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The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
Pages in category "Films about the 1956 Summer Olympics" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Olympic Games In London: 1908 British Pathé [12] [13] Film ID:1824.12 5 Stockholm 1912: The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912: 1912 Adrian Wood [14] 7 Antwerp 1920: Olympiade in Antwerpen: 1920 [15] 8 Paris 1924: The Olympic Games in Paris, 1924: 1924 Jean de Rovéra [14] 9 Amsterdam 1928: The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928: 1928 Wilhelm ...
Freedom's Fury is a documentary film about the semifinal water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The match took place against the background of the Hungarian Revolution, that was brutally crushed by the Soviet army, and it quickly turned into a violent battle, with contemporaries dubbing it the "Blood in the Water match."
Film noir: United Artists: The Killing: Stanley Kubrick: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor: Film noir: United Artists: The King and Four Queens: Raoul Walsh: Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols: Western: United Artists: The King and I: Walter Lang: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno: Musical: 20th Century Fox. Winner of 5 ...
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956.
The Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival was an arts festival held in conjunction with the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Melbourne was the first Games to have an arts festival as part of the official program.
This was the first year (and last until 1967) in which all Best Picture nominees were in color, and all were large-scale epics: The King and I, Giant, The Ten Commandments (the highest-grossing film of the year), Friendly Persuasion, and the winner, Around the World in 80 Days.