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* 1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
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Ramstedt's two-volume magnum opus, Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft (' Introduction to Altaic Linguistics ') was published in 1952 – 1957.
* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.
* 1957 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Pure Prairie League and The Notorious Cherry Bombs )
1957 and Hurricane
After hurricanes in 1886, 1900, 1915, and the devastating Hurricane Audrey in 1957, economic development moved north from Sabine Pass to the cities of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange, which still dominate the area's economy today.
Thus in 1957 the Historic Aircraft Flight was formed at RAF Biggin Hill with one Hurricane ( LF363 ) and 3 x Mk XIX Spitfires ( PM631, PS853 and PS915 ), in what, even then, had become a predominantly jet-powered Air Force.
The next day it strengthened rapidly to become a Category 4 major hurricane, the earliest in an Atlantic hurricane season that a storm had reached that strength since Hurricane Audrey in the 1957 season.
1957 and Audrey
The Billy Wilder film Love in the Afternoon ( 1957 ) with Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper was his first Hollywood film in more than 20 years.
Stanley Donen brought the theme to the film musical in Funny Face ( 1957 ) with one Audrey Hepburn production number revamped into a Gap commercial in 2006.
He then went on to make more musicals throughout the 1950s: Let's Dance ( 1950 ) with Betty Hutton, Royal Wedding ( 1951 ) with Jane Powell, Three Little Words ( 1950 ) and The Belle of New York ( 1952 ) with Vera-Ellen, The Band Wagon ( 1953 ) and Silk Stockings ( 1957 ) with Cyd Charisse, Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ) with Leslie Caron, and Funny Face ( 1957 ) with Audrey Hepburn.
For example, Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity ( film ); Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve ; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon ( 1957 film ); it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists ; Rosie Perez continually reads it in the film White Men Can't Jump ; and Will Smith checks his World Almanac for the exact time of sunset so he can set his digital watch in I Am Legend ( film ).
On television she played Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the 1957 version of Mayerling, which starred Audrey Hepburn.
These figures, in 1962 dollars, are comparable to land-falling hurricanes that occurred within the same time frame ( for example, Audrey, Donna, and Carla from 1957 to 1961 ).
( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!
As a film actress, Thompson played fashion editor Maggie Prescott in the musical Funny Face ( 1957 ), which starred Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.
He had his own office, and worked on such projects as Funny Face ( 1957 ) with Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson at Paramount.
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