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2) Cry baby
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A spoof and homage to 1950's teen rock melodramas. Cry Baby is a rebel with a gang of rough friends. Allison is the straight-laced girl who falls for him.
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
764 pages
Description
"The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and "I Like Ike." But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia Plath, and Tennessee Williams. The New...
6) Grease
Formats
Description
Go back to high school with Pink Lady Sandy, leader of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny, and a rockin' and rollin' all-star cast.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family and dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
8) Vintage 1954
Author
Formats
Description
"When Hubert Larnaudie invites some fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The following morning, Hubert finds himself waking up in 1950s Paris, as do antique restorer Magalie, mixologist Julien, and Airbnb tenant Bob from Milwaukee, who's on his first trip to Europe. After their initial shock, the city of Edith Piaf and An American in Paris begins...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
"Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her -- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar. The vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's...
10) Book of love
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A teen moves into a new neighborhood in the 1950s, dealing with new neighbors, young love, and friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away . . . especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city. New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't pass...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1957
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman.
13) Dream town
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Appears on list
Description
It's the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan's: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events, mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink. Eleanor fears that her life is in danger,...
Author
Series
In due time volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Three middle schoolers travel back in time to the 1950s with the help of a magical library book.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013, 1977
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (228 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a Brooklyn store clerk who is a Saturday night disco king; he begins to question the narrowness of his perspective when he meets a girl who is shedding her origins for a more sophisticated lifestyle.
A musical about the fabulous 50's. This edition includes retrospective interviews with principal stars, the director and producer.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Southern newlyweds honeymooning in 1957 Cape May are pulled into the dramas of a trio of sophisticated New England urbanites who render the deserted beach community an intimate playground of corruptive recklessness.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters"--
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (519 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
20) Indignation
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
"What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working...
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