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 ...
It might be tempting to think of the 1950s as a clean and wholesome decade, especially within American culture, given how nostalgically that whole post-World War II period is sometimes depicted.
came just a few years into commercial air travel becoming a thing. It won Best Picture at the Oscars, but it isn’t one of those exhausting Best Picture winners that takes itself too seriously — it’s a ...
"Discovered 30 boxes of old books in the crawlspace of our 1950s house!" the post was captioned ... dusty and some even had mice droppings on top of them! We were intrigued by what types of ...
Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.
The artist's son, Christopher Rothko: I really do see space as the defining element in my father's classic abstractions. My father frames the work, he controls the action, he basically sets the stage ...
Trivia: Robby the Robot starred in the 1960's sci-fi tv show "Lost in Space", as well. "Forbidden Planet", is one of the best sci-fi movies of the 1950's. Howard Hawk's production, (directed by ...