The year 1959 in film involved some significant events.... romantic drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome... made by 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios.... . It was directed by Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway was an United States film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Western , especially starring John Wayne.... , written and produced by Sydney Boehm
Sydney Boehm
Sydney Boehm was an United States screenwriter and producer. Boehm began his writing career as a newswriter for wire services and newspapers before moving on to screenwriting.... , based on a novel by John Mantley. The music score was by Hugo Friedhofer
Hugo Friedhofer
Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13.... and the cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography , is the making of Stage lighting and camera choices when recording photographic s for the film. It is closely related to the art of photography.... by William C. Mellor
William C. Mellor
William C. Mellor, A.S.C. was a cinematographer who worked at Paramount Pictures, MGM and 20th Century Fox during a career that spanned three decades.... . The film was made in CinemaScope
CinemaScope
CinemaScope was a widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967. Anamorphices allowed the process to project film up to a 2.66:1 Aspect ratio , almost twice as wide as the conventional format of 1.37:1.... .
Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind .... and Stephen Boyd
Stephen Boyd
Stephen Boyd , born William Millar, was an Ireland-born actor from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in the 1959 film Ben-Hur .... with Barbara Nichols
Barbara Nichols
Barbara Nichols was an actress who was something of a cross between a sex symbol and a character actress often playing brassy comic roles in a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s.... and Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel
Theodore Meir Bikel is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his role as the Southern Sheriff in The Defiant Ones .... .
