Blackboard Jungle - filming dates: 15 November 1954 - December 1954.
Peter Ford, a 10-year-old boy, in Los Angeles, was the son of actor Glenn Ford, who kept playing the b-side Bill Haley single called Thirteen Women And Only One Man In Town, song "Rock Around The Clock". Ford mentioned it to director Richard Brooks and he decided to play Rock Around the Clock over the opening credits of the film.
On Monday, April 12, 1954, at the Pythian Temple Studio in New York City, Bill Haley & His
Comets record "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock." The song is moderately popular
when released a few months later, but after being featured in the film The Blackboard
Jungle in 1955, it would go on to become the most successful rock 'n' roll song of all time, selling over 23 million copies.
May 10, 1954 - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock is released in USA.
Bill Haley. Actor Glenn Ford and son, Peter, visit Eleanor Powell on the set of her movie,
"Duchess of Idaho," 1950. It was her final feature film performance. (MGM publicity photo)
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