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4) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
6) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
10) Grease live!
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A live one night musical production of the massively popular crossover musical! Featuring a young ensemble cast, this will reintroduce and reimagine some of the show's most memorable moments, great music, and timeless love story to an entirely new generation.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
14) Hail, Caesar!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
"Grade B+...It's coen lite, basically, but still filled with their best signatures..."--Entertainment Weekly.
"The combination of the Coen brothers' filmmaking acumen and George Clooney in absolute buffon mode is again Hollywood magic."--USA Today.
"An inside-showbiz lark...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters"--
Author
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Presents diary excerpts, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and other documents presenting firsthand views of the events and issues that shaped America in the 1950s. Each chapter provides a contextual introduction and chronology.
17) Blacksad
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery, digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets. Guarnido's sumptuously painted pages and rich cinematic style bring the world of 1950s America to vibrant life, with Canales weaving in fascinating tales of conspiracy, racial tension, and the red scare" Communist witch hunts of the time. Guarnido reinvents anthropomorphism in these pages, and...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Little Book of the 1950s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from post-war austerity to the swinging sixties. There are dramas, tragedies, scandals, and characters galore, all packaged in an easily readable "dip-in" format. We can see how major national and international events impacted on the population at home, the progress made by technology, and the fads and fancies of fashion...
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