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…

Jayne Mansfield in an open dress on the stairs

Jayne Mansfield in an open dress that shows she is not wearing underwear

Mitzi Gaynor-Donald O´ Connor Anything goes 1956

Mitzi Gaynor-Donald O´ Connor Anything goes 1956 Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role…