Events

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

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Films released in 1957

• The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing

• 12 Angry Men

• 20 Million Miles to Earth

• A King in New York

• The Abominable Snowman

• An Affair to Remember

• Amazing Colossal Man, The

• Aparajito

• April Love, a romance musical starring Shirley Jones

• The Astounding She-Monster

• Attack of the Crab Monsters

• The Bachelor Party

• Barnacle Bill

• The Barretts of Wimpole Street

• The Blood of Dracula

• Boy on a Dolphin

• The Bridge on the River Kwai

• Blue Murder at St Trinian's

• Brothers in Law

• The Burglar

• Carib Gold

• The Careless Years

• The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull)

• The Cranes are Flying

• Crime of Passion

• The Curse of Frankenstein

• Decision at Sundown

• The Delicate Delinquent, Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin

• The Delinquents

• Designing Woman

• Desk Set, starring Joan Blondell

• The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum

• A Face in the Crowd

• A Farewell to Arms

• The Enemy Below

• Fear Strikes Out

• Flesh and the Spur

• Funny Face

• Les Girls

• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

• A Hatful of Rain

• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

• I Was a Teenage Werewolf

• Island in the Sun

• Jailhouse Rock

• Jamboree

• Jeanne Eagels

• Jet Pilot

• Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty, a Walt Disney production

• The Joker Is Wild

• A King in New York

• Kiss Them for Me

• La Grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road)

• Man of a Thousand Faces

• Mayabazar

• The Mysterians

• The Land Unknown

• The Little Hut

• Love in the Afternoon

• Loving You, Elvis Presley's second feature

• The Monolith Monsters

• The Monster That Challenged the World

• Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon)

• Night Passage, starring James Stewart

• Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)

• Old Yeller

• Pal Joey (film mentioned in article)

• Perri

• Peyton Place

• The Pride and the Passion

• The Prince and the Showgirl

• Raintree County, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lee Marvin

• Quatermass 2

• The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis

• Sayonara

• The Search for Paradise

• The Seventh Seal

• Silk Stockings

• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)

• The Smallest Show on Earth

• The Snow Queen

• Something Of Value

• The Spanish Gardener

• The Spirit of St. Louis

• The Story of Esther Costello

• The Strange World of Planet X

• Sweet Smell of Success

• Tammy and the Bachelor

• The Three Faces of Eve

• The Tin Star

• Tizoc

• The Wayward Bus

• What's Opera, Doc?

• Wild Is the Wind

• Wild Strawberries

• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

• Witness for the Prosecution

• Woman in a Dressing Gown

• Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu)

• Young and Dangerous

• Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)

• Terrytoons (1930-1964)

• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)

• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

• Daffy Duck (1937-1966)

• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)

• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

• Droopy (1943-1958)

• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)

• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

• Popeye'' (1933-1957)

Births

• January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director

• March 20 - Spike Lee, director, writer, actor, producer

• March 20 - Theresa Russell, actress

• March 29 - Christopher Lambert, actor

• April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor

• June 23 - Frances McDormand, actress

• July 13 - Cameron Crowe, director & screenwriter

• August 9 - Melanie Griffith, actress

• August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor

• September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress

• September 10 - Rick Rosengrant, character

• September 21 - Ethan Coen, director, producer, screenwriter & editor

• December 13 - Steve Buscemi, actor

Deaths

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor

• March 25 - Max Ophuls, German director, (b. 1902)

• May 12 - Erich von Stroheim, German director

• July 4 – Judy Tyler, American actress

• July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playwright, actor and director

• August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor

• October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American producer

• December 11 - Musidora, French actress, director

• December 25 - Charles Pathé

Film Debuts

• Sean Connery

• Robert Loggia

• Rip Torn