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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1957 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards , including Best Picture .
Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg; February 26, 1921 – March 12, 2007) [a] was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer. She rose to fame in the 1940s as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, appearing primarily in musicals and became one of the studio's most valuable stars. [1]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calypso Heat Wave: Fred F. Sears: Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders, Meg Myles: Musical: Columbia: The Careless Years: Arthur Hiller: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch
The following is a list of female action heroes and villains who appear in action films, television shows, comic books, and video games and who are "thrust into a series of challenges requiring physical feats, extended fights, extensive stunts and frenetic chases."
Box office $3.7 million [ 1 ] Designing Woman is a 1957 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film, in CinemaScope , about two young, whirlwind-romanced newlywed professionals and their misadventures in adjusting to each other's lifestyles.
The film received Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Film and Best Actress (Charisse) in the Comedy/Musical category. [4] The score was embellished with the new song "The Ritz Roll and Rock", a parody of the emerging rock and roll music genre. The number ends with Astaire symbolically smashing his top hat, considered one of his trademarks ...
Fire Down Below is a 1957 adventure drama film with a screenplay written by novelist Irwin Shaw, starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, and directed by Robert Parrish. Based on Max Catto 's 1954 novel with the same title, the picture was made by Warwick Films on location in Trinidad and Tobago , in Technicolor and CinemaScope ...