1957 in film
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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events, with The Bridge on the River Kwai topping the year's box office and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Events
- October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.
- Montgomery Clift suffers partial paralysis in his face after a car wreck while working on Raintree County.
- Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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1. | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Columbia | $17,195,000 |
2. | Peyton Place | 20th Century Fox | $16,100,000 |
3. | Sayonara | Warner Bros. | $10,500,000 |
4. | Old Yeller* | Walt Disney Productions | $10,050,000 |
5. | The Curse of Frankenstein | Warner Bros | $7,000,000 |
6. | Raintree County | MGM | $5,963,000 |
7. | Island in the Sun | 20th Century Fox | $5,550,000 |
8. | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | 20th Century Fox | $4,900,000 |
9. | A Farewell to Arms | 20th Century Fox | $4,865,000 |
10. | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Paramount | $4,700,000 |
11. | Pal Joey | Columbia | $4,500,000 |
12. | Jailhouse Rock | MGM | $4,474,000 |
13. | The Prince and the Showgirl | Warner Bros. | $4,300,000 |
14. | Jeanne Eagels | Columbia | $4,250,000 |
15. | Fire Down Below | Columbia | $4,000,000 |
16. | Funny Face | Paramount | $3,995,000 |
17. | Loving You | Paramount | $3,990,000 |
18. | Jet Pilot | Universal | $3,887,000 |
19. | Witness for the Prosecution | United Artists | $3,883,000 |
20. | An Affair to Remember | 20th Century Fox | $3,800,000 |
21. | The Wayward Bus | 20th Century Fox | $3,776,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Top-grossing films (international)
The highest-grossing 1957 films from countries outside of North America.
Country | Title | Actors | Studio | Gross |
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India | Mother India | Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Jilloo Maa, Kumkum, Mukri, Sajid Khan | Mehboob Productions | $16,800,000[n 1]</ref> |
Soviet Union | The Sisters | Rufina Nifontova, Nina Veselovskaya, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vadim Medvedev, Viktor Sharlahov | Mosfilm | $2,656,000[n 3]</ref> |
Awards
- Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia
- Best Director: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
- Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons - Sayonara
- Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
- Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Les Girls
- Best Actor: Frank Sinatra - Pal Joey
- Best Actress: Kay Kendall - Les Girls
- Other
- Best Director: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Foreign Film: Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull), West Germany
- Best Foreign Film: Tizoc, Mexico
- Best Foreign Film: Woman in a Dressing Gown, United Kingdom
- Best Foreign Film: Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu), Japan
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler, United States
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Aparajito (aka The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray, India
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, United States
Top ten money making stars
Rank | Actor/Actress |
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1. | Rock Hudson |
2. | John Wayne |
3. | Pat Boone |
4. | Elvis Presley |
5. | Frank Sinatra |
6. | Kim Novak |
7. | Gary Cooper |
8. | William Holden |
9. | James Stewart |
10. | Jerry Lewis |
Notable films released in 1957
U.S.A. unless stated
#
- 3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin
- 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, directed by Jean Cocteau
- 10th of May (Der 10. Mai) - (Switzerland)
- 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
- 1918 - (Finland)
- 20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen
A
- Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh - (India)
- The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker - (GB)
- Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger - (GB)
- The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento - (GB)
- An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
- All Mine to Give, starring Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell
- And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) - (U.S.S.R.)
- April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone
- The Auntie from Chicago (I theia ap' to Chicago) - (Greece)
B
- Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney
- The Bachelor Party, directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Don Murray
- Band of Angels
- Barnacle Bill, starring Alec Guinness - (GB)
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring John Gielgud and Jennifer Jones - (GB)
- Beau James, a biopic starring Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Alexis Smith
- La Bestia humana (The Human Beast) - (Argentina)
- The Big Land, starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo
- Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton - (France/U.S.A.)
- The Black Scorpion, starring Mara Corday, with special effects by Willis O'Brien
- Blue Murder at St Trinian's, starring Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell - (GB)
- Bombers B-52, starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt
- Boy on a Dolphin, starring Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren
- The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa - winner of 7 Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and 3 Golden Globes - (GB)
- Brothers in Law, starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael - (GB)
- The Brothers Rico, starring Richard Conte
- The Burglar, starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield (filmed in 1955 but released in 1957 due to sudden popularity of Mansfield)
C
- The Careless Years, starring Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, Barbara Billingsley
- City of Gold - (Canada)
- Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) - (West Germany)
- Country Hotel (Rong Raem Narok) - (Thailand)
- The Cranes Are Flying (Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - winner of the Palme d'Or - (U.S.S.R.)
- Crime of Passion, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
- The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand - (France/East Germany)
- The Curse of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (GB)
D
- The D.I., directed by and starring Jack Webb
- Decision at Sundown, starring Randolph Scott
- The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (his first film without Dean Martin) and Darren McGavin
- The Delinquents, directed by Robert Altman
- Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall
- Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
- The Devil's Hairpin, starring Cornel Wilde
- Do Aankhen Barah Haath (Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) - (India)
- Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Don't Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis
- Drango, starring Jeff Chandler
- Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) - (East Germany)
E-F
- Edge of the City, directed by Martin Ritt, starring John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee
- The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison
- A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau
- Les Fanatiques (The Fanatics), starring Pierre Fresnay and Michel Auclair - (France)
- A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones
- A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (Wakare no chatsumi-uta shimai-hen) - (Japan)
- Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
- Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden
- Fire Down Below, starring Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum
- The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga), directed by Arne Sucksdorff - (Sweden)
- Forty Guns, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry
- Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
G
- The Garment Jungle, starring Lee J. Cobb and Gia Scala
- The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair - (France/Italy)
- The Girl in Black Stockings, starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
- The Girl in the Kremlin, starring Lex Barker and Zsa Zsa Gabor
- The Girl Most Likely, starring Jane Powell and Cliff Robertson
- Les Girls, aka Cole Porter's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor
- La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) - (Italy)
- Gun for a Coward, starring Fred MacMurray
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
H
- The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors
- A Hatful of Rain, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
- He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), directed by Jules Dassin - (France)
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, directed by John Huston, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
- The Helen Morgan Story, starring Paul Newman and Ann Blyth
- Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan - (GB)
- Hour of Decision, starring Jeff Morrow and Hazel Court - (GB)
- The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) - (Argentina)
I
- I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) - (Japan)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold, starring Grant Williams
- Interlude, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring June Allyson
- Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Harry Belafonte
- Istanbul, starring Errol Flynn
J
- Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
- Jamboree, featuring Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Fats Domino
- Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak
- Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh
- Joe Butterfly, starring Audie Murphy and Burgess Meredith
- Johnny Tremain, starring Hal Stalmaster and Sebastian Cabot
- The Joker Is Wild, starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Mitzi Gaynor
K
- Kabuliwala (aka The Man) - (India)
- Kathputli (Puppet), directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni - (India)
- A King in New York, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin - (GB)
- Kiss Them for Me, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker
L
- The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney
- Legend of the Lost, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
- Let's Be Happy, starring Vera-Ellen and Tony Martin - (GB)
- The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner - (GB/U.S.A.)
- Love in the Afternoon, directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
- Loving You, starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey
- The Lower Depths (Donzoko), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
M
- Man of a Thousand Faces, biopic of Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Roger Smith, Robert Evans (as Irving Thalberg)
- A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema), directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)
- Mayabazar (Fantasy Bazaar), starring N. T. Rama Rao - (India)
- Mayerling, a TV film starring Audrey Hepburn
- Men in War, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray
- Miracles of Thursday (Los jueves, milagro), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Richard Basehart - (Spain)
- Mister Cory, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Kathryn Grant
- The Monolith Monsters, starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright
- The Monster That Challenged the World, starring Tim Holt
- Mother India, starring Nargis - (India)
- My Gun Is Quick, starring Robert Bray (as Mike Hammer)
- The Mysterians (Chikyū Bōeigun), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
N
- N.Y., N.Y., a documentary film by Francis Thompson
- The Naked Truth, starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers - (GB)
- Naya Daur (New Era), directed by B. R. Chopra, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
- Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon), directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews - (GB)
- Night Passage, starring James Stewart
- Nightfall, starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
- Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
- Nine Lives (Ni Liv) - (Norway)
O
- Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
- The Oklahoman, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale
- Old Yeller, Walt Disney film, starring Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran
- Omar Khayyam, starring Cornel Wilde, John Derek, Debra Paget, Yma Sumac
- The One That Got Away, starring Hardy Krüger - (GB)
- Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs
- An Osaka Story (Osaka Monogatari) - (Japan)
- The Outcry (Il Grido), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Steve Cochran and Alida Valli - (Italy)
P
- The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day
- Pal Joey, directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
- Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
- Paying Guest, starring Dev Anand - (India)
- Perri, a Disney animated film
- Peyton Place, based on novel by Grace Metalious, starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson and Claude Rains
- The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
- The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier (who also directed)
- Public Pigeon No. 1, starring Red Skelton
- Pyaasa (Thirsty), directed by and starring Guru Dutt - (India)
Q-R
- Quatermass 2, starring Brian Donlevy - (GB)
- Raintree County, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
- The Real End of the Great War (Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny) - (Poland)
- Rock All Night, directed by Roger Corman, starring Abby Dalton
- Rose Bernd, starring Maria Schell and Raf Vallone - (West Germany)
- Run of the Arrow, starring Rod Steiger
S
- The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre
- Saint Joan, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg - (GB/U.S.)
- Sayonara, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando, James Garner, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki
- The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
- The Shiralee, starring Peter Finch - (GB)
- Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend, starring Randolph Scott and Angie Dickinson
- Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse
- The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) - (East Germany)
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, starring Richard Egan and Walter Matthau (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
- The Smallest Show on Earth, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers - (GB)
- The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) an animated film - (USSR)
- Something of Value, starring Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier
- The Spirit of St. Louis, starring James Stewart in a biopic of Charles Lindbergh
- Spring Reunion, starring Betty Hutton and Dana Andrews
- Stopover Tokyo, starring Robert Wagner and Joan Collins
- The Story of Esther Costello, starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears - (GB)
- The Strange One, starring Ben Gazzara and George Peppard
- The Strange World of Planet X (The Cosmic Monsters), starring Forrest Tucker - (Britain)
- Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by Ernest Lehman, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis
T
- The Tall T, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Richard Boone
- The Deadly Mantis, starring Craig Stevens and William Hopper
- The Giant Claw, starring Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday
- Tammy and the Bachelor, starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen
- The Tattered Dress, starring Jeanne Crain, Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson
- Ten Thousand Bedrooms, starring Dean Martin
- The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward and Lee J. Cobb
- Three Violent People, starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Forrest Tucker
- Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jō), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
- Time Limit, directed by Karl Malden, starring Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, June Lockhart
- The Tin Star, starring Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer
- Tip on a Dead Jockey, starring Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord
- Tizoc, starring Pedro Infante and María Félix - (Mexico)
- Top Secret Affair, starring Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward
- The Tough (Al-Fetewa) - (Egypt)
- Tumsa Nahin Dekha, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)
U-V
- The Undead
- The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
- Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Until They Sail, starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons
- Valerie, directed by Gerd Oswald, starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel
- El vampiro (The Vampire) - (Mexico)
- Voodoo Island, starring Boris Karloff and Jean Engstrom
W-Z
- The Way to the Gold, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Sheree North
- The Wayward Bus, starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey
- White Nights (Le Notti Bianche), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- Whom God Forgives (Amanecer en Puerta Oscura) - (Spain)
- Wild Is the Wind, starring Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn
- Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjöström - (Sweden)
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, starring Jayne Mansfield (reprising her Broadway role) and Tony Randall
- The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (their 4th film together)
- Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
- Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson - (GB)
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu Bugeicho), starring Toshiro Mifune - Japan
- Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) - (Japan)
- Young and Dangerous, starring Mark Damon
- Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, dramatic basis for later spoof Airplane!
Short film series
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
- Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
- Woody Woodpecker (1941–1972)
- Droopy (1943–1958)
- Noveltoons (1943–1967)
- The Nearsighted Mister Magoo (1950–1959)
- Casper the Friendly Ghost (1950–1959)
- Herman and Katnip (1952–1959)
- Chilly Willy (1953–1972)
Ending this year
- Popeye the Sailor (1933-1957)
- Maggie and Sam (1955-1957)
- Spike and Tyke (1957)
Births
Month | Day | Name | Profession | Year of death |
---|---|---|---|---|
January | 12 | John Lasseter | animator, director, producer, writer | |
15 | Mario Van Peebles | actor and director | ||
16 | Ricardo Darin | actor | ||
17 | Steve Harvey | actor, comedian, author | ||
February | 6 | Kathy Najimy | actress | |
Robert Townsend | actor, director and writer | |||
16 | LeVar Burton | actor, director, producer and author | ||
19 | Ray Winstone | English actor | ||
27 | Timothy Spall | |||
28 | John Turturro | actor, writer and director | ||
March | 6 | Eddie Deezen | actor and comedian | |
20 | Chris Wedge | director, producer and voice actor | ||
Spike Lee | director, producer, writer and actor | |||
Theresa Russell | actress | |||
Vanessa Bell Calloway | ||||
23 | Teresa Ganzel | |||
29 | Christopher Lambert | French actor | ||
30 | Paul Reiser | actor and comedian | ||
April | 4 | Aki Kaurismäki | Finnish director | |
14 | Richard Jeni | actor and comedian | 2007 | |
23 | Jan Hooks | actress and comedian | 2014 | |
25 | Esther Scott | actress | ||
29 | Daniel Day-Lewis | English actor | ||
May | 5 | Richard E. Grant | ||
21 | Judge Reinhold | actor | ||
29 | Ted Levine | |||
June | 17 | Jon Gries | ||
23 | Frances McDormand | actress | ||
July | 9 | Kelly McGillis | ||
13 | Cameron Crowe | director and screenwriter | ||
August | 1 | Taylor Negron | actor, playwright and painter | 2015 |
9 | Melanie Griffith | actress | ||
18 | Denis Leary | actor, comedian and writer | ||
24 | Stephen Fry | English comedian, author and actor | ||
28 | Daniel Stern | actor | ||
Rick Rossovich | ||||
September | 12 | Hans Zimmer | composer | |
Rachel Ward | English actress | |||
21 | Ethan Coen | director, producer, screenwriter and editor | ||
24 | Brad Bird | animator, director, writer, actor | ||
30 | Fran Drescher | actress | ||
October | 4 | Bill Fagerbakke | American actor & voice actor | |
5 | Bernie Mac | actor and stand-up comedian | 2008 | |
12 | Clémentine Célarié | French actress | ||
25 | Nancy Cartwright | voice actress | ||
29 | Dan Castellaneta | American actor, voice actor, comedian & screenwriter | ||
30 | Kevin Pollak | actor | ||
November | 3 | Dolph Lundgren | Swedish actor and director | |
6 | Lori Singer | American actress, cellist | ||
19 | Tom Virtue | actor | ||
24 | Denise Crosby | actress | ||
December | 10 | Michael Clarke Duncan | American actor | 2012 |
13 | Steve Buscemi | |||
21 | Ray Romano | American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter & voice actor |
Deaths
- January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, 57, American actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Caine Mutiny
- January 19 - Sheila Terry, 46, American actress, The Sphinx, The Silk Express
- January 26 - William Eythe, 38, American actor, The Song of Bernadette, The House on 92nd Street
- February 19 - Marta Toren, 31, Swedish actress, Sirocco, One Way Street
- March 25 – Max Ophüls, 54, German director, The Earrings of Madame de..., Lola Montès
- March 31 - Gene Lockhart, 65, Canadian actor, Miracle on 34th Street, Algiers
- April 8 - Dorothy Sebastian, 53, American actress, Spite Marriage, Our Dancing Daughters
- April 27 - Paweł Owerłło, 87, Polish actor, Pan Tadeusz
- May 9 - Ezio Pinza, 64, Italian singer and actor, Tonight We Sing, Mr. Imperium
- May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, 71, Austrian actor, director, Sunset Boulevard, La Grande Illusion
- May 29 - James Whale, 67, British director, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man
- June 12 - Robert Alton, 51, American choreographer and director, White Christmas, Pagan Love Song
- July 3 – Judy Tyler, 24, American actress, Jailhouse Rock, Bop Girl Goes Calypso
- July 15 - George Cleveland, 71, Canadian actor, Carson City, Fort Defiance
- July 24 – Sacha Guitry, 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat, A Crime in Paradise
- August 7 – Oliver Hardy, 65, American actor, The Flying Deuces, Sons of the Desert
- August 9 - Konrad Tom, 70, Polish actor, screenwriter, director and singer, His Excellency, The Shop Assistant
- August 12 - Tim Whelan, 63, American director, The Thief of Bagdad, The Divorce of Lady X
- September 1 - Helen Haye, 83, Indian-British actress, The 39 Steps, Richard III
- September 19 - Edvard Persson, 69, Swedish actor, South of the Highway, Kalle's Inn
- October 20 - Jack Buchanan, 66, British actor, Auld Lang Syne, The Band Wagon
- October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed, That's Entertainment!
- November 17 - Cora Witherspoon, 67, American actress, The Bank Dick, Libeled Lady
- November 30 - Fred F. Sears, 44, American director, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rock Around the Clock
- December 11 – Musidora, 58, French actress, director, Les Vampires, Judex
- December 15 - Alfonso Bedoya, 53, Mexican actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Country
- December 24 - Norma Talmadge, 63, American actress, New York Nights, Secrets
- December 25 – Charles Pathé, 94, French producer, writer, The Conquest of the Pole
Film debuts
- Alan Arkin - Calypso Heat Wave
- Sean Connery - No Road Back
- Alain Delon - Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
- Catherine Deneuve - The Twilight Girls
- John Fiedler - 12 Angry Men
- Andy Griffith - A Face in the Crowd
- Lee Remick - A Face in the Crowd
- Liv Ullmann - Fjols til fjells
- Adam West - Voodoo Island
Notes
- ↑ ₹8 crore[1] (US$16.8 million)[n 2]
- ↑ 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965<ref>http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3
- ↑ 10.625 million SUR (42.5 million Soviet tickets sold,[2] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[3] 4 SUR per USD[n 4]
- ↑ 4 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name='russia'>Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
References
- ↑ Box Office 1957, Box Office India, archived 22 September 2012
- ↑ "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
- ↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
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