The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

The first incarnation of the film was a 1953 script by Alex Gordon titled The Atomic Monster, but a lack of financing prevented any production.

Doris Day and Howard Keel, Calamity Jane ( film ) | Calamity Jane ( 1953 )

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity, but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began.

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Rank Organisation also produced some other notable comedy successes, such as Genevieve in 1953 ( see 1953 in film ).

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

She does not appear in the best-known film she directed, The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ), developed by her company, The Filmakers, with support and distribution by RKO.

* 1953 – Tony Adams, Irish film producer ( d. 2005 )

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by, and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.

On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact.

In 1993, Trumbo was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing Roman Holiday ( 1953 ).

* Roman Holiday, 1953 ( front Ian McLellan Hunter )

* Roman Holiday ( 1953 )

Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for Mogambo ( 1953 ); the award was won by Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday.

* 1953 Roman Holiday-Dalton Trumbo ( Note: The screen credit and award was originally credited to Ian McLellan Hunter, who was a front for Trumbo.

Other popular Wyler films include Funny Girl ( 1968 ), How to Steal a Million ( 1966 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), The Letter ( 1940 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), and Hell's Heroes ( 1930 ).

Roman Holiday ( 1953 ) introduced Audrey Hepburn to American audiences and led to Oscars for Best Actress ( Hepburn ), Costume Design ( Edith Head ), and Best Writing ( Dalton Trumbo ).

At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton ( 1874 – 1936 ) and Hilaire Belloc ( 1870 – 1953 ).

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler.

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

On December 31, 1955, the day after his divorce was finalized, Peck married Veronique Passani ( 1932 – 2012 ), a Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1953 before he went to Italy to film Roman Holiday.

Despite its impressive run in publication, The Robe is more familiar today as a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( Richard Burton ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ.

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

* Joseph Francis Busch ( 1866 – 1953 ), Roman Catholic Bishop

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

* Wim Eijk, Roman Catholic archbishop ( 22 June 1953 )

The fountain is used for some scenes in the 1953 film Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck.

The village contains two churches: the Anglican church of St. Leonard's ( started in the 12th century ) and the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady ( built in 1915 and extended in 1953 ).

* Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski ( 1945 – 1953 )

* From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe ( 1953 ), revised as The Medieval Centuries ( 1964 )

* Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, 1953 ; Sabrina, 1954 ; Funny Face, 1957

The project first appeared in " Picture Post " ( UK ) and " Holiday " ( US ) in 1953.

Tati's second film, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( Mr. Hulot's Holiday ), was released in 1953.

* An Evening with Billie Holiday ( Clef, 1953 )

The Mouth of Truth is known to English-speaking audiences mostly from its appearance in the 1953 film Roman Holiday.

The Screen Songs were eventually resurrected in 1951 as " Kartune Musical Shorts " ( ending in 1953 ), and as one-shot Noveltoons in 1954 (" Candy Cabaret ") and 1963 (" Hobo's Holiday ").

Holiday Inn's corporate headquarters was in a converted plumbing shed owned by Johnson in 1953, when the company built its first four hotels, one covering each approach to Memphis.

Back in the United States following the outbreak of World War II, Elliot Paul turned to screenwriting where in Hollywood, between 1941 and 1953, he participated in the writing of ten screenplays, the most remembered of which is the 1945 production, Rhapsody in Blue ; he also wrote the screenplay for the Poverty Row production of New Orleans, a fictional history of Storyville jazz featuring Billie Holiday in her only acting role.

Vladimir Raitz, the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad with charter flights between Gatwick airport and Corsica in 1950, and organised the first package holiday to Palma in 1952, Lourdes in 1953, and the Costa Brava and Sardinia in 1954.

Weiss contributed to a number of film scores: Murder, Inc. ( 1960 ), Gidget Goes to Rome ( 1953 ), Mediterranean Holiday ( 1964 ), and Mademoiselle ( 1966 ).