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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events, with The Bridge on the River Kwai topping the year's box office and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Events

• January - RKO ceases production of feature films and hands over distribution to 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 his first film without Dean Martin in The Delicate Delinquent.
• October 2 - Raintree County is the first film shot in MGM Camera 65.
• December 6 - Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries is released in Sweden. It goes on to win the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1959.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross rental
1.	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Columbia Pictures	$15,000,000
2.	Sayonara	Warner Bros.	$10,500,000
3.	Peyton Place	20th Century Fox	$10,000,000
4.	The Curse of Frankenstein	Warner Bros.	$7,000,000
5.	Search for Paradise	Cinerama	$6,500,000
6.	Old Yeller	Disney	$5,900,000
7.	Raintree County	MGM	$5,830,000
8.	Island in the Sun	20th Century Fox	$5,000,000
9.	A Farewell to Arms	20th Century Fox	$5,000,000
10.	Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?	20th Century Fox	$4,900,000
11.	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Paramount Pictures	$4,700,000
12.	Pal Joey	Columbia Pictures	$4,700,000

Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1957 films from countries outside of North America.

Country	Title	Studio	Gross
India	Mother India	Mehboob Productions	$16,800,000
Soviet Union	The Sisters	Mosfilm	$2,656,000

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Horizon, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor: Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve

Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons – Sayonara

Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara

Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor: Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Les Girls

Best Actor: Frank Sinatra – Pal Joey

Best Actress: Kay Kendall – Les Girls

Other

Best Director: David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Foreign Film: Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull), West Germany

Best Foreign Film: Tizoc, Mexico

Best Foreign Film: Woman in a Dressing Gown, United Kingdom

Best Foreign Film: Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu), Japan

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Aparajito (aka The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, United States

Top ten money making stars

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Rock Hudson
2.	John Wayne
3.	Pat Boone
4.	Elvis Presley
5.	Frank Sinatra
6.	Kim Novak
7.	Gary Cooper
8.	William Holden
9.	James Stewart
10.	Jerry Lewis

1957 film releases

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Notable films released in 1957

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin
• 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, directed by Jean Cocteau
• 10th of May (Der 10. Mai) – (Switzerland)
• 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
• 1918 – (Finland)
• 20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen

A

• Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh – (India)
• The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker – (GB)
• Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger – (GB)
• 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
• And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) – (U.S.S.R.)
• April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone
• The Auntie from Chicago (I theia ap' to Chicago) – (Greece)

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, starring John Gielgud and Jennifer Jones – (GB)
• Beau James, a biopic starring Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Alexis Smith
• La Bestia humana (The Human Beast) – (Argentina)
• The Big Land, starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo
• Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton – (France/U.S.A.)
• 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)
• 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, 3 BAFTAS and 3 Golden Globes – (GB)
• 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, starring 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)

D

• The D.I., directed by and starring Jack Webb
• Decision at Sundown, starring Randolph Scott
• The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (his 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
• Do Aankhen Barah Haath (Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) – (India)
• Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Don't Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis
• Drango, starring Jeff Chandler
• Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) – (East Germany)

E-F

• Early Morning Chill (五更寒), directed by Yan Jizhou – (China)
• Edge of the City, directed by Martin Ritt, starring John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee
• The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison
• A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau
• Les Fanatiques (The Fanatics), starring Pierre Fresnay and Michel Auclair – (France)
• A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones
• A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (Wakare no chatsumi-uta shimai-hen) – (Japan)
• Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli), directed by 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
• The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga), directed by Arne Sucksdorff – (Sweden)
• Forty Guns, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry
• Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen, starring 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)
• The Girl in Black Stockings, starring 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, aka Cole Porter's 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, directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming

H

• The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors
• A Hatful of Rain, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
• He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), directed by 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)
• The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) – (Argentina)

I

• I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) – (Japan)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by 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 Belafonte
• Istanbul, 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, starring 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, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin – (GB)
• Kiss Them for Me, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker

L

• The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney
• Legend of the Lost, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring 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/U.S.A.)
• 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), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)

M

• Man of a Thousand Faces, biopic of Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Roger Smith, Robert Evans (as Irving Thalberg)
• A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema), directed by Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece)
• Mayabazar (Fantasy Bazaar), starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
• 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)
• The Mysterians (Chikyū Bōeigun), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)

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 Federico 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, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
• Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring 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)
• Public Pigeon No. 1, starring Red Skelton
• Pyaasa (Thirsty), directed by and starring Guru Dutt – (India)

Q-R

• Quatermass 2, starring Brian Donlevy – (GB)
• Raintree County, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring 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 (Det sjunde inseglet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring 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
• The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) – (East Germany)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, starring Richard Egan and Walter Matthau (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
• 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, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by Ernest Lehman, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis

T

• The Tall T, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring 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
• The Tough (Al-Fetewa) – (Egypt)
• Tumsa Nahin Dekha, starring Shammi Kapoor – (India)

U-V

• 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
• 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-Z

• 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), directed by Luchino 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 her Broadway role) and Tony Randall
• The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (their 4th film together)
• Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
• Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson – (GB)
• Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu Bugeicho), starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
• Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) – (Japan)
• Young and Dangerous, starring Mark Damon
• 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

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	12	John Lasseter	animator, director, producer, writer
	15	Mario Van Peebles	actor and director
	16	Ricardo Darin	actor
	17	Steve Harvey	actor, comedian, author
February	6	Kathy Najimy	actress
		Robert Townsend	actor, director and writer
	16	LeVar Burton	actor, director, producer and author
	19	Ray Winstone	English actor
	27	Timothy Spall
	28	John Turturro	actor, writer and director
March	6	Eddie Deezen	actor and comedian
	20	Chris Wedge	director, producer and voice actor
		Spike Lee	director, producer, writer and actor
		Theresa Russell	actress
		Vanessa Bell Calloway
	23	Teresa Ganzel
	29	Christopher Lambert	French actor
	30	Paul Reiser	actor and comedian
April	4	Aki Kaurismäki	Finnish director
	14	Richard Jeni	actor and comedian	2007
	23	Jan Hooks	actress and comedian	2014
	25	Esther Scott	actress
	29	Daniel Day-Lewis	English actor
May	5	Richard E. Grant
	21	Judge Reinhold	actor
	29	Ted Levine
June	17	Jon Gries
	23	Frances McDormand	actress
July	9	Kelly McGillis
	13	Cameron Crowe	director and screenwriter
August	1	Taylor Negron	actor, playwright and painter	2015
	9	Melanie Griffith	actress
	18	Denis Leary	actor, comedian and writer
	24	Stephen Fry	English comedian, author and actor
	28	Daniel Stern	actor
		Rick Rossovich
September	12	Hans Zimmer	composer
		Rachel Ward	English actress
	21	Ethan Coen	director, producer, screenwriter and editor
	24	Brad Bird	animator, director, writer, actor
	30	Fran Drescher	actress
October	4	Bill Fagerbakke	American actor & voice actor
	5	Bernie Mac	actor and stand-up comedian	2008
	12	Clémentine Célarié	French actress
	25	Nancy Cartwright	voice actress
	29	Dan Castellaneta	American actor, voice actor, comedian & screenwriter
	30	Kevin Pollak	actor
November	3	Dolph Lundgren	Swedish actor and director
	6	Lori Singer	American actress, cellist
	19	Tom Virtue	actor
	24	Denise Crosby	actress
December	10	Michael Clarke Duncan	American actor	2012
	13	Steve Buscemi
	21	Ray Romano	American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter & voice actor

Deaths

• January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, 57, American actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Caine Mutiny
• January 19 – Sheila Terry, 46, American actress, The Sphinx, The Silk Express
• January 26 – William Eythe, 38, American actor, The Song of Bernadette, The House on 92nd Street
• February 19 – Märta Torén, 31, Swedish actress, Sirocco, One Way Street
• March 25 – Max Ophüls, 54, German director, The Earrings of Madame de..., Lola Montès
• March 31 – Gene Lockhart, 65, Canadian actor, Miracle on 34th Street, Algiers
• April 8 – Dorothy Sebastian, 53, American actress, Spite Marriage, Our Dancing Daughters
• April 27 – Paweł Owerłło, 87, Polish actor, Pan Tadeusz
• 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, Pagan Love Song
• July 3 – Judy Tyler, 24, American actress, Jailhouse Rock, Bop Girl Goes Calypso
• July 15 – George Cleveland, 71, Canadian actor, Carson City, Fort Defiance
• July 24 – Sacha Guitry, 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat, A Crime in Paradise
• August 7 – Oliver Hardy, 65, American actor, The Flying Deuces, Sons of the Desert
• August 9 – Konrad Tom, 70, Polish actor, screenwriter, director and singer, His Excellency, The Shop Assistant
• August 12 – Tim Whelan, 63, American director, The Thief of Bagdad, The Divorce of Lady X
• September 1 – Helen Haye, 83, Indian-British actress, The 39 Steps, Richard III
• September 19 – Edvard Persson, 69, Swedish actor, South of the Highway, Kalle's Inn
• October 20 – Jack Buchanan, 66, British actor, Auld Lang Syne, The Band Wagon
• October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed, That's Entertainment!
• November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, 67, American actress, The Bank Dick, Libeled Lady
• November 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 60, Austrian composer, Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• November 30 – Fred F. Sears, 44, American director, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rock Around the Clock
• 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, American actress, New York Nights, Secrets
• December 25 – Charles Pathé, 94, French producer, writer, The Conquest of the Pole

Film debuts

• Alan Arkin – Calypso Heat Wave
• Bruno Cremer – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
• Alain Delon – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
• Catherine Deneuve – The Twilight Girls
• Andy Griffith – A Face in the Crowd
• William Hickey – A Hatful of Rain
• Sally Kellerman – Reform School Girl
• George Peppard – The Strange One
• Lee Remick – A Face in the Crowd
• Harry Dean Stanton – Revolt at Fort Laramie
• Liv Ullmann – Fjols til fjells
• Adam West – Voodoo Island