Movies - 1957 in film

Events

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

Top grossing films

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

Short film series

• The Three Stooges (1934
  -1959
  )
• Tom and Jerry (1940
  -1958
  )

Ending this year

• Popeye
  (1933
  -1957
  )

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
  , American actor
• May 12 - Erich von Stroheim
  , German director
• July 4 – Judy Tyler
  , American actress
• July 24 - Sacha Guitry
  , French playwright, actor and director
• August 7 - Oliver Hardy
  , American actor
• October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American producer
• December 11 - Musidora
  , French actress, director
• December 25 - Charles Pathé

Other movies released

• A Farewell to Arms
• A King in New York
• An Affair to Remember
• Aparajito
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's
• The Delinquents
• 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
• Something Of Value
• The Seventh Seal
• The Spanish Gardener
• The Sweet Smell of Success
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Twelve Angry Men
• What's Opera, Doc?
• Young and Dangerous

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