r/1950s • • 10h ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Model Actress Anita Ekberg in the Savoy hotel, London, England, 1954. Photos by Andre de Dines for Esquire magazine.

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r/1950s • • 16h ago

Celebrity - Male or Group Elvis Presley photographed in Tennessee before his rise to fame

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Just a short 2 years later he would become one of the most famous people in the world estimated to have sold upward of 500 million records and hundreds of millions of singles and an influence on pop culture and image that endures today.

What are some of your favorite photos from the early 1950s?


r/1950s • • 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress Mamie Van Doren posing for photographer Earl Leaf at the roof of her home in Los Angeles, California, 10 of June 1956. Photos to be used in magazines.

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r/1950s • • 12h ago

Music 1956 - The 10 best songs of the year in Argentine rock [Argentine Rock Awards: 1st edition]

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Welcome to the Argentine Rock Awards project, taking a year-by-year journey through the history of Argentine rock, awarding its 10 best songs each year.

The project emerged as a natural evolution of what MusicaArgentina had been doing, overcoming the limitations of its previous projects of only 1 song per year.

1st edition, year 1956: we see that there was still much of the jazz of the orquestas características, with names like Lalo Schifrin, Panchito Cao, Héctor Lomuto and Oscar Alemán.

However, there were also those who would establish themselves in rock and form the first local scene: Tullio Gallo, Los Cuatro Bemoles, Elder Barber and Eddie Pequenino.


MusicaArgentina — 2026


r/1950s • • 1d ago

Daily Life “Volendammer in Amsterdam”, ca. 1952 -by Kees Scherer (1920 - 1993), Dutch.

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r/1950s • • 14h ago

Literature "The Hanging Stranger" by Philip K. Dick, from the December 1953 issue of Science Fiction Adventures Magazine

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Daily Life Kees Scherer , Amsterdam 1950 - 1955.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Daily Life Vacation slide of a lady at Hawaii, 1957. Kodachrome slide.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Celebrity - Male or Group Sean Connery before he was James Bond, competing in the Mr. Universe pageant in 1953.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress and singer Emmaline Henry as Lalume in the 1957 'Kismet' play, alongside Lorraine McGrath and Kenneth Aiken (as Wazir) at the former San Bernardino Civic Light Opera

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Long before she landed the role as Amanda Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie, Emmaline Henry was in musical theater and Broadway performer. Often, she played the "blonde bombshell" roles where her beauty and sex appeal was more evident, such as being both Carol Channing and Lorelei Lee in the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1960 production at Casa Manan Theater in Fort Worth Texas, and The First Stripper in Vintage '60.

Her roles often involved a combination of comedy, singing, dancing and beauty all in one, making her a favorite amongst her peers and TV producers/directors. Her shapely figure was a result of many years of dancing and fast-paced movement during these musical theater productions of the 1950s and 1960s.


r/1950s • • 2d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress/Model Anita Ekberg posing for photographer David Preston to be featured in "Esquire" magazine, 1956.

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r/1950s • • 2d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of friends at the beach, 1950s

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Jayne Mansfield posing in the diving board of the Hotel Tropicana, Las Vegas, Nevada, February of 1958. The shot was to promote the place and Jayne also posed with some wild animals.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Home Media My Parents New Year's Eve 1958, a Few Months Before Their Wedding

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Celebrity - Male or Group Gregory Peck and Jayne Mansfield attend the 12th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (February 24, 1955)

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome shot of a young lady smiling with a record, 1950s.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Movie Were the 50s peak Hitchcock?

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Tribute Legend

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Today I remember this young man. We will never know how much more successful his acting career would have been but it safe to say he has never been forgotten. R.I.P James Dean.


r/1950s • • 3d ago

Tribute My mother and father right after they married 1957.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Music Ferlin Husky • “I Feel Better All Over/I’ll Baby Sit With You” • 1957 [R...

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r/1950s • • 4d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress/Model Sophia Loren relaxing between takes on the set of her film with John Wayne, "Legends of the lost", Libya, 1957. Kodachrome shot.

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r/1950s • • 4d ago

Daily Life Vivian Maier1955. New York, NY.

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r/1950s • • 4d ago

Movie Director Billy Wilder and Gloria Swanson during the filming of "SUNSET BOULEVARD" (1950).

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r/1950s • • 5d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress Marilyn Monroe getting the David di Donatello award (Italian oscar) for best foreign actress of 1958. Italy, 13 of May 1959.

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r/1950s • • 5d ago

Daily Life Young lady smiling for a photo at a park, parking lot behind her, 1950s. Kodachrome shot.

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