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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