When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

* Boris in Walt Disney's 1955 film Lady and the Tramp

Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler.

The film premiered at Hollywood's Paramount theater in May 1955, under the title Bride of the Atom.

In 1955 and 1957, DeMille was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

The film was shot in two weeks by Marker while he was traveling through China with Armand Gatti in September 1955.

( 1955 film ), an Indian Malayalam film starring Prem Nazir

Day in the trailer for Love Me or Leave Me ( film ) | Love Me or Leave Me ( 1955 )

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

Kodak discontinued the manufacture of nitrate base in 1951, and the industry transitioned entirely to safety film in 1951 in the United States and by 1955 internationally.

Also sung by Gregory Miller ( played by Sidney Poitier ) in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.

Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me ( film ) | Love Me or Leave Me ( 1955 )

Cagney's next notable role was the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me, his third with Day.

He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin.

In 1955, he began production of the Jungle Jim television adventure series for Screen Gems, a film subsidiary of Columbia.

* The Heart ( 1955 film ) ( Kokoro ) ( 1955 )

A 1955 film version of Ordet was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion in the 1955 Venice Film Festival and the 1956 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The bordertown was the subject of an acclaimed film, The Phenix City Story, made in 1955.

* 1955: Columbus Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer, " for its complete news coverage and fearless editorial attack on widespread corruption in neighboring Phenix City, Alabama, which were effective in destroying a corrupt and racket-ridden city government.

* The Phenix City Story ( 1955 )

* The Phenix City Story ( 1955 )

* The Phenix City Story ( 1955 )

Dave Winer ( born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City.

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

In addition to Westerns and the science fiction films, three of his early major roles were in noir films, Kansas City Confidential of 1952, Vice Squad of 1953, and The Big Combo of 1955.

The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to its current home in Oakland, California in 1968.

The A's would struggle on for four more years with only one winning team, and then abandon Philadelphia ( under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack ) and start play in Kansas City in 1955.

The City Series was the name of a series of baseball games played between the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League and the Phillies that ran from 1903 through 1955.

After the A's move to Kansas City, Missouri in 1955, the City Series rivalry came to an end.

Other examples are Fountain Grove, Riker's Holy City and other Californian utopian colonies between 1855 and 1955 ( Hine ), as well as Sointula in British Columbia, Canada.

Chaffee married Martha Horn in Oklahoma City on August 24, 1957, whom he met while on a blind date in September 1955, and had two children, Sheryl Lyn ( born 17 November 1958 ) and Stephen ( born 3 July 1961 ).

The radio series Nightwatch ( 1951 – 1955 ), which tape-recorded the daily activities of Culver City, California police officers, also helped pave the way for reality television.

* 1955 ( 4 ) Greater Greensboro Open, Palm Beach Round Robin, Insurance City Open, Miami Open

Originally signed in 1929 in Warsaw ( hence the name ), it was amended in 1955 at The Hague and in 1971 in Guatemala City.

Silver City Bristol Freighter | Bristol 170 Mark 21 Freighter at Manchester Airport in May 1955

Also in 1955, Silver City launched its first air ferry services between Scotland and Ireland and its first such service from the Midlands.

During the 1950s, Newcastle won the FA Cup trophy on three occasions within a five year period, beating Blackpool in 1951, Arsenal in 1952, and Manchester City in 1955.

After Byers moved to Kansas City, the championships would be held in Municipal in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1964.

* Philadelphia Athletics ( became the Kansas City Athletics in 1955 and the Oakland Athletics in 1968 )

* 1955: Philadelphia Athletics move to Kansas City

* Oakland Athletics enfranchised 1901 * in Philadelphia, moved to Kansas City ( 1955 ) and to Oakland ( 1968 )

Anderson continued to break barriers for black artists in the United States, becoming the first black person, American or otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955.

In 1955, a newly formed private company, Intercity Buses, Inc., began operating bus service connecting Oswego with downtown Portland and Oregon City.

On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest ( being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games ), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games.

* WMTA AM 1380 Radio established in 1955, Central City