Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Jules Verne's novel about modern transportation and the resultant "shrinking globe" was adapted successfully enough to win the Best Picture Oscar, in a year which featured long, epic (& biblical) nominated pictures. Producer (& Elizabeth Taylor's third husband) Michael Todd, whose film technique, Todd-AO, was used for only the second time in this movie, won his only Oscar (he was killed less than a year later in a plane crash). The film won four other Oscars including Adapted Writing; its director Michael Anderson received his only nomination. David Niven stars as the adventurer Phileas Fogg in this movie which features dozens of cameos from other well known actors and actresses, including: Robert Morley, Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Charles Boyer, Evelyn Keyes, Jose Greco, Cesar Romero, Alan Mowbray, Cedric Hardwicke, Reginald Denny, Ronald Colman, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Red Skelton, Marlene Dietrich, John Carradine, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown, Andy Devine, Victor McLaglen, John Mills, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, even reporter Edward R. Murrow as himself.

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