The 50s

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Comedy

Betty Grable – Jack Lemmon Three for the show 1955

Betty Grable & Jack Lemmon in Three for the show 1955 A widowed singer marries her late husband’s songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive.

Robert Wagner-Barbara Bates (Let´s make it legal) 1951

Robert Wagner-Barbara Bates (Let´s make it legal) 1951 The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Hugh wouldn’t dream of calling it off, but can’t abandon his rose garden. Things change that afternoon, though, when Miriam’s old…

Anne Francis (Don´t go near the water) 1957

Anne Francis (Don´t go near the water) 1957 On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding…

Gidget 1959

Sandra Dee – Mary LaRoche (Gidget) 1959 Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She’s fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her…

Two Weeks With Love (1950)

The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think…

MAUREEN O’HARA in THE QUIET MAN — 1952

MAUREEN O’HARA in THE QUIET MAN — 1952 A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.

Sophia Loren : production still from Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)

Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a “man-a-night” appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she’s the real monarch.

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery.