Gourt Home::Gourt :: 1956 in film
| See also: |
Events
- November 15 - Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, opens.
Top grossing films
- North America
- Guys and Dolls
- The King and I
- Trapeze
- tie High Society and I'll Cry Tomorrow
- Picnic
- War and Peace, starring Audrey Hepburn, and Henry Fonda
- The Eddy Duchin Story
- Moby Dick, starring Gregory Peck and directed by John Huston
- The Searchers, starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter.
- tie The Conqueror, with John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists
- Best Actor: Yul Brynner - The King and I
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
Other films released
- Accused of Murder
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Battle of the River Plate
- ''Carousel'
- The Court Jester
- Forbidden Planet
- Gervaise
- Giant
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- La Strada
- Love Me Tender
- Lust for Life
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Night and Fog
- Private's Progress
- Ransom!
- Reach for the Sky
- Rock Around the Clock
- Seven Wonders of the World
- The Silent World
- Smiles of a Summer Night
- The Ten Commandments
- A Town Like Alice
- Unknown Soldier
- X the Unknown
Short film series
Births
- January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
- January 7 - David Caruso, actor
- January 21 - Geena Davis,actress.
- January 27 - Mimi Rogers, actress.
- February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress.
- July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor
Deaths
- January 12 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
- January 23 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director, the founder of London Films.
- December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director
1956 | 1956 films | Years in film
Filmjahr 1956 | 1956 au cinéma | 1956 a filmművészetben | 1956 w filmie | Filmåret 1956
"1956 in film"