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Joan Crawford elopes with soft drink tycoon Al Steele to Las Vegas. Clark Gable marries Kay Williams Spreckles.
John Hodiak dies suddenly of heart attack in home. His divorced wife Anne Baxter and their child, griefstricken.
Warner Bros, and Columbia Studios start own TV productions. Warners producing such top Westerns as Maverick with sensationally popular James Garner and Columbia sets up successful Screen Gems productions.
Rock Hudson marries Phyllis Gates in Santa Barbara.
Mike Todd, brash young producer, signs up such top stars as Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich for his Around The World In 80 Days which he's filming in his new Todd-AO process.
James Dean tragically killed in race-car accident setting off a mass hysteria of juvenile mourning. And the influence of this moody, introspective young idol is to live on after him. He was perhaps the first of 'the angry young men' and the 'beatnik' type.
Oscars won by Ernest Borgnine in Marty and Anna Magnani in Rose Tattoo.
1956: The year Elvis Presley arrives in Hollywood to make his first picture Love Me Tender for 20th Century-Fox.
Business world startled when major companies begin to sell backlogs of old films to arch rival TV. Most spectacular deal — Warner Bros, sale of 750 motion pictures to TV for $21,000,000. Later, Paramount and MGM follow this lead — which I feel was one of the big mistakes of film history. Old movies on TV became the greatest rival of new movies in theaters!
Biggest romantic news of years: Grace Kelly announces engagement to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Pregnant Debbie Reynolds (now Mrs. Eddie Fisher) sings Tammy and sets off the biggest record sale in years.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis explode as a comedy team and part in bitterness.
Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller in White Plains, New York. Debbie and Eddie welcome a daughter, Carrie Frances. Elizabeth Taylor tells world she's passionately in love with Mike Todd and will marry him when free of Mike Wilding!