The 50s

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Mid Century

Hitting the casinos in Las Vegas 1954

1950s chorus girl Kim Smith and her roommate hitting the casinos in Las Vegas 1954 and playing on the slot machines

The Naked Jungle (1954)

Eleanor Parker in The Naked Jungle (1954) It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Now 34, with no…

HE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958)

Lee Remick in THE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958) Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he…