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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Bridge on the River Kwai Columbia $17,195,000
2.Peyton Place
Peyton Place (film)

Peyton Place is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling Peyton Place by Grace Metalious....
20th Century Fox $11,500,000
3.Sayonara
Sayonara

Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....
Warner Brothers $10,500,000
4. Old Yeller
Old Yeller (1957 film)

Old Yeller is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Tommy Kirk, Jeff York and Beverly Washburn about a boy and a stray dog in post-American Civil War Texas, based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson....
*
Disney $10,050,000
5. Raintree County
Raintree County (film)

Raintree County is a 182 minute 1957 in film drama film about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk.It was adapted from the novel of the Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr....
MGM $5,963,000
6.A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929. Much of the novel was written at Pfeiffer House and Carriage House in Piggott, Arkansas....

Island in the Sun
Island in the Sun (film)

Island in the Sun is a 1957 film that stars an ensemble cast including James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie and Harry Belafonte....
20th Century Fox $5,000,000
7. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K....

Pal Joey
Pal Joey

Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage Pal Joey and 1957 in film motion picture of the same name....
Paramount
Columbia
$4,700,000
8. Don't Go Near the Water
Don't Go Near the Water (film)

Don't Go Near the Water is a 1957 in film comedy film about a U.S. Navy public relations unit stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II....
MGM $4,474,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)







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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock
    Jailhouse Rock (1957 film)

    Jailhouse Rock is an United States motion picture directed by Richard Thorpe, released by MGM on November 8, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley , Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy....
    , starring 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"....
    , opens.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Bridge on the River Kwai Columbia $17,195,000
2.Peyton Place
Peyton Place (film)

Peyton Place is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling Peyton Place by Grace Metalious....
20th Century Fox $11,500,000
3.Sayonara
Sayonara

Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....
Warner Brothers $10,500,000
4. Old Yeller
Old Yeller (1957 film)

Old Yeller is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Tommy Kirk, Jeff York and Beverly Washburn about a boy and a stray dog in post-American Civil War Texas, based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson....
*
Disney $10,050,000
5. Raintree County
Raintree County (film)

Raintree County is a 182 minute 1957 in film drama film about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk.It was adapted from the novel of the Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr....
MGM $5,963,000
6.A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929. Much of the novel was written at Pfeiffer House and Carriage House in Piggott, Arkansas....

Island in the Sun
Island in the Sun (film)

Island in the Sun is a 1957 film that stars an ensemble cast including James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie and Harry Belafonte....
20th Century Fox $5,000,000
7. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K....

Pal Joey
Pal Joey

Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage Pal Joey and 1957 in film motion picture of the same name....
Paramount
Columbia
$4,700,000
8. Don't Go Near the Water
Don't Go Near the Water (film)

Don't Go Near the Water is a 1957 in film comedy film about a U.S. Navy public relations unit stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II....
MGM $4,474,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1957.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards
30th Academy Awards

The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was live broadcast.The Oscar for Writing Based on Material From Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai, despite the fact that he did not know English....
:
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....
: The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a Cinema of the United Kingdom 1957 in film World War II film by David Lean; based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle....
- Horizon, Columbia
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....
: David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
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....
: Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an Academy Award for Best Actor winning English actor....
 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
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....
: Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
 - The Three Faces of Eve
The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve is a 1957 book and film, loosely based on the true story of Chris Costner Sizemore, a woman who suffered from dissociative identity disorder....
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....
: Red Buttons
Red Buttons

Red Buttons was an American comedy and actor....
 - Sayonara
Sayonara

Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....
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....
: Miyoshi Umeki
Miyoshi Umeki

=BiographyUmeki was born in Otaru, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The youngest of nine children, her father owned an iron factory. After World War II, Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan, using the name Nancy Umeki, Her early influences were traditional Kabuki theater and American pop music....
 - Sayonara
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 ....
: Nights of Cabiria
Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria is an Italy film directed by Federico Fellini. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, plays Cabiria Ceccarelli, a feisty but naive prostitute in Ostia , then a seedy section of Rome....
(Le Notti di Cabiria), 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
15th Golden Globe Awards

The 15th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1957 in film films, were held on February 22, 1958....
:


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....
: The Bridge on the River Kwai
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....
: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
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....
: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve


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....
: Les Girls
Les Girls

Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 in film comedy film Musical film made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C....
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....
: Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
 - Pal Joey
Pal Joey (film)

Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the Pal Joey ; it stars Rita Hayworth , Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. The director is George Sidney and the choreographer is Hermes Pan ....
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....
: Kay Kendall
Kay Kendall

Kay Kendall was a Golden Globe Award-winning England actress....
 - Les Girls


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....
: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
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 Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull), W.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....
: Tizoc, Mexico
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....
: Woman In a Dressing Gown
Woman in a Dressing Gown

Woman in a Dressing Gown is a 1957 in film Golden Globe winning film directed by J. Lee Thompson.The screenplay was written by Ted Willis and the cinematographer was Gilbert Taylor....
, 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....
: Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu), Japan


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):
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....
, directed by William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
, United States


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):
Aparajito
Aparajito

Aparajito is an award-winning 1956 Bengali film, directed by Satyajit Ray. It is the second part of Ray's The Apu Trilogy, and is adapted from the last one-fifth of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali and the first one-third of its sequel Aparajita....
(aka The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali people filmmaker. Ray is regarded as one of the greatest Auteur theory of 20th century Film. Born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali people family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the Visva-Bharati University....
, India


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from the Reginald Rose play, Twelve Angry Men. Directed by first-time director Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury member who tries to persuade the other eleven members to acquit the suspect on trial on the basis of burden of proof....
, directed by Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
, United States


Films released in 1957

  • The Abominable Snowman
    The Abominable Snowman (film)

    The Abominable Snowman is a 1957 in film British horror film, directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. The film is based on The Creature, a BBC Television play by writer Nigel Kneale, and follows the exploits of an English anthropologist with an American expedition as they search the Himalayas for the lege...
    , starring Peter Cushing
    Peter Cushing

    Peter Wilton Cushing, Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Victor Frankenstein and Abraham Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee....
  • 12 Angry Men
    12 Angry Men

    12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from the Reginald Rose play, Twelve Angry Men. Directed by first-time director Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury member who tries to persuade the other eleven members to acquit the suspect on trial on the basis of burden of proof....
  • 20 Million Miles to Earth
    20 Million Miles to Earth

    20 Million Miles to Earth is a Cinema of the United States science fiction film written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight....
  • A King in New York
    A King in New York

    A King in New York is a 1957 in film film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin in his last leading role, which presents a satirical view of certain aspects of United States politics and society....
  • The Abominable Snowman
    The Abominable Snowman (film)

    The Abominable Snowman is a 1957 in film British horror film, directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. The film is based on The Creature, a BBC Television play by writer Nigel Kneale, and follows the exploits of an English anthropologist with an American expedition as they search the Himalayas for the lege...
  • An Affair to Remember
    An Affair to Remember

    An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey.The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute....
  • Amazing Colossal Man, The
    The Amazing Colossal Man

    The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Glenn Langan. The film revolves around a 60 foot mutant man produced as the result of an atomic accident....
  • Aparajito
    Aparajito

    Aparajito is an award-winning 1956 Bengali film, directed by Satyajit Ray. It is the second part of Ray's The Apu Trilogy, and is adapted from the last one-fifth of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's novel Pather Panchali and the first one-third of its sequel Aparajita....
  • April Love, a romance musical starring Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones

    Shirley Mae Jones is an United States singer and character actress of stage , film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma , Carousel , and The Music Man ....
  • The Astounding She-Monster
    The Astounding She-Monster

    The Astounding She-Monster is a 1957 in film science fiction film horror film starring Robert Clarke and directed, written and produced by Ronald V....
  • Attack of the Crab Monsters
    Attack of the Crab Monsters

    Attack Of The Crab Monsters is a 1957 in film, USA, black-and-white, science fiction film, written by Charles B. Griffith and produced and directed by Roger Corman via Los Altos Productions, on contract for distribution by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
  • The Bachelor Party
    The Bachelor Party

    The Bachelor Party is a film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Delbert Mann, with Don Murray , E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, and Carolyn Jones....
  • Barnacle Bill
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street
    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957 film)

    The Barretts of Wimpole Street was a 1957 in film film originating from the United Kingdom, and was a The Barretts of Wimpole Street of the earlier 1934 in film version by the same director, Sidney Franklin ....
  • The Blood of Dracula
  • Boy on a Dolphin
    Boy on a Dolphin

    Boy on a Dolphin was a 1957 in film 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G....
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai is a Cinema of the United Kingdom 1957 in film World War II film by David Lean; based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle....
  • Blue Murder at St Trinian's
    Blue Murder at St Trinian's

    Blue Murder at St Trinian's is British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School.Directed by Frank Launder and written by him and Sidney Gilliat, it was the second of the series of four films with well-known United Kingdom actors: Alastair Sim as Miss Fritton, George Cole as "Flash Harry ", and Joyce Grenfell as Policewoman...
  • Brothers in Law
    Brothers in Law

    Brothers in Law was a 1955 comedy book by Henry Cecil Leon, himself a County Court judge, about Roger Thursby ? a young barrister ? experiencing his first year in chambers....
  • The Burglar
    The Burglar

    The Burglar is a 1957 in film crime film/Thriller film released by Columbia Pictures, based on the 1953 novel of the same name by David Goodis ....
  • Carib Gold
  • The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull)
  • The Cranes are Flying
    The Cranes are Flying

    The Cranes are Flying is a Soviet Union film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II ....
  • Crime of Passion
    Crime of Passion (1957 film)

    Crime of Passion is a Cinema of the United States crime film noir directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Jo Eisinger. The drama features Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr and Fay Wray, among others....
  • The Curse of Frankenstein
    The Curse of Frankenstein

    The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 in film United Kingdom horror film by Hammer Film Productions. It was Hammer's first colour film, and the first of their Frankenstein series....
  • The Delicate Delinquent
    The Delicate Delinquent

    The Delicate Delinquent is a 1957 in film black and white film starring Jerry Lewis. It was filmed in 1956 and released on June 6, 1957 by Paramount Pictures and is notable as the first film that Lewis made without his Martin and Lewis Dean Martin....
    , 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 ....
    ' first film without 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....
  • The Delinquents
  • Designing Woman
    Designing Woman

    Designing Woman is a 1957 in film romance film comedy about fashion. Vincente Minnelli directed stars Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck. George Wells won an Academy Award for the screenplay....
  • Desk Set
    Desk Set

    Desk Set is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, and Dina Merrill....
    , starring Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell

    Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, was an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Production Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 film and television productions....
  • The Enemy Below
    The Enemy Below

    The Enemy Below is a 1957 in film war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an United States destroyer escort and the commander of a Germany U-boat during World War II....
    , produced and directed by Dick Powell
    Dick Powell

    Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
    , and starring Robert Mitchum
    Robert Mitchum

    Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an Academy Award-nominated United States film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s....
  • A Face in the Crowd
    A Face in the Crowd

    A Face in the Crowd is a motion picture starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Walter Matthau, and directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg, based on his own short story "Your Arkansas Traveler." The story centers on a "country" comedian, a common thug named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes , who is discovered by t...
  • A Farewell to Arms
    A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)

    A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms....
  • The Enemy Below
    The Enemy Below

    The Enemy Below is a 1957 in film war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an United States destroyer escort and the commander of a Germany U-boat during World War II....
  • Fear Strikes Out
    Fear Strikes Out

    Fear Strikes Out is a dramatic film depicting the life and career of American baseball player Jimmy Piersall. It is based on Piersall's autobiography Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story....
  • Flesh and the Spur
    Flesh and the Spur

    Flesh and the Spur is a 1957 in film Western film directed by Edward L. Cahn. The movie stars John Agar as Lucius Random, Marla English as Wild Willow, and Mike Connors as Stacy Tanner....
  • Funny Face
    Funny Face

    Funny Face is an United States musical film released in 1957 in film in Technicolor, with assorted songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin....
  • Les Girls
    Les Girls

    Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 in film comedy film Musical film made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C....
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K....
  • A Hatful of Rain
    A Hatful of Rain

    A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 in film dramatic film. It stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray , Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva.The movie was adapted by Michael V....
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
    Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

    Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 Cinemascope film which tells the story of two people stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II....
  • I Was a Teenage Werewolf
    I Was a Teenage Werewolf

    I Was a Teenage Werewolf is a 1957 horror film starring Michael Landon as a troubled teenager and Whit Bissell as the primary adult. It was co-written and produced by cult film producer Herman Cohen, and was one of the most successful films released by American International Pictures ....
  • Island in the Sun
    Island in the Sun (film)

    Island in the Sun is a 1957 film that stars an ensemble cast including James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie and Harry Belafonte....
  • Jailhouse Rock
    Jailhouse Rock (1957 film)

    Jailhouse Rock is an United States motion picture directed by Richard Thorpe, released by MGM on November 8, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley , Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy....
  • Jamboree
    Jamboree (1957 film)

    Jamboree is the name of a black and white 1957 rock 'n' roll motion picture directed by Roy Lockwood that runs for 71 minutes in mono RCA sound....
  • Jeanne Eagels
    Jeanne Eagels (film)

    Jeanne Eagels is a 1957 in film fictionalised biographical film of the life of stage star Jeanne Eagels, made by Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by George Sidney from a screenplay by John Fante, Daniel Fuchs and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Fuchs....
  • Jet Pilot
    Jet Pilot (film)

    Jet Pilot is a 1957 in film Cold War romantic comedy film starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written by Jules Furthman, the movie went through several directorial changes....
  • Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty, a Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     production
  • The Joker Is Wild
    The Joker Is Wild

    The Joker is Wild is a film starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, and Mitzi Gaynor, and Eddie Albert which tells the story of Joe E. Lewis, the popular singer and comedian who was a major attraction in nightclubs during 1920s to early 1950s....
  • A King in New York
    A King in New York

    A King in New York is a 1957 in film film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin in his last leading role, which presents a satirical view of certain aspects of United States politics and society....
  • Kiss Them for Me
    Kiss Them for Me (film)

    Kiss Them for Me is a 1957 in film screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield, directed by Stanley Donen. Co-stars included and Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, Werner Klemperer and Suzy Parker....
  • La Grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road)
  • Man of a Thousand Faces
    Man of a Thousand Faces

    Man of a Thousand Faces is a film detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney Sr., in which the title role is played by James Cagney....
  • Mayabazar
  • The Land Unknown
    The Land Unknown

    The Land Unknown is a sci-fi, adventure film about a naval expedition trapped in an Antarctic jungle. The story was allegedly inspired by the discovery of unusually warm water in Antarctica in 1947....
  • The Little Hut
    The Little Hut

    The Little Hut is a 1957 in film comedy film made by MGM. It was directed by Mark Robson, produced by Mark Robson and F. Hugh Herbert, from a screenplay by F....
  • Love in the Afternoon
    Love in the Afternoon (1957 film)

    Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, and Maurice Chevalier, and directed by Billy Wilder. It should not be confused with Love in the Afternoon , a 1972 film directed by ?ric Rohmer....
  • Loving You
    Loving You

    Loving You is an United States motion picture directed by Hal Kanter, released by Paramount Pictures on July 9, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott , and Wendell Corey....
    , 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 second feature
  • The Monolith Monsters
    The Monolith Monsters

    The Monolith Monsters is a science fiction film directed by John Sherwood and starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright. It is based on a story by Jack Arnold....
  • The Monster That Challenged the World
    The Monster That Challenged the World

    The Monster That Challenged the World is a science-fiction, monster movie, about an army of giant mollusks that emerge from the Salton Sea, California....
  • Night of the Demon
    Night of the Demon

    Night of the Demon is a 1957 in film United Kingdom horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis....
    , (Curse of the Demon)
  • Night Passage
    Night Passage

    Night Passage is a 1957 in film western film starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy. The film is reminiscent of the popular western collaborations between Stewart and director Anthony Mann....
    , starring James Stewart
    James Stewart (actor)

    James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
  • Nights of Cabiria
    Nights of Cabiria

    Nights of Cabiria is an Italy film directed by Federico Fellini. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, plays Cabiria Ceccarelli, a feisty but naive prostitute in Ostia , then a seedy section of Rome....
    (Le Notti di Cabiria)
  • Old Yeller
    Old Yeller (1957 film)

    Old Yeller is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Tommy Kirk, Jeff York and Beverly Washburn about a boy and a stray dog in post-American Civil War Texas, based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson....
  • Pal Joey
    Pal Joey (film)

    Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the Pal Joey ; it stars Rita Hayworth , Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. The director is George Sidney and the choreographer is Hermes Pan ....
    (film mentioned in article)
  • Perri
    Perri (film)

    Perri is a 1957 in film from the Walt Disney Studios, based on Felix Salten's 1938 Perri . It was the company's fifth feature entry in their True Life Adventures series, and the only one to be labeled a True Life Fantasy....
  • Peyton Place
    Peyton Place (film)

    Peyton Place is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling Peyton Place by Grace Metalious....
  • The Pride and the Passion
    The Pride and the Passion

    The Pride and the Passion is a historical film drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren made by Stanley Kramer productions....
  • The Prince and the Showgirl
    The Prince and the Showgirl

    The Prince and the Showgirl is a 1957 British film produced at Pinewood Studios starring Marilyn Monroe and co-starring Laurence Olivier who also directed and produced it....
  • Raintree County
    Raintree County (film)

    Raintree County is a 182 minute 1957 in film drama film about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk.It was adapted from the novel of the Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr....
    , starring Montgomery Clift
    Montgomery Clift

    Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
    , Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
    , and Lee Marvin
    Lee Marvin

    Lee Marvin was an United States film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6'2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hard-boiled characters, but after winning a Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles....
  • Quatermass 2
    Quatermass 2

    Quatermass 2 is a 1957 United Kingdom science fiction film/horror film. Made by Hammer Film Productions, it is a sequel to an earlier Hammer film The Quatermass Xperiment....
  • The Sad Sack
    The Sad Sack

    The Sad Sack is a 1957 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre....
    , starring 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 ....
  • Sayonara
    Sayonara

    Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....
  • The Search for Paradise
  • The Seventh Seal
    The Seventh Seal

    The Seventh Seal is an existentialism 1957 in film Sweden film directed by Ingmar Bergman about the journey of a medieval knight across a pestilence-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the personification of Death , who has come to take his life....
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
    Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

    Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway theatre musical comedy On Your Toes....
    )
  • The Smallest Show on Earth
    The Smallest Show on Earth

    The Smallest Show on Earth is a 1957 in film United Kingdom comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford....
  • The Snow Queen
    The Snow Queen (1957 film)

    The Snow Queen is a 1957 in film Soviet Union traditional animation feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen....
  • Something Of Value
    Something of Value

    Something Of Value is a 1957 drama directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter and Sidney Poitier....
  • The Spanish Gardener
    The Spanish Gardener

    The Spanish Gardener is a 1950 in literature novel by A. J. Cronin which tells the story of a British diplomat, Harrington Brande, who is posted to Catalonia, Spain after his marriage collapses....
  • The Spirit of St. Louis
    The Spirit of St. Louis (film)

    The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 in film biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Its screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1954 Pulitzer Prize winning The Spirit of St....
  • The Strange World of Planet X
    The Strange World of Planet X (film)

    The Strange World of Planet X is a British science fiction Horror film film, and a cautionary tale about science. It was also known as Cosmic Monsters, The Crawling Terror, ''The Cosmic Monster, and The Crawling Horror....
  • Sweet Smell of Success
    Sweet Smell of Success

    Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 in film Cinema of the United States film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists....
  • Tammy and the Bachelor
    Tammy and the Bachelor

    Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy . It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tammy Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen in an early role as Peter Brent....
  • The Three Faces of Eve
    The Three Faces of Eve

    The Three Faces of Eve is a 1957 book and film, loosely based on the true story of Chris Costner Sizemore, a woman who suffered from dissociative identity disorder....
  • The Tin Star
    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star is a 1957 in film United States western directed by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles....
  • Tizoc
  • The Wayward Bus
    The Wayward Bus (film)

    The Wayward Bus is a 1957 in film drama film film released by 20th Century Fox.Film version of John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus with a largely obscure cast and lackluster direction....
  • What's Opera, Doc?
    What's Opera, Doc?

    What's Opera, Doc? is a 1957 animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros. Cartoons....
  • Wild Is the Wind
    Wild Is the Wind

    Wild Is the Wind is a 1957 film which tells the story of a rancher who marries his Italy sister-in-law after the passing of his wife, but she falls in love with his son....
  • Wild Strawberries
    Wild Strawberries (film)

    Wild Strawberries is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish language title is Smultronst?llet, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem of a place ....
  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
    Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

    Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 in film 20th Century Fox romantic comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams , Henry Jones , Lili Gentle, Mickey Hargitay, and a cameo by Groucho Marx....
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution is a courtroom drama film based on a The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie dealing with the trial of a man accused of murder....
  • Woman In a Dressing Gown
    Woman in a Dressing Gown

    Woman in a Dressing Gown is a 1957 in film Golden Globe winning film directed by J. Lee Thompson.The screenplay was written by Ted Willis and the cinematographer was Gilbert Taylor....
  • Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu)
  • Young and Dangerous
  • Zero Hour!
    Zero Hour!

    Zero Hour! is a 1957 movie written by Arthur Hailey, starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden. Zero Hour! served as the basis for the parody, Airplane!....
    , starring Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews

    Dana Andrews was an United States film actor....


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....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • Daffy Duck
    Daffy Duck

    Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball comedy film" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye, who were more popular ear...
    (1937
    1937 in film

    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
    -1966
    1966 in film

    The year 1966 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
  • 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)


Births

  • January 4 - Julian Sands
    Julian Sands

    Julian R. Sands is a British actor, most well known for his roles in the cult film Warlock and the television series 24 ....
    , actor
  • January 15 - Mario Van Peebles
    Mario Van Peebles

    Mario Van Peebles is an United States Film director and actor who has appeared in numerous films. He is the son of writer, director and actor Melvin Van Peebles and Germany actress Maria Marx....
    , actor, director
  • March 20 - Spike Lee
    Spike Lee

    Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States film director, Film producer, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his films dealing with controversial Society and Politics issues....
    , director, writer, actor, producer
  • March 20 - Theresa Russell
    Theresa Russell

    Theresa Russell is an United States actress....
    , actress
  • April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis
    Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
    , actor
  • August 9 - Melanie Griffith
    Melanie Griffith

    Melanie Griffith is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-award winning United States actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas....
    , actress
  • August 24 - Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry

    Stephen John Fry is an England actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster....
    , English comedian, author, and actor
  • September 12 - Rachel Ward
    Rachel Ward

    Rachel Claire Ward, Order of Australia is an England actress who has primarily pursued her career in Australia....
    , actress
  • September 10 - Rick Rosengrant, character


Deaths

  • January 14 - 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....
    , American actor
  • May 12 - Erich von Stroheim
    Erich von Stroheim

    Erich von Stroheim was an Austria star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!"....
    , German director
  • July 4 – Judy Tyler
    Judy Tyler

    Judy Tyler was an United States of America actress.Born Judith Mae Hess in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, she came from a show business family and was encouraged to study dance and acting....
    , American actress
  • July 24 - Sacha Guitry
    Sacha Guitry

    Sacha Guitry was a France film actor, director, screenwriter and playwright.He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1885, the son of the actor Lucien Guitry....
    , French playwright, actor and director
  • August 7 - Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy

    Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 31 years, 1926-1957 ....
    , American actor
  • October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American producer
  • December 11 - Musidora
    Musidora

    Musidora was the stage name of Jeanne Roques, a popular French people silent film actress. She became famous for her vamp roles in such film serials as Les Vampires and Judex , in which she developed a persona comparable to that of Theda Bara....
    , French actress, director
  • December 25 - Charles Pathé
    Charles Pathé

    Charles Path? was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries.The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Path? was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne d?partement in France of France....