Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

Several collectors have catalogued the songs including John Meredith whose recording in the 1950s became the basis of the collection in the National Library of Australia.

As television became filled with family-oriented comedies, the 1950s saw a trend toward more adult social situations.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

Atkins became a member of The Opry in the 1950s.

This troublesome device was superseded by thermionic diodes by the 1920s, but after high purity semiconductor materials became available, the crystal detector returned to dominant use with the advent of inexpensive fixed-germanium diodes in the 1950s.

The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid 1950s, with long-term expatriates in significant numbers from other particular countries or regions also being referred to as a diaspora.

The New Reasoner was the most important organ of what became known as the " New Left ", an informal movement of dissident leftists closely associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The stadium later became known simply as Wembley Stadium and it became England's permanent home stadium during the 1950s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Sullivan was a respected starmaker because of the number of performers that became household names after appearing on the show.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.

Gothic Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, with authors such as Phyllis A. Whitney, Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, and Jill Tattersall.

In the late 1950s, Cukor became involved with a considerably younger man named George Towers.

The Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused their energies there.

Over the course of the 1950s, as television began to pervade the popular culture, game shows quickly became a fixture.

During the 1950s — as a result of these improvements and the strong international export prices — beef, cotton, and coffee became significant export products for the first time.

In the 1950s, hi-fi became a generic term, to some extent displacing phonograph and record player.

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

In the 1950s, chromatic harmonica became popular in Hong Kong, and players such as Larry Adler and John Sebastian were invited to perform.

In the 1950s, evidence of Hoover's unwillingness to focus FBI resources on the Mafia became grist for the media and his many detractors.

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

This tango melody is also " No Other Love Have I " in the musical " Me and Juliet " and a popular hit for Perry Como during the 1950s.

Mathematician Geoff Hill programmed the CSIRAC to play popular musical melodies from the very early 1950s.

Although he is known today for his performances in Singin ' in the Rain and An American in Paris, he was a dominant force in Hollywood musical films from the mid 1940s until this art form fell out of fashion in the late 1950s.

When published in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, cover artist Miller contributed one of the more striking Astounding covers of the 1950s, blending an emotional musical performance with cyber technology.

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer headed by Arthur Freed made the transition from old-fashioned musical films, whose formula had become repetitive, to something new.

Most of the musical films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Oklahoma!

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

His musical sidekick in the 1950s, Leonid Hambro, was a well-known concert pianist.

Interest in plainsong picked up in 1950s Britain, particularly in the left-wing religious and musical groups associated with Gustav Holst and the writer George B.

Category: 1950s musical films

Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-rock band in the 1960s.

Their stage work of the 1950s included the revue Two on the Aisle, starring Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, with music by Jule Styne ; Wonderful Town, a musical adaptation of the play My Sister Eileen with music by Bernstein ; and Bells Are Ringing, which reunited them with Judy Holliday and Jule Styne.

Also of great interest are recordings from the 1950s of his rehearsals of Mozart, Mahler, and Brahms, which give insight into his musical priorities and into the warm and non-tyrannical manner ( as contrasted with some of his colleagues ) with which he related to orchestras.

In the 1950s the BBC SO, in common with the rest of the BBC's musical organisation, suffered from stagnation.

Her career also faced turmoil as a result of her marriage to Parks, and the two spent much of the 1950s doing theatre and musical variety shows.

On taking up the conductorship of the Hallé he had less opportunity to work in the opera house, but in the 1950s he conducted productions of works by Verdi, Wagner, Gluck, and Puccini at Covent Garden with such success that he was invited to become the company's permanent musical director, an invitation he declined.

Bernard Cribbins, OBE ( born 29 December 1928 ) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2012 is still an active performer.

He was dubbed the " King of Calypso " for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s.

Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet ( which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest ).

In the late 1950s, Sherman was inspired by a recording of a nightclub musical show called My Fairfax Lady, a parody of My Fair Lady set in the Jewish section of Los Angeles that was performed at Billy Gray's Bandbox.

They then spearheaded the nascent rockabilly revival, by blending the 1950s Sun Studio sound with modern punk musical elements.

Although ensembles like the Count Basie Orchestra and the Stan Kenton Orchestra survived into the 1950s by incorporating new musical styles into their repertoire, they were no longer the hallmark of American popular music.

He began a recording and performing career again, under the musical direction of guitarist Danny Caron, to greater success than he had achieved since the 1950s.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock ' n ' roll " due to his promotion of the style of music, and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll ", in reference to the musical genre, on mainstream radio in the early 1950s.