1955 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Guys and Dolls

Best Actor: Tom Ewell - The Seven Year Itch

Best Actress: Jean Simmons - Guys and Dolls

<u>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

PALM 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 Martin and 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
• Galapagos
• Godzilla Raids Again
• Guys and Dolls
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• 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
• 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 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
• 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 Martin and Lewis

[edit] Short film series

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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