* Lotte Herrlich, German photographer ( d. 1956 )

Although Off-Broadway shows are not eligible for Tony Awards, an exception was made in 1956 ( before the rules were changed ), when Lotte Lenya won for " Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical ", for the Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.

A November 1956 studio recording (" MGM Records " MGM E 3447, later released on Heliodor, Polydor, and online at ArkivMusik. com ) has Burgess Meredith as Johnny, Evelyn Lear as Minny Belle, and Hiram Sherman as the Mad Psychiatrist ; smaller roles are taken by Jane Connell, Lotte Lenya, and Thomas Stewart, and the conductor is Samuel Matlowsky.

Features the beginning of the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as recorded in 1956 by Lotte Lenya, the Norddeutscher Radiochor ( Max Thurn ) and the Norddeutsches Radio-Orchester ( Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg ).

Cook also appeared as Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway production of The Three Penny Opera starring Lotte Lenya and is the only actress to star in major productions of both Mame and Auntie Mame.

In 1956, Louis Armstrong recorded the song " Mack the Knife ", both as a solo number and as a duet with Lenya.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Ralph won his one and only NASCAR Sportsman Championship in 1956 at Greenville Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina.

He won an Oscar for The Brave One ( 1956 ), written under the name Robert Rich.

In 1956, Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson again and won by an even larger landslide, with 457 of 531 electoral votes and 57. 6 % of the popular vote.

Detroit and Montreal once again met in the 1956 finals, but this time the Canadiens won the Cup, their first of five in a row.

Entering the Olympics in 1928, India won all five games without conceding a goal and won from 1932 until 1956 and then in 1964 and 1980.

Cousteau won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956 for The Silent World co-produced with Louis Malle.

A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion in the 1955 Venice Film Festival and the 1956 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster won a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning.

In 1955 Chrysler produced the C-300 with its 300 HP 331 cu in ( 5. 4 L ) OHV engine, which easily won in 1955 and 1956.

The party won every General Election between 1956 and 1981.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

In 1956, she won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

Heckart won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1972 movie adaptation of Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed.

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by portraying the painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's van Gogh biographical film, Lust for Life ( 1956 ).

At the recommendation of Governor James Byrnes, Thurmond campaigned on the pledge that if he won, he would resign in 1956 to force a primary election which could be contested.

In 1956, Thurmond resigned to run in the party primary, which he won.

One of the most memorable matches in these first years of professional football was the clash between Feijenoord and the Volewijckers at 2 April 1956, which Feijenoord won 11 – 4 with nine goals by Henk Schouten.

Previously, in October 1956, a pan-Arabist coalition won parliamentary elections in Jordan, making Sulayman al-Nabulsi, a staunch supporter of Nasser, the country's prime minister.

Stevenson again won the nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, becoming the last Unitarian to be nominated for the presidency by a major party.

The Tyrone GAA football side has had considerable success since 2000, winning three All Ireland titles ( in 2003, 2005 and 2008 ), they have also won thirteen Ulster titles ( 1956, 1957, 1973, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010 ) and two National League titles ( in 2002 and 2003 ).

* 1956 – Tony Leon, South African politician and Ambassador to Argentina

* 1956 – Tony Kushner, American playwright

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

* 1956 – Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director

" In 1955 and 1956, she received, first, a Tony Award for Peter Pan, and then an Emmy for appearing in the same role on television.

* Tony Lewis – ( born 1956 ), American singer-songwriter

* Tony Byrne, bronze medal winner for Ireland 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in the lightweight division.

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

During 1956 – 57, Sykes also wrote for and performed in The Tony Hancock Show, where he again worked with Hattie Jacques.

Speedway owner Tony Hulman founded USAC in 1956, which took over sanctioning of the race and the sport of Indy car racing.

They had four children: Tony ( b. 1953 ), Michael ( b. 1954 ), Linda ( b. 1956 ) and Scott ( b. 1958 ).

Richardson's Timon of Athens in his 1956 return to the Old Vic was well received, as was his Broadway appearance in The Waltz of the Toreadors for which he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1957.

* February 27-The Tony Martin Show ( 1954 – 1956 ).

In November 1956 she returned to Broadway starring in the musical Bells Are Ringing with book and lyrics by her Revuers friends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and directed by Jerome Robbins, for which she won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

Kelly was subsequently a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre as well as a Tony Award winner for her performance in The Bad Seed, which she followed up by starring in the film version in 1956 and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

His first short film, Momma Don't Allow ( 1955 ), co-directed with Tony Richardson, was included in the first Free Cinema programme shown at the National Film Theatre in February 1956.

* The Tony Hancock Show, Series 1 ( Associated-Rediffusion for ITV ): 4 April – 1 June 1956

* The Tony Hancock Show, Series 2: 16 November 1956 – 25 January 1957

Attempting to showcase his versatility, Reeves sang on the Tony Bennett show in August 1956.

In 1956 the theme song was released on Parlophone records by Dick James with Stephen James and his chums and Ron Goodwin's Orchestra and reached number 14 in the UK charts ( 78rpm single: R. 4117 / 45rpm single: MSP6199 ), and by PYE records as a 78rpm single by Gary Miller with Tony Osbourne orchestra and the Beryl Stott chorus ( PYE N. 15020 ) and reached number 10 on the UK charts, versions by Frankie Laine ( CBS Coronet ), Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra ( Capitol ), Alan Dale ( Coral ), Joe Reisman's orchestra and chorus ( RCA Victor ) and Ronnie Ronaldo ( Colombia ) were also issued.

She appeared in the circus drama Trapeze directed by Carol Reed with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in 1956 and starred in The Hunchback of Notre Dame directed by Jean Delannoy with Anthony Quinn the same year.

In 1956 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of The Threepenny Opera, the only time an Off-Broadway performance has been so honored.