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Events

The Three Stooges make their 180th and last short film, Sappy Bullfighters.
September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx
marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur
premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
and May Britt
start dating.

Top grossing films

:North America # Ben-Hur
# Auntie Mame
# The Shaggy Dog # Some Like It Hot
, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon # Pillow Talk
# Imitation of Life
# The Nun's Story
# tie Anatomy of a Murder
and Hitchcock's North by Northwest
, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint # Sleeping Beauty # Rio Bravo

Academy Awards

Best Picture: Ben-Hur
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Actor
: Charlton Heston
- Ben-Hur
Best Actress
: Simone Signoret
- Room at the Top

Births

January 22 - Linda Blair
, actress
April 15 - Emma Thompson
, British actor
July 29 - Sanjay Dutt
, Indian actor
November 14 - Paul McGann
, British actor
December 31 - Val Kilmer
, American actor

Deaths

February 4 - Una O'Connor
, actress
March 3 - Lou Costello, comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team
February 5 - Gwili Andre
, actress
June 16 - George Reeves
, actor
June 18 - Ethel Barrymore
, actress
October 14 - Errol Flynn
, actor
November 20 – Sylvia Lopez
, European actress
November 25 - Gérard Philipe
, French actor

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