Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

In 1959 the joint Soviet-Finnish film production Sampo ( titled The Day the Earth Froze when released in the United States ) adapted the Kalevala to the big screen.

While his music had been featured on screen for years and sometimes the whole orchestra in film shorts, Ellington ( with Strayhorn ) now began to work directly on music for movies, contributing scores for Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ) and Paris Blues ( 1961 ).

Big screen entertainment was provided by Castle Theater until 1959 when it was closed.

It was adapted for the screen by Robert Laning, based on the 1959 novel The Hostage by Henry Farrell.

Cannon made her screen debut in 1960 in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond ; however her small screen debut was in the late 1950s including a guest appearance on Bat Masterson in 1959, in the episode entitled " Lady Luck ".

The next ident, launched in 1959, featured the shadowed eye zooming into the screen, whilst the familiar letters animate in as in the previous versions.

His last screen role was as the giant Antaeus alongside Steve Reeves in Hercules Unchained ( USA Title, filmed in Italy, 1959, original title Ercole e la regina di Lidia ).

Eventually, The Big Fisherman was filmed in 1959, starring Howard Keel in one of his few non-singing screen roles as Peter.

CineMagic was the name of film development technique invented by 3-D movie producer Sidney W. Pink and Norman Maurer in the 1959 science-fiction movie The Angry Red Planet to cast a pinkish glow over the screen.

In 1959, he produced The Angry Red Planet, using a new development technique he named CineMagic to cast a pink coloration across the screen.

Shaun Mark " Sean " Bean ( born 17 April 1959 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

Mostel made 5 movies in 1951, then, once officially blacklisted, he was not to appear on the screen again until 1959.

As a child actor under contract to MGM he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh and The Green Years ; as a young adult he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Meyer Levin's Compulsion, a novel based on the true-life story of Leopold and Loeb.

The first novel in the series was originally adapted to the screen in 1959 as The Mating Game, starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall as Mariette and Charley.

In the summer of 1959, a talent scout from Warner Bros. saw the heavy-set Buono play Falstaff at the Globe and took him to Hollywood for a screen test.

The 1961 Ami 6 sedan is distinguished by an unusual reverse-raked rear window, similar to the " Breezeway " rear screen fitted to the 1963 Mercury Monterey in the US, or the 1959 Ford Anglia 105E in the UK.

Griffith had been an actor on stage and screen since the 1930s, but gained his highest profile roles after Quatermass II ; he went on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Sheikh Ilderim in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ).

His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1959 ).

Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, The 400 Blows.

In 1959, one month after Nuyen was selected for the film role and while Kwan was touring in Toronto, Canada, Stark told her to screen test again for the film.

The Little Sandman himself first appeared on screen in West Berlin in Sandmännchens Gruß für Kinder ( Sandmännchen's Greeting to Children ) on 1 December 1959, and other episodes were soon made.

Rather than immediately chase his dreams of stage and screen, Dennehy enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps in 1959, actively serving until 1963.

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

Gielgud quickly rose to the status of being one of the top directors for Binkie Beaumont's H. M. Tennent, Ltd. production company in London's West End Theatre and later on Broadway, his productions including Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1945 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard ( 1954 ), The Potting Shed ( 1958 ), Five Finger Exercise ( 1959 ), Peter Ustinov's comedy Half Way Up a Tree ( 1967 ), and Private Lives ( 1972 ).

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

In 1959, he played Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead, in a television adaptation of William Saroyan's novel, The Human Comedy, production narrated by Burgess Meredith.

He quickly rose to stardom, appearing in over 20 Egyptian productions including Ayyamna el helwa with singer Abdel Halim Hafez, La anam in 1958, Sayedat el kasr in 1959 and the Anna Karenina adaptation Nahr el hub in 1961.

* A film adaptation was released in 1959 directed by Martin Ritt and starring Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters, Jack Warden, and Albert Dekker.

In the 1956 Broadway musical and 1959 film adaptation, Sam was perfectly played by rotund actor Stubby Kaye.

Statuesque actress Julie Newmar became famous overnight for playing the small role in the 1956 Li ' l Abner Broadway musical ( and the 1959 film adaptation ) without uttering a single line.

A film adaptation was in 1959 starring Burt Lancaster as Reverend Anthony Anderson, Kirk Douglas as Dick Dudgeon and Laurence Olivier as General Burgoyne.

The 1959 adaptation of Dancers in Mourning also featured John Ruddock as Oates, Denis Quilley as Jimmy Sutane, Michael Gough as Squire Mercer and Noel Howlett as " Uncle " William Faraday.

He also appeared with Harris in the 1958 TV adaptation of Johnny Belinda and played Torvald Helmer to Harris ' Nora in a television version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1959 ).

* 1959: a film adaptation El Lazarillo de Tormes, film director César Fernández Ardavín.

In 1959, Loos opened another Colette adaptation, Chéri, with Kim Stanley and Horst Buchholz in the title role, but it ran for only two months.

He made his television debut in 1959 as Pip in an adaptation of Great Expectations and made his film debut in 1960, with a walk-on part in The League of Gentlemen.

The national flag is an adaptation of the winning entry in a competition held in 1959.

* Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and its 1974 film adaptation

Television appearances include Armchair Theatre: The Scent of Fear ( 1959 ) for ITV, the title role in the 1969 ITC drama series Strange Report and as French General Villers in the 1988 miniseries adaptation of The Bourne Identity.

It went on to inspire the multi-oscar winning 1959 film adaptation of Ben Hur, starring Charlton Heston-featuring the key live chariot race.

* The test track built in France by SAFEGE in 1959, is a 1. 4 kilometre monorail line featured prominently in the 1966 movie adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut.

Donleavy wrote a stage adaptation of The Ginger Man which opened in London in September 1959, with Richard Harris playing Dangerfield.

The novel, for which Levin was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in 1957, was the basis for Levin's own 1957 play adaptation and the 1959 film based on it.

Tynan commissioned a film adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies from Nigel Kneale, but Ealing Studios closed in 1959 before it could be produced.

The novel The Miracle Worker, its 1957 TV play, 1959 Broadway play, and its 1962 film adaptation and 1979 and 2000 television adaptations included harsh descriptions of the conditions therein.

It later was revealed that Metalious had forged Makris ' name on a release form, and the character was renamed Michael Rossi for the paperback, film version, television adaptation and her 1959 novel, Return to Peyton Place.