Decade in Review: 1950s

The 1950s are my favorite decade of movies. During the 50s, TV became competition for movies. Movie viewership began to decline. I Love Lucy, my fav TV show, ran to great success. Movie stars like John Wayne, Marlon Brando, James Dean, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe were popular. This was Hitchcock's best era of movies.

• The 1950s started off with two of my favorite movies: All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, which were released in the same year, 1950. They are about similar subjects, the darker sides of Hollywood.
• This was Hitchcock's golden decade, with Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), To Catch A Thief (1955), Vertigo (1958), and North By Northwest (1959).
• The 1950s were the height of musicals such as Singin In The Rain (1952), A Star Is Born (1954), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and The King and I (1956).
• The 1950s were also the height of westerns. High Noon (1952), The Searchers (1956), Rio Bravo (1959), Shane (1953), and much more...



• Some more 1950s movies include Touch of Evil (1958), Ben Hur (1959), 12 Angry Men (1957), An Affair To Remember (1957), Roman Holiday (1953), The African Queen (1951), On The Waterfront (1954), The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), Harvey (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Bridge on The River Kwai (1957).

My favorite movies from the 1950s: All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Rear Window, North By Northest, Some Like It Hot, Singin In The Rain, An Affair To Remember, Roman Holiday, The African Queen, Touch of Evil, and Rio Bravo.