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Top Grossing Films of the Year

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.
• March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress
• March 20 - Holly Hunter,actress
• April 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress
• April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer,actress
• October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
• November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress
• December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator

Deaths

• January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress

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