1956 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released

Events

• November 15 - The film Love Me Tender staring Elvis Presley (his first film) opens.

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Seven Wonders of the World
3. War and Peace
4. Moby Dick
5. Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart
6. The Eddy Duchin Story
7. The Conqueror
8. Love Me Tender
9. Rock Around the Clock
10. Forbidden Planet

• January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
• January 7 - David Caruso, actor
• January 18 - Ray Dolby, inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system
• February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress.
• July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor

• December 12 - Ewald André Dupont, German director
• December 16 - Nina Hamnett, artist

• Around the World in Eighty Days
• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The King and I