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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:01:28 GMT
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:03:18 GMT
Universal
1956: 31 RELEASES
JANUARY
THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROWFEBRUARYTHE BENNY GOODMAN STORYMARCHNEVER SAY GOODBYETHE PRICE OF FEARRAW EDGEWORLD IN MY CORNERRED SUNDOWNAPRILBACKLASHTHE CREATURE WALKS AMONG USTHE KETTLES IN THE OZARKSMAYA DAY OF FURYJUNEOUTSIDE THE LAWSTAR IN THE DUSTTHE TOY TIGERJULYEDGE OF HELLCONGO CROSSINGBEHIND THE HIGH WALLTHE RAWHIDE YEARSFRANCIS IN THE HAUNTED HOUSEAUGUSTAWAY ALL BOATSSEPTEMBERI’VE LIVED BEFOREWALK THE PROUD LANDOCTOBERPILLARS OF THE SKYSHOWDOWN AT ABILENEDECEMBEREVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTHWRITTEN ON THE WINDTHE UNGUARDED MOMENTCURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZONTHE GREAT MANTHE MOLE PEOPLEROCK PRETTY BABY
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:04:52 GMT
20th Century Fox
1956: 28 RELEASES
JANUARYTHE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTSFEBRUARYTHE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLECAROUSELMARCHON THE THRESHOLD OF SPACEAPRILMOHAWKTHE MAN WHO NEVER WASMAYTHE PROUD ONESTHE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUITHILDA CRANETHE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER23 PACES TO BAKER STREETD-DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNEJUNEMASSACRETHE KING AND IAUGUSTBIGGER THAN LIFEBUS STOPSEPTEMBERTHE LAST WAGONTHE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREEOCTOBERBETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELLNOVEMBERTHE DESPERADOS ARE IN TOWNTEENAGE REBELLOVE ME TENDERDECEMBERTHREE BRAVE MENTHE WOMEN OF PITCAIRN ISLANDTHE BLACK WHIPTHE GIRL CAN’T HELP ITSTAGECOACH TO FURYANASTASIA
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:06:30 GMT
MGM
1956: 25 RELEASES
JANUARYDIANERANSOM!FEBRUARYFOREVER DARLINGMARCHMEET ME IN LAS VEGASFORBIDDEN PLANETTRIBUTE TO A BAD MANAPRILTHE SWANTHE LAST HUNTMAYBHOWANI JUNCTIONGABYINVITATION TO THE DANCEJUNETHE CATERED AFFAIRTHE IRON PETTICOATJULYSOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES METHE FASTEST GUN ALIVEHIGH SOCIETYAUGUSTTHESE WILDER YEARSSEPTEMBERLUST FOR LIFETHE POWER AND THE PRIZETEA AND SYMPATHYOCTOBERJULIETHE OPPOSITE SEXNOVEMBERTHE RACKTHE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIMETHE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:08:10 GMT
Radio Pictures
1956: 15 RELEASES
JANUARYGLORYPOSTMARK FOR DANGERFEBRUARYSLIGHTLY SCARLETTHE CONQUERORAPRILTHE BOLD AND THE BRAVEMAYWHILE THE CITY SLEEPSGREAT DAY IN THE MORNINGAUGUSTTHE FIRST TRAVELING SALESLADYSEPTEMBERBACK FROM ETERNITYBEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBTOCTOBERTENSION AT TABLE ROCKTHE BRAVE ONENOVEMBERDEATH OF A SCOUNDRELDECEMBERBUNDLE OF JOYMAN IN THE VAULT
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:10:12 GMT
Allied Artists
1956: 23 RELEASES
JANUARYDIG THAT URANIUMFEBRUARYINVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERSMARCHWORLD WITHOUT ENDINDESTRUCTIBLE MANAPRILTHE COME ONCRASHING LAS VEGASMAYNAVY WIFESCREAMING EAGLESJUNECRIME IN THE STREETSTHE NAKED HILLSTHE FIRST TEXANJULYTHREE FOR JAMIE DAWNMAGNIFICENT ROUGHNECKSHOLD BACK THE NIGHTAUGUSTCANYON RIVERSEPTEMBERSTRANGE INTRUDERTHE YOUNG GUNSFIGHTING TROUBLECALLING HOMICIDEOCTOBERYAQUI DRUMSTHE CRUEL TOWERNOVEMBERFRIENDLY PERSUASIONDECEMBERHOT SHOTS
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:11:48 GMT
Warner Brothers
1956: 20 RELEASES
JANUARYHELEN OF TROYHELL ON FRISCO BAYFEBRUARYTHE LONE RANGERMARCHTHE STEEL JUNGLESERENADEMIRACLE IN THE RAINAPRILOUR MISS BROOKSMAYGOOD-BYE MY LADYTHE SEARCHERSJUNEMOBY DICKJULYSANTIAGOAUGUSTSEVEN MEN FROM NOWA CRY IN THE NIGHTSEPTEMBERTHE BAD SEEDTHE BURNING HILLSOCTOBERTHE GIRL HE LEFT BEHINDTOWARD THE UNKNOWNNOVEMBERGIANTDECEMBERBABY DOLLTHE WRONG MAN
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:13:40 GMT
United Artists
1956: 41 RELEASES
JANUARYTHREE BAD SISTERSFEBRUARYTHE KILLER IS LOOSETIME TABLEMANFISHMARCHCOMANCHEGHOST TOWNPATTERNSALEXANDER THE GREATAPRILTHE BROKEN STARMAYCRIME AGAINST JOENIGHTAREFOREIGN INTRIGUETRAPEZEQUINCANNON FRONTIER SCOUTJUNETHE KILLINGA KISS BEFORE DYINGTHE BLACK SHEEPSHADOW OF FEARJULYTHE AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTERJOHNNY CONCHORUN FOR THE SUNREBEL IN TOWNAUGUSTHUK!THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAINSEPTEMBERGUN BROTHERSBANDIDOOCTOBERFLIGHT TO HONG KONGTHE BOSSATTACKAROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYSMAN FROM DEL RIONOVEMBERRUNNING TARGETHOT CARSEMERGENCY HOSPITALGUN THE MAN DOWNTHE SHARKFIGHTERSTHE PEACEMAKERDECEMBERTHE BRASS LEGENDTHE WILD PARTYTHE KING AND FOUR QUEENSDANCE WITH ME HENRY
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:15:27 GMT
Paramount
1956: 16 RELEASES
JANUARYTHE COURT JESTERAPRILANYTHING GOESTHE SCARLET HOURTHE BIRDS AND THE BEESJUNETHE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCHTHAT CERTAIN FEELINGTHE LEATHER SAINTTHE PROUD AND PROFANEAUGUSTPARDNERSWAR AND PEACETHE VAGABOND KINGOCTOBERTHE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHYTHE TEN COMMANDMENTSNOVEMBERTHE MOUNTAINDECEMBERHOLLYWOOD OR BUSTTHE RAINMAKER
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:17:06 GMT
Republic Pictures
1956: 21 RELEASES
JANUARYFLAME OF THE ISLANDS JAGUAR TRACK THE MAN DOWN HIDDEN GUNS MARCHCOME NEXT SPRING WHEN GANGLAND STRIKES MAGIC FIRE APRILSTRANGER AT MY DOOR TERROR AT MIDNIGHT ZANZABUKUMAYTHE MAVERICK QUEEN JULYDAKOTA INCIDENT AUGUSTTHUNDER OVER ARIZONA LISBON A STRANGE ADVENTURE OCTOBERDANIEL BOONE TRAIL BLAZER SCANDAL INCORPORATED THE MAN IS ARMED ABOVE US THE WAVES NOVEMBERA WOMAN’S DEVOTION DECEMBERACCUSED OF MURDER
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:19:31 GMT
Columbia
1956: 33 RELEASES
JANUARYINSIDE DETROITFEBRUARYFURY AT GUNSIGHT PASSPICNICTHE HOUSTON STORYJOE MACBETHBATTLE STATIONSMARCHHOT BLOODURANIUM BOOMROCK AROUND THE CLOCKTHE HARDER THEY FALLAPRILBLACKJACK KETCHUM DESPERADOJUBALOVER-EXPOSEDJUNESAFARITHE EDDY DUCHIN STORYSECRET OF TREASURE MOUNTAINJULYSTORM CENTEREARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERSBERMUDA AFFAIRTHE WEREWOLFAUGUSTAUTUMN LEAVESHE LAUGHED LASTTHE SOLID GOLD CADILLACSEPTEMBERMIAMI EXPOSEOCTOBERCHA-CHA-CHA BOOM!YOU CAN’T RUN AWAY FROM ITNOVEMBERTHE WHITE SQUAWREPRISAL!DECEMBERDON’T KNOCK THE ROCKFULL OF LIFE7TH CAVALRYRIDE THE HIGH IRONRUMBLE ON THE DOCKS
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 0:25:04 GMT
Best Picture: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS – United Artists
Best Director: George Stevens for GIANT – Warner Brothers
Best Actor: Yul Brynner for THE KING AND I – 20th Century Fox
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman for ANASTASIA – 20th Century Fox
Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn for LUST FOR LIFE – Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone for WRITTEN ON THE WIND – Universal
Highest grossing film: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS – Paramount |
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Post by Fading Fast on May 15, 2023 5:09:43 GMT
It didn't show that much at the Oscars, but MGM put out a good slate of movies this year.
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Post by I Love Melvin on May 15, 2023 12:09:10 GMT
This is a pretty random thought but I'm surprised to see that Twentieth Century-Fox released Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in February and The King and I in June of the same year. I would have assumed that each would have had "event" status and would have been separated by more of a time span, especially if some of the same units within the studio were working on both.
It's fun reading these lists because of what can pop out, long-forgotten titles and little-known favorites as well as the established classics. One I was pleased to see was Universal's Never Say Goodbye, a "Douglas Sirk"-lite melodrama with Rock Hudson and Cornell Borchers done right in the middle of Hudson's big streak at Universal with Sirk but pretty much unseen today. Sirk supposedly was part of the planning stages and had a limited hand in the actual production but Jerry Hopper is the director of record. The narrative gets kind of muddled and even silly at points and Borchers isn't all that impactful, but I like it.
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Post by topbilled on May 15, 2023 13:43:34 GMT
This is a pretty random thought but I'm surprised to see that Twentieth Century-Fox released Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in February and The King and I in June of the same year. I would have assumed that each would have had "event" status and would have been separated by more of a time span, especially if some of the same units within the studio were working on both. It's fun reading these lists because of what can pop out, long-forgotten titles and little-known favorites as well as the established classics. One I was pleased to see was Universal's Never Say Goodbye, a "Douglas Sirk"-lite melodrama with Rock Hudson and Cornell Borchers done right in the middle of Hudson's big streak at Universal with Sirk but pretty much unseen today. Sirk supposedly was part of the planning stages and had a limited hand in the actual production but Jerry Hopper is the director of record. The narrative gets kind of muddled and even silly at points and Borchers isn't all that impactful, but I like it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Love_of_Ours
I read that George Sanders, third-billed in NEVER SAY GOODBYE, did not like working with Jerry Hopper. Supposedly Sanders asked his pal Sirk, with whom he had collaborated on a few earlier movies, to help redo a few of his scenes in NEVER SAY GOODBYE so that Sanders could give a more effective performance in order to "save" the picture. Not sure how true all this is, but there does seem to be evidence that Sirk did come back at the end for some tinkering and possible reshoots.
Re: those 20th Century Fox musicals, you may want to look up the production dates. Maybe one of them was actually finished in 1955 and its release delayed? So even if they had been released a short time apart, there may have been more of a gap between when they were actually filmed.
I was surprised to see that Yul Brynner, who won the AA for Best Actor, did not also win the Golden Globe. Usually when a performer wins the AA for lead acting in a musical, they have also cinched the GG. But the GG for comedy or musical went to Cantinflas for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS while the GG for drama went to Kirk Douglas for LUST FOR LIFE.
Personally I think Brynner was more effective in ANASTASIA even though it was largely a showcase for Ingrid Bergman. |
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