Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1957 ) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects ( 1963 ).

But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

* 1957 – Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster

* 1957 – Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder ( d. 2007 )

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1957 – Ray Winstone, British actor

* 1957 – Richard Cook, British jazz writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1957 – Mitchell Symons, British writer

* 1957 – Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef

* 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.

* 1901 – Reginald Sheffield, British actor ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Janick Gers, British guitarist ( Iron Maiden and White Spirit )

* 1957 – 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, brother of Queen Mary ( b. 1874 )

Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

In fact, this test did not work as planned, and the first British H-bomb was successfully detonated over the southeastern tip of Christmas Island on 8 November 1957.

During the British Grapple X test of 8 November 1957 which took place directly above the southeastern tip of Christmas Island, yield was stronger than expected and there was some blast damage in the settlements.

British Army troops, part of Middle East Command and comprising 25th Armoured Brigade and briefly 10th Armoured Division, were still present after independence and stayed in Libya until at least 1957.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

* 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British

* 1957 – Clive Burr, British musician ( Iron Maiden )

* 1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician

* 1957 – Edward Stourton, British radio presenter

* In the movie The Monolith Monsters ( 1957 ), a silicon meteor reproduces, draining silicates from everything it touches.

Frankenheimer's first theatrical film was The Young Stranger ( 1957 ), starring James MacArthur as the rebellious teenage son of a powerful Hollywood movie producer.

In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 ), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called " a housewife who came along for the ride ".

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

In 1957, with the publication of the book The Three Faces of Eve and the popular movie which followed it, the American public's interest in multiple personality was revived.

They met during the making of the movie Štěňata ( 1957 ).

This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour !, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight ( ISBN 0-440-17546-1 ).

* Portions of the 1957 movie " Raintree County " were filmed in Garrard County.

" Fluke " Holland, and Jay Perkins in the movie Jamboree ( 1957 film ) | Jamboree.

Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie Kabuliwala.

The town of Ludlow features the first victim of the 1957 movie Beginning of the End.

* William Marchant ( 1923 – 1995 ), playwright and screenwriter, best known for writing the play that served as the basis for the 1957 Walter Lang movie, The Desk Set.

The Scaroon Manor was the site for the 1957 Warner Brothers movie " Marjorie Morningstar " which starred Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood.

Also of interest is Shootout at Medicine Bend shot in 1955, but released in 1957, which was Scott's last movie in black and white.

Despite these failures, Francis was hired to record the vocals for Tuesday Weld's " singing " scenes in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock, and for Freda Holloway in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll movie Jamboree.

Thalberg was portrayed in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces ( 1957 ) by Robert Evans, who appropriately enough went on to become a studio head himself.

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.

When the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, the attention generated by it ( along with the previous year's Smiles of a Summer Night ) made Bergman and his stars Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson well-known to the European film community, and the critics and readers of Cahiers du Cinéma, among others, discovered him with this movie.

In 1957 Greene played the role of the prosecutor in the movie Peyton Place.

The film also performed very well at the box office, being the fourth most popular movie in Britain in 1957.

He appeared with Count Basie and his Orchestra in the 1957 rock and roll movie Jamboree ( 1957 film ), released by Warner Brothers.

In her third movie role, Blue Murder at St Trinian's ( 1957 ) she had a non-speaking role in which, despite sharing equal billing with the star Alastair Sim on posters and appearing in many publicity stills in school uniform, she was required only to sit up in bed wearing a nightdress, reading a book whilst the action took place around her.