1950s Disney Movies
1950s Musical Movies
1950s Scary Movies
1950s Television Shows
1950's Popular Movies
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Animated film released February 15th, 1950 with a plot about a lost slipper.

Cinderella

100

A Christmas film starring Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, and Vera-Ellen.

White Christmas

100

Steve McQueen tries to protect his hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. 

The Blob

100

A musical variety show hosted by a big band leader and always ended each episode with the song Adios, Au Revior, Auf Wiedershen.

The Lawrence Welk Show

100

Audrey Hepburn's first major American motion picture.

Roman Holiday

200

A Disney animated film with sleep in the title. 

Sleeping Beauty

200

A movie with seven brothers named after men in the Bible: Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank, and Gideon.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

200

A group of scientists encounter a piscine amphibious humanoid in the waters of the Amazon.

The Creature From the Black Lagoon

200

TVs longest running game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise. 

The Price is Right. 

200

A man and a woman have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months.

An Affair to Remember

300

This movie hero help set a fad of the 1950s in the form of the coonskin cap.

Davy Crockett

300

Popular actor and actress Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont struggle to transition from silent films to talking pictures. 

Singing in the Rain

300

An alien species of human duplicates, grown from plant-like pods, is taking over a small town.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

300

A game show where celebrity panelists question contestants to determine their occupation and identify a mystery guest.

What's My Line

300

A young woman from the bayou and a southern gentleman find love in a film starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen.

Tammy

400

Music lyrics to this movie describe him as "the best doggone dog in the west".

Old Yeller

400

A Rodgers & Hammerstein musical in which Deborah Kerr becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Yul Brynner. 

The King and I

400

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion. Based on a novel by H.G. Wells. 

War of the Worlds

400

Comedian hosted variety show of comedic sketches, and a range of guest stars that aired from 1951 to 1971.

The Red Skelton Show

400

A 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

To Catch A Thief

500

A sci-fi adventure based on a novel written by Jules Vernes and has its own Disneyland ride.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

500

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as a court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King, starring Danny Kaye

The Court Jester

500

Leslie Nielsen pilots a spacecraft to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier. They discover only two people: Dr. Morbius and his daughter.

Forbidden Planet

500

The classic variety show featuring the famous Mouseketeers who entertain with song and dance numbers.

The Mickey Mouse Club

500

A religious film about an aristocratic Jew living in Judaea during the Roman Occupation, starring Charlton Heston

Ben-Hur

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