Timelines for year 1957
Daniel Radcliffe
Has stated that 12 Angry Men is the first black & white film he ever saw and is also his favorite film.
Rock Hudson
In order to make A Farewell to Arms , he turned down Marlon Brando's role in Sayonara , William Holden's role in The Bridge on the River Kwai , and Charlton Heston's role in Ben-Hur . The three films he had turned down went on to become hugely successful and were critically acclaimed, while A Farewell to Arms proved to be one of the biggest flops in history.
Made "Top 10 stars of the year" a record eight times from 1957 to 1964.
Patricia Clarkson
Some of her favorite movies are: Desk Set , Driving Miss Daisy , Gaslight , Gosford Park , Sexy Beast , and Y tu mamá también .
Bill Murray
Murray is one of only three American actors that were nominated for an Oscar for a movie that is set on the territory of Japan. The other two are Marlon Brando and Red Buttons for Sayonara .
Joanne Woodward
Wore a handmade dress that cost about $100 to the 1957 Oscar ceremony (the year she won Best Actress for Three Faces of Eve).
Elizabeth Taylor
Her first Oscar nomination for Raintree County marks her first of 4 consecutive nominations, a feat she shares with Jennifer Jones , Thelma Ritter , Marlon Brando and Al Pacino .
Ingmar Bergman
The rock band Van Halen wrote a song called "The Seventh Seal" (from the "Balance" album) in honor of his films. The song talks about The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring .
Gary Cooper
Along with actress Mylène Demongeot, Cooper set in motion the first escalator to be installed in a cinema, at the Rex Theatre in Paris on June 7 1957.
Elvis Presley
Between 1957 and 1969, he performed only two concerts and made just two television appearances.
He worked with legendary guitar player Hank Garland from 1957 to 1961.
Made the first ever musical video of all time: Jailhouse Rock .
Bought Graceland mansion on 19 March 1957 from Mrs. Ruth Brown Moore for $102,500. The mansion, built of tan Tennessee limestone, consists of 23 rooms and 13.7 surrounding acres. The Music Gates were installed in April of 1957.
Oliver Hardy
When Ollie died in 1957, his partner, Stan Laurel, pledged he would never perform again. Despite offers, he never did.
Frank Sinatra
Turned down the lead role in The Pajama Game , which would have paired him up with Janis Paige, who played the role on Broadway. As a result, Paige lost out on playing the part to Doris Day, who was considered a bigger box- office draw.
Some three decades late, the Hungarian-born actress Eva Bartok claimed that her daughter, Deana, born in 1957 during Bartok's marriage to the actor Curd Jürgens, was actually fathered by Sinatra, during a brief affair that he and Bartok had had following his breakup in 1956 with the sultry Ava Gardner. Sinatra never acknowledged paternity.
Judy Garland
Offered the lead role in The Three Faces of Eve , but turned down the role because the storyline bore too many resemblances to her own personal life. The role was then given to Joanne Woodward who went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.