* In the 1956 epic film Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is played by Robert Douglas.

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 ).

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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 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.

* 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.

In 1956, Cilento was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actress ( Dramatic ) for Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates.

He went on to play two important roles in other Hollywood costume epics: Achilles in Helen of Troy ( 1956 ) and Attalus in Alexander the Great ( 1956 ); he also portrayed Rochester in a TV adaptation of Jane Eyre ( 1956 ).

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 )

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 )

( 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!

* Helen of Troy ( 1956 )

Since the days of Ben-Hur, the studios have welcomed international productions including Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), Francis of Assisi ( 1961 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Fellini's Casanova ( 1976 ), Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ), La Traviata ( 1982 ) and many other grand film productions.