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Events

• September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Robe, starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, and Victor Mature
2. From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr
3. Shane, starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde and Jack Palance
4. How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and William Powell
5. Peter Pan (Disney), voices Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont and Hans Conried
6. tie Mogambo and House of Wax, the first 3-d movie to ever make the box office top ten, with Vincent Price

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: From Here to Eternity — Columbia
• Best Actor: William Holden — Stalag 17
• Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn — Roman Holiday

Other films released

• The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
• Calamity Jane
• The Cruel Sea, with Jack Hawkins
• Genevieve
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• I Vitelloni
• Island in the Sky (1953 film)
• It Came from Outer Space
• Julius Caesar
• Kiss Me, Kate, released in 2-d and 3-d
• The Moon is Blue, first U.S. movie to use the words "pregnant" and virgin
• Moulin Rouge
• Pickup on South Street
• Robot Monster
• Roman Holiday
• Le Salaire de la Peur
• Stalag 17
• The Caddy
• The Titfield Thunderbolt
• Twice Upon a Time, directed by Emeric Pressburger
• Ugetsu
• The War of the Worlds

Short film series

• Bugs Bunny (1940)-(1962)
• Donald Duck (1936)-(1956)
• ''Goofy (1939)-(1953)
• Mickey Mouse (1928)-(1953)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Births

• February 8–Mary Steenburgen, actress
• February 11–Philip Anglim, actor
• February 19–Massimo Troisi, actor (d. 1994)
• May 24–Alfred Molina, actor
• September 10–Amy Irving, actress
• October 9–Tony Shalhoub, actor
• October 22–Jeff Goldblum, actor
• October 26–Maureen Teefy,actress
• October 31–Michael J. Anderson, actor
• November 3–Kate Capshaw, actress
• November 6–Ron Underwood, director
• December 6–Tom Hulce, actor
• December 8–Kim Basinger, actress
• December 9–John Malkovich, actor
• December 17–Bill Pullman, actor

Deaths

• November 29–Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor

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