Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954, and was joined by Elizabeth Taylor in a subsequent film.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Under Bogart's Santana Productions, which released through Columbia Pictures, Bogart starred in Knock on Any Door ( 1949 ), Tokyo Joe ( 1949 ), In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ), Sirocco ( 1951 ) and Beat the Devil ( 1954 ).

A 1954 film version starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.

) Also in 1954, Lorre starred alongside Kirk Douglas and James Mason in 20, 000 Leagues under the Sea.

In 1954, she starred, along with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Vera-Ellen, in the movie White Christmas.

Most notably, Cyril Ritchard played Captain Hook in the 1954 musical adaptation which starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan.

He starred Pilate many times over the little-studied fifties, when it comes to the performances of Christ: The Living Christ Series ( his character was on hand from 1952 to 1957 ) and as well in I Beheld His Glory ( 1952 ) and Day of Triumph ( 1954 )

In 1944, she appeared with her father in Halfway House and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda ( Johns later reprised the role in a 1954 sequel, Mad About Men ).

From 1952 to 1954, Andrews starred in the radio series I Was a Communist for the FBI about the experiences of Matt Cvetic, an FBI informer who infiltrated the Communist Party.

In 1952, he starred in the Red Scare film Invasion U. S. A. and in 1954 in Luis Buñuel's Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Marlon Brando won for On the Waterfront instead ).

She was featured at the first Newport Jazz Festival in the summer of 1954 and starred in subsequent editions of that festival at Newport and in New York City for the remainder of her life.

Many other stories were adapted to TV and others to films, the most renowned being The Purple Plain in 1954 which starred Gregory Peck, and The Triple Echo.

She starred in The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Just for You ( 1952 ), Let's Do It Again ( 1953 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ) ( another Oscar nomination ), the remake of Edna Ferber's So Big ( 1953 ), Magnificent Obsession ( 1954 ) ( Oscar nomination ), Lucy Gallant ( 1955 ), All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ), and Miracle in the Rain ( 1956 ).

In 1954, she starred opposite then-newcomer Jack Lemmon in his first two feature films, the popular comedies It Should Happen to You and Phffft!

They also starred in various radio programs ( 1945 – 1949 ) and television shows ( 1954 – 1961 ) on both NBC and CBS.

In 1954, Clark had starred in a stage production of The Constant Nymph, but it wasn't until 1981, at the urging of her children, that she returned to legitimate theatre, starring as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in London's West End.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and later starred in the thriller film North by Northwest ( 1959 ), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

After appearing in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts such as Carmen Jones ( 1954 ) and Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), she starred in Julia ( 1968 ), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.

The couple starred in a short-lived ( 1953 – 1954 ) radio series, The Marriage ( based on their earlier Broadway play, The Fourposter ), playing New York attorney Ben Marriott and his wife, former fashion buyer Liz, struggling with her switch to domestic life and their raising an awkward teenage daughter ( future soap opera star Denise Alexander ).

In 1954, as a sophomore, he starred on an Attucks team that lost in the semi-state finals ( state quarterfinals ) to eventual state champions Milan, whose story would later be the basis of the classic 1986 movie Hoosiers.

Maria Callas starred as Alceste in an acclaimed production at La Scala in 1954.

In 1954, he starred as a newspaper advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist named Bill Hastings in the short-lived NBC series Dear Phoebe with Marcia Henderson and Charles Lane.

Lemmon's film debut was a bit part as a plasterer / painter in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, but he was not noticed until his official debut, opposite Judy Holliday, in the 1954 comedy It Should Happen to You.

He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La strada ( 1954 ) opposite Giulietta Masina.

After her role in RKO's Sudden Fear, Crawford appeared in films ranging from the camp western film Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ) to the drama Autumn Leaves ( 1956 ), opposite a young Cliff Robertson, a movie which showed Crawford in a great many kissing scenes which shocked some audiences.

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

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.

In 1954, he made his screen début opposite Petula Clark in The Runaway Bus, which had been written for his specific comic talents, but he never became a major film presence.

In 1954 she made a cameo appearance in Doctor in the House, opposite Dirk Bogarde as the sexually repressed Nurse Rigor Mortis.

Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed opposite the popular star Jane Wyman.

He also played some Shakespearean roles which he never essayed on stage, such as Iago in a 1932 broadcast of Othello opposite Henry Ainley as the Moor, Buckingham ( 1954 ) and Cranmer ( 1977 ) in Henry VIII, and Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet for the first time when he was eighty-nine.

She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights ( opposite Laurence Olivier ; 1939 ), as George Sand in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée ( 1954 ).

She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy, opposite Anthony Perkins.

In the 1950s, Wright appeared in several unsuccessful films, including The Capture ( 1950 ), Something to Live For ( 1952 ), California Conquest ( 1952 ), The Steel Trap ( 1952 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), The Actress ( 1953 ), and Track of the Cat ( 1954 ) opposite Robert Mitchum again.

For the 1954 football season, Landry became the defensive coordinator for the Giants, opposite Vince Lombardi, who was the offensive coordinator.

" Her best-known film is probably Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( 1954 ), opposite Howard Keel, which gave her the opportunity to play a more mature character than previous films.

He made his first appearance at La Scala in Milan in 1954, as Licinio in Spontini's La vestale opposite Callas's Giulia for the opening of the 1954-1955 season.

During the 1950s, she participated in several Hollywood productions such as Arrowhead ( 1953, with Charlton Heston ), Broken Lance ( 1954, with Spencer Tracy for which she received an Academy Award nomination ), Trapeze ( 1955, with Burt Lancaster ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1959, directed by Marlon Brando ), Barabbas, Stay Away, Joe ( 1968, opposite Elvis Presley ), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ), and others.

Then, in 1954, he appeared in the Broadway production of Fanny opposite Florence Henderson.

In the early days of live television, she played opposite Sid Caesar on The Admiral Broadway Revue ( January to June 1949 ), and then in the sketch comedy program Your Show of Shows, which was immensely popular from 1950 to 1954, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series in 1952 and 1953.

Besides his recordings with Callas, he also made complete EMI sets of Madama Butterfly ( opposite Victoria de los Ángeles, 1954 ) and La traviata ( with Antonietta Stella and Tito Gobbi, 1955 ).

Upon returning to France, she appeared in Max Ophüls ' The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ) opposite Charles Boyer, and The Red and the Black ( 1954 ) opposite Gérard Philippe.

The character Lisa in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window remarks that she'll have to move " into an apartment across the way and do the dance of the seven veils every hour " if she's to keep her boyfriend sensually entertained, and not peeping at a ballet-dancer in the opposite apartment.

His other film credits include The Jackie Robinson Story ( 1950 ), Carmen Jones ( 1954 ), Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), A Raisin in the Sun ( 1961 ), with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, and a memorable turn as Mr. Prentice ( again playing opposite Poitier ) in the 1967 feature film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.