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1956 in film
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Events
- November 15 - The film Love Me Tender starring Elvis Presley (his first film) opens.
Top grossing films
- North America
- Guys and Dolls
- The King and I
- Trapeze
- tie High Society and I'll Cry Tomorrow
- Picnic
- War and Peace
- The Eddy Duchin Story
- Moby Dick - directed by John Huston, starring Gregory Peck
- The Searchers with John Wayne
- 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
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
- December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director
- December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artist
Other movies released
- Anastasia
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Carousel
- Forbidden Planet
- Gervaise
- Giant with James Dean
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- La Srada by Federico Fellini
- Love Me Tender
- Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn
- Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Night and Fog
- Pather Panchali
- Rock Around the Clock
- Seven Wonders of the World
- The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau, Palm d'Or winner
- Smiles of a Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman
- A Town Like Alice
- Unkown Soldier
- X the Unknown
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