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The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.

Events

August 4 - The last film serial, Blazing the Overland Trail from Columbia Pictures, is released.
October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinema and becomes the highest religious epic movie when adjusted for inflation.
November 15 - Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender, opens.

Rank	Title	Leading Star	Studio	Gross
1.	The Ten Commandments	Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter	Paramount	$43,000,000
2.	Around the World in Eighty Days	David Niven, Cantinflas and Shirley MacLaine	United Artists	$23,120,000
3.	Giant	Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean	Warner Bros.	$14,000,000
4.	War and Peace	Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda	Paramount	$12,500,000
5.	The King and I	Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner	20th Century Fox	$9,000,000
6.	The Searchers	John Wayne	Warner Bros.	$8,500,000
7.	Bus Stop	Marilyn Monroe	20th Century Fox	$7,269,000
8.	High Society	Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra	MGM	$6,250,000
9.	The Girl Can't Help It	Jayne Mansfield and Tom Ewell	20th Century Fox	$5,878,000
10.	Written on the Wind	Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone	Universal	$5,712,000

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