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The 1950’s
Creations and Crazes
of the 50’s
To The Theater
On To Broadway!
Academy Awards
Best Picture of…
1959
1958
1957
1956
1955
1954
1953
1952
1951
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About Eve”
“An“All
American
in Paris”
“The Greatest Show
Here to
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on
Earth”
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the
Waterfront”
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Bette
Davis
“Around
the
World
Gene
Kelly
&thein
“The
Bridge
on
Anne
Baxter
Starring:
80
Days”
“GiGi”
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“Ben-Hur”
Starring:
George
Sanders
James
Marlon Stewart
Brando
Burt
Lancaster
Ernest
Borgnine
Celeste
Holm &
Betty
Hutton
Carl
Malden
Starring:
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Montgomery
Betsy
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Cornel
Wilde
Lee J Caron
Cobb
David
Niven
Leslie
William
Holden
Charlton
Heston
Deborah
Kerr
Charlton
Heston
Cantinflas
Maurice
Chevalier
Alec
&&
JackGuinness
Hawkins
Frank
Sinatra
&
Dorothy
Lamour &&
Shirley
MacLaine
Louis
Jourdan
Jack
Hawkins
Haya
Harareet
Donna
Reed &
Gloria
Grahame
Robert Newton
Stephen Boyd
Key Figures of the 1950s
Key political figures
Harry S.
Truman
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Other Key Figures of the 1950s
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
From The
Civil Rights Movement
Spoke publicly on Human
Refused
Rights.to sit at the back of the bus. “I Have a Dream!”
Mao Zedong
from China
Queen Elizabeth II from
the United Kingdom
Other Key Figures of the 1950s
They Opposed Communism
Strong believers in Communism
Key Figures from
Across the Sea
Allies of the United States
Added to Cold War Fears in the
United States
Winston Churchill from
the United Kingdom
Joseph Stalin from
the Soviet Union
Back Home
Jimmy Hoffa worked to
expand unions.
Senator Joseph McCarthy
began televised hearings
into alleged Communists in
the Army.
Justice Earl Warren ruled that segregation
in public schools was unconstitutional
(Brown v Board of Education)