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.

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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 )

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.

The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

In the reworked version of the book in 1955, Philip Hershkovitz and Hartley Jackson led him to drop Thos both as an available scientific term and as a viable subgenus of Canis.

( Heavily revised version of Greenberg 1955.

The best-known version in French is the free verse edition by Franz Toussaint ( 1879 – 1955 ) published in 1924.

Perhaps the best-known film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.

makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a 3-hour Thanksgiving special.

* Paul Huson in the 1955 film version, alongside Laurence Olivier as Richard.

After an eight-year absence from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Fonda in a live 1955 TV version of The Petrified Forest

In the 1955 film of " Richard III ", after he is clubbed over the head into unconsciousness by the murderers, the drowning is shown, but in the 1995 version his throat is slit while in the bath.

* Pierre Boulez: Le marteau sans maître, for contralto and six instrumentalists, with prominent part for vibraphone ( 1955 ), "… explosante-fixe …", version for vibraphone and electronics ( 1986 )

From October 15, 1955 to September 1956, ABC-TV aired a live, hour-long television version once a month on Saturday nights ( sponsored by Ralston-Purina ), pre-empting one hour of the then-90-minute Ozark Jubilee.

For example, in China in 1955, in order to respond to illiteracy among people, the government introduced a Romanized version of Chinese script, called Pinyin.

Refusing to sign a seven-year studio contract, Steiger later turned down the role in the film version in 1955.

* GAZ-M73-prototype truck version of GAZ-M72 ( 1955 )

In the first week of January 1955, Siegel, Wanger and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring visited Finney to talk about the film version and to take a look at Mill Valley.

Thornton Wilder wrote A Life in The Sun ( 1955 ) based on Euripides ' play, later producing an operatic version called The Alcestiad ( 1962 ).

( 1955 ), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is noted for the wide screen format Todd-AO making its debut, as did the film's young star, Shirley Jones.

In 1964, the play enjoyed yet another incarnation when David Merrick, who had produced the 1955 Broadway production, mounted a hugely successful, Tony Award-winning musical version entitled Hello, Dolly !, with a score by Jerry Herman and starring Carol Channing.

A daily newspaper comic strip version of Dragnet distributed by the Los Angeles Mirror Syndicate ran in newspapers from June 23, 1952 to May 21, 1955 ( with a preview week that ran in many papers promoting its impending start ).

In 1955 Ferrer directed himself in the film version of The Shrike, with June Allyson.

* The Sun Valley, a version of the Mercury Montclair line of automobiles in 1954 and 1955