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The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
*
Paramount $43,000,000
2.Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
United Artists $23,120,000
3.Giant
Giant (film)

Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
*
Warner Brothers $14,000,000
4. Seven Wonders of the World Cinerama $12,500,000
5. The King and I
The King and I (1956 film)

The King and I is a 1956 in film musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F....
20th Century Fox $8,500,000
6.Trapeze
Trapeze (film)

Trapeze is a 1956 in film circus film directed by Carol Reed and starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida, making her debut in American films....
United Artists $7,269,000
7. War and Peace
War and Peace (1956 film)

War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an United States/Italy version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti....
Paramount $6,250,000
8. High Society
High Society

High Society is musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C....
MGM $5,878,000
9. Teahouse of the August Moon MGM $5,712,000
10. The Eddy Duchin Story
The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 in film biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. The George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak....
Columbia $5,300,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)







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The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • August 4 - The last film serial, Blazing the Overland Trail
    Blazing the Overland Trail

    Blazing the Overland Trail is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the last serial produced by Columbia and the last serial ever produced by any major studio....
     from Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
    , is released.
  • November 15 - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    's first film, Love Me Tender
    Love Me Tender (1956 film)

    Love Me Tender is an United States Black-and-white motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956....
    , opens.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
*
Paramount $43,000,000
2.Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
United Artists $23,120,000
3.Giant
Giant (film)

Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
*
Warner Brothers $14,000,000
4. Seven Wonders of the World Cinerama $12,500,000
5. The King and I
The King and I (1956 film)

The King and I is a 1956 in film musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F....
20th Century Fox $8,500,000
6.Trapeze
Trapeze (film)

Trapeze is a 1956 in film circus film directed by Carol Reed and starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida, making her debut in American films....
United Artists $7,269,000
7. War and Peace
War and Peace (1956 film)

War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an United States/Italy version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti....
Paramount $6,250,000
8. High Society
High Society

High Society is musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C....
MGM $5,878,000
9. Teahouse of the August Moon MGM $5,712,000
10. The Eddy Duchin Story
The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 in film biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. The George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak....
Columbia $5,300,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1956.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
29th Academy Awards

During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a special achievement Honorary Award or as a Best Picture nominee ....
:


Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
- Todd, United Artists
Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
 - Giant
Giant (film)

Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner was a Russian-born actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Thailandese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King and I on both stage and screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B....
 - The King and I
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
 - Anastasia
Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Awards-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a Painting and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek , Lawrence of Arabia , and Federico Fellini's La strada....
 - Lust for Life
Lust for Life (film)

Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Netherlands painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 Lust for Life by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin....
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone is an Academy Award-winning United States actor....
 - Written on the Wind
Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind is a 1956 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman was based on Robert Wilder 's 1945 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Smith Reynolds....
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: La strada
La Strada (film)

La strada is an Italian neorealism film, directed by Federico Fellini. The movie is a drama about a naive young girl who is sold to a brutish man in a coastal town in Italy....
, directed by Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
, Italy


Golden Globe Awards
14th Golden Globe Awards

The 14th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1956 in film films, were held on February 28, 1957....
:


Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and film producer known for his cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches"....
 - Lust for Life
Lust for Life (film)

Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Netherlands painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 Lust for Life by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin....
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
 - Anastasia
Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: The King and I
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Cantinflas
Cantinflas

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes was a Mexico comedian and actor.He earned wide popularity with his stage and film persona Cantinflas, usually portrayed as an impoverished campesino slumdweller of pelado origin....
 - Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
 - The King and I


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
 - Baby Doll
Baby Doll

Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy....
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Before Sundown, West Germany
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: The Girl in Black
The Girl in Black

The Girl in Black is a 1956 cinema of Greece dramatic film by Cypriot director Michael Cacoyannis starting Dimitris Horn and the hauntingly lovely Greek actress Ellie Lambeti....
, Greece
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Richard III
Richard III (1955 film)

Richard III is a 1955 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Shakespeare on screen#Richard III of William Shakespeare's Shakespearean history Richard III , including elements of Henry VI, Part 3....
, United Kingdom
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Roses on the Arm, Japan
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: War and Peace
War and Peace (1956 film)

War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an United States/Italy version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti....
, Italy
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: The White Reindeer
The White Reindeer

The White Reindeer is a 1952 in film cinema of Finland drama film directed by Erik Blomberg. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival....
, Finland


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
The Silent World
The Silent World

The Silent World is a Cinema of France documentary film released in 1956 in film, co-directed by the famed French oceanography Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle....
(Le monde du silence), directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a France naval officer, exploration, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water....
 and Louis Malle
Louis Malle

Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
, France


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Not awarded

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Invitation to the Dance
Invitation to the Dance (film)

Invitation to the Dance is an anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly.The film is unique in that it has no spoken dialogue, with the characters performing their roles entirely through dance and mime....
, directed by Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
, United States


Films released in 1956


  • 7 Wonders of the World
  • Accused of Murder
    Accused of Murder

    Accused of Murder is an United States color film noir, filmed in Trucolor, and directed and produced by Joseph Kane, based on the novel Vanity Row, by W....
  • Alexander the Great
  • Anastasia
    Anastasia (1956 film)

    Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

    Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
  • Baby Doll
    Baby Doll

    Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy....
  • The Bad Seed
    The Bad Seed (film)

    The Bad Seed is a 1956 in film Academy Award-nominated Horror film/Thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It is based upon a play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based upon William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed....
  • The Battle of the River Plate
    The Battle of the River Plate (film)

    The Battle of the River Plate is a war film by the Cinema of the United Kingdom director-writer team of Powell and Pressburger, starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch....
    , written and directed by Powell and Pressburger
  • Between Heaven and Hell
    Between Heaven and Hell (film)

    Between Heaven and Hell is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox Cinemascope colour war film based on the novel The Day the Century Ended by Francis Gwaltney that the film follows closely....
    , directed by Richard Fleischer
    Richard Fleischer

    Richard O. Fleischer was an Cinema of the United States film director....
  • The Birds and the Bees
    The Birds and the Bees (film)

    The Birds and the Bees is a 1956 in film screwball comedy film with musical film, starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven. A remake of Preston Sturges' film The Lady Eve, which was based on a story by Monckton Hoffe, the film was directed by Norman Taurog and written by Sidney Sheldon....
  • The Brave One
  • The Bold and the Brave
    The Bold and the Brave

    The Bold and the Brave is a 1956 in film Hollywood World War II film written by Robert Lewin and directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, and Don Taylor ....
  • Bus Stop
    Bus Stop (film)

    Bus Stop, also known as The Wrong Kind of Girl, is a 1956 in film film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray , Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray and Hope Lange....
  • Carousel
    Carousel (film)

    Carousel is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel which, in turn, was based on Ferenc Molnar's non-musical play Liliom....
  • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn
    The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn

    The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn is a short comedy film starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Dick Emery. The film was made in 1956 in film....
  • The Conqueror
    The Conqueror

    ----The Conqueror is a 1956 in film epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. Other performers included Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armend?riz....
  • The Court Jester
    The Court Jester

    The Court Jester is a 1956 comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, and Angela Lansbury. The movie was screen writer, film director, and film producer by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama....
  • D-Day the Sixth of June
  • Dance With Me Henry
    Dance with Me Henry

    Dance with Me, Henry is a 1956 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is the final film that they would star in together, although Costello would go on to star in one more film before his death, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock....
    , starring Bud Abbott
    Bud Abbott

    William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
     and Lou Costello
    Lou Costello

    Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  • Diane
    Diane (film)

    Diane is a 1956 in film MGM historical film drama film about the life of Diane de Poitiers. It was directed by David Miller and produced by Edwin H....
  • Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is an United States of America black and white science fiction film, directed by Fred F. Sears and was released in 1956 in film....
  • The Eddy Duchin Story
    The Eddy Duchin Story

    The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 in film biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. The George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak....
  • Elena and Her Men
    Elena and Her Men

    Elena and Her Men is a 1956 in film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman, and was her first film after leaving husband Roberto Rossellini....
  • Forbidden Planet
    Forbidden Planet

    Forbidden Planet is a 1956 in film science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen....
  • Friendly Persuasion
    Friendly Persuasion (film)

    Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 Palme d'Or-winning American Civil War film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton and Phyllis Love....
  • Gaby
    Gaby (film)

    Gaby is a 1956 in film drama film made by MGM. It is the third version of Waterloo Bridge, made in 1931 and 1940.This version was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Edwin H....
  • Gervaise
    Gervaise

    Gervaise is a 1956 France film directed by Ren? Cl?ment based on the novel L'Assommoir by ?mile Zola. It depicts a woman in the nineteenth century trying to cope with the pressure of dealing with her alcoholic husband....
  • Giant
    Giant (film)

    Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
  • The Girl Can't Help It
    The Girl Can't Help It

    The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 in film comedy film/musical film, starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay written by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel Do Re Me by Garson Kanin....
  • Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
    Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

    Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is a 1956 United States black-and-white science fiction film adapted from the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla , which had previously been shown Subtitle d in the United States in Japanese community theaters only, and was not known in Europe....
  • The Great Man
    The Great Man

    For the Kate Christensen novel, see The Great Man .The Great Man is a 1956 drama film directed by Jos? Ferrer and based on a novel by Al Morgan....
  • The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall

    The Harder They Fall is a film noir directed by Mark Robson. It features Humphrey Bogart in his final movie role. The character Eddie Willis is based on the career of boxing writer and event promoter Harold Conrad....
    , starring Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart

    Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
     in his final film
  • High Society
    High Society

    High Society is musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C....
  • Hollywood or Bust
    Hollywood Or Bust

    Hollywood or Bust is a film comedy starring the team of Martin and Lewis. The picture was filmed from April 16 to June 19, 1956 and released on December 6, 1956 by Paramount Pictures, almost five months after the comedy team of Martin and Lewis split up....
    , starring Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
     and Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956 film)

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1956 in film France film version of Victor Hugo's novel popularly known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame....
  • Ich suche Dich
    Ich suche Dich

    Ich suche Dich is a 1956 in film Germany film based on the play, Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. O. W. Fischer directed and stars in the film, which also features Anouk Aim?e, Nadja Tiller, and Otto Br?ggemann....
    , starring O.W. Fischer and Anouk Aimée
    Anouk Aimée

    Anouk Aim?e is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning France film actor.Aim?e was born Fran?oise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of another actress, Genevi?ve Sorya, and Henri Dreyfus....
  • The Indian Fighter
    The Indian Fighter

    The Indian Fighter is a 1956 in film Western . It is from an original story by Robert L. Richards....
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 in film science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney . It stars Kevin McCarthy , Dana Wynter, King Donovan, and Carolyn Jones....
  • Invitation to the Dance
    Invitation to the Dance (film)

    Invitation to the Dance is an anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly.The film is unique in that it has no spoken dialogue, with the characters performing their roles entirely through dance and mime....
  • Johnny Concho
    Johnny Concho (1956 film)

    Johnny Concho is a 1956 in film starring Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Kirk and Keenan Wynn and directed by Don McGuire. Sinatra's role allowed him to play against type in his portrayal of the film's villain....
  • Jubal
    Jubal

    Jubal , was the son of Lamech and Adah, a brother of Jabal, a descendant of Cain, according to the Bible. The ancestor of all who played the lyre and pipe....
  • Julie
  • The King and I
  • A Kiss Before Dying
    A Kiss Before Dying

    A Kiss Before Dying is a United Kingdom and United States neo-noir film. It was directed by James Dearden, and based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin whose book won the 1954 Edgar Award for "Best First Novel." It has been adapted for the cinema twice....
  • The Lady Killers (U.S. release)
  • Love Me Tender
    Love Me Tender (1956 film)

    Love Me Tender is an United States Black-and-white motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956....
  • Lust for Life
    Lust for Life (film)

    Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Netherlands painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 Lust for Life by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin....
  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (film)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)

    The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ....
  • Moby Dick
    Moby Dick (1956 film)

    Moby Dick is a 1956 Adaptations of Moby-Dick#Film of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Ray Bradbury and the director....
  • Never Say Goodbye (film)
    Never Say Goodbye (film)

    Never Say Goodbye is a 1956 in film film starring Rock Hudson and Clint Eastwood.External links...
  • Pardners
    Pardners

    Pardners is a movie starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and was released on July 25, 1956 by Paramount Pictures....
    , starring Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
     and Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  • Private's Progress
    Private's Progress

    Private's Progress is a United Kingdom comedy film of 1956 in film, based on the novel by Alan Hackney. It was directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, from a script by John Boulting and Frank Harvey....
  • The Proud and Profane
    The Proud and Profane

    The Proud and Profane is a 1956 in film dramatic war romance made by William Perlberg-George Seaton Productions for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenplay by George Seaton, based on the novel The Magnificent Bastards by Lucy Herndon Crockett....
  • The Proud Ones
  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker (1956 film)

    The Rainmaker is a 1956 in film film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his The Rainmaker . The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain....
  • Ransom!
    Ransom!

    Ransom! is a 1956 in film crime drama examining the reactions of parents, police, and the public to a kidnapping. Written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume, the film was based on a popular episode of "The United States Steel Hour" titled "Fearful Decision," which aired in 1954 in television....
  • Reach for the Sky
    Reach for the Sky

    Reach for the Sky is a 1956 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom biographical film of aviator Douglas Bader, based on the biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill....
  • The Red Balloon
    The Red Balloon

    The Red Balloon is a fantasy short film, directed by France filmmaker Albert Lamorisse.The thirty-four minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the M?nilmontant neighborhood of Paris, France, France....
  • Richard III
    Richard III (1955 film)

    Richard III is a 1955 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Shakespeare on screen#Richard III of William Shakespeare's Shakespearean history Richard III , including elements of Henry VI, Part 3....
     (U.S. release)
  • Rock Around the Clock
    Rock Around the Clock (film)

    Rock Around the Clock is the title of a 1956 Musical film that featured Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, The Platters, and Freddie Bell and the Bellboys....
  • The Solid Gold Cadillac
    The Solid Gold Cadillac

    The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film film director by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway theatre play of the same name by Teichman and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen....
  • Starik Khottabych
    Starik Khottabych

    Starik Khottabych, or Old Man Khottabych , is a film produced in the USSR by Lenfilm in 1956 based on a children's book of the same name by Lazar Lagin....
  • The Searchers
    The Searchers (film)

    The Searchers is a 1956 in film epic Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, which tells the story of Ethan Edwards, a bitter, middle-aged loner and American Civil War veteran played by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece....
  • Seven Samurai (U.S. release)
  • The Silent World
    The Silent World

    The Silent World is a Cinema of France documentary film released in 1956 in film, co-directed by the famed French oceanography Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle....
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Somebody Up There Likes Me (film)

    Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 in film drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 in film Academy Awards in the category of Academy Award for Best Cinematography#1950s....
  • La Strada
    La Strada (film)

    La strada is an Italian neorealism film, directed by Federico Fellini. The movie is a drama about a naive young girl who is sold to a brutish man in a coastal town in Italy....
     (U.S. release)
  • Tea and Sympathy
    Tea and Sympathy

    Tea and Sympathy is a 1953 stage play in three acts by Robert Anderson ....
  • The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

    The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
  • A Town Like Alice
    A Town Like Alice

    A Town Like Alice is a novel by the England author Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it...
  • Trapeze
    Trapeze (film)

    Trapeze is a 1956 in film circus film directed by Carol Reed and starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida, making her debut in American films....
  • War and Peace
    War and Peace (1956 film)

    War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an United States/Italy version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti....
  • Written on the Wind
    Written on the Wind

    Written on the Wind is a 1956 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman was based on Robert Wilder 's 1945 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Smith Reynolds....
  • The Wrong Man
    The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man is a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film is based on a true story of an innocent man charged for a crime he didn't commit, even though witnesses swear he's guilty....
  • X the Unknown
    X the Unknown

    X the Unknown is a United Kingdom Science fiction film / horror film made by the famous Hammer Films company and released in 1956....


Serials

  • Blazing the Overland Trail
    Blazing the Overland Trail

    Blazing the Overland Trail is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the last serial produced by Columbia and the last serial ever produced by any major studio....
    , starring Lee Roberts
    Lee Roberts

    Lee Roberts was a film actor during the B movies . Sometimes he is credited as Robert Allen or Lee J. Roberts....
     and Dennis Moore
    Dennis Moore (actor)

    Dennis Moore was an actor who specialized in Westerns and film serials for Universal Pictures.External links...
  • Perils of the Wilderness
    Perils of the Wilderness

    Perils of the Wilderness was the 55th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was the penultimate serial produced by Columbia who were at this time the only studio still producing serials....


Short film series


  • Looney Tunes
    Looney Tunes

    Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
     (1930
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Terrytoons
    Terrytoons

    Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
     (1930
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -1964
    1964 in film

    The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Merrie Melodies
    Merrie Melodies

    Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    -1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Popeye
    Popeye

    File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    -1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Three Stooges (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    -1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Bugs Bunny
    Bugs Bunny

    Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
     (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    -1962
    1962 in film

    The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Tom and Jerry
    Tom and Jerry (MGM)

    Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
     (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    -1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Droopy (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    -1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Yosemite Sam
    Yosemite Sam

    Yosemite Sam is an animation fictional character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
     (1945
    1945 in film

    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
    -1963
    1963 in film

    The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Speedy Gonzales
    Speedy Gonzales

    Speedy Gonz?les, "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico", is an animation mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons....
     (1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    -1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Ending this year
  • Donald Duck
    Donald Duck

    Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    -1956)
  • Chip and Dale (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    -1956)
  • Ranger Don (1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    -1956)


Births

  • January 3 - Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson

    Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
    , actor and director
  • January 7 - David Caruso
    David Caruso

    David Stephen Caruso is an American film and television actor and television producer. He is currently known to audiences for his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami....
    , actor
  • January 21 - Geena Davis
    Geena Davis

    Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, Film producer, writer, former fashion model and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist ....
    ,actress.
  • January 27 - Mimi Rogers
    Mimi Rogers

    Mimi Rogers is an United States film Actor and competitive poker player....
    , actress.
  • February 11 - Kathleen Beller
    Kathleen Beller

    Kathleen Beller is an actress nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Promises in the Dark ....
    , actress.
  • July 9 - Tom Hanks
    Tom Hanks

    Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American film actor, film director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia , the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander J...
    , actor


Deaths

  • January 12 - Norman Kerry
    Norman Kerry

    Norman Kerry was a United States actor whose career spanned over twenty-five years in the motion picture industry beginning in the silent era at the end of World War I....
    , American actor (b. 1894)
  • January 23 - Alexander Korda
    Alexander Korda

    Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born film director and film producer. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion, a film distributing company....
    , Hungarian film director, the founder of London Films
  • July 16 - Olof Winnerstrand
    Olof Winnerstrand

    Carl Olof Magnus Winnerstrand was a Sweden actor....
    , Swedish actor
  • August 16 - Béla Lugosi
    Béla Lugosi

    B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
    , actor best known for Dracula
  • December 12 - Ewald André Dupont
    Ewald André Dupont

    Ewald Andr? Dupont was a Germany movie director.He was born on December 25, 1891, in Zeitz, Saxony, Germany, and was one of the founders of the German film industry....
    , German director