Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

** Howard Ashman, American lyricist ( b. 1950 )

Disney followed up Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its commercially successful 1988 fully animated feature Oliver & Company with The Little Mermaid, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale with songs by Broadway composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

* Disney's Beauty and the Beast ( 13 May 1997-11 December 1999 ) by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Tim Rice and Linda Woolverton

Howard Ashman, the original lyricist, had died, and additional lyrics were written by Tim Rice.

** Beauty and the Beast – Book by Linda Woolverton, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, music by Alan Menken

** Alan Menken & Howard Ashman ( songwriters ) for Beauty and the Beast-Original Motion Picture Soundtrack performed by various artists

** Howard Ashman & Alan Menken ( songwriters ) for Beauty and the Beast performed by Peabo Bryson & Céline Dion

** Alan Menken ( composer ) & Howard Ashman ( lyricist ) for The Little Mermaid performed by various artists

** Alan Menken ( composer ) & Howard Ashman ( lyricist ) for " Under the Sea " performed by various artists

Howard Ashman was going to write songs for this movie as soon as he was finished with Aladdin, but he died during production of Aladdin, thus marking this being the first Disney movie with Alan Menken's music but without songs by Ashman.

* The Little Mermaid-Alan Menken ( composer ); Howard Ashman ( lyricist )-For the song " Under the Sea "

Howard Elliott Ashman ( May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991 ) was an American playwright and lyricist.

" On the 2001 Special Edition DVD of Beauty and the Beast, on Disc 2, there is a short documentary entitled Howard Ashman: In Memoriam that features many people who worked on Beauty and the Beast who talk about Howard's involvement on the film and how his passing was truly a loss for them.

An album of Ashman singing his own work entitled Howard Sings Ashman was released on November 11, 2008, by PS Classics as part of the Library of Congress " Songwriter Series.

Menken has collaborated on several occasions with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, Judy Rothman, and Stephen Schwartz.

He voiced Audrey II, the " street-smart, funky, conniving " talking killer plant which is an " anthropomorphic cross between a Venus flytrap and an avocado ", in the original off-Broadway production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's " black-comedy musical " Little Shop of Horrors from 1982.

Smile is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman.

In November 2008, the record label PS Classics rectified this loss, releasing the album Howard Sings Ashman.

Director and author Howard Ashman played the role of Big Bob in Jeff McCarthy's absence.

** Smile – Howard Ashman

** Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken ( music ), Howard Ashman and Tim Rice ( lyrics )

The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.

He was the first-born child of Frank W. Hawks ( 1865 – 1950 ), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and his wife, Helen Howard ( 1872 – 1952 ), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.

Chuck Klein ( 1932 ), Jim Konstanty ( 1950 ), Ryan Howard ( 2006 ), and Jimmy Rollins ( 2007 ) all have one.

* December 8 – Howard Rollins, American actor ( b. 1950 )

In 1950, Howard Head introduced the Head Standard ski.

She starred in Storm Warning ( 1950 ) with Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, the noir, anti Ku Klux Klan film by Warner Brothers, and in Monkey Business ( 1952 ) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, directed by Howard Hawks.

* Tom Howard ( musician ) ( 1950 – 2010 ), American pianist, musical arranger and orchestral conductor

In the 1950 film Pagan Love Song, starring Esther Williams, actor Howard Keel ; played Hap " Hazard " Endicott, a school teacher from Springfield, Ohio.

Other composers who have led the orchestra include Ernst von Dohnányi in 1927, Ottorino Respighi in 1929, Arnold Schoenberg in 1945, Darius Milhaud in 1949, Manuel Rosenthal in 1950, Leon Kirchner in 1960, Jean Martinon in 1970 and Howard Hanson.

However, Miss Howard was also mentioned in the membership list of the British Psychological Society, Prof. John Cohen remembered her well during the 1930s and Prof. Donald MacRae had personally received an article from her in 1949 and 1950.

In 1950 Rank sold Simmons's contract to Howard Hughes, who then owned the RKO studio in Hollywood.

* Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) — This Golden Globe Award-winning film starring James Stewart featured Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850 as a prominent character.

* Howard Bare ( 1911 – 2002 ), mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania ( 1950 – 1951 )

Howard DeVore and Margaret Ford Keifer attended all 56 Midwestcons held from 1950 to 2005.

In the 1950 film Broken Arrow, Howard is played by Basil Ruysdael opposite James Stewart, who portrays Tom Jeffords.

By 1950, Neagle was at her zenith as Britain ’ s top box-office actress, and in that year she made what reputedly became her own favourite film, Odette, co-starring Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov and Marius Goring.

In 1950 Howard Hughes invited Lollobrigida to make Hollywood films, but she refused, preferring to work in Europe.

* 1950: The Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Gerry Mulligan with the Chubby Jackson Big Band-The big band sides are from 1950, the band led by bassist Jackson included Howard McGhee, Zoot Sims, and trombonist J. J. Johnson.

Bunche chaired the Department of Political Science at Howard University from 1928 until 1950, where he taught generations of students.

He chaired the Department of Political Science at Howard University from 1928 until 1950 ; taught at Harvard University from 1950 to 1952 ; served as a member of the New York City Board of Education ( 1958 – 1964 ), as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University ( 1960 – 1965 ), as a member of the Board of the Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.

In March 1950 he became Minister for National Development, gaining functions from Eric Harrison's abolished porfolio of Postwar Reconstruction and losing supply to Howard Beale.

* The Adventures of Sam Spade ( 1949 – 1950, NBC ) — 51 30-minute episodes, starring Howard Duff