Who became famous through three films made in 1955 and 1956, and died at the wheel of a Porsche in 1956?
Porsche 550 gave Porsche its first overall win in a major sports car racing event, the 1956 Targa Florio. Its successor from 1957 onwards, the Porsche 718, commonly known as the RSK was even more successful. The Spyder variations continued through the early 1960s, the RS 60 and RS 61. A descendant of the Porsche 550 is generally considered to be the Porsche Boxster S 550 Spyder; the Spyder name was effectively resurrected with the RS Spyder Le Mans Prototype. Perhaps the most famous of the first 90 Porsche 550s built was James Dean's "Little Bastard", numbered 130 (VIN 550-0055), which collided
The King and I (1956 film) first issued only in mono in 1956, but, as with the Rodgers and Hammerstein films "Oklahoma" (1955) and "Carousel" (1956), the sound on the film had been recorded in what was then state-of-the-art stereo, which made it possible, with the advent of stereo on records, for Capitol to release a stereo version of the soundtrack album in 1958. As with "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel", the record grooves of that time made it necessary for part of the album to be omitted in the stereo version, so half of "Getting To Know You" was cut in that edition, which included the instrumental