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Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years.

Top grossing North American films

1. West Side Story
2. Spartacus
3. El Cid
4. Lover Come Back
5. That Touch of Mink
6. tie King of Kings and The Music Man
7. Hatari!, starring John Wayne

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
• Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Births

• January 1 - Nancy Mette,actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore,US actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, stage and film actor

Other movies released

• A Kind of Loving
• Billy Budd
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Boys' Night Out
• Cape Fear
• Divorce - Italian Style
• Dr. No
• Family Diary
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• How the West Was Won
• Kid Galahad
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lolita
• Lonely are the Brave
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• My Name is Ivan
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
• Ride the High Country
• State Fair
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Taras Bulba (film)
• The Given Word
• The Longest Day
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Miracle Worker
• The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film) - Hammer production, starring Herbert Lom
• The Premature Burial
• The Trial of Joan of Arc
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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