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The year 1959 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- The Three Stooges make their 180th and last short film, Sappy Bullfighters.
- September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
- November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt start dating.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ben-Hur | MGM | $36,992,000 |
| 2. | Sleeping Beauty* | Disney | $21,998,000 |
| 3. | The Shaggy Dog* | Disney | $12,317,000 |
| 4. | Operation Petticoat | Universal | $9,322,000 |
| 5. | Darby O'Gill and the Little People* | Disney | $8,336,000 |
| 6. | Some Like it Hot | United Artists | $8,128,000 |
| 7. | Pillow Talk | Universal | $7,670,000 |
| 8. | North by Northwest | MGM | $6,703,000 |
| 9. | Imitation of Life | Universal | $6,418,000 |
| 10. | Suddenly Last Summer | Columbia | $6,375,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1959.shtml
Awards
- Best Picture: Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Best Director: William Wyler - Ben-Hur
- Best Actor: Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
- Best Actress: Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
- Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
- Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
- Best Foreign Language Film: Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, Brazil / France / Italy
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Ben-Hur
- Best Actor: Anthony Franciosa - Career
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): Some Like It Hot
- Best Picture (tie): Porgy and Bess
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
- Best Actress: Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
- Other
- Best Director: William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Il Generale della Rovere (General della Rovere), directed by Roberto Rosselini, Italy / France
- La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, Italy / France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Les cousins (The Cousins), directed by Claude Chabrol, France
Films released in 1959
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
- The 39 Steps
- 4D Man
- The 400 Blows
- Anatomy of a Murder
- The Angry Red Planet
- Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)
- The Atomic Submarine
- Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate)
- Ben-Hur
- Beyond This Place (also known as Web of Evidence)
- The Big Fisherman
- Black Orpheus Palme d'Or winner
- Career
- Carry On Teacher
- La Casa del Terror
- Les Cousins
- A Date with Death
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
- Don't Give Up The Ship
- The FBI Story
- Fires on the Plain
- The Five Pennies
- The Giant Behemoth
- Il Generale della Rovere
- Gidget
- La grande guerra (The Great War)
- The Hanging Tree
- Happy Anniversary
- Hercules and the Queen of Lydia (also known as Ercole e la regina di Lidia and Hercules Unchained)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- A Hole in the Head
- The Horse Soldiers
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- House on Haunted Hill, starring Vincent Price
- Imitation of Life
- The Jazz Singer (performance)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- John Paul Jones
- Kapò
- Killer Shrews
- The Last Angry Man
- Last Train from Gun Hill
- The Miracle
- Mise Éire
- The Mummy
- North by Northwest
- The Nun's Story
- Operation Petticoat
- On the Beach
- Pillow Talk
- Porgy and Bess
- Pork Chop Hill
- Rio Bravo
- Room at the Top
- Sampo (The Day the Earth Froze)
- Sapphire
- The Shaggy Dog
- Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney animation)
- Solomon and Sheba
- Some Like It Hot
- It Started with a Kiss
- Suddenly, Last Summer
- Terror is a Man
- Wild Strawberries (U.S. release)
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil
- The Young Philadelphians
Short Film Series
- Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
- Terrytoons (1930-1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
- Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)
- The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
Births
- January 22 - Linda Blair, actress
- March 18 - Irene Cara, actress, singer
- April 15 - Emma Thompson, British actor
- July 29 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
- October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
- December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor
Deaths
- February 1 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, actress
- February 4 - Una O'Connor, actress
- March 3 - Lou Costello, comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team
- February 5 - Gwili Andre, actress
- June 16 - George Reeves, actor
- June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, actor
- October 23 - Gerda Lundequist, actress
- November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, European actress
- November 25 - Gérard Philipe, French actor
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