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	Film History of the 1950s
		By the 70s, his film roles had deteriorated, and although he returned to stage performances and revived his singing career, he was physically on the decline until his death in August, 1977 of heart disease and drug abuse.
		Another of the most popular films in the late 50s was Leo McCarey's romantic drama An Affair to Remember (1957), the story of an ill-fated romance between Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant due to an automobile accident, delaying a rendezvous at the top of the Empire State Building.
		This was the film with Dean's most-remembered role as mixed-up, sensitive, and defiant teenager Jim Stark involved in various delinquent behaviors (drunkenness, a switchblade fight, and a deadly drag race called a Chicken Run), and his archetypal scream to his parents: "You're tearing me apart!"
	www.filmsite.org /50sintro.html (2314 words)

	Sturgis, Preston on Encyclopedia.com
		After the successful Unfaithfully Yours (1948), his career faltered, and his subsequent films were few and undistinguished.
		After falling into relative obscurity, his romantic comedies were rediscovered in the 1970s, and he is now hailed as one of Hollywood's finest and most influential comic talents.
		DV delight: movie madness for the living room: from Clark Gable and James Stewart to Robert De Niro and Tom Cruise, from merry old England to modern America, here are over 20 films worth...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SturgisP1.asp (395 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1959
		Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 film which tells the story of a man charged with murdering a man who may have raped his wife; the bulk of the films plot revolves around the drama as it unfolds in court.
		Rolando Ro Antonio Blackman (born February 26, 1959 in Panama City, Panama) was an NBA basketball star who spent most of his career with the Dallas Mavericks.
		Ben-Hur is a 1959 film directed by William Wyler and is, today, the best_known version of the film based on the Ben-Hur book by Lew Wallace.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1959 (395 words)

	Curio Corner - Maurice CHEVALIER: Ma pomme, Chansons 1935-1946 : Film Music CD Reviews- June 2001 MusicWeb(UK)
		He resumed his film career with renewed vigour and his later films included besides Gigi (1958), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Can-Can (1959), Fanny (1961), and I'd Rather Be Rich (1964).
		His Hollywood career took off with Paramount in the 1930s in such films as The Love Parade, One Hour With You, Love Me Tonight and Merry Widow (each co-starring Jeanette McDonald).
		He returned to Europe to film in London and Paris during the late 1930s making such films as: The Beloved Vagabond (1936) and Pièges (1939).
	www.theclassicalsite.com /film/2001/June01/MauriceChevalier.html (395 words)

	Elvis' Women: Stella Stevens
		Although Stella Stevens' film career began in 1959 with a bit part in Say One For Me with Bing Crosby, she made a bold career move (for that time) by posing nude for Playboy in the January 1960 issue.
		The first of the Irwin Allen all-star disaster films, it was a huge hit at the box office, but it was about the last we would see of Stella in "major motion pictures".
		She was a prostitute once again in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure in 1971.
	elviswomen.greggers.net /stevensstella.htm (745 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		She began her career at the age of four, starring in silent films and launching a career that lasted for decades.
		During his life, Has led the prestigious Lodz Film School in the 1900s and also directed The Loop in 1954, Shared Room (1959), The Doll (1968) and the The Saragossa Manuscript, which earned him a cult following.
		He had cut the film four times already (including once for the Berlin film festival and once for the airline version) and decided to add more minutes to the MOMA version.
	www.filmfestivals.com /htm/archives/4oct00/people.html (745 words)

	Mario Lanza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He returned to an active film career in 1956 in Serenade ; despite its strong musical content, it was not as successful as his previous films.
		However, his first two films, That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans, were very successful, as was his recording career, and Lanza's fame increased dramatically.
		Lanza then moved to Rome, Italy in May 1957, where he worked on the film The Seven Hills of Rome and returned to live performing in a series of acclaimed concerts throughout Britain, Ireland and the European Continent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mario_Lanza (745 words)

	Archive 2
		Born in the small town of Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1911 and educated at convent schools in London, O'Sullivan was discovered by Hollywood director Frank Borzage at a horse show in Dublin and lured to Hollywood where she began a lengthy career in films and on the stage.
		He worked in summer stock and appeared on TV shows such as ``Robert Montgomery Presents'' and ``The Ed Sullivan Show.'' Raymond and MacDonald appeared in one film together, ``Smilin' Through,'' in 1941.
		Born Aug. 13, 1908, in New York City, Raymond began his acting career playing children's roles in stock companies.
	www.hollywood-underground.com /archive2.htm (10917 words)

	1938 Oscar Winners
		Perhaps best known for his later roles as a cantankerous, often toothless or gimpy sidekick in such films as To Have and Have Not (1944), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959), he began his movie career as a stuntman and extra in 1923.
		Her last film was The Children's Hour (1962), for which she earned another best supporting actress nomination by playing against type as the ruthless dowager who destroys the careers and reputations of her granddaughter's schoolteachers.
		A popular character actress usually cast in films as a gentle, sympathetic aunt or mother figure, Bainter began her career as a child actress on the stage.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1938.htm (10917 words)

	Biography for Bela Lugosi
		He began his stage career in 1901 and started appearing in films during World War I, fleeing to Germany in 1919 as a result of his left-wing political activity (he organized an actors' union).
		His last screen appearance was undertaken for fanproducer Edward D. Wood in Plan 9 From Outer Space (filmed 1956 but released 1959); he died during production and his scenes were completed by a stand-in.
		It ran for three years, and was subsequently, and memorably, filmed by Tod Browning in 1931, establishing Lugosi as one of the screen's greatest personifications of pure evil.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000509/bio (10917 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Lorraine Hansberry, Makes You Exceptional ~ May 19 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Hailed as "a watershed in American drama" and named the best American play of 1959 by The New York Drama Critics Circle, A Raisin in the Sun was made into a 1961 film starring Sidney Poitier and received a special award at the Cannes Film Festival.
		Although her promising career and life were cut short by cancer, A Raisin in the Sun lives on as a relevant inspiration to contemporary audiences.
		Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it's money," she wrote in her play A Raisin in the Sun, (1959), which was named after a line from a Langston Hughes poem.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /051902.htm (10917 words)

	Movie Music UK - Composer Gallery A-B
		Originally from a pop and rock background — Bates is the front-man of the indie rock group Pet — he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in the mid 1990s to concentrate on scoring films, having enjoyed a moderately successful career as a rock and jazz musician in his native Illinois.
		Originally a classical guitarist, Bonfá began writing scores for Brazilian movies in the late 1940s, and introduced the world to the sound of the samba and the bossa nova in 1959 when 'Manha de Carnival', the main theme from the film "Black Orpheus" became a world-wide hit.
		Pioneer of the British film music industry and a familiar figure on the classical English musical scene during the first half of the 20th century.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /gallery-ab.htm (14539 words)

	North By Northwest (1959)
		The box-office hit film is one of the most entertaining movies ever made and one of Hitchcock's most famous suspense/mystery stories in his entire career.
		North by Northwest (1959) is a suspenseful, classic Alfred Hitchcock caper thriller.
	www.filmsite.org /nort.html (2950 words)

	Elvis Presley's Kissin' Cousins - MGM 1964
		She began her career as a ballet dancer and then went on to star as "Gidget" in the 1959 movie of the same name.
		There are a few bloopers in the film when the camera caught him and Elvis turning too fast and so there were moments in the movie when you can see the faces of both Elvis and Lance at the same time.
		On Sunday, October 13, 1963, Elvis and the film crew traveled to the Big Bear resort in the San Bernadino Mountains of California for location shooting.
	www.elvispresley.com.au /elvis/presley/kissin_cousins.shtml (2051 words)

	Julie Andrews -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Her early film roles led her to be typecast as sweet, innocent characters, an image that she fought to overcome later in her career.
		A grisly horror film may cause an audience to laugh because its dramatic effects are exaggerated or seemingly ridiculous.
		Austrian singers whose story was made into a popular Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, The Sound of Music (1959), that proved one of the most successful in theatre history.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9316308 (578 words)

	1938 Oscar Winners
		Perhaps best known for his later roles as a cantankerous, often toothless or gimpy sidekick in such films as To Have and Have Not (1944), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959), he began his movie career as a stuntman and extra in 1923.
		Her last film was The Children's Hour (1962), for which she earned another best supporting actress nomination by playing against type as the ruthless dowager who destroys the careers and reputations of her granddaughter's schoolteachers.
		Jezebel (AAN) was Davis's first film with William Wyler, who became one of her favorite directors; they worked together twice more, on The Letter (1940) and The Little Foxes (1941), both films earning Oscar nominations for director and actress.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1938.htm (578 words)

	Gwili Andre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gwili Andre (February 4, 1908 - February 5, 1959) was a Danish actress who had a brief career in Hollywood films.
		These films provided her with starring roles playing against such established actors as Richard Dix, Zasu Pitts and Frank Morgan, and RKO began promoting her for her glamour.
		She appeared in the RKO Studio films, Roar of the Dragon and Secrets of the French Police (both 1932) and began to attract attention for her striking good looks.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwili_Andre (300 words)

	Biography Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers: "S"
		Sen, Pilar (1918-1973): Spanish actress whose career in Mexican cinema was oddly fragmented and sporadic--4 credits in the 1940s, 4 credits in 1959-62, 3 more in mid-decade, and 4 credits (her last) in 1970 alone.
		Serrano's last film role to date was a supporting role in Juana la cubana, but she continues to be a public figure due to her political position and outspoken nature.
		Sandrini, Luis (1905-1980): Argentine comic actor, on-screen from 1933 (he appeared in the first Argentine sound film, Tango).
	www.wam.umd.edu /~dwilt/sbiogs.htm (300 words)

	Regent News
		The film is about a young man struggling to choose between family, tradition, and his track career.
		The film is about a family’s emotional bond to their 1959 two tone, black and white Electrorocker television
		Smoke Rings a dramatic short experimental film about a woman who arranges the murder of her husband won for best dramatic student film.
	www.regent.edu /news/filmawards.html (395 words)

	Standing in the Shadows of Motown (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a 2002 documentary film about the story of The Funk Brothers, Motown Records' primary studio band from 1959 to 1972.
		The film covers the career of this band with interviews with band alumni and dramatic recreations of specific episodes.
		In addition, footage from a reunion concert in Detroit, Michigan with the surviving members of the band is included featuring several music performances of major Funk Brothers hits sung by major current RandB, pop, and soul musicians, including Gerald Levert, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan, and Montell Jordan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Standing_in_the_Shadows_of_Motown_(film) (210 words)

	Charlton Heston in Twilight: Career Highlights Including Ben Hur
		The public's fascination with Heston would reach a peak in 1959, when Heston stepped up again from the parade of B films to star as Prince Judah Ben Hur in William Wyler's screen extravaganza Ben Hur.
		With facial features which made him look as if he was carved out of stone, American actor Charlton Heston, seen most recently in the 2002 Italian film Papa Rua Alguem 5555 as Dr. Josef Mengele, is in the twilight of his career.
		In this film, Heston portrays a rich Jerusalem merchant, whose old friend Messala returns as commander of the Roman legions and sends Hestons' mother and sister to prison and Heston to Roman ships as a rowing galley slave.
	paulcooijmans.lunarpages.com /papyrus/brizel/heston.html (210 words)

	Richard L. Breen
		Afterward he went to Hollywood, where he began a highly successful career as a screenwriter, both alone and in collaboration with Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
		Notable non-nominated screenwriting credits include THE MATING SEASON and THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER (both 1951), NIAGARA (1953), DRAGNET (1954), PETE KELLY'S BLUES (1955), THE FBI STORY (1959), STATE FAIR (1962), PT 109 and MARY, MARY (both1963), DO NOT DISTURB (1965) and TONY ROME (1967).
		He wrote and directed one film, STOPOVER TOKYO (1957).
	www.theoscarsite.com /whoswho3/breen_r.htm (141 words)

	FranÃ§ois Truffaut - free-definition
		Among Truffaut's films one can discern a series featuring the character Antoine Doinel, played by the actor Jean-Pierre LÃ©aud who began his career in The 400 Blows at the age of fourteen, continuing as the favourite actor and "double" of Truffaut himself.
		Truffaut reported that his film The 400 Blows (1959) was largely autobiographical.
		His last film Confidentially Yours, a comedy thriller in black and white, could be considered to be a "fake Hitchcock".
	www.free-definition.com /Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut.html (141 words)

	MSN Encarta - Robert Redford
		Redford continued his career as a director with The Milagro Beanfield War (1988; which he also produced), A River Runs Through It (1992), and Quiz Show (1994), which was voted best film of 1994 by the New York Film Critics Circle.
		In 1981 he established the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit organization offering a permanent workshop for aspiring directors and supporting an annual festival—the Sundance Film Festival—that screens the work of young independent filmmakers.
		As independent film became more popular and influential during the mid- and late 1990s, Sundance became one of the most important festivals in the motion-picture industry.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560060/Robert_Redford.html (141 words)

	Biography for Sidney W. Pink
		He went on to produce "The Angry Red Planet (1959),&; in which a development technique was used to cast a pink effect across the film, which he named CineMagic.
		He began his film career as a projectionist in a theater owned by his wife's family.
		The film was shot using two lenses, one for each viewer's eye.
	us.imdb.com /Bio?Pink,+Sidney+W. (141 words)

	1960 Academy Awards® Winners and History
		Violet-eyed Taylor's win for the widely-panned melodramatic film is often interpreted as a sympathy vote because she had lost in the three previous years, and she had just endured an emergency tracheotomy during a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, and had throat scars to prove it.
		Likewise, 1960 was the year for Trevor Howard's sole nomination in a career with many outstanding but un-nominated acting roles, such as in Brief Encounter (1946) and
		Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) was mostly overlooked the previous year, so the Academy made up for the oversight this year.
	www.filmsite.org /aa60.html (1843 words)

	Charlton Heston
		He has played leading roles in a number of fictional and historical epics—such as Ben-Hur, El Cid, 55 Days in Peking, and Khartoum —during his long career.
		He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his 1959 performance in the title role of Ben-Hur.
		Heston felt the time had come to move to Hollywood and break into film.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charlton_heston.html (1843 words)

	Debbie's Encyclopedia
		Movie Jack Benny jokingly used to describe as his "dismal" film career.
		The three good fairies in Walt Disney's 1959 movie Sleeping Beauty.
		What all the clocks were set to in the movie Pulp Fiction.
	members.aol.com /IamDeb2you (3766 words)

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