1955 in film

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The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1955
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Births
8 Deaths

[edit] Events

November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.
June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

Lady and the Tramp
Cinerama Holiday
Mister Roberts
tie Battle Cry and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Not as a Stranger
The Country Girl

[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
Artists and Models, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Bad Day at Black Rock
Battle Cry
Blackboard Jungle
Bob le flambeur
Carrington V.C.
Cinerama Holiday
The Colditz Story
Continente Perduto (aka The Lost Continent)
East of Eden
The Far Country
Galapagos
Godzilla Raids Again
Guys and Dolls
I'll Cry Tomorrow
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Kiss Me Deadly
Lady and the Tramp
The Ladykillers
Land of the Pharaohs
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Man with the Golden Arm
Marty
Mister Roberts
Night and Fog
The Night of the Hunter
Not as a Stranger
Oklahoma! (the first film shot in the widescreen process known as Todd-AO) (suggested disambig. split of article)
Ordet
Pather Panchali
Picnic
The Private War of Major Benson, starring Charlton Heston
The Quatermass Xperiment, which probably qualifies as the first Hammer horror film
Die Ratten (The Rats), Golden Bear award
Richard III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood
Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes)
The Rose Tattoo
The Seven Year Itch
Smiles of a Summer Night
Summertime, directed by David Lean
Tarantula
To Catch a Thief
To Hell and Back starring Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, and David Janssen
The Trouble with Harry - directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Unknown Soldier
You're Never Too Young, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

[edit] Serials

[edit] Short film series

Cartoon:

Good Will to Men (MGM Cartoon Series) (Frederick Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM)
The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal-International)
No Hunting (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
Speedy Gonzales (Merrie Melodies Series) (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros.)

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.)