Contents

1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Other movies released

Events

• October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Around the World in Eighty Days
3. Giant with James Dean
4. Oklahoma!
5. Pal Joey
6. Seven Wonders of the World
7. Teahouse of the August Moon

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia
• Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

Births

• January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
• January 15 - Julian Sands , actor
• March 20 - Theresa Russell , actress
• April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
• August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
• September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress

Deaths

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
• July 4 – Judy Tyler, actress
• July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playright, actor and director
• August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor

Other movies released

• A Farewell to Arms
• An Affair to Remember
• Aparajito
• Friendly Persuasion
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• Island in the Sun
• Jailhouse Rock
• Jamboree
• La Grande strada azzurra
• Le Notti di Cabiria
• Loving You
• Nights of Cabiria
• Old Yeller
• Peyton Place
• Quatermass 2
• Sayonara
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Delinquents
• The Seventh Seal
• The Sweet Smell of Success
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Twelve Angry Men
• What's Opera, Doc?
• Young and Dangerous