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 Britain, double acts would remain confined to theatres and radio until the late 1950s, when double acts such as Morecambe and Wise and Mike and Bernie Winters slowly began the transition to television on variety programmes such as Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Based on a marketing strategy developed by Wise, Tupperware was withdrawn from sale in retail stores in the early 1950s and Tupperware " parties " soon became popular in homes.

Wise was presented to the company's representatives as something of an idealized 1950s woman.

The party plan is regarded as primarily the invention of Brownie Wise, who developed it for the Tupperware company in the early 1950s.

In the 1950s, the theatre hosted variety and revues, starring such famous performers as Norman Wisdom, Peter Sellers, Bob Hope, Gracie Fields, Benny Hill, Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd, and Morecambe and Wise.

The 1950s proved a golden age for Lions rugby, although only in the 1970s did style begin to match the substance of victory in New Zealand and South Africa.

After the glittering decade of the 1950s, the first tour of the 1960s proved not nearly as successful as previous ones.

During the 1950s and 1960s the skyline of London altered dramatically as tower blocks were erected, although these later proved unpopular.

Although this proved incorrect, it was a link he continued to explore until the early 1950s.

Murray's ideas proved highly influential over the ideas of Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), an English Wiccan who founded the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca in the 1950s before authoring the books Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

The development meant that SAC was no longer dependent on stationing nuclear capable bombers in foreign countries like Spain and Britain, which proved to be politically sensitive in the late 1940s / early 1950s.

The initial intention was to ' visualise ' original recordings of 1950s Goon Show episodes, but this proved difficult to achieve in practice because of the rapid-fire dialogue and was ultimately frustrated by the BBC's refusal to allow the original audio to be used.

Erhard's financial and economic policies soon proved widely popular as the German economy made a " miracle " recovery to rapid growth and widespread prosperity in the 1950s, overcoming wartime destruction and successfully integrating millions of refugees from the east.

The district was enlivened in the 1950s by efforts to locate uranium deposits, but these proved unsuccessful.

The validity of the specimen has always been questioned .” Eventually, during the 1940s and 1950s, more advanced dating technologies, such as the fluorine absorption test, proved scientifically that this skull was actually a fraud.

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.

In the 1950s it was the standard NATO cartridge for rifles, but recoil and weight proved problematic for the new battle rifle designs such as the FN FAL.

During the 1840s, as railways proved to be a cheaper and faster method of transporting goods, attempts were made to attract more trade by reducing tolls, but this had little effect and by 1868 all trade above Lewes had ceased, although boats continued working on the Lower Ouse to Lewes right up to the 1950s.

Vickers Viscount turboprop aircraft were introduced in the 1950s and again proved immensely popular as a result of their smooth, vibration-free ride.

As an early Generation II reactor based on 1950s Soviet technology and optimized for speed of production over redundancy, the RBMK was designed and constructed with several design characteristics that proved dangerously unstable when operated outside their design specifications.

The 1950s proved more successful, with four trophies in as many years from 1951 – 1954, including the club's first Cheshire League title in 20 years in 1953, though the team's fortunes faded in the latter half of the decade.

The 1950s proved a boom for television as it burst into the mainstream.

Mercury's heyday was in the 1950s, when its formula of stretching and lowering existing Ford platforms proved very successful.

In the 1950s, Edmund I. Gordon conjectured that Mesannepada, and an archaeologically attested early " king of Kish ", Mesilim, were one and the same, as their names were interchanged in certain proverbs in later Babylonian tablets ; however this has not proved conclusive.

This body proved to be the biggest mover in favour of the formation of a Scottish assembly, collecting over two million signatures in the late 1940s and early 1950s and attracting support from across the political spectrum.

Popular American fighters in the 1950s proved legendary: Sugar Ray Robinson would still win ( and lose ) world titles, Rocky Marciano became the only heavyweight world champion in history to retire with perfect record.

Corgi Toys produced a sizeable range of military vehicles during the 1950s and early 1960s, and in such uncertain times they proved very popular.

After the war, Bower returned to Prince Albert in 1943 to play junior hockey in Prince Albert and in the AHL — largely for the Cleveland Barons — for 11 seasons in the late 1940s and 1950s, and proved himself the star goaltender of the circuit, winning numerous awards and leading his teams to three Calder Cup championships.

In late 1961 Stigwood had made a record production deal with Sir Joseph Lockwood, managing director of EMI, who proved to be the crucial link between the record company and the budding entrepreneur, just as Lockwood had been in the 1950s for Larry Parnes, and just as he would be a couple of years later for Brian Epstein and The Beatles.

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

In the 1950s several recording groups, notably The Hi-Los and the Four Freshmen, introduced complex jazz harmonies to a cappella performances.

A pitching revolution would not be unprecedented — several pitches have changed the game of baseball in the past, including the slider in the 1950s and 1960s and the split-fingered fastball in the 1970s to 1990s.

( Hecht and Lancaster later formed several production companies in the 1950s to give Lancaster greater creative control.

Perhaps best known among these pioneers was Britain's Melusine Wood, who published several books on historical dancing in the 1950s.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Brubeck canceled several concerts because the club owners or hall managers continued to resist the idea of an integrated band on their stages.

DDT is the best-known of several chlorine-containing pesticides used in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Lindsay deal was one of several questionable trades made by Adams in the late 1950s.

In the United States, the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of several large popular encyclopedias, often sold on installment plans.

During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, several events occurred which raised the public awareness of harm to the environment caused by man.

The prevalence of the private eye as a lead character declined in film noir of the 1950s, a period during which several critics describe the form as becoming more focused on extreme psychologies and more exaggerated in general.

There are several conflicting views concerning the US availability of cough preparations containing ethylmorphine ( also called dionine or codethyline )— Feco Syrup and its equivalents were first marketed circa 1895 and still in common use in the 1940s and 1950s, and the main ingredient is treated like codeine under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

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.

He sang on a few records and then began to write songs, several of which were popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

The isotope < sup > 28 </ sup > Mg is radioactive and in the 1950s to 1970s was made commercially by several nuclear power plants for use in scientific experiments.

In abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like hard-edge painting and other forms of geometric abstraction began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant-garde circles as a reaction against the subjectivism of abstract expressionism.

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.

Autochrome plates were one of several varieties of additive color screen plates and films marketed between the 1890s and the 1950s.

But several hundred groups ( taxa ) of metazoa of the earlier Proterozoic era have been identified since systematic study of those forms started in the 1950s.

The Pirates experienced several difficult seasons through the 1950s, although they did manage their first winning season since 1948 in 1959.

Milligan made several forays into television as a writer-performer, in addition to his many guest appearances on interview, variety and sketch comedy series from the 1950s to the 2000s.

After several successful film exports to the United States during the 1950s through Henry G. Saperstein, Toho opened the La Brea Theatre in Los Angeles to show its own films without selling to a distributor.

The logo for the Mud Hens has undergone several updates, " Mortimer " Mud Hen was used in the 1940s and 1950s.

The architect Eero Saarinen, based in Birmingham, Michigan, created one of the early master plans for North Campus and designed several of its buildings in the 1950s, including the Earl V. Moore School of Music Building.