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During the late 1950s, Powell promoted control of the money supply to prevent inflation and, during the 1960s, was an advocate of free market policies, which at the time were seen as extreme and unworkable was unpopular.
He then went on to make more musicals throughout the 1950s: Let's Dance ( 1950 ) with Betty Hutton, Royal Wedding ( 1951 ) with Jane Powell, Three Little Words ( 1950 ) and The Belle of New York ( 1952 ) with Vera-Ellen, The Band Wagon ( 1953 ) and Silk Stockings ( 1957 ) with Cyd Charisse, Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ) with Leslie Caron, and Funny Face ( 1957 ) with Audrey Hepburn.
During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.
Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell ( 1905-2000 ) whose twelve-volume cycle of novels A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951-1975 ), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century ; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire Lucky Jim ( 1954 ); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island ; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
During the 1950s and 1960s Powell appeared regularly on television.
The British film-making partnership of Powell and Pressburger made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s, with The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) their most commercially successful film.
The couple appeared together on screen just once, in a short subject produced in the 1950s entitled The Faith of Our Children ; when they married, Powell was more famous than Ford.
The first, Dr. Desmond Powell ( played by Jason Bernard ) was a hero from the 1950s, while the second was a violent anti-hero / villain who believed he was emulating the first ( the second is also known as the Deadly Nightshade ), Curtis Bohannan ( played by Richard Burgi ).
Baden Powell first appeared as accompanist on a handful of big band and Samba recordings from the 1950s.
It was founded in the late 1950s by William Powell Lear as Swiss American Aviation Corporation.
He played with other bop musicians Bud Powell and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, a fellow tenor with a distinctly tough tone in comparison to Stitt, in the 1950s and recorded a number of sides for Prestige Records label as well as albums for Argo, Verve and Roost.
In the early 1950s Powell and Pressburger began to produce fewer films, with notably less success.
During the 1950s and into the 1960s, Fleming frequently appeared on television with guest-starring roles on The Red Skelton Show, The Best of Broadway, The Investigators, Shower of Stars, The Dick Powell Show, Death Valley Days, Wagon Train, Burke's Law, The Virginian, McMillan & Wife, Police Woman, Kung Fu, Ellery Queen, and The Love Boat.
Tc-99m remained a scientific curiosity until the 1950s when Powell Richards realized in the potential of technetium-99m as a medical radiotracer and promoted its use among the medical community.
Within the year, Harding was teaming up with Mark Powell, one of the premier Yosemite climbers of the 1950s.

1950s and produced
Several editions of the Pius X Breviary were produced during the twentieth century, including a notable edition prepared with the assistance of the Sisters of Stanbrook Abbey in the 1950s.
In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s ; another 3 billion carats ( 600 tonnes ) of synthetic diamond is produced annually for industrial use.
The leading female stars of the 1940s and 1950s often wore and then endorsed the pieces produced by a range of designers.
* Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced in the 1940s and 1950s by Hudson Motor Car Company
Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).
Conducted during the war years, into the 1950s, under tightly controlled conditions, they produced highly significant results suggestive of precognitive telepathy.
After returning to Los Angeles the group recorded " The Train Song ", written during an increasingly infrequent songwriting session on the train and produced by 1950s R & B legends Larry Williams and Johnny " Guitar " Watson.
During World War II, and also in the early 1950s, several were produced in 7. 92 x 57 mm, which can hardly be considered a low power cartridge.
He also suppressed most of his substantial orchestral works of the late 1930s and the war years, either allowing them to remain unpublished or, in several cases, reworking them-or portions of them-into the series of numbered symphonies that he produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
In the early 1950s a Dr. Lyne Borst of Utah University was given funding by various US railroad line and manufactures to study the feasibility of an electric drive locomotive in which an on board atomic reactor produced the steam to generate the electricity.
Several manufacturers produced mainframe computers from the late 1950s through the 1970s.
Science fiction in Canada was produced by the CBC as early as the 1950s.
After the war, Boosey and Hawkes also produced a " Reporter " tape recorder in the early 1950s using magnetic tape, rather than wire, which was based on German wartime technology.
The industry expanded very rapidly with the advent of television in the 1950s and the age of highly produced serial radio shows ended.
During the 1950s the first large scale, mass produced board games depicting military conflicts were published.
Modern cigarettes produced after the 1950s, although composed mainly of shredded tobacco leaf, use a significant quantity of tobacco processing by-products in the blend.
This avoided the ozone and nitrous oxide produced by RF decomposition of air in an earlier generation of plasma tweeters made by the pioneering DuKane Corporation, who produced the Ionovac ( marketed as the Ionofane in the UK ) during the 1950s.
A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.
During the 1950s, there was considerable debate over whether " clean " bombs could be produced and these were often contrasted with " dirty " bombs.
Since the 1950s, most butanol in the United States is produced commercially from fossil fuels.
The Stridsvagn 103 was developed in the 1950s and was the first mass produced main battle tank to use a turbine engine.
At the same time the turboprop-powered Britannia airliner proved a huge success, and it and the Freighter were produced in quantity during the 1950s.
The artist was not prolific, painting just 366 canvases ; during the 1950s, when he was in his 70s, he produced about five paintings a year.
* 1950s ( early ): NATO adopted sarin as a standard chemical weapon, and both the U. S. S. R and the United States produced sarin for military purposes.

1950s and directed
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).
One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.
Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.
Throughout the 1950s he directed over 140 episodes of shows like Playhouse 90, Climax !, and Danger, including The Comedian, written by Rod Serling and starring Mickey Rooney as a ragingly vicious television comedian.
Contemporaneously with the rise of analytic ethics in Anglo-American thought, in Europe several new lines of philosophy directed at critique of existing societies arose between the 1950s and 1980s.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail ( 1945 ), and the post-war Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), and Stray Dog ( 1949 ), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s.
According to Matthew O ’ Callaghan who directed the short, the audio comes from a 1950s recording for a children's album.
She appeared in many notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin ( 1953 ), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques ( 1954 ), and The Crucible ( Les Sorcières de Salem ; 1956 ), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Directed by Richard Monette, and directed for television by Norman Campbell, the production was set in the 1950s with sets and costumes designed to recall the TV show Happy Days.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lean directed a series of blockbuster films that made his reputation as a truly international director and a master of the historical epic.
In the 1950s LeRoy directed such musicals as Lovely to Look At, Million Dollar Mermaid, Latin Lovers and Rose Marie.
The same year he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about 1950s television journalist Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
* The Apu Trilogy, a series of Bengali films from the 1950s directed by Satyajit Ray
Although some of the films she made in the UK during the 1940s and 1950s were B-films, she worked with Anthony Newley in Vice Versa ( directed by Peter Ustinov ) and Alec Guinness in The Card as well as the aforementioned I Know Where I'm Going!
He also worked with composer Paul Klein from the early 1950s onward, contributing songs to the cabaret revue Isn't America Fun ( 1959 ) and the Broadway revue From A to Z ( 1960 ), directed by Christopher Hewett.
Starting from the late 1940s until the 1950s and 1960s, he also appeared on American television, making guest appearances in drama programs, most notably in The Fifth Column for Buick Electra Playhouse / CBS in 1960, playing an almost-deaf Nazi officer in a group of fifth columnists operating behind the lines in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s ( the program was adapted from a story by Ernest Hemingway and directed by John Frankenheimer ).
In his article “ The Albanian Myth ” Russian historian and anthropologist Victor Schnirelmann demonstrated that Azerbaijani academics have been “ renaming prominent medieval Armenian political leaders, historians and writers, who lived in Karabakh and Armenia into “ Albanians .” Victor Schnirelmann argues that these efforts were first launched in the 1950s and were directed towards “ ripping the population of early medieval Karabakh off from their Armenian heritage ” and “ cleansing Azerbaijan of Armenian history .” In the 1970s, Azerbaijan made a transition from ignoring, discounting or concealing Armenian historical heritage in Soviet Azerbaijan to misattributing and mischaracterizing it as examples of Azerbaijani culture by arbitrarily declaring “ Caucasian Albanians ” as ancestors of modern Azerbaijanis.
In the 1950s, the French established secret commando groups based on loyal montagnard ethnic minorities referred as " partisans " or " maquisards ", called the Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés ( Composite Airborne Commando Group or GCMA ), later renamed Groupement Mixte d ' Intervention ( GMI, or Mixed Intervention Group ), directed by the SDECE counter-intelligence service.
Jack Hannah, who directed the 1950s Humphrey shorts, revived the " dumb bear " idea for Walter Lantz's " Fatso the Bear " cartoons in 1960 and 1961.
The Anthony Quinn film Attila ( directed by Pietro Francisci in 1954 ), the Kirk Douglas epic Ulysses ( co-directed by an uncredited Mario Bava in 1954 ) and Helen of Troy ( directed by Robert Wise with Sergio Leone as an uncredited second unit director in 1955 ) were the first of the big peplum films of the 1950s.
In the 1950s, she began appearing in movies as a character actress, most notably in To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), and North by Northwest ( 1959 ), both starring Cary Grant and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The 1980 film The Idolmaker, written by Ed Di Lorenzo and directed by Taylor Hackford, was a thinly-disguised biography of Avalon (" Tommy Dee " in the film ) as well as 1950s teenage star Fabian ( called " Caesare " in the film ), along with songwriter / producer Bob Marcucci ( called " Vinnie Vacarri ").
In 2001, Douglas C. Wager directed a version of the play set in the 1950s and featuring the music of Bill Haley and Connie Francis, with Gregory Wooddell as Valentine, Paul Whitthorne as Proteus, Julia Dion as Julia and Louise Zachry as Silvia.

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