1955 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top-grossing films 3 Other films released 4 Academy Awards 5 Short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.

Top-grossing films

North America

1. Cinerama Holiday
2. Mister Roberts
3. tie Battle Cry and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
4. Not as a Stranger
5. The Country Girl

Other films released

• All That Heaven Allows
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Blackboard Jungle
• Bob le flambeur
• The Colditz Story
• East of Eden
• Galapagos
• Godzilla Raids Again
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Lady and the Tramp
• The Ladykillers
• Land of the Pharaohs
• The Lost Continent
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Marty
• Oklahoma! (the first film shot in the widescreen process known as Todd-AO)
• Ordet
• Pather Panchali
• Picnic
• The Quatermass Xperiment, which probably qualifies as the first Hammer horror film
• Richard III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
• Du rififi chez les hommes
• The Seven Year Itch
• Summertime, directed by David Lean
• 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

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists
• Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine - Marty
• Best Actress: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo

Short film series

• Donald Duck (1936)-(1956)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

Births

• January 6 - Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
• January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress
• January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
• January 18 - Kevin Costner, actor
• March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
• April 1 - Annette O'Toole, actress
• June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, actress
• August 4 - Billy Bob Thornton, US actor
• August 27 - Diana Scarwid, US actress

Deaths

• February 12 - Tom Moore actor
• April 7 - Theda Bara, actress
• August 5 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress
• September 30 - James Dean, actor
• October 1 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
• November 10 - Rene Rijff, Dutch actor
• November 22 - Shemp Howard, comedian, of The Three Stoogesde:Filmjahr 1955

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