The King and I with Yul Brenner and Deborah Kerr is on my list of Ten Best Movie Musicals Ever.

The Ten Commandments also came out in 1956. Biblical epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille. I prefer Prince of Egypt, but no one should miss Charlton Moses.

The Man Who Knew Too Much, an Alfred Hitchcock film starring Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart, also opens in June, 1956. It’s a great Hitchcock thriller, and Doris Day wins an Oscar for Best Song with “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)“.

On April 19, 1956, movie star Grace Kelly becomes Princess Grace as she marries Prince Rainier, ruler of the principality of Monaco.

On September 9, 1956, Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. He sings four songs in two sets: Don’t Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, Ready Teddy, and You Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog. The show is viewed by a record 60 million people which at the time was 82.6 percent of the television audience, and the largest single audience in television history. Elvis’s first movie, Love Me Tender, opens in November.

In November 1956, the film And God Created Woman (French title: Et Dieu… créa la femme), directed by Roger Vadim, husband of starring French actress Brigitte Bardot, is released in France and makes a big splash, gaining Ms. Bardot the appellation of “sex kitten.” Heavily edited to pass the censors, the movie will be released in the United States in 1957.