Are these 1950s best-sellers or movie titles?
Whether you're turning pages or watching it on the big screen, there are always different ways to tell a story.
Have you ever read a book so good and thought, "This should be a movie"? That's what many people thought about best-selling books from the 1950s. Directors and producers turned thousands of popular books in this decade into films, and even today, many of those books are being revisited and turned into motion pictures.
Are these best-selling books, movie titles or both?
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Title: "The Catcher in the Rye"
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Title: "Fahrenheit 451"
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Title: "The 13 Clocks"
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Title: "The Old Man and The Sea"
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Title: "Till We Have Faces"
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Title: "Charlotte's Web"
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Title: "The Magician's Nephew"
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Title: "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"
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Title: "Waiting for Godot"
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Title: "Atlas Shrugged"
Are these 1950s best-sellers or movie titles?
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958)- 1hr and 55 min-
Director
Martin Ritt
Stars
Paul Newman---Joanne Woodward---Anthony Franciosa---Orson Welles---
Lee Remick---Angela Lansbury---Richard Anderson---
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
https://ia600200.us.archive.org/10/items/Dick458_gmx_815/815.mp4
Johnny Guitar (1954) 1 hr 50 min-
Director
Nicholas Ray
Stars
Joan Crawford---Sterling Hayden---Mercedes McCambridge---Scott Brady-
Ward Bond---Ben Cooper---Ernest Borgnine---John Carradine---Paul Fix-
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob. Movie high rating 7.7.
https://ia803409.us.archive.org/11/items/JnyGtr1954/JnyGtr1954.mp4
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) 2 hr 5 min- Drama--Mystery--Romance
Director
Olivia Newman
Stars
Daisy Edgar-Jones---Taylor John Smith---Harris Dickinson---David Strathairn-
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved. Beautiful scenery.
https://ia601400.us.archive.org/0/items/b-10nd-3_202210/Wh3r3%20Th3Cr4wd4d5%2051ng.mp4
Entertainment--
A Lack Of Conscience Was What Gave Her Away | Columbo--
The Prime Time of Life: Tuesday, February 7, 1967 (the network TV lineup 56 years ago tonight)---
In the Heat of the Night (4/10) Movie CLIP - They Call Me Mr. Tibbs (1967)--
Maximus Defeats The Tigris of Gaul | Gladiator (2000) --
Boogie Barcarolle - Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth - You'll Never Get Rich--
The Rolling Stones Live on the TAMI Show 1964 (Brian Jones Plays His VOX Teardrop Guitar)--
Bonus Movies-
It's here. It's daring. It's shocking. It's a mystery. Jodi Foster stars in:
Silence Of The Lambs (1991) 1 hr 58 min-
Sensational!
Director
Jonathan Demme
Stars
Jodie Foster---Anthony Hopkins---Lawrence A. Bonney---Scott Glenn--
https://ia801400.us.archive.org/24/items/red.dragon.2002/the.silence.of.the.lambs.1991..mp4
The Gangs All Here (1943) Carmen Miranda. Great entertainment--Colorful and exciting.
Director
Busby Berkeley
Stars
Alice Faye---Carmen Miranda---Phil Baker---Benny Goodman---Benny Goodman and His Orchestra---Charlotte Greenwood---Eugene Pallette--
In honor of the passing of Raquel Welch. I am posting 2 movies for Saturday. She actually grew up about 10 miles from me. Attending La Jolla High School. I was much younger and a child. A few years later she became well known mostly for her looks and also beauty pagents and then into movies such as below. If anyone wishes to read her full bio it is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch
Saturday Movies-Both 1966-
One Million Years BC
Fantastic Voyage
Just checking in. See everyone in three.
Bonus movies for Friday-
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 2 hr- Drama--Thriller
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Stars
James Stewart---Doris Day---Brenda de Banzie---
The Ride To Marrakech - "The Man Who Knew Too Much"--
The Party (1968) 1 hr 39 min-- Comedy-
Stars
Peter Sellers---Claudine Longet---Natalia Borisova---Jean Carson
The Party Official Trailer #1 - Peter Sellers Movie (1968)--
Saturday Mystery Movie ?
For coming by today--
The Rock (1996)-2hr 16 min- Action--Adventure--Thriller
Director
Michael Bay
Stars
Sean Connery---Nicolas Cage---Ed Harris---John Spencer---
David Morse---Vanessa Marcil---Michael Biehn-
A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
https://ia802300.us.archive.org/26/items/M0V135/TH3%20R0CK%20%281996%29%20%5B1080p%5D.mp4
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) 2 hr 5 min- Drama--Mystery--Romance
Director
Olivia Newman
Stars
Daisy Edgar-Jones---Taylor John Smith---Harris Dickinson---David Strathairn-
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved. Beautiful scenery.
https://ia601400.us.archive.org/0/items/b-10nd-3_202210/Wh3r3%20Th3Cr4wd4d5%2051ng.mp4
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