1956 in film

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The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1956
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Births
8 Deaths
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[edit] Events
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.

[edit] Top grossing films
North America
Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner and Edward G. Robinson
Guys and Dolls, starring Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, and Jean Simmons
The King and I, starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr
Trapeze, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Gina Lollobrigida
(Tie): High Society (Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly) and I'll Cry Tomorrow (Susan Hayward)
Picnic, starring William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell
War and Peace, starring Audrey Hepburn, and Henry Fonda
Love Me Tender starring Elvis Presley and Debra Paget
Moby Dick, by TheMonkTheMonk
The Searchers, starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter
(Tie): The Conqueror, with John Wayne as Genghis Khan, and Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo

[edit] 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
Best Foreign Film: Before Sundown, West Germany
Best Foreign Film: A 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

[edit] Films released in 1956
7 Wonders of the World
Accused of Murder
Anastasia
Around the World in Eighty Days
Baby Doll
The Battle of the River Plate
The Birds and the Bees
Bus Stop
Carousel
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn
The Conqueror
The Court Jester
Dance With Me Henry, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Diane
The Eddy Duchin Story
Elena and Her Men
Forbidden Planet
Friendly Persuasion
Gaby
Gervaise
Giant
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
The Great Man
High Society
Hollywood or Bust, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Never Say Goodbye
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invitation to the Dance
The King and I
Love Me Tender
Lust for Life
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Moby Dick
Pardners, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Private's Progress
The Rainmaker
Ransom!
Reach for the Sky
Rock Around the Clock
Starik Khottabych
The Searchers
The Silent World
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Ten Commandments
A Town Like Alice
Trapeze
War and Peace
Written on the Wind
X the Unknown

[edit] Serials
Blazing the Overland Trail, starring Lee Roberts and Dennis Moore
Perils of the Wilderness

[edit] Short film series
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)

[edit] Births
January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
January 7 - David Caruso, actor
January 21 - Geena Davis,actress.
January 27 - Mimi Rogers, actress.
February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress.
July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor

[edit] Deaths
January 12 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
January 23 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director, the founder of London Films
July 16 - Olof Winnerstrand, Swedish actor
December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director
August 16- Bela Lugosi, actor best for Dracula