1959 in film

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The year 1959 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1959
5 Short Film Series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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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
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
Other
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

[edit] Films released in 1959
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
The 39 Steps
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
Beyond This Place (also known as Web of Evidence)
Black Orpheus Palm d'Or winner
Career
Carry On Teacher
La Casa del Terror
Les Cousins
A Date with Death
The Diary of Anne Frank
Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
Don't Give Up The Ship
Fires on the Plain
The Giant Behemoth
Il Generale della Rovere
Gidget
La grande guerra (The Great War)
Happy Anniversary
Hercules and the Queen of Lydia (also known as Ercole e la regina di Lidia and 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
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
Suddenly, Last Summer
Terror is a Man
The World, the Flesh and the Devil

[edit] Short Film Series
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

[edit] Births
January 22 - Linda Blair, actress
March 18 - Irene Cara, actress, singer
April 15 - Emma Thompson, British actor
July 29 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese 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
October 23 - Gerda Lundequist, actress
November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, European actress
November 25 - Gérard Philipe, French actor