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Events

April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley
returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues
August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe
and Clark Gable
(this was the last film either performed in)
November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr.
and May Britt
wed.

Top grossing films

:North America # Ben-Hur
# Can Can # Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
# Operation Petticoat
# Suddenly, Last Summer
# The Apartment
# Solomon and Sheba # On the Beach

Academy Awards

Best Picture: The Apartment
- Mirisch, United Artists
Best Actor
: Burt Lancaster
- Elmer Gantry
Best Actress
: Elizabeth Taylor
- Butterfield 8

Births

January 1 - Dawn Mazzella, American actress
January 3 - Joan Chen
, actress
January 11 - Stanley Tucci
, actor
January 12 - Oliver Platt
, actor
January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
February 28 - Dorothy Stratten
, Canadian actress
May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
May 31 - Chris Elliott
, actor
August 17 - Sean Penn
, actor
September 9 - Hugh Grant
, actor
October 10 - Antonio Banderas
, Spanish actor
November 11 - Stanley Tucci
, actor and film director.
December 3 - Daryl Hannah
,actress
December 3 - Julianne Moore
,actress

Deaths

January 3 – Victor Sjöström
, Swedish film actor and director
January 20 - Matt Moore
, actor
February 3 - Fred Buscaglione
, Italian actor and singer
November 5 - Mack Sennett
, pioneer producer/director
November 16 - Clark Gable
, actor

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