Hepburn
$5.750 m
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Rio Bravo
Warner Bros.
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson
$5.650 m
10. Anatomy of a Murder
Columbia
James Stewart and Lee Remick
$5.500 m
11. On the Beach
United Artists Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
$4.803 m
12. Operation Petticoat
Universal
$3.950 m
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Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn $6.375 m
Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
1959 in film
Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director: William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Best Actor: Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
Best Actress: Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
Best Foreign Language Film: Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, Brazil / France / Italy
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Ben-Hur
Best Actor: Anthony Franciosa - Career
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture (tie): Some Like It Hot
Best Picture (tie): Porgy and Bess
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
Best Actress: Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
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Best Director: William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Il Generale della Rovere (General della Rovere), directed by Roberto Rosselini, Italy / France
La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, Italy / France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Les Cousins (The Cousins), directed by Claude Chabrol, France
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4D Man, starring Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine
The 39 Steps, starring Kenneth More - (Britain)
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - (France)
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Al Capone, starring Rod Steiger
Alias Jesse James, starring Bob Hope
The Alligator People, starring Beverly Garland
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• Anari, starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
• Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden,
George C. Scott
• The Angry Hills, starring Robert Mitchum and Gia Scala
• The Angry Red Planet (aka Invasion of Mars)
• Argument About Basia (Awantura o Basię) - (Poland)
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Bad Girls Don't Cry (La notte brava), starring Rosanna Schiaffino - (Italy)
Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate), directed by Grigori Chukhrai - (U.S.S.R.)
Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo zovet) - (U.S.S.R.)
Battle in Outer Space, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
The Battle of the Sexes, starring Peter Sellers - (Britain)
The Beat Generation, starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren
Ben-Hur, directed by William Wyler, starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins - winner of 11
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The Best of Everything, starring Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford
The Big Circus, starring Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming, Red Buttons, Gilbert Roland, Kathryn Grant
The Big Fisherman, starring Howard Keel
The Big Operator, starring Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren
• The Birth of Japan (Nippon Tanjō), starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus - winner of Palme d'Or, Golden Globe, Oscar and Bafta (Brazil/France/Italy)
• Blessings of the Land (Biyaya ng lupa), starring Rosa Rosal - (Philippines)
• Breakout, starring Hazel Court
• The Bridge (Die Brücke), directed by Bernhard Wicki - (West Germany)
• A Bucket of Blood, directed by Roger Corman
• But Not for Me, directed by Walter Lang, starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O., starring Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, John Le Mesurier - (Britain)
Carry On Nurse, starring Shirley Eaton and Kenneth Connor - (Britain)
Carry On Teacher, starring Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips - (Britain)
The Chasers (Jakten) - (Norway)
Come Dance with Me, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France/Italy)
Compulsion, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall
Court Martial (Kriegsgericht) - (West Germany)
Les Cousins, directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
The Crimson Kimono, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring James Shigeta
La Cucaracha (aka The Soldiers of Pancho Villa), starring María Félix and Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People, starring Sean Connery
Date With Death, starring Gerald Mohr
Day of the Outlaw, starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Burl Ives
The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff), starring Horst Buchholz - (West Germany)
Destiny of a Man (Sudba cheloveka), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
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• The Devil's Disciple, starring Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas - (U.S./Britain)
• The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens, starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley
Winters, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn
• Dil Deke Dekho, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)
• Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
• Don't Give Up The Ship, starring Jerry Lewis
• Dust on the Brain (Støv på hjernen) - (Norway)
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The FBI Story, starring James Stewart
Face of a Fugitive, starring Fred MacMurray
The Facts of Murder (Un maledetto imbroglio), directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale (Italy)
Fires on the Plain (Nobi), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye
Floating Weeds (Ukikusa), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
Follow a Star, starring Norman Wisdom, Ron Moody, Hattie Jacques - (Britain)
The Fugitive Kind, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward
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Il Generale della Rovere, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
Gidget, starring Sandra Dee
Girls Town, starring Mamie Van Doren
Good Morning (Ohayō), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman (Italy)
The Gunfight at Dodge City, starring Joel McCrea
The Hanging Tree, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Gary Cooper, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
The Hangman, starring Robert Taylor and Tina Louise
Hannibal, starring Victor Mature and Rita Gam
Happy Anniversary, starring David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor
Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais - (France/Japan)
A Hole in the Head, starring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Carolyn Jones, Eddie Hodges
Holiday for Lovers, starring Jane Wyman, Clifton Webb, Jill St. John
A Home for Tanya (Otchiy dom) - (USSR)
Honeymoon (Luna de miel), directed by Michael Powell - (Britain/Spain)
The Horse Soldiers, starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (Britain)
• House on Haunted Hill, starring Vincent Price
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• Il Vedovo, directed by Dino Risi
• I'm Alright Jack, directed by the Boulting Brothers, starring Peter Sellers and Ian Carmichael - (Britain)
• Imitation of Life, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita
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• It Happened to Jane, starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
• It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford
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Jet Over the Atlantic, starring Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo
Jet Storm, starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling - (Britain)
John Paul Jones, starring Robert Stack
The Journey, starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr
Journey to the Center of the Earth, starring James Mason and Pat Boone
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Kapò, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Susan Strasberg - (Italy/France/Yugoslavia)
Killers of Kilimanjaro, starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey
The Last Angry Man, starring Paul Muni
Last Train from Gun Hill, starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
The Law (La Legge), starring Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand - (Italy)
El Lazarillo de Tormes, winner of Golden Bear - (Spain)
Le Signe du Lion, directed by Éric Rohmer
The Legend of Tom Dooley, starring Michael Landon
Letter Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) - (USSR)
Libel, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde and Olivia de Havilland - (Britain)
Li'l Abner, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stella Stevens, Julie Newmar, Stubby
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• Look Back in Anger, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom - (Britain)
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Make Mine a Million, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Arthur Askey and Sid James - (Britain)
The Man in the Net, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones
The Man Who Could Cheat Death, starring Anton Diffring and Hazel Court
Marked for Murder, starring Keith Andes and Hazel Court
The Master and His Servants (Herren og hans tjenere) - (Norway)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sen noci svatojánské), an animated puppet film by Jiří Trnka - (Czechoslovakia)
The Miracle, starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore
Mise Éire - (Ireland)
The Mouse That Roared, starring Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg - (Britain)
The Mummy, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (Britain)
My Second Brother, directed by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
Nazarin, directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
Never So Few, starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Steve McQueen
Night Train (Pociąg) - (Poland)
The Nightingale's Prayer (Doaa al-Karawan) - (Egypt)
No Name on the Bullet, starring Audie Murphy
North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
North West Frontier, aka Flame Over India, starring Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall - (Britain)
The Nun's Story, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Audrey Hepburn
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• Odds Against Tomorrow, starring Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan
• On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
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• Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
• Our Man in Havana, directed by Carol Reed, starring Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Noël Coward, Ernie
Kovacs - (Britain)
• The Overcoat (Shinel) - (USSR)
• Paigham, directed by S. S. Vasan, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi - (India)
• Pickpocket, directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
• El Pisito (The Little Apartment), directed bt Marco Ferreri - (Spain)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr., starring Tor Johnson, Vampira, Bela Lugosi
• Porgy and Bess, a musical directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, music by
George and Ira Gershwin
• Pork Chop Hill, starring Gregory Peck
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• The Rest Is Silence (Der Rest ist Schweigen), starring Hardy Kruger - (West Germany)
• Ride Lonesome, starring Randolph Scott
• Rio Bravo, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Angie
Dickinson
• The Rookie, starring Julie Newmar, Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall
• Room at the Top, directed by Jack Clayton, starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey - (Britain)
• The Roots of Heaven, directed by John Huston, starring Errol Flynn, Trevor Howard, Juliette Greco, Eddie Albert,
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Sapphire, directed by Basil Dearden - (Britain)
Say One for Me, starring Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner
The Scapegoat, starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis - (Britain)
Serious Charge, starring Anthony Quayle - (Britain)
Shadows, directed by John Cassavetes
The Shaggy Dog, starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
The Shakedown, starring Donald Pleasence and Hazel Court
Shake Hands with the Devil, starring James Cagney - (U.S.A./Ireland)
Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney animation)
Solomon and Sheba, starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida
Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown,
Pat O'Brien, George Raft
SOS Pacific, starring Richard Attenborough - (Britain)
The Sound and the Fury, starring Yul Brynner and Joanne Woodward
Stars (Sterne) - (East Germany/Bulgaria)
A Stranger in My Arms, starring Jeff Chandler, June Allyson, Mary Astor, Sandra Dee
Suddenly, Last Summer, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift,
Katharine Hepburn
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• Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, directed by John Guillerman, starring Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sean
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• Telegrame - (Romania)
• Ten Seconds to Hell, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance
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That Kind of Woman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter
There Will Be No Leave Today (Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (USSR)
These Thousand Hills, starring Richard Egan, Don Murray, Lee Remick
They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte, Dick York, Tab Hunter
Third Man on the Mountain, starring Michael Rennie
Tiger Bay, starring John Mills and Hayley Mills - (Britain)
Tommy the Toreador, starring Tommy Steele - (Britain)
Too Many Crooks, starring Terry-Thomas and George Cole - (Britain)
Train Without a Timetable (Vlak bez voznog reda) - (Yugoslavia)
The Trap, starring Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise
Up Periscope, starring James Garner and Edmond O'Brien
Il vedovo (The Widower), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
La vida alrededor (Life Around Us) - (Spain)
Violent Summer (Estate violenta), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant - (Italy/France)
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• Warlock, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels and
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• The Wasp Woman, starring Susan Cabot
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Westbound, starring Randolph Scott
When the Woman Butts In (Kam čert nemůže) - (Czechoslovakia)
The Wild and the Innocent, starring Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Sandra Dee
Woman Obsessed, starring Susan Hayward
The Wonderful Country, starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London
The World, the Flesh and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens
The World of Apu (Apur Sansar), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston - (Britain/U.S.)
Yellowstone Kelly, starring Clint Walker and Edd Byrnes
Yesterday's Enemy, directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker - (Britain)
The Young Philadelphians, starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith, Alexis Smith, Robert Vaughn
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Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
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January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor & voice actor
January 17 - Momoe Yamaguchi, former Japanese actress & singer
January 22 - Linda Blair, American actress
February 22 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
March 6 - Tom Arnold, American actor & comedian
March 8 - Aidan Quinn, Irish/American actor
March 15 - Renny Harlin, Finnish director & producer
March 18 - Luc Besson, French director & producer
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March 22 - Matthew Modine, American actor
March 23 - Catherine Keener, American actress
April 15 - Emma Thompson, English actress
April 17 - Sean Bean, English actor
June 11 - Hugh Laurie, English actor
June 22 - Wayne Federman, American actor & comedian
June 30 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
July 26 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
August 10 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
August 14 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
August 29 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
November 19 - Allison Janney, American actress
November 28 - Judd Nelson, American actor
December 13 - Johnny Whitaker, American actor
December 29 - Patricia Clarkson, American actress
December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor
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January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director & producer
February 1 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, actress
February 4 - Una O'Connor, actress
March 3 - Lou Costello, comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team
February 5 - Gwili Andre, actress
June 16 - George Reeves, actor (Superman)
June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
August 6 - Preston Sturges, American director
October 7 - Mario Lanza, singer/actor
October 14 - Errol Flynn, actor
October 23 - Gerda Lundequist, actress
November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, European actress
November 25 - Gérard Philipe, French actor
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James Coburn
Mia Farrow
Richard Harris
Martin Landau
George C. Scott
Liv Ullmann
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In television: 1957 1958 1959 -1960- 1961 1962 1963
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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.
Events
• March 5 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to
Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues http://www.history.army.mil/faq/elvis.htm
• August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
• November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film
either performed in)
• November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt wed.
Top grossing films (US)
Rank
Title
Studio
Actors
Gross rental
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Spartacus
Universal
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis
[1]
$14,000,000
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Psycho
Universal and
Paramount
Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Janet
Leigh
[1]
$9,100,000
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Exodus
United Artists
Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Jill
Haworth
[1]
$8,500,000
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Swiss Family Robinson
Walt Disney
John Mills and Dorothy McGuire
[1]
$7,900,000
Productions
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The Alamo
United Artists
John Wayne and Richard Widmark
[1]
$7,900,000
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The Apartment
United Artists
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
[1]
$6,700,000
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Butterfield 8
MGM
Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
[1]
$6,000,000
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Ocean's 11
Warner Bros.
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
[1]
$5,500,000
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Please Don't Eat the
Daisies
MGM
Doris Day and David Niven
[1]
$5,300,000
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From the Terrace
20th Century Fox
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
[1]
$5,200,000
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1960 in film
Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists
Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Spartacus
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry
Best Actress: Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture (tie): The Apartment
Best Picture (tie): Song Without End
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon – The Apartment
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment
Other
Best Director: Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Le passage du Rhin (The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavín, Spain / Italy
Notable films released in 1960
U.S.A. unless stated
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• The 3rd Voice, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
• 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles and Barbara Bel Geddes
• 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle
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• Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret - (Italy)
• Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film - (Japan)
• The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills,
Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
• Ali Baba Bujang Lapok - (Malaysia/Singapore)
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