1959 in Film - Events

Events

  • The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters.
  • September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
  • November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loews Theater in New York City.
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt start dating.
  • The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison for Gael Linn, is premiered at the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film.

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