Top 25 Comedy Movies Award-Winning Released in 1957

An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. Get info on Funny Face / IMDB / YouTube

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris. Details on The Red Balloon / IMDB / YouTube

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client. Read about Love in the Afternoon / IMDB / YouTube

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak. Find out about Smiles of a Summer Night / IMDB / YouTube

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery. Info on What's Opera, Doc? / IMDB / YouTube

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code. Info on Mother India / IMDB / YouTube

Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a television network's research department. Look into Desk Set / IMDB / YouTube

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her. Details on The Prince and the Showgirl / IMDB / YouTube

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist. Info on A King in New York / IMDB / YouTube

Joey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other. Check out Pal Joey / IMDB / YouTube

A sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common. More about Designing Woman / IMDB / YouTube

A Russian government official is sent to Paris to bring back her comrades; she soon gets a taste of Paris life and falls in love with an American movie producer. See more about Silk Stockings / IMDB / YouTube

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise. Info on The Pajama Game / IMDB / YouTube

To save his career, a writer for television advertising wants a famous actress to endorse a lipstick. In return, he has to pretend to be her new lover. Learn about Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? / IMDB / YouTube

The former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view. See more about Les Girls / IMDB / YouTube

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman. Find out about Tammy and the Bachelor / IMDB / YouTube

Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace. Read about Invasion of the Saucer Men / IMDB / YouTube

In 1944, three Navy pilots stationed in Hawaii and a P.R. officer go on a 4-day leave to San Francisco where they party with a good crowd in the executive suite of a busy hotel. Look into Kiss Them for Me / IMDB / YouTube

In 1905, Lord Henry Loam and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant. Info on Paradise Lagoon / IMDB / YouTube

A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims. More about Your Past Is Showing / IMDB / YouTube

Former nightclub singer Kay Hilliard, married 10 years and mother of a young daughter, is informed that her husband Steven is having an affair with chorus girl Crystal Allen, so she goes to Reno for a divorce. Info on The Opposite Sex / IMDB / YouTube

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Find out about La cravate / IMDB / YouTube

A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite. Info on The Invisible Boy / IMDB / YouTube

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times. Details on Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate / IMDB / YouTube

In post-WWII France, U.S. Army hospital Private Hogan and Captain Lock try to outwit each other on issues such as wooing pretty nurses, accounting for missing medical supplies, organizing unauthorized dances, and influencing their C.O. Learn about Operation Mad Ball / IMDB / YouTube