In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood ...

The 1950s were not about slouchy handbags: The name of the game was structured, polished, and buttoned up. Kogan sees ...

The decade of the '50s conjures up images of sock hops and hula hoops — and some 1950s names that, like poodle skirts, have fallen out of fashion. This is especially true of baby girl names of ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...