A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on, respectively, Hollywood and the news media.

** Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host ( the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite ).

The music score was composed by Bernard Herrmann in August 1951, and was his first score after he moved from New York to Hollywood.

A pilot was ordered and kinescoped in Hollywood in March 1951, which coincided with Lucy's first pregnancy, and the ending of Husband, which aired its last radio show on March 31, 1951.

For seasons 1 and 2 ( 1951 – 1953 ), Desilu rented space and filmed I Love Lucy at General Service Studios, which eventually became known as Hollywood Center Studios.

Nonetheless, by 1951, she was still a relatively unknown actress in Hollywood.

* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards ( 1951 )

Alfred Hitchcock used him in Stage Fright ( 1950 ), then he made a film in Hollywood for King Vidor, Lightning Strikes Twice ( 1951 ).

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture-Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture-Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

In 1951, Wanamaker made a speech welcoming the return of two of the Hollywood Ten.

" From about 1951 to 1962, Yip Harburg was a victim of the Hollywood blacklist when movie studio bosses blacklisted industry people for actual or suspected involvement or sympathy with the American Communist Party.

The character was obviously inspired by the mightily-muscled Roman slave Ursus ( ironically played by Buddy Baer ) who slays a bull with his bare hards in a Roman gladiatorial arena in the 1951 Hollywood classic Quo Vadis ?.

He performed on live television anthology programs as well as on radio and then returned to Hollywood in 1951 for a role in a Fritz Lang film, Rancho Notorious.

Several movies have been based on Quo Vadis including the 1951 Hollywood production Quo Vadis and the 2001 adaptation by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

Despite her knowledge of the 1951 arrest, Marilyn Morrison, daughter of the owner of the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, California, married Johnnie Ray in 1952.

In 1951 Republic established a subsidiary, Hollywood Television Service, to sell screening rights in its vintage westerns and action thrillers.

Hollywood biographer Lawrence J. Quirk claimed Mike Connolly ( a gay gossip columnist for the Hollywood Reporter from 1951 to 1966 ) " would put the make on the most prominent young actors, including Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perkins, Nick Adams, and James Dean.

Parsons also appeared in numerous cameo spots in movies, including Hollywood Hotel ( 1937 ), Without Reservations ( 1946 ), and Starlift ( 1951 ).

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

It was developed on the T-54 hull in 1951 ; series production started in 1955.

After a string of successful films, including the comedies The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), as well as dramas like Dead of Night, Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea, Ealing Studios finally ceased production in 1958, and the studios were taken over by the BBC for television production.

After travelling to Paris for a script conference with Rossellini on Europa ' 51, Fellini began production on The White Sheik in September 1951, his first solo-directed feature.

In 1951, the Albanian government launched its first five-year plan, which emphasized exploiting the country's oil, chromite, copper, nickel, asphalt, and coal resources ; expanding electricity production and the power grid ; increasing agricultural output ; and improving transportation.

The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.

The production was mounted in Pasadena for two weeks in 1951.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

Those " different types " of films he had made-The Great Sinner ( 1949 ) for MGM, Time Out of Mind ( 1947 ) for Universal ( which Siodmak also produced ), The Whistle at Eaton Falls ( 1951 ) for Columbia Pictures-all proved ill suited to his noir sensibilities ( although The Crimson Pirate, despite the difficult production, was a surprising and pleasant departure ).

In 1951, agricultural production accounted for 35. 8 % of its GDP.

The conductor of the 1951 production, Hans Knappertsbusch, on being asked how he could conduct such a disgraceful travesty, declared that right up until the dress rehearsal he imagined that the stage decorations were still to come.

" She opened in the West End production on November 1, 1951.

* A revival production ran at New York City's Arena Theatre from October 19, 1950 to January 21, 1951, for a total of 108 performances.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

Both the original Broadway production and the 1999 revival also played the West End: at the Coliseum Theatre ( 1951 ) and at the Victoria Palace Theatre ( 2001 ).

* 1951, Laurence Olivier as Antony and Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in a production that played in repertory with George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra at the St James's Theatre and later on Broadway.

* Crawford Gordon Jr. left the Department of Defense Production in 1951 to take over as President and General Manager of A. V. Roe Canada to assist with problems in development and production of the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck.

The company was still attempting to get the CF-100 into production at the time and, consequently, the Canadian government cancelled any further work on the C102 due to Korean War priorities: C. D. Howe demanded the project be stopped to increase production of the CF-100, so the second C102 prototype was scrapped in the plant in 1951, with the first relegated to photographic duties in the Flight Test Department.

In 1951, during production of the CF-100 Canuck, a design was explored for a revised version with swept wings and tail modifications.

In 1951 production reached over 100 cars a week.

By the end of 1951 production totalled 16, 288.

At the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in September 1951 she played Martina in Christopher Fry's Thor With Angels, followed in January 1952 by Hero in John Gielgud's triumphant production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Phoenix Theatre.