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A list of American films released in 1950. Fred Astaire hosted the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony on March 29, 1951, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood . The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Twentieth Century-Fox 's All About Eve .
A Modern Marriage is a 1950 American drama film directed by Paul Landres and written by Samuel Roeca and George Wallace Sayre. The film stars Reed Hadley, Margaret Field, Robert Clarke, Nana Bryant, Burt Wenland and Christine McIntyre. It was released on July 10, 1950, by Monogram Pictures. [1] [2] [3]
Dear Wife was screened for preview audiences on December 31, 1949 [5] and premiered in New York on February 1, 1950 at the Paramount Theatre [6] with an accompanying stage show featuring actress Celeste Holm. On March 2, the film began its run at Paramount's Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles theaters. [7]
Harriet Craig is a 1950 American drama film starring Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1925 play Craig's Wife, by George Kelly. [1] The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, produced by William Dozier, and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
The film was based on a magazine story May the Best Wife Win. 20th Century Fox bought the film rights, intending to make a movie along the lines of A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. In January 1952 Julian Blaustein was to produce and the film was going to star Jeanne Crain, Corinne Calvet, Marilyn Monroe and Joanne Dru. [5]
Woman on the Run is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Norman Foster and starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe. [1] The film was based on the April 1948 short story "Man on the Run" by Sylvia Tate. The film exists in the public domain and was restored and preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
Woman in Hiding is a 1950 American melodrama [1] thriller film starring Ida Lupino, Howard Duff and Stephen McNally. [2] It was directed by Michael Gordon, with cinematography by William H. Daniels. [3] Peggy Dow, John Litel, and Taylor Holmes, appear in support. Some observers regard the picture as a film noir, [4] [5] a view not universally ...