Classic Movies
This movie's climax is the Grand National Horse Race.
National Velvet
Teenagers gathered here to dance to records
sock hops
Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig are characters in this popular book published in 1972.
Watership Down
She was the first woman to serve in a U.S. president's cabinet.
Frances Perkins
He was known for being the first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes.
Roger Bannister
She won the Best Actress Oscar for The Miracle Worker.
Who is Anne Barncroft
These are wide felt fabric with appliqued designs.
Poodle skirts
Who was the pioneer environmentalist who wrote The Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
She was the first black woman to run for president of the United States.
Shirley Chisholm
This man won the international Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958.
Van Cliburn
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a central character in this classical movie.
The Lion in Winter
This warm outer garment was worn by high school/college athletes and their girlfriends.
Letterman jacket
A New England town's scandals were exposed in this fictional story by Grace Metalus
Peyton Place
This man was Joe McCarthy's assistant in ferreting out communists within the federal government.
Roy Cohn
She was the heiress to a great tobacco fortune who frequently made headlines in the 40s and 50s
Doris Duke
In this movie a ballerina is torn between her love for her husband and her love to dance.
The Red Shoes
What is the name for the strips are facial hair extending from the hairline down.
Sideburns
This inspirational fable by Jonathan Livingston was a best seller in 1970
Seagull
During his administration, the phrase "under God," was added to the pledge of allegiance.
President Dwight Eisenhower
This man was the most decorated U.S. soldier of WWII.
A dockworker tells his brother, "I could have been a contender" in this movie.
On the Waterfront
An artificial strap runs across the front of this shoe with no laces.
Penny loafers
This book by Betty Freidan is all about women's expanding ways to find fulfillment.
The Feminine Mystique
This woman was a nationally prominent figure in the conservative movement, speaking against abortion, gay rights, and the feminist movement in the 60s and 70s.
Phyllis Schlafley
After divorcing Elliot Roosevelt in 1950, this woman appeared on numerous talk shows, game shows, and Broadway productions during the 1950s.
Fay Emmerson