His most notable box-office success as a director came in 1954, with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, a full-length stage dramatization by Herman Wouk of the court-martial scene in Wouk's novel The Caine Mutiny.

Sesto Continente directed by Folco Quilici and released in 1954, was the first full-length, full-color underwater documentary.

After starting out with simple portraits, in 1954 Topps put two pictures on the front of the card – a hand-tinted ' color ' close-up photo of the player's head, and the other a black-and-white full-length pose.

“ Fans would come early just to watch their fielding-practice magic .” In an essay on Willie Mays ’ famous 1954 back-to-the-plate catch off Cleveland ’ s Vic Wertz, Hano claimed that an even more sensational play was Lindstrom ’ s full-length, leaping grab before crashing into the outfield wall in a 1932 Giants-Pirates game that the New York Herald Tribune later called “ the greatest catch ever made in the Polo Grounds .”

Another local character from Llanfechain was the source of the central character, the tramp Rhys, in The Welsh Sonata ( 1954 ), which was Hanley ’ s first full-length novel with a Welsh setting.

* March 1954: Six full-length dome-lounge cars ( called " Big Domes " by Santa Fe's employees ) are delivered for the El Capitan by the Budd Company.

He also starred in Tim Burstall's unsuccessful but historically important feature film 2000 Weeks ( 1969 ), which was the first full-length Australian-produced feature made in Australia since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1954.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

" The order of the dedications has changed with the relative power of the United States and Britain, and with relative sales ; the 1954 version of the 14th edition is " Dedicated by Permission to the Heads of the Two English-Speaking Peoples, Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

The 1954 version of Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, reflects the poorly grounded perceptions of the people whose use of the term effectively defined it for the people of that time: " a man supposed to have supernatural powers of curing disease and controlling spirits.

The first color NTSC television camera was the RCA TK-40, used for experimental broadcasts in 1953 ; an improved version, the TK-40A, introduced in March 1954, was the first commercially available color television camera.

The Western European Union ( WEU ; French: Union de l ' Europe occidentale, UEO ) was an international organisation tasked with implementing the Modified Treaty of Brussels ( 1954 ), an amended version of the original 1948 Treaty of Brussels.

* March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers ' Showcase.

This style was introduced in the third edition of Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary ( 1954 ), adopted by the Library of Congress as one of its ALA-LC romanizations, and is the most common version of the system today.

" In paintings such as " The Madonna of Port Lligat " ( first version ) ( 1949 ) and " Corpus Hypercubus " ( 1954 ), Dalí sought to synthesize Christian iconography with images of material disintegration inspired by nuclear physics .< ref > Salvador Dalí Bio, Art on 5th.

In 1954, Burton took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later.

used dialogue from Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs, Carousel used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, My Fair Lady took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Man of La Mancha took most of its dialogue from the 1959 television play I, Don Quixote ( from which it was adapted ), and the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan used J. M.

Although first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights on March 20, 1954, the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version.

Much more impressive was " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", a somewhat bowdlerized cover version of the Big Joe Turner recording of earlier in 1954.

In 1954, after a successful appearance in a television version of The Royal Family, she began acting in various teleplays.

A 1954 film version starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.

A Cinemascope film version of Brigadoon, directed by Vincente Minnelli, was released by MGM in 1954 with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse in leading roles.

* Moskvitch 401-422 (" woodie " station wagon version of 401 ) ( 1954 )

James was definitely out of his element when it came to music, but Benjamin Britten's operatic version of " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1954 ) has become one of the composer's most popular works.

* A Tune for viola and piano ( published 1954 ); 2nd version of Serenade

* Jughead, nickname for a version of the 1954 Mark 16 nuclear bomb

An all-transistor version of the 604 was built and demonstrated in October 1954.

Haney danced with Bob Fosse in the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate, and when he landed his first Broadway choreographing assignment, The Pajama Game ( 1954 ), he recommended that Haney be cast in a small dancing part.

* 2000 Spider's Web ( based on the 1954 play Spider's Web )

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

In 1954 the play won the Prix Italia for literary or dramatic programmes.

* 1954 Under Milk Wood ( Radio play )

Anderson and Evans performed the play on television twice, in 1954 and 1962, with Maurice Evans winning an Emmy Award the 1962 production and Anderson winning the award for both presentations.

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.

He played an Army sergeant in the 1954 science fiction thriller, Them !, a professor in the 1958 science fiction movie The Brain Eaters, and had a role in The Balcony ( 1963 ), a film adaptation of the Jean Genet play.

In 1954, he was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he portrayed Le Chiffre in a television adaptation of Casino Royale, opposite Barry Nelson as an American James Bond.

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

The Third Man was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater, first on 9 April 1951 with Joseph Cotten, then on 8 February 1954 with Ray Milland.

The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) had a screenplay by the playwright Terence Rattigan and Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ) was based on the play by Harold Brighouse.

Laura was adapted as a radio play for two episodes of Lux Radio Theater, the first starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Vincent Price ( February 5, 1945 ), the second starring Gene Tierney and Victor Mature ( February 1, 1954 ).

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings.

* Electra, or The dropping of the masks ( 1954 ) a play by Marguerite Yourcenar

His best-known play is An Inspector Calls ( 1945 ), later made into a film starring Alastair Sim released in 1954.

** The Country Girl ( 1954 film ), a 1954 film based on the Odets play, starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly

After losing the 1954 Grand Final to a more experienced Footscray football team, the Demons dominated the VFL by winning flags in 1955-56-57 with a team hailed as the best to play the game.

Adapted from a radio play Bolt had written in 1954, it is generally regarded as Bolt's finest work-and certainly his most successful.

In 1954 Holloway joined the Old Vic theatre company to play Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania.

Shaffer's first play, The Salt Land ( 1954 ), was presented on the BBC.

A musical theatre version of the play was created by Noël Coward in 1954 under the title After the Ball.

Bergman originally wrote the play Trämålning ( Wood Painting ) in 1953 / 1954 for the acting students of Malmö City Theatre.