The 50s

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Mid Century

Debbie Reynolds Singin´in the rain 1952

Debbie Reynolds Singin´in the rain 1952 1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures’ biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public…

Kim Novak and Debbie Reynolds 1955

Kim Novak and Debbie Reynolds eating banana splits 1955

Henry Fonda in “The Wrong Man” 1959

Henry Fonda in “The Wrong Man”. 1959 Alfred Hitchcock in the background. Christopher Emanuel Balestrero, “Manny” to his friends, is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. His eighty-five dollar a week gig playing in…

Sylva Koscina and Steve Reeves in Hercules (1958)

Sylva Koscina and Steve Reeves in Hercules (1958) In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on…

Cleo Moore pouring herself a drink

Cleo Moore showing off her cleavage while she is pouring herself a drink

GUNS, GIRLS, & GANGSTERS (1959)

MAMIE VAN DOREN in GUNS, GIRLS, & GANGSTERS (1959) Chuck Wheeler gets out of the penitentiary and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren…