Events

• February 16- "In the Money " is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946.

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Peyton Place
3. Sayonara
4. No Time for Sergeants
5. The Vikings
6. The Search for Paradise
7. South Pacific
8. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Actor: David Niven - Separate Tables
• Best Actress: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!

Births

• February 11 - Michael Jackson , controller of BBC2.
• February 13 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
• March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress
• March 10 - Sharon Stone, US actress
• March 20 - Holly Hunter,actress
• April 3 - Alec Baldwin, actor
• April 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress
• April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer,actress
• May 29 - Annette Benning, US actress (Mrs Warren Beatty)
• July 8 - Kevin Bacon, actor
• August 16 - Angela Bassett, US actress
• August 18 - Madeleine Stowe, actress
• August 24 - Steve Guttenberg, US actor
• October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
• October 26 - Pascale Ogier, French actress (d. 1984)
• October 26 - Rita Wilson, Mrs Tom Hanks
• November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress
• December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator

Deaths

• January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress
• January 13 - Jesse L. Lasky, film producer

Other movies released

• Gigi
• The Defiant Ones
• The Fly
• The Labors of Hercules
• Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, starring Jimmy Stewart
• Touch of Evil, directed by Orson Welles, starring Charlton Heston
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
• Jalsaghar
• Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
• Les Girls
• The Cranes are Flying Palm d'Or winner
• The Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman
• Rickshaw Man Golden Lion winner
• Room at the Top
• The Black Orchid with Sophia Loren
• Mon Oncle
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Auntie Mame
• Separate Tables
• King Creole starring Elvis Presley