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 )

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.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

* 1955 – Richard Corbett, British politician

His 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975 and Richard Belzer in playing Det.

In 1955, at age 18, she married Richard Carleton Meeker whom Mary described as " the boy next door ," and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard, Jr. ( born July 3, 1956 ).

** Richard III ( 1955 film ), a film starring Laurence Olivier

* Richard III ( biography ), a 1955 biography of the English king by Paul Murray Kendall

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.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

* 1955 – Richard Hieb, American astronaut

* 1955 – Richard Bucher, Swiss ice hockey player ( d. 2012 )

* 1955 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician ( d. 2006 )

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

Lawrence's sexual orientation remains a controversial topic amongst historians ; though Bolt's primary source was ostensibly Seven Pillars, the film's portrayal seems informed by Richard Aldington's then-recent Biographical Inquiry ( 1955 ), which posited among other things that Lawrence was homosexual.

* 1955 Old Vic Theatre, Richard Burton as Henry

* Richard III ( 1955 ): Elizabeth was portrayed by Mary Kerridge.

* He was portrayed by John Gielgud in Richard III ( 1955 film )

She is portrayed by Claire Bloom in Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation of the play, Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian McKellen's 1995 adaptation of the play and by Winona Ryder in the 1996 movie Looking for Richard.

McCormick, a vigorous campaigner for the Republican Party, died in 1955, just four days before Democratic boss Richard J. Daley was elected mayor for the first time.

* Richard Lowell Madden ( born 1955 ), television personality and interior decorator aka Christopher Lowell

During the 1960s he was a member of the group, known as The Participants, which also included John Button, Richard McGarvie Frank Costigan and Barry Jones, who opposed the left-wing group which controlled the Victorian Labor Party from 1955 onwards.

McCay's son Robert, along with Disney animator Richard Huemer, recreated the original vaudeville performance for the Disneyland television program in 1955.

His brother Henri " The Pocket Rocket " Richard joined him with the Canadiens in 1955 and would go on to win eleven Stanley Cups with the team, an NHL record.