1950s Movies & Theater

Film Sites Elvis Movies The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock 50s & 60s Horror Movies Those Golden Movie Musicals The Academy Awards Hammer Films The Curse Of Hammer's Frankenstein About MGM Musicals ======================================== ======================================== ======================================== ======================================== Quotes Help me! Help me!!! -If you were caught in a spider's web, you'd scream like this, too (The Fly) Listen to it! (.wav) ======================================== ======================================== ======================================== ======================================== Fun Sites The Man Who Owns "The Blob" Women In Elvis Movies	-----	Cool Movie Moments *What goes around, comes around... everyone finds out that Lina Lamont wasn't doing her own singing! (Singin' In The Rain) *Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye performing the hilarious "Sisters" number in White Christmas. Danny actually made Bing laugh during filming, and this is the "take" that was used. ======================================== ======================================== ======================================== ======================================== My YouTube Playlist 1950s Movies

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This Is Cinerama!

-	In the 1950s, an evil menace was pulling movie audiences out of the theaters and plopping them on their sofas in front of glowing blue screens. This monster was TELEVISION. In response, the movie industry came up with several gimmicks designed to lure people back to the silver screen. These included stereophonic sound, 3-D projection and wide-screen panoramic formats like Cinemascope, Cinerama, VistaVision and Todd-AO. 3-D: Hollywood's Most Misunderstood Miracle Cinerama Information VistaVision Cinerama Movies & Theaters American Widescreen Museum The First Cinerama Films

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1950s Movies

1950 Annie Get Your Gun Summer Stock Sunset Boulevard All About Eve Harvey The Asphalt Jungle Father Of The Bride 1951 Show Boat Royal Wedding The Great Caruso An American In Paris The African Queen The Day The Earth Stood Still A Streetcar Named Desire Scrooge Alice In Wonderland 1952 Singin' In The Rain High Noon The Quiet Man The Greatest Show On Earth Hans Christian Andersen 1953 Kiss Me Kate The War Of The Worlds House Of Wax Roman Holiday Peter Pan From Here To Eternity Gentlemen Prefer Blondes How To Marry A Millionaire 1954 The Caine Mutiny The Country Girl The Creature From The Black Lagoon Dial "M" For Murder On The Waterfront Rear Window A Star Is Born Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Three Coins In The Fountain Brigadoon White Christmas	1955 Mister Roberts Oklahoma! East Of Eden The Seven Year Itch Rebel Without A Cause Guys And Dolls Love Me Or Leave Me To Catch A Thief 1956 Around The World In 80 Days Forbidden Planet Giant Invasion Of The Body Snatchers The King & I The Ten Commandments High Society Carousel 1957 The Bridge On The River Kwai Funny Face The Incredible Shrinking Man Peyton Place Tammy & The Bachelor The Three Faces Of Eve 1958 Auntie Mame Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Gigi South Pacific Vertigo The Fly The Blob 1959 Ben Hur Gidget North By Northwest On The Beach Pillow Talk Some Like It Hot

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Movie & Broadway MIDIs

Singing In The Rain title song Seventy-Six Trombones The Music Man Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You The Music Man	Tammy Tammy & The Bachelor Everything's Coming Up Roses Gypsy I Could Have Danced All Night My Fair Lady

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On Stage

popular stage productions musicals & revues Peter Pan The Sound Of Music West Side Story My Fair Lady Pipe Dream Flower Drum Song Kismet The King & I Paint Your Wagon The Music Man Wonderful Town Guys & Dolls Bells Are Ringing The Pajama Game Gypsy The Happy Time Fiorello! South Pacific Threepenny Opera Damn Yankees drama & comedy The Diary Of Anne Frank A Raisin In The Sun Cat On A Hot Tin Roof A Streetcar Named Desire theater links Stage Musicals Of The 1950s Internet Broadway Database Tony Award Archives Von Trapp Family Story The Plays Of Tennessee Williams	stage tidbits *In the 1940s, Broadway director/choreographer Jerome Robbins began work on an updated musical version of Romeo & Juliet. In East Side Story, Romeo was Catholic and Juliet was Jewish. Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write the music. After many changes, it opened in 1957 as West Side Story. Robbins replaced the Catholic/Jewish rivalry with feuding Anglo and Puerto Rican street gangs. *My Fair Lady and The King & I introduced Broadway audiences to a new concept: the musical star who couldn't sing. Yul Brynner and Rex Harrison were actors first and foremost. For their roles, the writers gave them simple songs that allowed them to speak the lyrics rather than sing them. *Bing Crosby was offered the role of Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man, but turned it down. Ray Bolger wanted the role, but wasn't able to do it because of prior television committments. *It's hard to believe, but "Ya Got Trouble" almost wasn't included in The Music Man. Originally, it was just a piece of dialogue that was almost cut from the final stage version. my YouTube playlist 1950s Stage Productions

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