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AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
Erin Gray born () January 7, 1950 (age 75) Linda Gray born () September 12, 1940 (age 84) Ari Graynor born () April 27, 1983 (age 41) Kathryn Grayson 1922 ...
Fort Worth was a frequent stop for some of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars during the 1940s and 1950s. These photos from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s archive capture some of the glitz and ...
A list of American films released in 1950. Fred Astaire hosted the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony on March 29, 1951, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood . The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Twentieth Century-Fox 's All About Eve .
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
For a number of years, US movie exhibitors voted Esther Williams among the most popular film stars in the country: 1947 – 24th most popular star [109] 1948 – 11th [110] 1949 – 8th [111] 1950 – 8th [112] – also 2nd most popular star in the UK [113] 1951 – 5th most popular female star [114] 1952 – 12th [115] 1953 – 12th; 1954 ...
The Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll were polls on determining the bankability of movie stars. They began quite early in the movie history. At first, they were popular polls and contests conducted in film magazines, where the readers would vote for their favorite stars, like the poll published in New York Morning Telegraph on 17 December 1911. [1]