1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

In television: 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958

In radio: 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958

In music: 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

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

Highest-grossing films of 1955
Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic rentals
1	Cinerama Holiday	Cinerama Releasing Corporation	$10,000,000^[1]
2	Mister Roberts	Warner Bros. Pictures	$8,500,000^[1]
3	Battle Cry	Warner Bros. Pictures	$8,100,000^[1]
4	Oklahoma!	RKO Radio Pictures	$7,100,000^[1]
5	Guys and Dolls	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$6,801,000^[2]
6	Lady and the Tramp	Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution	$6,500,000^[1]
7	Picnic	Columbia Pictures	$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 Pictures 20th Century Fox Warner Bros. Pictures	$6,000,000^[1]
10	I'll Cry Tomorrow	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$5,873,000^[2]

Top-grossing films by country

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

Country	Title	Studio	Gross
India	Shree 420	R. K. Films	$1,190,000^{[n 2]}
Soviet Union	Private Ivan	Gorky Film Studio	$2,520,000^{[n 4]}

Events

January 7 – U.K. release of the Halas and Batchelor film animation of George Orwell's Animal Farm (completed April 1954), the first full-length British-made animated feature on general theatrical release.^[8]^[9]
February 24 - 12th Golden Globe Awards announced: On The Waterfront, Marlon Brando, & Judy Garland win
March 18 – The film adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard Jungle previews in New York City, featuring the single "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets over the opening credits, the first use of a rock and roll song in a major film. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to it.
June 1 – Premiere of Billy Wilder's film of The Seven Year Itch featuring an iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York City Subway grating as her white dress is blown above her knees.^[10]
June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, the Walt Disney company's 15th animated film, premieres in Chicago, the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen process. Peggy Lee co-writes and sings the songs.
June 27 – The last Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released.
July 18 – Disneyland opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
September 30 – American actor James Dean dies in an automobile collision near Cholame, California, age 24. On October 27, the film Rebel Without a Cause, in which he stars, is released.
October 11 – Theatrical release in the United States of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film Oklahoma!, the first feature photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process.
November 3 – The musical film Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, is premiered in New York City.
November 22 – The death of Shemp Howard requires use of a Fake Shemp to complete The Three Stooges films which he has commenced.
December – United Artists quit the Motion Picture Association of America over the decision to deny The Man With the Golden Arm a Production Code seal.
December 7 – The film Picnic starring William Holden and Kim Novak is released.

Awards

Category/Organization	13th Golden Globe Awards February 23, 1956		28th Academy Awards March 21, 1956
Category/Organization	Drama	Comedy or Musical	28th Academy Awards March 21, 1956
Best Film	East of Eden	Guys and Dolls	Marty
Best Director	Joshua Logan Picnic		Delbert Mann Marty
Best Actor	Ernest Borgnine Marty	Tom Ewell The Seven Year Itch	Ernest Borgnine Marty
Best Actress	Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo	Jean Simmons Guys and Dolls	Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo
Best Supporting Actor	Arthur Kennedy Trial		Jack Lemmon Mister Roberts
Best Supporting Actress	Marisa Pavan The Rose Tattoo		Jo Van Fleet East of Eden
Best Foreign Language Film	Children, Mother, and the General Dangerous Curves Eyes of Children Ordet Stella		Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1955 film releases

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

United States unless stated

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5 Against the House, starring Kim Novak, Guy Madison, Brian Keith

A

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, featuring an appearance by Mack Sennett
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Above Us the Waves, starring John Mills – (GB)
The Adventures of Quentin Durward, starring Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall
Ain't Misbehavin', starring Piper Laurie, Rory Calhoun, Mamie Van Doren
All That Heaven Allows, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson
The Americano, starring Glenn Ford
Le Amiche (The Girlfriend), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)
Anděl na horách (Angel in the Mountains) – (Czechoslovakia)
Apache Ambush, starring Richard Jaeckel
Artists and Models, starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Dorothy Malone, Shirley MacLaine
Azaad, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)

B

Bad Day at Black Rock, directed by John Sturges, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan
Battle Cry, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Anne Francis
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Bedevilled, starring Anne Baxter and Steve Forrest
The Big Combo, starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace
The Big Knife, starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters
Blackboard Jungle, starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Richard Kiley
Blood Alley, starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall
A Bullet for Joey, starring Edward G. Robinson and George Raft

C

Captain Lightfoot, starring Rock Hudson
Carrington V.C., starring David Niven – (GB)
Cast a Dark Shadow, starring Dirk Bogarde – (GB)
Chief Crazy Horse, starring Victor Mature
Cinerama Holiday
Ciske de Rat (aka A Child Needs Love) – (Netherlands)
The Cobweb, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Richard Widmark, Gloria Grahame, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish
The Cockleshell Heroes, directed by and starring José Ferrer, with Trevor Howard – (GB)
The Colditz Story, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring John Mills and Eric Portman – (GB)
Confession, directed by Ken Hughes, starring Sydney Chaplin – (GB)
The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall – (GB)
Count Three and Pray, starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward and Raymond Burr
The Counterfeit Coin (Istoria mias kalpikis liras) – (Greece)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery
El Coyote
Crashout, starring Arthur Kennedy and William Bendix
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ensayo de un Crimen), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)

D

Daddy Long Legs, starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron
The Dam Busters, starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, with an early role by Robert Shaw – (GB)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, starring Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen
Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem – (Spain)
The Deep Blue Sea, starring Vivien Leigh – (GB)
The Desperate Hours, starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March
Devdas, based on novel with same name, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Suchitra Sen – (India)
Les Diaboliques (The Devils), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret – (France)
Dreams (Kvinnodröm), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Eva Dahlbeck – (Sweden)

E

East of Eden, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Julie Harris, James Dean (in his first major role), Raymond Massey
The Enchanted Boy (Zakoldovanyy malchik) – (USSR)
Escuela de vagabundos (School for Tramps), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)

F

The Far Horizons, starring Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale
The Fast and the Furious, starring John Ireland and Dorothy Malone
Female on the Beach, starring Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling
Fire in the Night (Det brenner i natt!) – (Norway)
Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) – (Japan)
Footsteps in the Fog, starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons – (GB)
Foxfire, starring Jane Russell
Francis in the Navy, starring Donald O'Connor and Martha Hyer, with Clint Eastwood in an early role

G

Galapagos, a documentary by Thor Heyerdahl – (Norway)
A Generation (Pokolenie), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger – (U.S.)
The Girl Rush, starring Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Gloria DeHaven
Godzilla Raids Again (Gojira no Gyakushū) – (Japan)
Good Morning, Miss Dove, starring Jennifer Jones and Robert Stack
The Good Soldier Schweik, animation directed by Jiří Trnka – (Czechoslovakia)
Guys and Dolls, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine

H

Hell on Frisco Bay, starring Alan Ladd and Edward G. Robinson
Hell's Island, starring John Payne and Mary Murphy
Heroes of Shipka (Geroite na Shipka) – (Bulgaria/USSR)
The Hidden One (La Escondida), starring Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
Hit the Deck, directed by Roy Rowland, starring Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Vic Damone
House of Bamboo, starring Robert Ryan
How to Be Very, Very Popular, starring Betty Grable in her final film role

I

I Am a Camera, starring Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey – (GB)
I Died a Thousand Times, starring Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Earl Holliman, Lee Marvin
I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku), directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan)
I'll Cry Tomorrow, starring Susan Hayward
Illegal, a film noir starring Edward G. Robinson and Jayne Mansfield
Interrupted Melody, starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford
It Came from Beneath the Sea, starring Kenneth Tobey and Faith Domergue, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen
It Happened on July 20th (Es geschah am 20. Juli), directed by G. W. Pabst, starring Bernhard Wicki – (Austria)
It's Always Fair Weather, starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd, Cyd Charisse

J

Jedda, directed by Charles Chauvel – (Australia)
John and Julie, starring Moira Lister and Sid James – (GB)
Journey to the Beginning of Time (Cesta do Pravěku) – (Czechoslovakia)
Jupiter's Darling, directed by George Sidney, starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel

K

Kanyasulkam, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
The Kentuckian, directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, featuring film debut of Walter Matthau
Killer's Kiss, directed by Stanley Kubrick
The King's Thief, starring Ann Blyth and David Niven
Kiss Me Deadly, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

L

Lady and the Tramp, an animated Disney musical featuring voice of Peggy Lee
Lady Godiva of Coventry, starring Maureen O'Hara
The Ladykillers, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers – (GB)
Land of the Pharaohs, starring Joan Collins and Jack Hawkins
The Last Frontier, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Victor Mature, Robert Preston, Anne Bancroft
The Last Ten Days (Der letzte Akt), directed by G. W. Pabst – (Austria/West Germany)
The Left Hand of God, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney
Little Red Monkey, directed by Ken Hughes – (Britain)
Lola Montès, directed by Max Ophüls – (France)
The Long Gray Line, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones
Love Me or Leave Me, starring Doris Day and James Cagney
Love Never Dies (El Amor nunca muere) – (Argentina)
Lucy Gallant (reissued as Oil Town), starring Jane Wyman

M

Magic Fire, starring Alan Badel
Mambo, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters – (U.S./Italy)
A Man Alone, directed by and starring Ray Milland, with Mary Murphy
The Man from Laramie, directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart
The Man Who Loved Redheads, starring Moira Shearer – (GB)
The Man with the Golden Arm, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Darren McGavin, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang
Man with the Gun, starring Robert Mitchum
Man Without a Star, starring Kirk Douglas and William Campbell
Marty, directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Frank Sutton, Jerry Paris
The McConnell Story, starring Alan Ladd and June Allyson
The Mill of Good Luck (La 'Moara cu noroc') – (Romania)
Miracle of Marcelino (Marcelino Pan Y Vino) – (Spain)
Missamma, starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India)
Mister Roberts, co-directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon
Moonfleet, starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood
Mr. & Mrs. '55, starring Guru Dutt and Madhubala – (India)
Mr. Arkadin, directed by and starring Orson Welles – (France/Spain/Switzerland)
My Sister Eileen, starring Janet Leigh and Betty Garrett

N

New York Confidential, starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft
Night and Fog, a documentary directed by Alain Resnais – (France)
The Night My Number Came Up, starring Michael Redgrave – (GB)
The Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves
Not as a Stranger, starring Robert Mitchum, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Lon Chaney, Jr.

O

Oh, Ibuku (O, My Mother), directed by Ali Joego, debuting Aminah Cendrakasih – (Indonesia)
Oklahoma! (first film shot in widescreen process known as Todd-AO), starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger, Gloria Grahame
Ordet (The Word), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
Our Best Days (Ayyamna al-Holwa), starring Omar Sharif – (Egypt)
Out of the Clouds, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty – (U.K.)

P

Passage Home, directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Anthony Steel, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento – (U.K.)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
Pete Kelly's Blues, starring Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee
The Phenix City Story, starring Richard Kiley, John McIntire, John Larch, James Edwards, Edward Andrews
Picnic, directed by Joshua Logan, starring William Holden, Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell
Prince of Players, starring Richard Burton
Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (aka Yôkihi) – (Japan)
The Prisoner, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins – (GB)
The Private War of Major Benson, starring Charlton Heston
The Prodigal, starring Lana Turner

Q

The Quatermass Xperiment – (GB)
Queen Bee, starring Joan Crawford

R

The Racers, starring Kirk Douglas, Gilbert Roland, Bella Darvi
Radio Stories (Historias de la radio) – (Spain)
Die Ratten (The Rats), starring Maria Schell and Curd Jürgens – (West Germany) – Golden Bear award
Rage at Dawn, starring Randolph Scott
The Rains of Ranchipur, starring Lana Turner and Richard Burton
Rebel Without a Cause, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood
Red Fish (Los peces rojos), starring Arturo de Córdova – (Spain)
Richard III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, with Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud – (GB)
Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes), directed by Jules Dassin – (France)
A Ripple in the Pond (Ena votsalo sti limni) – (Greece)
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo i Dzhulyetta), starring Yuri Zhdanov and Galina Ulanova – (USSR)
Roots (Raíces) – (Mexico)
The Rose Tattoo, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster
Run for Cover, starring James Cagney, John Derek, Ernest Borgnine

S

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) – (Japan)
Scandal in Sorrento (Pane, amore e...), starring Vittorio De Sica and Sophia Loren – (Italy)
The Scarlet Coat, starring Cornel Wilde, George Sanders, Anne Francis
The Sea Chase, starring John Wayne and Lana Turner
Seagulls Die in the Harbour (Meeuwen sterven in de haven) – (Belgium)
Seema, starring Nutan – (India)
Seven Angry Men, starring Raymond Massey
The Seven Little Foys, starring Bob Hope, featuring James Cagney reprising role of George M. Cohan from Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
Shree 420, directed by and starring Raj Kapoor, with Nargis – (India)
The Shrike, directed by and starring José Ferrer
The Sign of Venus (Il segno di Venere), starring Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
Simba, starring Dirk Bogarde – (GB)
Sissi, starring Romy Schneider – (Austria)
Six Bridges to Cross, starring Tony Curtis
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende), directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)
Son of Sinbad
So This Is Paris, starring Tony Curtis and Gloria DeHaven
The Spoilers, starring Anne Baxter and Jeff Chandler
Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart
Stella, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Melina Mercouri – (Greece)
Storm Over the Nile, starring Anthony Steel and Laurence Harvey – (U.K.)
Summertime, directed by David Lean, starring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin – (Britain/U.S.)
The Swindle (Il bidone), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Broderick Crawford – (Italy)

T

Taira Clan Saga (Shin Heike Monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
Tall Man Riding, starring Randolph Scott and Dorothy Malone
The Tall Men, starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan
Tarantula, directed by Jack Arnold, starring John Agar, Mara Corday, with Clint Eastwood in a bit part
The Tender Trap, starring Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm
That Lady, starring Olivia de Havilland – (GB/Spain)
This Island Earth, directed by Joseph M. Newman, starring Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Russell Johnson
Three for the Show, starring Betty Grable
Tight Spot, starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene
To Catch a Thief, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
To Hell and Back, starring Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, David Janssen
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, starring Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen
The Treasure of Pancho Villa, starring Rory Calhoun and Shelley Winters
Trial, starring Glenn Ford
The Trouble with Harry, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine

U

Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) – (Finland)
Unchained, starring Barbara Hale
Underwater!, starring Jane Russell
Untamed, starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward

V

The Violent Men, starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith
Violent Saturday, starring Victor Mature, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
The Virgin Queen, starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins

W

We're No Angels, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Basil Rathbone
White Feather, starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Debra Paget
Wichita, starring Joel McCrea
The Woman in the Painting (Amici per la pelle) – (Italy)
Women's Prison, starring Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, Phyllis Thaxter

Y

You're Never Too Young, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Serials

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 (actor), Soviet-Russian actor
January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
January 9 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
January 18 – Kevin Costner, American actor, producer and director
January 19 - Paul Rodriguez (actor), 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 15 – Christopher McDonald, American actor
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 3 – Riina Hein, Estonian actress, director, producer and screenwriter
March 6
- Larry Cedar, American actor
- James Saito, Japanese-American actor
March 9 – Ornella Muti, Italian actress
March 13 - Glenne Headley, American actress (d. 2017)
March 16 - Kuh Ledesma, Filipino actress and singer
March 17
- Mark Boone Junior, American character actor
- Gary Sinise, American actor, producer and director
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 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor and film director
April 3 - Tomas Arana, American actor
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 - Leslie Jordan, American actor, comedian, writer and singer (d. 2022)
April 30 – Zlatko Topčić, Bosnian screenwriter
May 9 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
May 10 - Larry "Flash" Jenkins, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2019)
May 15 - Lee Horsley, American actor
May 16 – Debra Winger, American actress
May 17 – 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
- Griffin Dunne, American actor and director
- Andrew Stevens, American actor and producer
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 3 - Jesse Corti, American actor
July 9
- Lisa Banes, American actress (d. 2021)
- Jimmy Smits, American actor
July 21 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director
July 22 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
July 28 - 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 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 - Betsy Brantley, American actress
September 21 - Rick Aiello, American actor (d. 2021)
September 26 - Mark Nelson (actor), 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
- Karen Dotrice, British actress
- Thomas F. Duffy, American actor
November 10 - Roland Emmerich, German director, screenwriter and producer
November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and comedian
November 15 - Jun Kunimura, Japanese actor
November 23 - Peter Douglas, American actor and producer
November 27 - Bill Nye, American television presenter
November 30 - Kevin Conroy, American actor (d. 2022)
December 2 – Dennis Christopher, American actor
December 3
- Melody Anderson, Canadian actress
- Steven Culp, American actor
December 6 - Steven Wright, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and film producer
December 8 - Kevin McNulty (actor), Canadian actor
December 9 - Hiroyuki Watanabe, Japanese actor (d. 2022)
December 16 - Xander Berkeley, American actor
December 17 - Richard Young (actor), American character actor, filmmaker and screenwriter
December 24
- Clarence Gilyard, American actor (d. 2022)
- Grand L. Bush, American former actor

Deaths

February 11 – Ona Munson, 55, American actress, Five Star Final, Gone with the Wind
February 12
- Tom Moore, 71, Irish-American actor, Forever Amber, Road House
- S. Z. Sakall, 72, Hungarian actor, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy
April 7 – Theda Bara, 69, American silent film actress, A Fool There Was, Cleopatra
April 25 – Constance Collier, 77, British actress, Stage Door, Rope
May 4 – Robert Kent, 46, American actor, Blonde Comet, The Phantom Rider
May 13 – Betty Ann Davies, 44, British actress, My Old Duchess, The Man in Black
May 22 - Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, 63, American actor, Possessed, Idiot's Delight
June 11 – Walter Hampden, 75, American actor, Sabrina, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
July 31 – Robert Francis, 25, American actor, The Caine Mutiny, The Long Gray Line, airplane accident
August 5 – Carmen Miranda, 46, Brazilian singer and actress, Copacabana, The Gang's All Here
August 6 – Janet Beecher, 70, American actress, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The Mark of Zorro
August 10 – Jane Murfin, 70, American screenwriter, What Price Hollywood?, The Women
August 12 – Lynne Carver, 38, American actress, Everybody Sing, Young Dr. Kildare
September 20 –
- Robert Riskin, 58, American screenwriter, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Noel M. Smith, 60, American director, Secret Service of the Air, Cattle Town
September 30 – James Dean, 24, American actor, Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, automobile accident
October 1 – Charles Christie, 75, Canadian pioneer film studio owner
October 9 – Alice Joyce, 65, American actress, The Green Goddess, White Man
October 19 – John Hodiak, 41, American actor, Lifeboat, A Bell for Adano, heart attack
October 20 – Frank Darien, 79, American actor, The Grapes of Wrath, Under Fiesta Stars
November 9 – Tom Powers, 65, American actor, Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia
November 14 – Robert E. Sherwood, 59, American screenwriter, The Best Years of Our Lives, Rebecca
November 15 – Lloyd Bacon, 65, American director, The Oklahoma Kid, Knute Rockne, All American
November 22 – Shemp Howard, 60, American actor, comedian of The Three Stooges, The Bank Dick, Pittsburgh
November 27 – William Nigh, 74, American director, Mr. Wong, Detective, The Gay Cavalier
December 5 – Paul Harvey, 73, American actor, April in Paris, Calamity Jane
December 24 – Nana Bryant, 67, American actress, Public Enemies, Bathing Beauty

Film Debuts

Clint Eastwood – Revenge of the Creature
Dennis Hopper – Rebel Without a Cause
Jill Ireland – No Love for Judy
Shirley Jones – Oklahoma!
Cloris Leachman – Kiss Me Deadly
George Leech – The Ladykillers
Len Lesser – Shack Out on 101
Shirley MacLaine – The Trouble with Harry
Walter Matthau – The Kentuckian
Dick Miller – Apache Woman
Jerry Orbach – Marty
Claude Rich – The Grand Maneuver
Maximilian Schell – Children, Mother, and the General
Paul Scofield – That Lady
Lois Smith – East of Eden
Jack Weston – The Ladykillers
Joanne Woodward – Count Three and Pray

Notes

^ 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965^[4]
^ ₹3.9 crore^[3] (US$8.19 million)^{[n 1]}
^ 4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960^[7]
^ 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

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

[RupeeUSD-5] 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965^[4]

[6] ₹3.9 crore^[3] (US$8.19 million)^{[n 1]}

[RubleUSD-10] 4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960^[7]

[11] 10.0925 million Rbls (40.37 million Soviet tickets sold,^[5] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),^[6] 4 SUR per USD^{[n 3]}

[Finler-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[Mannix-2] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[boi55-3] . 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.

[7] . Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.

[moscow7-8] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011

[russia-9] Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls

[12] McFarlane, Brian, ed. (2003). The Encyclopedia of British Film. London: Methuen; BFI. p. 48. ISBN 9780413773012.

[13] Leab, Daniel J. (2007). Orwell Subverted. Pennsylvania State Press. p. xiii-xiv. ISBN 978-0-271-02979-5.

[14] Filmed on location September 1954. . Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2012-05-20.

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