Events

• November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.

Top grossing films

North America

1. Cinerama Holiday
2. Mister Rogers
3. tie Battle Cry and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea , starring James Mason, Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre
4. Not as a Stranger
5. The Country Girl

Other films released

• Blackboard Jungle
• Oklahoma! (the first film shot in the widescreen process known as Todd-AO)
• The Seven Year Itch
• All that Heaven Allows
• Marty
• The Lady and the Tramp
• Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
• The Trouble With Harry - directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Galapagos
• To Catch a Thief
• Land of the Pharaohs
• Pather Panchali
• Du rififi chez les hommes
• Bob le flambeur
• To Hell and Back starring Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson , Charles Drake, and David Janssen
• Ordet
• East of Eden
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Summertime
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Richard III with Laurence Olivier
• The Ladykillers
• The Lost Continent
• The Quatermass Xperiment

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists
• Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine - Marty
• Best Actress: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo

Births

• January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
• January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress
• January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
• January 18 - Kevin Costner, actor
• March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
• April 1 - Annette O'Toole, actress
• June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, actress
• August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, US actor
• August 27 - Diana Scarwid , US actress

Deaths

• February 12 - Tom Moore actor
• April 7 - Theda Bara, actress
• August 5 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress
• September 30 - James Dean, actor, cult
• October 1 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
• November 10 - Rene Rijff , Dutch actor