12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor co-stars with a horse in the film National Velvet

Laurence Olivier directs and stars in a patriotic film of Henry V with stirring music by William Walton

Jean-Louis Barrault directs and stars in the film Les Enfants du Paradis

Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, premiered in New York, derives from music written for or inspired by films

Sergei Eisenstein completes Part 2 of his intended epic film trilogy Ivan the Terrible

Howard Hawks directs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep

David Lean directs Trevor Howard and and Celia Johnson in Noel Coward's Brief Encounter

British dancer Robert Helpmann choreographs the ballet scenes in the film The Red Shoes, featuring Moira Shearer

Vittorio de Sica directs the film Bicycle Thieves, a classic of Italian neorealism

John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a film based on B. Traven's novel of 1927

Ealing Studios produce a film of Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel Whisky Galore, about an alcoholic windfall on the island of Barra

Carol Reed directs The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and written by Graham Greene

Elia Kazan directs Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story

Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon

Gene Kelly dances a famous routine with an umbrella in the film Singin' in the Rain

Grace Kelly has her first starring role in High Noon, with Gary Cooper

Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando in the film On the Waterfront

Fred Zinneman directs Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity

William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome

French actor Jacques Tati directs and stars in the zany comedy Mr Hulot's Holiday

Within the year Marilyn Monroe stars in Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire

Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa directs The Seven Samurai

George Cukor directs Judy Garland and James Mason in A Star Is Born

Federico Fellini directs La Strada ('The Road'), starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, and Antony Quinn