1959 in film
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[edit] Events
- The Three Stooges make their 180th and last short film, Sappy Bullfighters.
- September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
- November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt start dating.
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- Ben-Hur
- Auntie Mame
- The Shaggy Dog
- Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon
- Pillow Talk
- Imitation of Life
- The Nun's Story
- tie Anatomy of a Murder and North by Northwest, by Alfred Hitchcock
- Sleeping Beauty
- Rio Bravo
[edit] 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
- 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
- Other
- Best Director: William Wyler - Ben-Hur
PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):
- Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, France
GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):
- Il Generale della Rovere (Le Général della Rovere), directed by Roberto Rosselini, Italy / France
- La grande guerra (La Grande guerre), directed by Mario Monicelli, Italy / France
GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):
- Les cousins (The Cousins), directed by Claude Chabrol, France
[edit] Films released in 1959
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, starring Lou Costello
- The 39 Steps, starring Kenneth More
- 4D Man
- The 400 Blows
- Anatomy of a Murder
- The Angry Red Planet
- Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)
- The Atomic Submarine
- Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate)
- Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston
- Beyond This Place, U.S. release titled Web of Evidence
- Black Orpheus Palm d'Or winner
- Career
- Carry On Teacher
- La Casa del Terror
- Les Cousins Golden Bear winner
- A Date with Death
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
- Don't Give Up The Ship, starring Jerry Lewis
- Fires on the Plain, directed by Kon Ichikawa
- Il Generale della Rovere Golden Lion winner
- La Grande Guerra (The Great War) Golden Lion winner
- Hercules and the Queen of Lydia (Ercole e la regina di Lidia) (aka Hercules Unchained)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- The Horse Soldiers
- Imitation of Life
- The Jazz Singer (performance)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- John Paul Jones
- Kapò
- Killer Shrews
- The Miracle
- Mise Éire
- North by Northwest, by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint
- The Nun's Story
- On the Beach
- Pillow Talk
- Porgy and Bess
- Rio Bravo
- Room at the Top
- Sampo (The Day the Earth Froze)
- Sapphire
- The Shaggy Dog
- Sleeping Beauty -(Walt Disney animation)
- Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon
- Suddenly, Last Summer
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil
[edit] Births
- January 22 - Linda Blair, actress
- April 15 - Emma Thompson, British actor
- July 29 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
- November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
- December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor
[edit] Deaths
- 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
- June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, actor
- November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, European actress
- November 25 - Gérard Philipe, French actor
