Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

Fonda next acted in Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace ( 1956 ), in which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn ; it took two years to shoot.

* In 1956, a British-Italian epic titled Helen of Troy was released, directed by Oscar-winning director Robert Wise and starring Italian actress Rossana Podestà in the title role.

* She is played by Anne Baxter in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 epic film The Ten Commandments.

On the big screen, she played a golddigger in Anthony Mann's western The Furies ( 1950 ), Herodias in Salome ( 1953 ) and Memnet in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

The Conqueror is a 1956 CinemaScope epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.

He also appeared as an extra in two epic movies: The Ten Commandments and Around the World in 80 Days, both in 1956.

* Jane Withers played a character named Vashti Snythe in the 1956 James Dean-Elizabeth Taylor-Rock Hudson epic film Giant.

Approaching 40, she played a supporting role in her last American film to date, United Artists ' epic Alexander the Great ( 1956 ) starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.

In a gamble to save the studio, and inspired by the success of Paramount Pictures ' 1956 Biblical epic The Ten Commandments, studio head Joseph Vogel announced in 1957 that MGM would again move forward on a remake of Ben-Hur.

Dozens of similar monuments were donated to cities and towns across the nation throughout the 1960s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, who were inspired by the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments ; in doing so, they gained the support of the film's director Cecil B. DeMille.

One of Lang's most recognized films is his 1956 epic The King and I for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Directing.

The execution of the scene is based on the one seen in the 1956 American epic film The Ten Commandments, in which Moses parts the Red Sea.

Alexander the Great is a 1956 American sword and sandal epic film written, directed and produced by Robert Rossen with Gordon S. Griffith as executive producer.

Helen of Troy is a 1956 Warner Bros. epic film, based on Homer's Iliad.

In 1956 she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as best up-and-coming young actress but only with Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco e i suoi fratelli ( Rocco and His Brothers, 1960 ), she was able to draw the public's attention to her.

He also made a notable appearance in the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments.

The 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet is set on Altair 4, a presumed planet of the star.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

( 1956 film ), an Indian Hindi film

She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) with James Stewart.

He also produced the feature film Forever, Darling ( 1956 ), in which he and also Ball starred.

* 1881 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer ( d. 1956 )

In 1956, Sullivan flew to Europe and was able to film an interview with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes on the set of the film Anastasia.

Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a 1956 feature film.

Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 Baby Doll, and he went on to a prolific career in films, although rarely in a starring role.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

* 1956 – Guy Maddin, Canadian film director

Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.

Mark Robson's The Harder They Fall ( 1956 ) was his last film.

In 1956, Cotten left film for years for a string of successful television ventures, such as the NBC series On Trial ( renamed at mid-season The Joseph Cotten Show ).

* John Walker ( film producer ) ( born 1956 ), animated film producer

* Harry Andrews in Helen of Troy ( 1956 )

* 1956 – Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and TV presenter ( d. 1999 )

She was portrayed by Helen Hayes in the London production of the play Anastasia and in the 1956 film based on the play.

Helen Wagner played Hughes family matriarch Nancy Hughes on American soap As the World Turns from its April 2, 1956 debut through her death in May 2010.

* Menelaus is portrayed by Niall MacGinnis in the 1956 film Helen of Troy.

* In the 1956 film Helen of Troy, Paris, as the main character, is portrayed as a heroic character who at first worships peace and love but is later forced to take up arms against the treacherous Greeks.

* Helen Wagner ( 1938, deceased )-Longtime star of the soap opera, As The World Turns, for over 50 years, she uttered the show's first words in its debut in 1956.

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 )

In 2000 a second edition of Light in My Darkness was published which included an article that was originally published in Guideposts Magazine in 1956 — when Helen was 76 years old.

The Broadway debut of Long Day's Journey Into Night took place at the Helen Hayes Theatre on 7 November 1956, shortly after its American premiere at New Haven's Shubert Theatre.

In the winter of 1956 – 57, Scott and Helen Nearing toured Canada, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, generating a book about their experiences called Socialists Around the World.

The following winter, with their passports issued in 1956 nearing expiration, Scott and Helen Nearing embarked upon a trip through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

( with Helen Nearing ) Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1956.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

On 9 August 1956, Albertina joined Helen Joseph and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn in a march of 20, 000 women to the Union Buildings of Pretoria in protest against the apartheid government's requirement that women carry passbooks as part of the pass laws.

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 ) starring Jacques Sernas

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 ) directed by Robert Wise

* Helen Smith ( nurse ) ( 1956 – 1979 ), died in suspicious circumstances in Saudi Arabia

She appeared in Ben Bagley's revue The Littlest Revue ( and on its cast album ) in 1956, appearing alongside Joel Grey and Tammy Grimes, among others, and singing songs by Sheldon Harnick (" The Shape of Things "), Vernon Duke (" Summer is a-Comin ' In "), and Charles Strouse & Lee Adams (" Spring Doth Let Her Colours Fly "), a parody of opera singer Helen Traubel's Las Vegas night club act ), among others.

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 )

Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan ( 25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956 ) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735.