1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events, with The Bridge on the River Kwai topping the year's box office and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Events

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

• Montgomery Clift suffers partial paralysis in his face after a car wreck while working on Raintree County.

• Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons - Sayonara

Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara

Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Les Girls

Best Actor: Frank Sinatra - Pal Joey

Best Actress: Kay Kendall - Les Girls

Other

Best Director: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Foreign Film: Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull), W.Germany

Best Foreign Film: Tizoc, Mexico

Best Foreign Film: Woman in a Dressing Gown, United Kingdom

Best Foreign Film: Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu), Japan

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Aparajito (aka The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, United States

Top ten money making stars

Notable films released in 1957

U.S.A. unless stated

• 3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Richard Jaeckel, Felicia Farr, Henry Jones
• 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, directed by Jean Cocteau
• 10th of May (Der 10. Mai) - (Switzerland)
• 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
• 1918 - (Finland)
• 20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen

A

• Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh - (India)
• The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker - (GB)
• Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger - (GB)
• The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento - (GB)
• An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
• All Mine to Give, starring Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell
• And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) - (U.S.S.R.)
• April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone
• The Auntie from Chicago (I theia ap' to Chicago) - (Greece)

B

• Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney
• The Bachelor Party, directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Don Murray, E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Carolyn Jones
• Barnacle Bill, starring Alec Guinness - (GB)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring John Gielgud and Jennifer Jones - (GB)
• Beau James, a biopic starring Bob Hope (in his most dramatic film role), Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin
• La Bestia humana (The Human Beast) - (Argentina)
• The Big Land, starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo
• Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton - (France/U.S.A.)
• The Black Scorpion, starring Mara Corday, with special effects by Willis O'Brien
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's, starring Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell - (GB)
• Boy on a Dolphin, starring Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren
• The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, James Donald and Sessue Hayakawa - winner of 7 Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and 3 Golden Globes - (GB)
• Brothers in Law, starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael - (GB)
• The Brothers Rico, starring Richard Conte
• The Burglar, starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield (filmed in 1955 but released in 1957 due to sudden popularity of Mansfield)

C

• The Careless Years, starring Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, Barbara Billingsley
• City of Gold - (Canada)
• Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) - (West Germany)
• Country Hotel (Rong Raem Narok) - (Thailand)
• The Cranes Are Flying (Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - winner of the Palme d'Or - (U.S.S.R.)
• Crime of Passion, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
• The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand - (France/East Germany)
• The Curse of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (GB)

D

• The D.I., directed by and starring Jack Webb
• Decision at Sundown, starring Randolph Scott
• The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (his first film without Dean Martin) and Darren McGavin
• The Delinquents, directed by Robert Altman
• Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall
• Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell
• The Devil's Hairpin, starring Cornel Wilde
• Do Aankhen Barah Haath (Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) - (India)
• Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Don't Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis
• Drango, starring Jeff Chandler
• Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) - (East Germany)

E-F

• Edge of the City, directed by Martin Ritt, starring John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee
• The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison
• A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa, Lee Remick
• Les Fanatiques (The Fanatics), starring Pierre Fresnay and Michel Auclair - (France)
• A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones
• A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (Wakare no chatsumi-uta shimai-hen) - (Japan)
• Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden
• Fire Down Below, starring Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum
• The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga), directed by Arne Sucksdorff - (Sweden)
• Forty Guns, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry
• Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson

G-H

• The Garment Jungle, starring Lee J. Cobb and Gia Scala
• The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair - (France/Italy)
• The Girl in Black Stockings, starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
• The Girl in the Kremlin, starring Lex Barker and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• Les Girls, aka Cole Porter's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor
• La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) - (Italy)
• Gun for a Coward, starring Fred MacMurray
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland, Dennis Hopper
• The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors
• A Hatful of Rain, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
• He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), directed by Jules Dassin - (France)
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, directed by John Huston, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
• The Helen Morgan Story, starring Paul Newman and Ann Blyth
• Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Herbert Lom, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell - (GB)
• Hour of Decision, starring Jeff Morrow and Hazel Court - (GB)
• The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) - (Argentina)

I-J

• I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) - (Japan)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold, starring Grant Williams
• Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Harry Belafonte
• Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
• Jamboree, featuring Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Fats Domino
• Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak
• Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh
• Joe Butterfly, starring Audie Murphy and Burgess Meredith
• Johnny Tremain, starring Hal Stalmaster and Sebastian Cabot
• The Joker Is Wild, starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Mitzi Gaynor

K-L

• Kabuliwala (aka The Man) - (India)
• Kathputli (Puppet), directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni - (India)
• A King in New York, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin - (GB)
• Kiss Them for Me, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker, Ray Walston
• The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney
• Legend of the Lost, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
• Let's Be Happy, starring Vera-Ellen and Tony Martin - (GB)
• The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner - (GB/U.S.A.)
• Love in the Afternoon, directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
• Loving You, starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey
• The Lower Depths (Donzoko), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)

M-N

• Man of a Thousand Faces, biopic of Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Roger Smith, Robert Evans (as Irving Thalberg) and Jim Backus
• A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema), directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)
• Mayabazar (Fantasy Bazaar), starring N. T. Rama Rao - (India)
• Mayerling, a TV film starring Audrey Hepburn
• Men in War, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray
• Miracles of Thursday (Los jueves, milagro), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Richard Basehart - (Spain)
• Mister Cory, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Kathryn Grant, Charles Bickford, Henry Daniell
• The Monolith Monsters, starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright
• The Monster That Challenged the World, starring Tim Holt
• Mother India, starring Nargis - (India)
• My Gun Is Quick, starring Robert Bray (as Mike Hammer)
• The Mysterians (ChikyÅ« Bōeigun), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• N.Y., N.Y., a documentary film by Francis Thompson
• The Naked Truth, starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers - (GB)
• Naya Daur (New Era), directed by B. R. Chopra, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
• Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon), directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews - (GB)
• Night Passage, starring James Stewart
• Nightfall, starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
• Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Nine Lives (Ni Liv) - (Norway)

O-P

• The Oklahoman, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale
• Old Yeller, Walt Disney film, starring Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran
• Omar Khayyam, starring Cornel Wilde, John Derek, Debra Paget, Yma Sumac
• The One That Got Away, starring Hardy Krüger - (GB)
• Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs
• An Osaka Story (Osaka Monogatari) - (Japan)
• The Outcry (Il Grido), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Steve Cochran and Alida Valli - (Italy)
• The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day
• Pal Joey, directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
• Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, Wayne Morris, George Macready, Richard Anderson
• Paying Guest, starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Perri, a Disney animated film
• Peyton Place, based on the book by Grace Metalious, starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi, Russ Tamblyn, Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson and Claude Rains
• The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
• The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier (who also directed)
• Pyaasa (Thirsty), directed by and starring Guru Dutt - (India)

Q-R

• Quatermass 2, starring Brian Donlevy - (GB)
• Raintree County, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Lee Marvin, Deforest Kelley
• The Real End of the Great War (Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny) - (Poland)
• Rose Bernd, starring Maria Schell and Raf Vallone - (West Germany)
• Run of the Arrow, starring Rod Steiger

S

• The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre
• Saint Joan, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg - (GB/U.S.)
• Sayonara, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando, James Garner, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki, Ricardo Montalban
• The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
• The Shiralee, starring Peter Finch - (GB)
• Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend, starring Randolph Scott and Angie Dickinson
• Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse
• The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) - (East Germany)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, starring Richard Egan and Walter Matthau (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
• The Smallest Show on Earth, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers - (GB)
• The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) an animated film - (USSR)
• Something of Value, starring Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier
• The Spirit of St. Louis, starring James Stewart in a biopic of Charles Lindbergh
• Stopover Tokyo, starring Robert Wagner and Joan Collins
• The Story of Esther Costello, starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears - (GB)
• The Strange One, starring Ben Gazzara and George Peppard
• The Strange World of Planet X (The Cosmic Monsters), starring Forrest Tucker - (Britain)
• Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by Ernest Lehman, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene

T-V

• The Tall T, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Richard Boone
• Tammy and the Bachelor, starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen
• The Tattered Dress, starring Jeanne Crain, Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson
• Ten Thousand Bedrooms, starring Dean Martin
• The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward and Lee J. Cobb
• Three Violent People, starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Forrest Tucker
• Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jō), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• Time Limit, directed by Karl Malden, starring Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, June Lockhart, Rip Torn, Martin Balsam
• The Tin Star, starring Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer
• Tip on a Dead Jockey, starring Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord
• Tizoc, starring Pedro Infante and María Félix - (Mexico)
• The Tough (Al-Fetewa) - (Egypt)
• Tumsa Nahin Dekha, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)
• The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
• Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Until They Sail, starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons
• Valerie (film), directed by Gerd Oswald, starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg & Anthony Steel
• El vampiro (The Vampire) - (Mexico)

W-Z

• The Way to the Gold, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Sheree North
• The Wayward Bus, starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey
• White Nights (Le Notti Bianche), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Whom God Forgives (Amanecer en Puerta Oscura) - (Spain)
• Wild Is the Wind, starring Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn
• Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjöström - (Sweden)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, starring Jayne Mansfield (reprising her Broadway role) and Tony Randall
• The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (their 4th film together)
• Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams
• Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson - (GB)
• Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) - (Japan)
• Young and Dangerous, starring Mark Damon
• Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, dramatic basis for later spoof Airplane!

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• The Three Stooges (1934â€"1959)
• Daffy Duck (1937â€"1966)
• Bugs Bunny (1940â€"1962)
• Tom and Jerry (1940â€"1958)
• Droopy (1943â€"1958)
• Yosemite Sam (1945â€"1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953â€"1968)

Ending this year

• Popeye (1933-1957)

Births

Deaths

• January 14 â€" Humphrey Bogart, 57, American actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon
• March 25 â€" Max Ophüls, 54, German director, The Earrings of Madame de..., Lola Montès
• March 31 - Gene Lockhart, 65, Canadian actor, Miracle on 34th Street, Algiers
• May 12 â€" Erich von Stroheim, 71, Austrian actor, director, Sunset Boulevard, La Grande Illusion
• July 4 â€" Judy Tyler, 24, American actress, Jailhouse Rock, Bop Girl Goes Calypso
• July 24 â€" Sacha Guitry, 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat, A Crime in Paradise
• August 7 â€" Oliver Hardy, 65, American actor, The Flying Deuces, Sons of the Desert
• October 20 - Jack Buchanan, 66, British actor, Auld Lang Syne, The Band Wagon
• October 29 â€" Louis B. Mayer, 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed, That's Entertainment!
• December 11 â€" Musidora, 58, French actress, director, Les Vampires, Judex
• December 15 - Alfonso Bedoya, 53, Mexican actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• December 25 â€" Charles Pathé, 94, French producer, writer, The Conquest of the Pole

Film debuts

• Alan Arkin - Calypso Heat Wave
• Sean Connery - No Road Back
• Alain Delon - Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
• Catherine Deneuve - The Twilight Girls
• Andy Griffith - A Face in the Crowd
• Lee Remick - A Face in the Crowd
• Liv Ullmann - Fjols til fjells