1956 in film

See also: 1955 in film 1956 1957 in film 1950s in film years in film film

Events

• November 15 - Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, opens.

Top grossing films

North America

1. Guys and Dolls
2. The King and I
3. Trapeze
4. tie High Society and I'll Cry Tomorrow
5. Picnic
6. War and Peace
7. The Eddy Duchin Story
8. Moby Dick - directed by John Huston, starring Gregory Peck
9. The Searchers with John Wayne
10. tie The Conqueror with John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Rebel Without a Cause with 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
• 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
• A Town Like Alice
• Unknown Soldier
• X the Unknown

Short film series

• Popeye (1933-1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

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 23 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director, the founder of London Films.
• December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director
• December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artistde:Filmjahr 1956

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