Cinema 1957: You Must Remember This–Movies, Stars, Events, Oscars

Cineliteracy: What You Need to Know about 1957 as Movie Year

Highest-grossing films of 1957

1 The Bridge on the River Kwai Columbia $15,000,000

2 Peyton Place 20th Century Fox $11,000,000

3 Sayonara Warner Bros. $10,500,000

4 Search for Paradise Cinerama Releasing $6,500,000

5 Old Yeller Buena Vista $5,900,000

6 Raintree County MGM $5,830,000

7 Island in the Sun

Farewell to Arms 20th Century Fox $5,000,000

8 Pal Joey Columbia $4,700,000

9 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Paramount $4,300,000

10 Don’t Go Near the Water MGM $4,265,000

Events

January 14

Legendary actor Humphrey Bogart dies at age 57 in LA from esophageal cancer. Best known for Dead End, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Sabrina, and for To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep co-starring with his wife Lauren Bacall; Bogart was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age and won Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The African Queen.

February 1 – RKO ceases domestic distribution of features, taken over by Universal Pictures.

May – Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

June 6 – Jerry Lewis appears in first film without Dean Martin, The Delicate Delinquent.

June – United Artists rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America. The board had previously denied The Man With the Golden Arm a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to quit the MPAA.

October 2 – Raintree County is the first film shot in MGM Camera 65.

October 16 – First London Film Fest held at newly opened National Film Theatre.

December 6 – Bergman’s Wild Strawberries is released in Sweden, wins the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin Film Fest

Awards
30th Academy Awards March 26, 1958

Best Film The Bridge on the River Kwai Les Girls The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Director David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Actor Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River

Best Actress Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve

Best Supporting Actor Red Buttons, Sayonara
Best Supporting Actress Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara

1957 film releases

February 14 – Cinderella (re-release)

July 3 – Bambi (re-release)

3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin

12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall

20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper, special effects Harryhausen

The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento – (GB)

An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr

All Mine to Give, starring Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell

April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone

B
Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney

The Bachelor Party, directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Don Murray

Band of Angels

Barnacle Bill, starring Alec Guinness – (GB)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street, John Gielgud and Jennifer Jones – (GB)

Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton – (France/US)

The Black Scorpion, starring Mara Corday, with special effects by Willis O’Brien
Blue Murder at St Trinian’s, starring Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell – (GB)

El Bolero de Raquel, starring Cantinflas, Manola Saavedra and Flor Silvestre – (Mexico)

Bombers B-52, starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt

Boy on a Dolphin, starring Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren

The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa – winner of 7 Oscars

Brothers in Law, starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael – (GB)

The Brothers Rico, starring Richard Conte

The Burglar, starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield (filmed in 1955 but released in 1957 due to sudden popularity of Mansfield)

C
The Careless Years, Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, Barbara Billingsley
City of Gold – (Canada)

Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) – (West Germany)

Country Hotel (Rong Raem Narok) – (Thailand)

The Cranes Are Flying (Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov – winner of the Palme d’Or – (U.S.S.R.)

Crime of Passion, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr

The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand – (France/East Germany)

The Curse of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (GB)

The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (first film without Dean Martin) and Darren McGavin

The Delinquents, directed by Robert Altman

Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall

Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young

The Devil’s Hairpin, starring Cornel Wilde

Don’t Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis

Drango, starring Jeff Chandler

Edge of the City, Martin Ritt, starring Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee

The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison

F
A Face in the Crowd, Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau

A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones

Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli), Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)

Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden

Fire Down Below, starring Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum

Forty Guns, Samuel Fuller, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry

Funny Face, Stanley Donen, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson

G
The Garment Jungle, starring Lee J. Cobb and Gia Scala

The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair – (France/Italy)

Gateway of India, starring Madhubala – (India)

The Girl in Black Stockings, Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
The Girl in the Kremlin, starring Lex Barker and Zsa Zsa Gabor
The Girl Most Likely, starring Jane Powell and Cliff Robertson
Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor
La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) – (Italy)
Gun for a Coward, starring Fred MacMurray

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas

A Hatful of Rain, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa

He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), Jules Dassin – (France)

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, directed by John Huston, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum

The Helen Morgan Story, starring Paul Newman and Ann Blyth

Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan – (GB)

Hour of Decision, starring Jeff Morrow and Hazel Court – (GB)

I
The Incredible Shrinking Man, Jack Arnold, starring Grant Williams
Interlude, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring June Allyson

Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Harry BelafonteIstanbul, starring Errol Flynn

J
Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley

Jamboree, featuring Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Fats Domino

Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak

Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh

Joe Butterfly, starring Audie Murphy and Burgess Meredith

Johnny Tremain, starring Hal Stalmaster and Sebastian Cabot

The Joker Is Wild, Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Mitzi Gaynor

K
Kabuliwala (aka The Man) – (India)
Kathputli (Puppet), directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni – (India)
A King in New York, Charles Chaplin – (GB)

Kiss Them for Me, Stanley Donen, Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker

L
The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney
Legend of the Lost, directed by Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
Let’s Be Happy, starring Vera-Ellen and Tony Martin – (GB)
The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner – (GB/US)

Love in the Afternoon, directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier

Loving You, starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey

The Lower Depths (Donzoko), Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)

Man of a Thousand Faces, biopic of Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Roger Smith, Robert Evans (as Irving Thalberg)

Mayerling, a TV film starring Audrey Hepburn
Men in War, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray
Miracles of Thursday (Los jueves, milagro), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Richard Basehart – (Spain)
Mister Cory, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Kathryn Grant
The Monolith Monsters, starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright
The Monster That Challenged the World, starring Tim Holt
Mother India, starring Nargis – (India)

My Gun Is Quick, starring Robert Bray (as Mike Hammer)

N
N.Y., N.Y., a documentary film by Francis Thompson

The Naked Truth, starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers – (GB)
Naya Daur (New Era), directed by B. R. Chopra, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon), directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews – (GB)
Night Passage, starring James Stewart
Nightfall, starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft

Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Fellini – (Italy)
Nine Lives (Ni Liv) – (Norway)

O
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven

The Oklahoman, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale

Old Yeller, Walt Disney film, starring Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran

Omar Khayyam, starring Cornel Wilde, John Derek, Debra Paget, Yma Sumac
The One That Got Away, starring Hardy Krüger – (GB)
Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs
An Osaka Story (Osaka Monogatari) – (Japan)
The Outcry (Il Grido), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Steve Cochran and Alida Valli – (Italy)

P
The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day

Pal Joey, directed by George Sidney, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak

Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Paying Guest, starring Dev Anand – (India)
Perri, a Disney animated film
Peyton Place, based on novel by Grace Metalious, starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson and Claude Rains
The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier (who also directed)

Q
Quatermass 2, starring Brian Donlevy – (GB)
R
Raintree County, directed by Edward Dmytryk, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
The Real End of the Great War (Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny) – (Poland)
Rock All Night, directed by Roger Corman, starring Abby Dalton
Rose Bernd, starring Maria Schell and Raf Vallone – (West Germany)
Run of the Arrow, starring Rod Steiger

S
The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre
Saint Joan, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg – (GB/U.S.)
Sayonara, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando, James Garner, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki
The Seventh Seal; directed by Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow – (Sweden)
The Shiralee, starring Peter Finch – (GB)
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend, starring Randolph Scott and Angie Dickinson
Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, starring Richard Egan and Walter Matthau (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)

Sleepless (la anam), starring Faten Hamama, Yehia Chehine and Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
The Smallest Show on Earth, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers – (GB)
The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) an animated film – (USSR)

Something of Value, starring Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier
The Spirit of St. Louis, starring James Stewart in a biopic of Charles Lindbergh
Spring Reunion, starring Betty Hutton and Dana Andrews
Stopover Tokyo, starring Robert Wagner and Joan Collins
The Story of Esther Costello, starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears – (GB)
The Strange One, starring Ben Gazzara and George Peppard
The Strange World of Planet X (The Cosmic Monsters), starring Forrest Tucker – (Britain)

Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, written by Ernest Lehman, Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis

T
The Tall T, directed by Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott and Richard Boone
The Deadly Mantis, starring Craig Stevens and William Hopper
The Giant Claw, starring Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday
Tammy and the Bachelor, starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen
The Tattered Dress, starring Jeanne Crain, Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson
Ten Thousand Bedrooms, starring Dean Martin

The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward and Lee J. Cobb
Three Violent People, starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Forrest Tucker
Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jō), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)

Time Limit, directed by Karl Malden, starring Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, June Lockhart

The Tin Star, starring Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer
Tip on a Dead Jockey, starring Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord
Tizoc, starring Pedro Infante and María Félix – (Mexico)

Top Secret Affair, starring Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward

U
The Undead
The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren
Until They Sail, starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons

V
Valerie, directed by Gerd Oswald, starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel
El vampiro (The Vampire) – (Mexico)
Voodoo Island, starring Boris Karloff and Jean Engstrom

W
The Way to the Gold, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Sheree North
The Wayward Bus, starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey
White Nights (Le Notti Bianche), Visconti, starring Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
Whom God Forgives (Amanecer en Puerta Oscura) – (Spain)

Wild Is the Wind, starring Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjöström – (Sweden)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, starring Jayne Mansfield (reprising Broadway role) and Tony Randall
The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara (their 4th film together)
Witness for the Prosecution, Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton

Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson – (GB)

Y
Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu Bugeicho), starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) – (Japan)
Young and Dangerous, starring Mark Damon

Z
Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell, Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, dramatic basis for later spoof Airplane!

Short film series
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
Woody Woodpecker (1941–1972)
Droopy (1943–1958)
Noveltoons (1943–1967)
The Nearsighted Mister Magoo (1950–1959)
Casper the Friendly Ghost (1950–1959)
Herman and Katnip (1952–1959)
Chilly Willy (1953–1972)
Ending this year

Popeye the Sailor (1933-1957)
Maggie and Sam (1955-1957)
Spike and Tyke (1957)

Births
January 1 – Meagen Fay, American actress
January 5 – Jeep Swenson, South African-American professional wrestler, stuntman, and actor (d. 1997)
January 8 – Ron Cephas Jones, American actor (d. 2023)
January 12 – John Lasseter, American animator, director, producer, and writer
January 15 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor and director
January 16 – Ricardo Darin, Argentine actor
January 17
Keith Chegwin, English television presenter and actor (d. 2017)
Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian, and author
January 19 – Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English character actor, screenwriter and director

January 24 – Adrian Edmondson, English comedian, actor, musician, and television presenter
January 25 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress, comedian, singer and activist
January 27 – Danny Aiello III, American stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director, and actor (d. 2010)
January 28 – Harley Jane Kozak, American actress
January 29 – Diane Delano, American character actress (d. 2024)
February 1 – Cylk Cozart, American actor, director, writer and producer
February 6
Kathy Najimy, American actress
Robert Townsend, American actor, director and writer
February 14 – Ken Wahl, American actor
February 16 – LeVar Burton, American actor, director, producer, and author
February 19 – Ray Winstone, English actor
February 22 – Robert Bathurst, English actor
February 26 – C. J. Graham, American actor
February 27 – Timothy Spall, English actor
February 28 – John Turturro, American actor, writer and director
March 4 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor
March 6
Eddie Deezen, American actor and comedian
Alex McArthur, American actor
March 8
David Paul, American actor (d. 2020)
Peter Paul, former American actor and producer
Cynthia Rothrock, American actress
March 9 – Oliver Stritzel, German actor
March 12 – Jerry Levine, American actor and director
March 13 – Daniel Licht, American composer (d. 2017)
March 15
Park Overall, American actress
David Silverman, American animator
March 20
Amy Aquino, American actress
Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
Spike Lee, American director, producer, writer and actor
Theresa Russell, American actress
Chris Wedge, American director, producer, and voice actor
March 21 – Haydn Gwynne, English actress (d. 2023)
March 23
Teresa Ganzel, American actress
Amanda Plummer, American actress
March 27
Stephen Dillane, English actor
Caroline Williams, American actress and producer
March 28 – Paul Eiding, American actor, voice actor, and voice instructor
March 29 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
March 30
Michael Lehmann, American director
Tawny Moyer, American actress
March 31 – Marc McClure, American actor
April 4 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director
April 7 – Phoebe Nicholls, English actress
April 12 – Suzzanne Douglas, American actress (d. 2021)
April 13
Gary Kroeger, American actor and announcer
Saundra Santiago, American actress
April 14 – Richard Jeni, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
April 23 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (d. 2014)
April 25 – Esther Scott, American actress
April 27 – Robert Curtis Brown, American actor
April 29 – Daniel Day-Lewis, English actor
May 4 – John Akomfrah, Ghanaian-born British filmmaker
May 5 – Richard E. Grant, English actor
May 7 – Ned Bellamy, American actor
May 10 – Alex Jennings, English actor
May 13 – Mark Heap, English actor and comedian
May 15 – Dan Patrick, American sportscaster, radio personality and actor
May 17 – Whip Hubley, American actor
May 21 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
May 23 – Mark Arnold, American actor
May 29
Ted Levine, American actor
Oliver Muirhead, English character actor
May 30 – Aire Koop, Estonian actress
June 1 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish director and screenwriter
June 8 – Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
June 10 – Robert Clohessy, American actor
June 14 – Jay Roach, American filmmaker
June 17
Sam Douglas, British actor
Jon Gries, American actor
Phyllida Lloyd, English director and producer
June 18
Ralph Brown, English actor and writer
Andrea Evans, American actress
June 19 – Michael Maloney, British actor
June 23 – Frances McDormand, American actress
June 29 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
July 2 – Bret Hart, Canadian-American pro wrestler
July 5 – James Tillis, American former professional boxer and actor
July 9 – Kelly McGillis, American actress
July 12 – Christopher Quinten, British actor
July 13 – Cameron Crowe, American director and screenwriter
July 19 – Terri Treas, American actress, writer and director
July 20 – Donna Dixon, American actress, wife of Dan Aykroyd
July 21
Sulev Keedus, Estonian director and screenwriter
Jon Lovitz, American actor, comedian and singer
July 26 – Nana Visitor, American actress
July 27 – Bill Engvall, American actor and stand-up comedian
July 28 – Lisa Freeman, American author and actress
July 30 – Victor Slezak, American actor
August 1 – Taylor Negron, American actor, comedian and writer (d. 2015)
August 2 – Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor (d. 2024)
August 5
Jerry Lambert, American actor
Joanne Samuel, Australian actress
August 9 – Melanie Griffith, American actress
August 15
Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
Mark Rosman, American director, producer and screenwriter
August 16 – Laura Innes, American actress
August 17 – Ken Kwapis, American film and television director
August 18
Carole Bouquet, French actress
Denis Leary, American actor, comedian and writer
August 19 – Martin Donovan, American actor
August 24 – Stephen Fry, English comedian, author and actor
August 25 – Simon McBurney, English actor
August 26 – Ewan Stewart, Scottish actor
August 27 – Đơn Dương, Vietnamese actor (d. 2011)
August 28
Rick Rossovich, American actor
Daniel Stern, American actor
September 1 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
September 2 – Steve Porcaro, American composer
September 4 – Khandi Alexander, American choreographer and actress
September 10 – Kate Burton, American actress
September 12
Rachel Ward, English actress
Hans Zimmer, German composer
September 19 – Mark Acheson, Canadian actor
September 21 – Ethan Coen, American director, producer, screenwriter and editor
September 23
Rosalind Allen, New Zealand actress
Rosalind Chao, American actress
September 24 – Brad Bird, American animator, director, writer and actor
September 25 – Michael Madsen, American actor (d. 2025)
September 30 – Fran Drescher, American actress
October 4 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor and voice actor
October 5 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
October 11
Dawn French, English actress, comedian and writer
Eric Keenleyside, Canadian actor
October 12
Clémentine Célarié, French actress
Camilla and Carey More, English twin actresses
October 13 – Marc Macaulay, American actor

October 23 – Elizabeth D’Onofrio, American actress
October 24 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian
October 25 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
October 28
Betsy Aidem, American actress
Christian Berkel, German actor
October 29
Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Scott Thomson, American actor
October 30 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
November 2 – Michael Bailey Smith, American actor
November 3 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor and director
November 5 – Elizabeth Bracco, American actress
November 6
Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer
Lori Singer, American actress and cellist
November 7 – Christopher Knight, American actor
November 15 – Ray McKinnnon, American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
November 18 – Joey Miyashima, American actor
November 19
Ofra Haza, Israel singer, songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
Tom Virtue, American actor
November 24 – Denise Crosby, American actress
November 30 – Gary Lewis, Scottish actor
December 3 – Valérie Quennessen, French actress (d. 1989)
December 10 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
December 12 – Higgins, American dog actor (d. 1975)
December 13
Steve Buscemi, American actor
Billy Van Zandt, American actor
December 19
John Gulager, American actor and director
Michael Milhoan, American actor
December 21 – Ray Romano, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and voice actor
December 24 – Scott Spiegel, American screenwriter, director, producer and actor (d. 2025)
December 29 – Brad Grey, American television and film producer (d. 2017)
December 30 – Joanna Pacula, Polish actress
December 31 – Brian Howe, American actor

Deaths
January 14 –

Humphrey Bogart, 57, American actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Caine Mutiny

March 25 –

Max Ophüls, 54, German director, Earrings of Madame de…, Lola Montès

May 9 –

Ezio Pinza, 64, Italian singer and actor, Tonight We Sing, Mr. Imperium

May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, 71, Austrian actor, director, Sunset Boulevard, La Grande Illusion

May 29 – James Whale, 67, British director, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man

June 12 – Robert Alton, 51, American choreographer and director, White Christmas
July 24 – Sacha Guitry, 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat, A Crime in Paradise
August 7 – Oliver Hardy, 65, US actor, The Flying Deuces, Sons of the Desert

October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed, That’s Entertainment!

November 29 –

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 60, Austrian composer, Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood
December 11 – Musidora, 58, French actress, director, Les Vampires, Judex
December 15 – Alfonso Bedoya, 53, Mexican actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Country

December 24 – Norma Talmadge, 63, US actress, New York Nights, Secrets
December 25 – Charles Pathé, 94, French producer, The Conquest of the Pole

Film debuts
Norman Alden – Hear Me Good
Luana Anders – Reform School Girl
Elga Andersen – Les Collégiennes
Alan Arkin – Calypso Heat Wave
Jean-Paul Belmondo – On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Françoise Brion – Love in the Afternoon
Peter Brown – The Story of Esther Costello
Lilyan Chauvin – Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Bernard Cribbins – Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Alain Delon – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
Catherine Deneuve – Les Collégiennes
Anthony Franciosa – This Could Be the Night
Ben Gazzara – The Strange One
William Hickey – A Hatful of Rain
Bill Hunter – The Shiralee
Clifton James – The Strange One
Sally Kellerman – Reform School Girl
Burt Kwouk – Windom’s Way
Paul Maxwell – Death in Small Doses
David McCallum – Ill Met by Moonlight
John McGiver – The Man in the Raincoat
Dina Merrill – Desk Set
George Peppard – The Strange One
Lee Remick – A Face in the Crowd
Jean Seberg – Saint Joan
Patsy Smart – The Flying Scot
Georgina Spelvin – Les Collégiennes
Liv Ullmann – Fjols til fjells
Ray Walston – Kiss Them for Me
Adam West – Voodoo Island

Best Picture Oscar

The Bridge on the River Kwai (Winner)
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Twelve Angry Men (aka 12 Angry Men)
Witness for the Prosecution

N.Y. Film Critics Circle: The Bridge on the River Kwai

British Awards: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Cannes Festival: Friendly Persuasion (US, directed by William Wyler)

Venice Festival: Aparajito (India)

Berlin Festival: Twelve Angry Men (US, directed by Sidney Lumet)

San Francisco Film Festival: First Fest in America

The first San Francisco International Film Festival was held in 1957. The brainchild of Irving M. Levin, a local film exhibitor, the festival was the first of its kind in the U.S.