The 50s

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1953

Kirk Douglas Picking up chicks on the beach 1953

Kirk Douglas Picking up chicks on the beach 1953

Marilyn Monroe at the Photoplay Gold Medal Awards

Marilyn Monroe at the Photoplay Gold Medal Awards dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel on February 9, 1953.

The Captain´s Paradise 1953

The captain´s paradise 1953 Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James has things well organized, a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving, if rather more hot-blooded mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as…

Mary Blanchard in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Mary Blanchard as Queen Allura in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars 1953 Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced…

(Houdini) 1953

Tony Curtis – Janet Leigh (Houdini) 1953 From his beginnings as a “wildman” carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world’s most captivating…

Rita Hayworth in Salome (1953)

Rita Hayworth in Salome (1953) In the reign of Tiberius Caesar (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Gallilean prophet John the Baptist (Alan Badel) preaches against King Herod (Charles Laughton) and Queen Herodias (Dame Judith Anderson). Herodias wants John dead, but Herod fears…