From 1952-56, she appeared in seventeen films ; in 1953 she played a role in Jean Anouilh's stageplay L ' Invitation au château ( Invitation to the Castle ).

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

In 1953, Lancaster played one of his best remembered roles with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity.

Edwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953 ) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.

The Colts played their first season in Baltimore in 1953, where the team complied a 3 – 9 record under first year head coach Keith Molesworth.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

* John Ford ( cricketer ) ( born 1934 ), English right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Gloucestershire Second XI between 1953 and 1956

He played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat ( 1953 ).

At a general meeting of the WRU in June 1953, they made a decision, " That until such time as the facilities at Swansea were improved, all international matches be played at Cardiff ".

Jennings played a 1953 Fender Telecaster, which was a used guitar purchased as a gift to him by The Waylors.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

The first College Quiz Bowl match was played on NBC radio on October 10, 1953, when Northwestern University defeated Columbia University, 135-60.

He played on seven Ryder Cup teams: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, and 1959, and captained the team in 1951, 1959, and 1969.

Upon his return in 1945, Walter, who by now suffered from malaria, again played for Kaiserslautern, leading them to German championships in 1951 and 1953.

She played an officious headmistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Apollo Theatre in 1948 and such classical roles as Madame Desmortes in Ring Round the Moon ( Globe Theatre, 1950 ), Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World ( Lyric Hammersmith, 1953 and Saville Theatre, 1956 ) and Mrs Candour in The School for Scandal ( Haymarket Theatre, 1962 ).

That year he played in only two league games, and did not appear in a senior match again until 1953.

He played Herod Antipas in Salome ( 1953, with Rita Hayworth in the title role ) and repeated his role as Henry VIII in Young Bess ( 1953 ).

* 1953, Michael Redgrave played Antony and Peggy Ashcroft played Cleopatra at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Naboth was played by Ludwig Donath in the 1953 film Sins of Jezebel.

The film was originally released with a conventional optical soundtrack in April 1953, but the success of the film convinced the producers to re-mix the soundtrack in May with a new three-track, stereophonic soundtrack, which was recorded and played on a 35mm magnetic full coat reel installed by Altec, in interlock on another dubber in the projection booth.

In 1953, he entered into correspondence with fan Jerry Bails, which initially focused on Bails ' fondness for the Justice Society and All-Star Comics, but ultimately became a friendship that not only informed and influenced the dawning of comics ' Silver Age, but also comics fandom, in which Bails played a key role.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

The play had limited popularity in the early twentieth century, but John Gielgud exploded onto the world's theatrical consciousness, through his performance as Richard at the Old Vic Theatre in 1929, returning to the character in 1937 and 1953 in what ultimately was considered as the definitive performance of the role.

Pete is a featured character in the following Donald Duck cartoons: Donald's Lucky Day ( 1939 ), Officer Duck ( 1939 ), The Riveter ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), Donald Gets Drafted ( 1942 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ), Sky Trooper ( 1942 ), Bellboy Donald ( 1942 ), The Old Army Game ( 1943 ), Trombone Trouble ( 1944 ), The New Neighbor ( 1953 ) and Canvas Back Duck ( 1953, where he fights a semi-pro boxing match with Donald Duck ).

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

The 1953 film The Redhead from Wyoming starring Maureen O ' Hara dealt with very similar themes and in one scene Maureen O ' Hara's character is told " It won't be long before they're calling you Cattle Kate.

" In 1953, during a rare meeting between the Warners and the studio's cartoon makers, Jack confessed that he didn't " even know where the hell the cartoon studio is ", and Harry added, " The only thing I know is that we make Mickey Mouse ," a reference to the flagship character of a competing company, Walt Disney Productions.

Donna Reed played the role of Alma " Lorene " Burke, a prostitute and mistress of Montgomery Clift's character which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1953.

Larry Keating, actually, was not in the original cast, with his character of Harry Morton first being portayed by Fred Clark until 1953.

* Vince Curatola ( born 1953 ), actor known for his character Johnny Sack on the television show The Sopranos.

Michael " Mike " Hammer is a fictional character created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury ( made into a movie in 1953 and 1982 ).

Apparently voiced by actor and singer Sheb Wooley, the sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character is shot with an arrow.

The main character in DeVries's novel was based largely on the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who was a compulsive womanizer and lifelong alcoholic, finally succumbing to the effects of alcohol poisoning in November 1953, while on a speaking tour in America.

A historical character by the name of Guillermo Pinguín, created by Yolanda Vargas Dulche in 1943 and original drawing by Alberto Cabrera up until 1953 and as of 1962 by Sixto Valencia Burgo.

Ireton is portrayed as a minor character in Rosemary Sutcliff's 1953 historical fiction novel Simon.

Following Fairbairn, the dynamic psychiatry tradition has continued to produce rich explorations on the schizoid character, most notably from writers Nannarello ( 1953 ); Laing ( 1960 ); Winnicott ( 1965 ); Guntrip ( 1969 ); Khan ( 1974 ); Akhtar ( 1987 ); Seinfeld ( 1991 ); Manfield ( 1992 ); and Klein ( 1995 ).

A precursor to the Lar Gand character appeared in the story " Superman's Big Brother ", in Superman # 80 ( January – February 1953 ).

This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), including in its final scene, as well as previous Eastwood films featuring his Man with No Name character and his 1973 western High Plains Drifter.

Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character, behind only Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger.

In 1953, Reeves played a minor character, Sergeant Maylon Stark, in the motion picture From Here To Eternity.

The title character of one of his best known works, Le Professeur Taranne ( 1953 ), is accused of various things ( public nudity, littering, plagiarism ), all of which he strenuously denies, only to have his denials turned against him into more evidence of misdemeanours.

* The Band Wagon ( 1953 ), where his songwriter character was based on the movie's own co-screenwriter — songwriter Adolph Green.