Entertainment

=//**__Entertainment In The 1950s: Television Shows, Movies, Radio __**//=

**TV of the 1950s **
= = = = = = =*Television Shows =
 * The first color television was put on the market in 1951.
 * More people were starting to own televisions in this time.
 * People could start to see the news reports in their homes, rather than having to go to theaters.
 * I Love Lucy
 * Mickey Mouse Club
 * The Ed Sullivan Show
 * Lassie
 * Blondie
 * Zorro

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 * *Movies **
 * An American in Paris (musical)
 * Singing in the Rain (musical)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rio Grande (western)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Searchers (western)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Strangers on a train (suspense)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vertigo (suspense)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Day the Earth Stood Still (science fiction)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Incredible Shrinking Man (science fiction)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause, Giant
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Paul Newman: Somebody Up there Likes Me, The Long Hot Summer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MarilynMonroe: Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Some Like it Hot

=<span style="color: #072ee4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Start of AM/FM Radio in the 1950s = media type="youtube" key="rJZi-gYQN4A?fs=1" height="344" width="425"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the 1950s the transistor radio was introduced, with the AM stations for radio talk shows and FM for music.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Radio helped to promote the thriving rock music of this time.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/50entertain.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.entertainmentscene.com/top_tv_shows_50s.html

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.loti.com/fifties_movies/Hollywood_Movies_and_the_1950s.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.tvhistory.tv/History%20of%20TV.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/radio-tv.html