In 1950s Brooklyn, 17-year old Jimmy Smigelski, son of hard-working, honest Polish immigrants Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
I Married a Woman (1958) Hal Kanter
Marshall Briggs, of the Sutton Advertising Agency, is hard-pressed to come up with an idea to follow his successful “Miss Luxenberg” Read More »
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1958) Karel Reisz, Jon Rollason, Tony Benson, Adrian Harding
Part of the British ‘Free Cinema’ movement, which included Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Every Day Except Christmas’ (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) Read More »
Bundle of Joy (1956) Norman Taurog, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store Read More »
Happy Anniversary (1959) David Miller, David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner
Living in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, lawyer Chris Walters and his wife Read More »
The Ambassador’s Daughter (1956) Norman Krasna, Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe, Myrna Loy
Joan Fisk, daughter of the American ambassador to France, is bored with entertaining the wives of visiting V.I.P.s Read More »
Wuthering Heights AKA Abismos de pasión (1954) Luis Buñuel, Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister Read More »
Under the Phrygian Star AKA Pod gwiazda frygijska (1954) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Józef Nowak, Lucyna Winnicka, Halina Przybylska
Based on the writings of Igor Newerly, Kawalerowicz’s epic chronicles the romance between Szczesny Read More »
The Kentuckian (1955) Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster
A frontiersman in 1820s Kentucky finds the area too civilized for his tastes Read More »
Prince of Players (1955) Philip Dunne, Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek
A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor Read More »