* Hawaii, 1966 ( based on the novel by James Michener, 1959 )

Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ), a rock musical based on Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel about London life, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role.

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

In the 1959 novel, Emperor Fu Manchu, he reveals he attended Heidelberg, the Sorbonne, and Edinburgh.

Frankenheimer and producer George Axelrod bought Richard Condon's 1959 novel after it had already been turned down by many Hollywood studios.

He wrote his last novel, The Vision of Gombold Proval ( posthumously published as Head to Toe ), in 1959, and had his writing accepted soon afterward.

The " Mobile Suits " of the show were inspired by the power armors from the American novel Starship Troopers from 1959.

The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho, a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

Time Out of Joint is a novel by Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959.

As the novel opens, its protagonist Ragle Gumm believes that he lives in the year 1959 in a quiet American suburb.

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published ( in abridged form ) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( October, November 1959, as " Starship Soldier ") and published hardcover in December, 1959.

* Terran Federation, a government in the 1959 science fiction novel Starship Troopers

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

*“ The Intruder ” ( 1959, excerpt of chapter ten of the novel )

The situation depicted in the second and third part of the novel resembles the rebellion of the Lunar colony described in another science-fiction novel published in 1959, Time Out of Joint, by Philip K. Dick.

Many of these draw more directly on the 1939 MGM Technicolor film version of the novel, a now-classic of popular culture shown annually on American television from 1959 to 1991, and shown several times a year every year beginning in 1999.

Borgen ' work is characterized by an experimental prose writing style, which can be seen in several short story collections as well as the experimental novel Jeg ( I ) from 1959.

* Wolfbane ( novel ), a 1959 novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1959 ) and Barney's Version ( 1997 ); his 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1990.

Richler published his fourth novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in 1959.

Humans linked to machines are found in Pohl and Kornbluth's Wolfbane ( 1959 ) and Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness ( 1968 ).

He went on to play multiple characters, but primarily the lookout Able Seaman ' Fatso ' Johnson and Lieutenant-Commander Stanton, in The Navy Lark, a navy based sitcom on the BBC Light Programme, which ran from 1959 to 1977, with Barker featuring in some 300 episodes.

By 1959, Edmund Cooper's Seed of Light was being criticized for dealing with an old-hat subject ( though it is often accounted the author's best novel.

It was completely decommissioned in 1959 when the Oak Island Light was built.

Archie Moore ( born Archibald Lee Wright ; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998 ), was an American professional boxer and the Light Heavyweight World Champion ( 1952 – 1959 and 1961 ), who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport.

1959, his last full year as uncontested champion, was another rare low-profile year ; in his two fights, he beat Sterling Davis by a knockout in three, and then Durelle again, also by a knockout in three, to once again retain his World Light Heavyweight title.

Holliday in her dressing room, Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, 1959

* 1959 Italian Light Middleweight Champion

* 1959 European Light Middleweight Champion

# The Dawning Light ( 1959 )

In addition to sub-labels, ABC Records purchased all labels from Enoch Light in October, 1959.

The endings of Schrader's films American Gigolo and Light Sleeper bear obvious resemblance to that of Bresson's 1959 film Pickpocket.

* Lester Piggott – Zucchero ( 1952 ), Primera ( 1959, 1960 ), Apostle ( 1961 ), Lord Helpus ( 1977 ), Pollerton ( 1978 ), Light Cavalry ( 1981 ), Head for Heights ( 1984 )

After retiring from public service a second time, he traveled to Mexico to serve as chairman of the Mexican Light and Power Company ( 1954 – 1959 ).

After his series ended in 1959, Culp continued to work in television, including a guest-starring role as Stewart Douglas in the 1960 episode " So Dim the Light " of CBS's anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

It was started in 1953 by Enoch Light and sold in October 1959 to ABC-Paramount Records.

Command Records ( originally Command Performance Records ) was a record label founded by Enoch Light in 1959 and later associated with ABC-Paramount Records.

The regiment was formed on 20 January 1959 by the then amalgamation of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, with the Highland Light Infantry ( City of Glasgow Regiment ).

In America, it was mounted by professional companies, including the American Savoyards, beginning in 1959, and the Light Opera of Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s.

* BAFTA for Light Entertainment Performance ( 1959 )

It was formed in 1959 by the merger of two regiments: The Somerset Light Infantry ( Prince Albert's ) and The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

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The Somerset Light Infantry ( Prince Albert's ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959.

** The South Alberta Light Horse -- Canada ( 1959 – 1966 )