Platt entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1959.

From 1959 to 1961, he served as vice consul in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where his son, the actor Oliver Platt was born.

Platt graduated from the prep school St. Paul's School, Harvard College ( B. A., 1957 ) and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies ( M. A., 1959 ).

She divorced Vadim in 1957 and in 1959 married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette Goes to War.

Kaye starred in two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies ( 1959 ) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols.

Teaming with director Frank Tashlin, whose background as a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon director suited Lewis's brand of humor, he starred in five more films, and even appeared uncredited as Itchy McRabbitt in Li ' l Abner ( 1959 ).

Also the 1959 film " Ben-Hur ", which starred Charlton Heston.

Quinn starred in The Savage Innocents 1959 ( film ) as Inuk, an Eskimo who finds himself caught between two clashing cultures.

After acting in the western movies The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and Warlock ( 1959 ), Fonda returned to the production seat for the NBC western television series The Deputy ( 1959 – 1961 ), in which he starred as Marshal Simon Fry.

In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version.

From 1959 – 1960, Milland starred in the CBS detective series Markham, but the program failed to capture an audience even though it followed the hit western Gunsmoke, starring James Arness.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

On September 27 and October 4, 1959, on NBC Sunday Showcase, Larry Blyden starred as Sammy Glick in a two-part television broadcast on NBC-TV.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Anka starred in such teen exploitation films as Girls Town ( 1959 ) and Look in Any Window ( 1961 ), in which he played a peeping tom.

Willcox is also known as the birthplace of Rex Allen, known as " The Arizona Cowboy ", who wrote and recorded many songs, starred in several westerns during the early 1950s and in the syndicated television series Frontier Doctor ( 1958 – 1959 ).

On May 21, 1959, he guest starred with Charlie McCarthy on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

This was Carney's only Twilight Zone appearance but, nearly two years earlier, on January 22, 1959, he starred in Rod Serling's semi-autobiographical story, " The Velvet Alley ", the eighth of ten Serling teleplays featured on Playhouse 90, the most prestigious of the many live drama anthology series from the Golden Age of Television.

From 1959 through the mid-1960s, Mills starred in several films alongside his daughter Hayley.

In 1959 he starred in Tonight With Belafonte, a nationally televised special that featured Odetta, who sang " Water Boy " and who performed a duet with Belafonte of '" There's a Hole in My Bucket " that hit the national charts in 1961.

But many believed that his greatest successes were in Shakespearean productions in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ), Richard II ( 1937, 1953 ), King Lear ( 1950, 1955 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1952, 1955, 1959 ) and his signature role of Hamlet ( 1934, 1939, 1945 ).

She guest starred in 1959 on The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford on NBC.

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again in his 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind ( originally titled, Orpheus Descending ) directed by Sidney Lumet, where she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and later starred in the thriller film North by Northwest ( 1959 ), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

* Stephen Boyd ( 1931 – 1977 ) — starred in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ) and many other films, was born in nearby Whitehouse and lived in Glengormley.

After appearing in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts such as Carmen Jones ( 1954 ) and Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), she starred in Julia ( 1968 ), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.

O ' Connor had a long-running friendship with actor Larry Hagman, beginning in 1959, when Carroll was working as an assistant stage manager for the Broadway play God and Kate Murphy, in which Hagman starred.

Elyssa Davalos ( born May 30, 1959 ) is a former American television and movie actress.

From 1959 until 1979, Truffaut followed Léaud's character Antoine Doinel, who falls in love with Christine Darbon ( Claude Jade from Hitchcock's Topaz ) in Stolen Kisses, marries her in Bed & Board and separates from her in the last post-New Wave movie Love on the Run.

Amongst enthusiasts, the 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor hearse is considered one of the most desirable due to its especially ornate styling and appearances in feature films, notably an ambulance version ( Ecto-1 ) in the movie Ghostbusters.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

In an uncredited role ( he reportedly did not want his name to appear ), Rayburn played a TV interviewer in the 1959 movie, It Happened to Jane starring Doris Day.

Heaven Has No Favorites was serialized ( as Borrowed Life ) in 1959 before appearing as a book in 1961 and was made into the 1977 movie Bobby Deerfield.

Astaire played the role of Julian Osborne in the 1959 movie On the Beach and was nominated a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, losing to Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur.

This semi-documentary looking movie was produced by Frederick Wiseman, directed by Shirley Clarke and adapted by her and Carl Lee from the 1959 novel The Cool World by Warren Miller.

François Truffaut was inspired by Little Fugitives spontaneous production style when he created The 400 Blows ( 1959 ), saying long afterwards: “ Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn ’ t been for the young American Morris Engel, who showed us the way to independent production with fine movie .”

Roger Ebert says about the movie, " Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft.

Shute Avenue in Berwick, Victoria was named after him, when the farm used for filming the 1959 movie was subdivided for housing.

* 1959 color movie of the Lincoln Highway made by the Iowa State Highway Commission ( ISHC ), now the Iowa DOT ( 16 min ).

The film's relatively strong sexual content ensured it an " X " certificate, but it was saved from failure when Associated British Cinemas agreed to distribute it, making it a surprising commercial success-it was the third most popular movie at the British box office in 1959 after Carry on Nurse and Inn of the Sixth Happiness.

" Dula's story was also turned into a 1959 movie starring Michael Landon as Dula, and each summer the Wilkes Playmakers present a popular play based on the story.

Lou Costello ( 1906 — 1959 ) had been a burlesque comic since 1930, after failing to break into movie acting and working as a stunt double and film extra.

* The movie Anatomy of a Murder was filmed in Ishpeming and surrounding areas in 1959, based on the novel by Ishpeming native John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.

The story was subsequently turned into a 1959 movie starring Michael Landon as Dula, and each summer the Wilkes Playmakers present a popular play based on the story.

The 1959 movie Rio Bravo featured the town.

The movie has Goodwin starting his pursuit of Van Doren during the contestant's 1956-1957 run on Twenty-One, when in fact the Congressional investigation led by Goodwin came in Summer 1959.

Their story has been dramatized many times, including in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rope, the 1959 film Compulsion based on Meyer Levin novel, the 1994 film Swoon, and the 2002 movie Murder by Numbers.

A fictional doomsday bomb, made popular by Nevil Shute's 1957 novel, and subsequent 1959 movie, On the Beach, the cobalt bomb was a hydrogen bomb with a jacket of cobalt metal.

But that name got a second lease on life when Hollywood made a movie, The Five Pennies, ( starring Danny Kaye ) very loosely based on Nichols ’ life, in 1959.

* Harry Fox ( 1882 – 1959 ), stage and movie star, " Fox-Trot " dance inventor

It is also the source of the American movie The Mating Game with Tony Randall and Debbie Reynolds ( 1959 ).