Romance Movies of 1955
Picnic
One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
All That Heaven Allows
One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
The Tender Trap
Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith's Broadway hit The Tender Trap is ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
To Catch a Thief
A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
The Seven Year Itch
Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
The End of the Affair
Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
Lay That Rifle Down
In this musical comedy, a young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's hotel. She is not paid much for her hard work. To make her drab existence a little more exciting, she enrolls in a correspondence ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
Marty
Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is a burly but gentle man, easing into middle age without much hope for ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
Another Sky
This British romance is set in the Middle East and chronicles the love affair between a lonely young Englishwoman and a traveling Moroccan musician. Though they are totally different and cannot speak each other's ... [ Romance movie - 1955 ]
