Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

Walsh had no great name recognition during his half-century as a working director, but his noirs White Heat ( 1949 ) and The Enforcer ( 1951 ) had A-list stars and are seen as important examples of the cycle.

Prior to 1951, Communism lived within the urban labor forces in small study groups during 1944 to 1953 which it had a tremendous influence on these urban labor forces.

Some horror films during this period, such as The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ) and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ), managed to channel the paranoia of the Cold War into atmospheric creepiness.

Her 1951 marriage to Charles Dye ended in divorce a year later, but during that time, one of her stories was published under Dye's name.

His first marriage to Betty Ebeling began in February 1951 and ended in divorce on January 5, 1967 ; during this time his hobbies included sport fishing off the Baja California coast and duck hunting along the Mexican border near Mexicali.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974 – 79 Labour Government Anthony Crosland said that in 1956, 25 per cent of British industry was nationalised, and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar percentage of the country's total employed population.

Nevertheless, in September 1951 Adorno returned to the United States for a six-week visit, during which he attended the opening of the Hacker Psychiatry Foundation in Beverly Hills, met Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse in New York and saw his mother for the last time.

The RAF's then-current jet bomber the English Electric Canberra, introduced in May 1951 and designed during the war, could only have reached the Soviet border and had a capacity of 6, 000 lb ( 2, 720 kg ).

( 1951 ) Report of human remains and materials recovered from the River Axe in the Great Cave of Wookey Hole during diving operations from October 1947 to Jan. 1949.

In May 1951, during Operation Greenhouse, the explosions of devices " George " and " Item " proved that a fission explosion could trigger non-sustaining fusion reactions in a mixture of deuterium and tritium.

Nearly 20 million persons in Europe fled their homes, were expelled, transferred or exchanged during the process of sorting out ethnic groups between 1944 and 1951.

A dispute over King Leopold III's conduct during World War II caused civil uprisings, and eventually led to his abdication in 1951 following a state wide referendum.

Birthday party for Kazan during filming of A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )

In 1951, Eastwood entered the United States Army during the Korean War and was assigned to Fort Ord in California, where he worked as a lifeguard.

He was therefore even less popular in the U. S. during the McCarthyism period ; in 1951, he was refused re-entry into the U. S. because he had signed the Stockholm Appeal.

Bevan was appointed Minister of Labour ( during which he helped to secure a deal for railwaymen which provided them with a big pay increase ) in 1951 but soon resigned in protest at Hugh Gaitskell's introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles — created in order to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.

The population of Belarus suffered a dramatic decline during World War II, dropping from more than 9 million in 1940 to 7. 7 million in 1951.

In response to warping and swelling experienced during its storage during World War II, and to prepare the picture for an exhibit to honor the anniversary of Leonardo's 500th birthday, the Mona Lisa was fitted in 1951 with a flexible oak frame with beech crosspieces.

Set in a small town in north Texas during the year November 1951 – October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford ( Timothy Bottoms ) and his friend Duane Jackson ( Jeff Bridges ).

He then moved to government during the Harry S. Truman administration, when Truman appointed him ambassador to Argentina in April 1951.

As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “ containment ” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.

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

( 27 June 1898 – 6 October 1951 ) was a British official who was assassinated by communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency.

On 6 October 1951, he was shot to death on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting ; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

* Federal Civil Defense Administration ( FCDA ), Office for Emergency Management ( OEM ), Executive Office of the President ( EOP, 1950 – 1951 )

From 1951 to 1985, Crown Coach Corporation was also a manufacturer of fire apparatus under the Firecoach brand ; it was a 1965 open cab Crown Firecoach that was used to portray Engine 51, during the first two seasons of the NBC / Universal television series Emergency !.

There followed in quick succession two musicals which have secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film, An American in Paris ( 1951 ) and – probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals – Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ).

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

The slang meaning of the term dates back to 1951, when Newsweek magazine reported on its popular use as a synonym for " drip " or " square " in Detroit, Michigan.

He was extremely popular among Jews, and paid them back after he was Mayor by visiting Israel for 34 days in 1951.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

Binge's best known composition is probably Elizabethan Serenade ( 1951 ), which was used by the British Broadcasting Corporation as the theme for the popular 1950s series, " Music Tapestry ," and as the play-out for the British Forces Network radio station, and for which he won an Ivor Novello Award.

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

Callaghan was popular with Labour MPs and was elected to the Shadow Cabinet every year while the Labour Party was in opposition from 1951 to 1964.

The New York writer Paul Goodman, who was co-founder with Fritz Perls of the Gestalt method of psychotherapy, one of the most popular in the world today, and one that makes Otto Rank's " here-and-now " central to its approach, described Rank ’ s post-Freudian ideas on art and creativity as “ beyond praise ” in Gestalt Therapy ( Perls, Goodman and Hefferline, 1951, p. 395 ).

Jean-Claude Duvalier, nicknamed " Bébé Doc " or " Baby Doc " ( born July 3, 1951 ) was the President of Haiti from 1971 until his overthrow by a popular uprising in 1986.

The team was popular throughout the 1940s, but after superheroes fell out of favor, their adventures ceased with issue 57 of the title ( Feb-Mar 1951 ), and All Star Comics became All-Star Western.

She was voted by British exhibitors the tenth most popular local star at the box office in 1951 and 1952.

Another television preacher of note was Fulton J. Sheen, who successfully switched to television in 1951 after two decades of popular radio broadcasts and whom Time called " the first ' televangelist '".

There was significant sugar beet traffic on the river between 1925 and 1959, with the last known commercial traffic occurring in 1974. Leisure boating had been popular since 1904, and the post-war period saw the creation of the Great Ouse Restoration Society in 1951, who campaigned for complete renovation of the river.

The character proved so popular, Webb reprised his role in two more movies: Mr. Belvedere Goes to College ( 1949 ) and Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell ( 1951 ).

The spelling " Stephen " reached its peak of popularity in the United States in the period 1949 – 1951, when it was the 19th most popular name for newborn boys.

He finished his American Revolution series with Eagle in the Sky in 1948, wrote a popular novel about the famous buccaneer, Henry Morgan called Cutlass Empire in 1949, and started a trilogy on the Civil War in 1951.

Eddy Duchin ( April 1, 1909 or April 10, 1910February 9, 1951 ) was an American popular pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his fight against leukemia.

The caves continue to thrive as a popular tourist attraction today and have received over 2 million visitors since their reopening in 1951.

West Wycombe Caves have had over 2 million visitors since they reopened in 1951, and continue to be a popular attraction today.

Still enormously popular in late 1951, Mosaddegh called elections.

She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Little Women ( 1949 ), Holiday Affair ( 1949 ), Angels in the Outfield ( 1951 ), and Living It Up ( 1954 ).

Afterwards, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records, and had his first number one popular song with " Because of You " in 1951.

The Ariston Theater hosts the celebrated annual Sanremo Music Festival, a very popular song contest held in the city since 1951.