1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top-grossing hits of 1955 in the United States.

Highest-grossing films of 1955
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Cinerama Holiday Cinerama Releasing $10,000,000[1]
2 Mister Roberts Warner Bros. $8,500,000[1]
3 Battle Cry $8,100,000[1]
4 Oklahoma! RKO $7,100,000[1]
5 Guys and Dolls MGM $6,801,000[2]
6 Lady and the Tramp Buena Vista $6,500,000[1]
7 Picnic Columbia $6,300,000[1]
8 Not as a Stranger United Artists $6,200,000[1]
9 Strategic Air Command
The Seven Year Itch
The Sea Chase
Paramount
20th Century Fox
Warner Bros.
$6,000,000[1]
10 I'll Cry Tomorrow MGM $5,873,000[2]

Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1955 films from countries outside of North America.

CountryTitleStudioGross
India Shree 420 R. K. Films $1,190,000[n 2]
Soviet Union Private Ivan Gorky Film Studio $2,520,000[n 4]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization13th Golden Globe Awards
February 23, 1956
28th Academy Awards
March 21, 1956
DramaComedy or Musical
Best FilmEast of EdenGuys and DollsMarty
Best DirectorJoshua Logan
Picnic
Delbert Mann
Marty
Best ActorErnest Borgnine
Marty
Tom Ewell
The Seven Year Itch
Ernest Borgnine
Marty
Best ActressAnna Magnani
The Rose Tattoo
Jean Simmons
Guys and Dolls
Anna Magnani
The Rose Tattoo
Best Supporting ActorArthur Kennedy
Trial
Jack Lemmon
Mister Roberts
Best Supporting ActressMarisa Pavan
The Rose Tattoo
Jo Van Fleet
East of Eden
Best Foreign Language FilmChildren, Mother, and the General
Dangerous Curves
Eyes of Children
Ordet
Stella
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1955 film releases

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Top ten money making stars

Rank Actor/Actress
1. James Stewart
2. Grace Kelly
3. John Wayne
4. William Holden
5. Gary Cooper
6. Marilyn Monroe
7. (tie) Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
8. Marlon Brando
9. Humphrey Bogart
10. Clark Gable

Notable films released in 1955

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Serials

  • The Adventures of Captain Africa
  • King of the Carnival
  • Panther Girl of the Kongo

Short film series

Cartoon:

  • Good Will to Men (MGM Cartoon Series) (Frederick Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM)
  • The Legend of Rockabye 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.)

Births

  • January 4 - Sergei Kolesnikov, Soviet-Russian actor (d. 2023)
  • January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
  • January 8 - Harriet Sansom Harris, American actress
  • January 9 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
  • January 16 - Steven Weisberg, American editor (d. 2023)
  • January 18 – Kevin Costner, American actor, producer and director
  • January 19 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor and stand-up comedian
  • January 20 – Wyatt Knight, American actor (d. 2011)
  • January 28 - Lorenzo Caccialanza, American actor
  • February 5 - Kenji Ohba, Japanese actor
  • February 7 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2017)
  • February 8 - Ethan Phillips, American actor
  • February 9 - Jim J. Bullock, American actor and comedian
  • February 14 - James Eckhouse, American actor
  • February 15 – Christopher McDonald, American actor
  • February 17 - Ellie Haddington, Scottish actress
  • February 19 – Jeff Daniels, American actor
  • February 21 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor and comedian
  • February 28 – Gilbert Gottfried, American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor (d. 2022)
  • March 2 - William Hope, Canadian actor
  • March 3 – Riina Hein, Estonian actress, director, producer and screenwriter
  • March 6
  • March 9 – Ornella Muti, Italian actress
  • March 13 - Glenne Headley, American actress (d. 2017)
  • March 16 - Kuh Ledesma, Filipino actress and singer
  • March 17
  • March 19 – Bruce Willis, American actor
  • March 22 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
  • March 28 - Reba McEntire, American country singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer
  • March 29
  • April 3 - Tomas Arana, American actor
  • April 4 - Casey Biggs, American actor
  • April 5 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2024)
  • April 6 – Michael Rooker, American actor
  • April 8 - Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman
  • April 23 – Judy Davis, Australian actress
  • April 24 – Michael O'Keefe, American actor
  • April 29
  • April 30 – Zlatko Topčić, Bosnian screenwriter
  • May 1 - Eric Goldberg, American animator, voice actor, director and producer
  • May 5 - Lisa Jane Persky, American actress
  • May 8 - Raoul Trujillo, American actor
  • May 9 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
  • May 10 - Larry "Flash" Jenkins, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2019)
  • May 13 - María Cecilia Botero, Colombian actress and television presenter
  • May 15 - Lee Horsley, American actor
  • May 16 – Debra Winger, American actress
  • May 17
    • Francesco Nuti, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2023)
    • Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017)
  • May 18 – Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor
  • May 27 - Richard Schiff, American actor and director
  • May 31
    • Susie Essman, American actress
    • Julio Oscar Mechoso, American actor (d. 2017)
  • June 2 – Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
  • June 6 - Cheryl Smith, American actress and musician (d. 2002)
  • June 7 – William Forsythe, American actor
  • June 8
  • June 14 - Paul O'Grady, English comedian, broadcaster, actor and writer (d. 2023)
  • June 15
    • Polly Draper, American actress, writer, producer and director
    • Julie Hagerty, American actress
    • Andy Tennant, American screenwriter, director and actor
  • June 16 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
  • June 25 - Michael McShane, American actor, singer and improvisational comedian
  • June 26 - Gedde Watanabe, American actor and comedian
  • June 27 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
  • July 2 - Andrew Divoff, American actor and producer
  • July 3
    • Bruce Altman, American actor
    • Jesse Corti, American actor
    • Vince Martin, Dutch-Australian actor, editor, director and musician
  • July 8 - Lena Endre, Swedish actress
  • July 9
  • July 21 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director
  • July 22 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
  • July 25 - Iman, Somali-American model and actress
  • July 27 - Roger Guenveur Smith, American actor, director and writer
  • July 28
    • Maria Vacratsis, Canadian actress
    • Dey Young, American actress
  • August 3 – Corey Burton, American voice actor
  • August 4 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director and screenwriter
  • August 7 – Wayne Knight, American actor and comedian
  • August 13 - Paul Greengrass, British director, producer and screenwriter
  • August 19 – Peter Gallagher, American actor
  • August 20 - Jay Acovone, American actor
  • August 22 - Gordon Liu, Chinese actor and martial artist
  • August 24 - Kevin Dunn, American actor
  • August 27 – Diana Scarwid, American actress
  • September 9 - Edward Hibbert, American-born British actor
  • September 10 - Giannina Facio, Costa Rican actress
  • September 12 - Peter Scolari, American actor (d. 2021)
  • September 17 - Charles Martinet, American actor and voice actor
  • September 20
  • September 21 - Rick Aiello, American actor (d. 2021)
  • September 26 - Mark Nelson, American actor and director
  • October 17 - Sam Bottoms, American actor and producer (d. 2008)
  • October 20 – Thomas Newman, American composer
  • October 21 - Catherine Hardwicke, American director and screenwriter
  • October 22 - Bill Condon, American director and screenwriter
  • October 27 - Michael Shamus Wiles, American character actor
  • November 5 - Nestor Serrano, American actor
  • November 9
  • November 10
  • November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and comedian
  • November 15 - Jun Kunimura, Japanese actor
  • November 23 - Peter Douglas, American actor and producer
  • November 25 - Bruce Hopkins, New Zealand actor
  • November 27 - Bill Nye, American television presenter
  • November 30
    • Kevin Conroy, American actor (d. 2022)
    • Malgorzata Gebel, Polish actress
  • December 2 – Dennis Christopher, American actor
  • December 3
  • December 6 - Steven Wright, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and film producer
  • December 8 - Kevin McNulty, Canadian actor
  • December 9 - Hiroyuki Watanabe, Japanese actor (d. 2022)
  • December 11 - Donna Bullock, American actress
  • December 16 - Xander Berkeley, American actor
  • December 17 - Richard Young, American character actor, filmmaker and screenwriter
  • December 21 – Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
  • December 24

Deaths

Film Debuts

Notes

  1. 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965[4]
  2. 3.9 crore[3] (US$8.19 million)[n 1]
  3. 4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960[7]
  4. 10.0925 million Rbls (40.37 million Soviet tickets sold,[5] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[6] 4 SUR per USD[n 3]

References

  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. "Box Office 1955". boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. "PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service - Foreign Currency Units per 1 U.S. Dollar, 1950-2020" (PDF). fx.sauder.ubc.ca. p. 3.
  5. "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  6. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  7. Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  8. McFarlane, Brian, ed. (2003). The Encyclopedia of British Film. London: Methuen; BFI. p. 48. ISBN 9780413773012.
  9. Leab, Daniel J. (2007). Orwell Subverted. Pennsylvania State Press. p. xiii-xiv. ISBN 978-0-271-02979-5.
  10. Filmed on location September 1954. "The Seven Year Itch (1955)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
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