The Red Scare that engulfed the U.S. in the years immediately after World War II ruined many careers, and any affiliation with the Communist Party was enough to get you
To those of us of a certain age, there is only one answer to this question: Hey kids, what time is it? That is how millions of youngsters greeted the
Orson Welles once called her timeless. With a sultry and distinctive voice, Eartha Kitt established herself early on as a great singer and actress. She started performing professionally in the
Edie Adams was a very popular movie and television star in the 1950s, known widely for her comic impersonations of sexy singers, and her own wonderful singing voice. But eventually
Imagine a small group of high school students needing armed United States military just to get into school. In September 1957 9. African American students, the first to enroll at
He had his first number-one song in 1951, a tune called “Because of You” — and Tony Bennett has never slowed down since. Over his seven-decade show business career, Bennett
Perhaps no one has ever had a bigger impact on an entire generation of children than Dr. Benjamin Spock. His book Baby and Child Care was published in 1946, just
He was one of the hottest young movie stars in the 1950s… Tab Hunter — who grew up as Artt Gelien — was a figure skater as a teenager. As
In the 1950s, few actors dominated Broadway the way Yul Brynner did. Playing the lead in the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s play “The King and I,” Brynner eEstablished himself as a
As a young journalist in the 1950s, Carl T. Rowan covered the emerging civil rights movement, and its leaders, including people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. The
