Genres and Production Trends, 1950-1954 I n social/political terms, the 1950s can be summarized as a period of half-war, halfpeace. In the Korean War, which began in 1950 and ended in 1953, the United States entered into military engagement not only...
American Documentary in the 1950s JACK C. ELLIS American documentary can be thought of as a child of the Depression that came of age during World War II. The war years marked a high point of achievement in this mode: more filmmakers made more...
During a particular two-week period in April 1955, a television viewer could sit in her living room and watch Ronald Reagan hosting General Electric Theater (CBS, US, 1953-62) and presenting Jimmy Stewart in his small screen acting debut, James Mason hosting Lux Video Theater...
It's a "chick flick" - though we chicks who went to college back in the 1950s are having spirited debates about it. The movie, "Mona Lisa Smile," now playing at local theaters, portrays the social conformity of the 1950s at New England's elitist...
Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge in court this week to gain custody of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter."I'm going to make the DNA test," he told The Associated Press in a...
For Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune, the movie camera always acted as his portal to new worlds.But his trek to stardom wasn't easy. As a war veteran in 1945, he wandered the bombed-out streets of Tokyo after Japan surrendered."I had nothing to eat and nowhere to...
