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Events

Last Year at Marienbad
(L'année dernière à Marienbad) released

Top grossing films

:North America # The Guns of Navarone
# Exodus # The Parent Trap
# The Absent-Minded Professor
# The Alamo
# Swiss Family Robinson # Come September # The World of Suzie Wong
# Gone with the Wind
(reissued to commemorate the American Civil War centennial) # 101 Dalmatians
# La Dolce Vita

Academy Awards

Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
Best Actor
: Maximilian Schell
- Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress
: Sophia Loren
- Two Women

Births

January 5 - Suzy Amis
, actress
January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus
, actress
February 11 - Carey Lowell
, actress
April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
November 19 - Meg Ryan
,US actress

Deaths

February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
February 17 - Nita Naldi
, American actress
May 4 - Anita Stewart
, American actress
August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, French film director
October 11 - Chico Marx
, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
October 22 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
November 15 - Elsie Ferguson
, American stage and film actress

Other movies released

Ballad of a Soldier
Blue Hawaii
starring Elvis Presley
(his biggest box-office success)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
El Cid, starring Charlton Heston
and Sophia Loren
Fanny
Flower Drum Song
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
King of Kings
La Notte Golden Bear winner
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Last Year at Marienbad
, Golden Lion winner
The Mark
Mothra
Never on Sunday
North to Alaska
Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
Posto, Il
Return to Peyton Place
Splendor in the Grass
Such a Long Absence Palme d'Or winner
Teen Kanya
Two Rode Together
, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
Two Women
Victim
Viridiana
Palme d'Or winner
West Side Story
Where the Boys Are

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