Movies of the 1950s

This 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers was release after its star James Dean died in a car accident.

Rebel Without A Cause

North by Northwest

Some Like It Hot

Ben-Hur

Which 1952 musical, featuring one of the most famous dance scenes on film with Gene Kelly, was only a modest hit when it was first released?

Singin’ in the Rain

Oklahoma

An American in Paris

Music Man

Which 1950 classic Disney movie featuring a glass slipper and saved the Walt Disney company from nearly going bankrupt?

Cinderella

Sleeping Beauty

Fantasia

Dumbo

Which 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film, declared by critics to be one of his best movies, starred James Stewart as a wheelchair-bound photographer and Grace Kelly as his girlfriend?

Rear Window

Psycho

Vertigo

All About Eve

Bette Davis starred in which 1950 drama, which went on to earn 14 Academy Award nominations, making it the only movie in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations?

All About Eve

Jezebel

The Blue Gardenia

The Ten Commandments

Which 1951 drama, based on a 1947 Tennessee Williams play, turned Marlon Brando into a major Hollywood movie star after his lead role as Stanley Kowalski?

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Searchers

Some Like It Hot

North By Northwest

Which 1959 American epic, set in the Roman Empire and starring Charlton Heston, had the largest budget of any movie made at the time, at just over $15 million?

Ben-Hur

Julius Caesar

Lion in Winter

Hannibal

Which 1952 Western starring Gary Cooper as a town marshal has been named the favorite movie of multiple U.S. Presidents?

High Noon

Red River

Rio Bravo

Bend of the River

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