The 50s

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50’s Movies

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…

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…

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…

Some Like It Hot, 1959

Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis photographed by Richard Miller on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1959.

She Demons 1958

She Demons 1958 Heroic, but dull, Fred Maklin and beautiful, but spoiled, Jerrie Turner wash up on an uncharted tropical island. They are soon captured by ex-Nazi Colonel Osler, who also has imprisoned a bevy of beauty contest winners whom…

An affair to remember 1957

Cary Grant – Deborah Kerr An affair to remember 1957 A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building – but will it happen?

There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)

Marilyn Monroe as Vicky Parker in There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954) The Donahues – husband and wife Terry and Molly, and their three offspring Steve, Katy and Tim – are a song and dance act. Their survival as a…