The year 1955 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Lady and the Tramp* | Disney | $100,249,000 | | 2. | Cinerama Holiday | Cinerama | $12,000,000 | | 3. | Mister Roberts | Warner Brothers | $8,500,000 | | 4. | Battle Cry | Warner Brothers | $8,100,000 | | 5. | Oklahoma! | Magna/RKO | $7,100,000 | | 6. | Guys and Dolls | MGM | $6,875,000 | | 7. | Picnic | Columbia | $6,350,000 | | 8. | Not As a Stranger | United Artists | $6,176,000 | | 9. | I'll Cry Tomorrow | MGM | $6,004,000 | | 10. | The Sea Chase
The Seven Year Itch
Strategic Air Command | Warner Brothers
20th Century Fox
Paramount | $6,000,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1955.shtml [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists
- Best Director: Delbert Mann - Marty
- Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine - Marty
- Best Actress: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
- Best Supporting Actress: Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: East of Eden
- Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine - Marty
- Best Actress: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Guys and Dolls
- Best Actor: Tom Ewell - The Seven Year Itch
- Best Actress: Jean Simmons - Guys and Dolls
- Other
- Best Director: Joshua Logan - Picnic
- Best Foreign Film: Ordet (The Word), Denmark
- Best Foreign Film: Stella, Greece
- Best Foreign Film: Sons, Mothers, and a General, West Germany
- Best Foreign Film: Eyes of Children, Japan
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): - Marty, directed by Delbert Mann, United States
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): - Ordet (The Word), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - Die Ratten (The Rats), directed by Robert Siodmak, West Germany
[edit] Films released in 1955 - Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- All That Heaven Allows, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson
- Apache Ambush
- Artists and Models, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
- Bad Day at Black Rock, starring Spencer Tracy
- Battle Cry
- Battle Taxi starring Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson, and Leo Needham
- The Big Combo, starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy and Jean Wallace
- Blackboard Jungle
- Blood Alley, starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall
- Bob le flambeur
- Carrington V.C.
- Chief Crazy Horse
- Cinerama Holiday
- The Cobweb, starring Richard Widmark, Gloria Grahame, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer and Lillian Gish
- The Colditz Story
- Continente Perduto (aka Lost Continent)
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
- Daddy Long Legs, starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron
- The Dam Busters
- The Desperate Hours, starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March
- East of Eden, starring James Dean in his first major role.
- The Far Country
- The Fast and the Furious, starring John Ireland and Dorothy Malone
- Galapagos
- Godzilla Raids Again
- Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons with Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine
- How To Be Very, Very Popular, starring Betty Grable in her final film role.
- I'll Cry Tomorrow, starring Susan Hayward
- Illegal, a film noir starring Edward G. Robinson which also co-starred Jayne Mansfield
- Interrupted Melody, starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford
- It Came from Beneath the Sea
- It's Always Fair Weather
- John and Julie starring Peter Sellers and Sid James
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Lady and the Tramp
- The Ladykillers
- Land of the Pharaohs, starring Joan Collins
- The Left Hand of God, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney
- Love Me or Leave Me, starring Doris Day and James Cagney
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones
- Lucy Gallant (reissued as Oil Town)
- The Man from Laramie
- The Man with the Golden Arm, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak
- Marty, starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair
- Mister Roberts, starring Henry Fonda with James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday
- My Sister Eileen
- Night and Fog
- The Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum
- Not as a Stranger, starring Olivia de Havilland and Gloria Grahame
- Oklahoma! (the first film shot in the widescreen process known as Todd-AO), starring Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame and Shirley Jones
- Ordet
- Pather Panchali
- Pete Kelly's Blues, starring Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien and Peggy Lee. Also features Jayne Mansfield as a cigarette girl.
- Picnic, starring William Holden and Kim Novak
- The Private War of Major Benson, starring Charlton Heston
- The Prodigal, starring Lana Turner
- The Quatermass Xperiment, which probably qualifies as the first Hammer horror film
- Queen Bee, starring Joan Crawford
- Die Ratten (The Rats), Golden Bear award
- Rage at Dawn
- The Rains of Ranchipur, starring Lana Turner
- Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood
- Richard III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
- Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes)
- The Rose Tattoo, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster
- The Scarlet Coat
- The Sea Chase, starring John Wayne and Lana Turner
- The Seven Little Foys
- The Seven Year Itch, starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
- Sissi
- Smiles of a Summer Night
- Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart
- Summertime, directed by David Lean and starring Katharine Hepburn
- Tarantula
- The Tender Trap
- Three for the Show, starring Betty Grable
- To Catch a Thief, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
- To Hell and Back starring Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, and David Janssen
- The Treasure of Pancho Villa
- Trial
- The Trouble with Harry, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe and Shirley MacLaine
- Unknown Soldier
- Unchained
- Underwater!
- The Virgin Queen
- White Feather
- Wichita
- You're Never Too Young, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series Cartoon: One-Reel: - Gadgets Galore (Warner Varieties Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.)
- Survival City (Movietone CinemaScope Series) (Edmund Reek, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)
- 3rd Ave. El (Carson Davidson Productions; Ardee Films)
- Three Kisses (Topper Special Series) (Justin Herman, producer; Paramount)
Two-Reel: - The Battle of Gettysburg (Dore Schary, producer; MGM)
- The Face of Lincoln (University of Southern California Presentation; Cavalcade Pictures, Inc.)
- On The Twelfth Day…(United Kingdom Series) (Go Pictures, Inc.; George Brest and Associates)
- Switzerland (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista
- 24-Hour Alert (Cedric Francis, producer; Warner Bros.)
[edit] Births - January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, British comedian, actor
- January 12 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
- January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, American writer, producer
- January 18 - Kevin Costner, American actor
- March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- March 17 - Gary Sinise, American actor
- March 19 - Bruce Willis, American actor
- April 1 - Annette O'Toole, American actress
- April 23 - Judy Davis, actress
- May 16 - Debra Winger, American actress
- May 18 - Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
- June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
- July 22 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
- August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
- August 27 - Diana Scarwid, American actress
- September 29 - Benoît Ferreux, French actor
- November 13 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress
[edit] Deaths [edit] Film Debuts |
