1955 Entertainment

Academy Awards

Best Movie: "Marty"

Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine ("Marty")

Best Actress: Anna Magnani ("The Rose Tattoo")

TV Ratings

Billboard Ratings [Hits]

1. "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" Perez Prado

2. "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & the Comets

3. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" Mitch Miller

Fiction

1. Marjorie Morningstar Herman Wouk

2. Auntie Mame Patrick Dennis

3. Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor

4. Bonjour Tristesse FranÁoise Sagan

5. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson

6. Something of Value Robert Ruark

7. Not As a Stranger Morton Thompson

8. No Time for Sergeants Mac Hyman

9. The Tontine Thomas B. Costain

10. Ten North Frederick John O'Hara

Miss America: Lee Ann Meriwether (Miss California)