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Mississippi High Schoolers… and a ‘58 Chevy

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Remembering Burt Lancaster on his birthday, here in SEPARATE TABLES (‘58)

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Marilyn Monroe, 1957

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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, 1958

“I’ve repeatedly said that for people with as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures — and that’s about all we have in common. Maybe that’s enough… Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends — and not impose one upon the other.”

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Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, photographed by Slim Aarons in 1957.

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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 1958

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Mantovani: Romantic Melodies - Long playing microgroove full frequency range recording. London Records LL 979, 1954 (image via Ernie Uszniewicz)

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Dodge

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The Red Menace (1949)

Directed by: R. G. Springsteen

Starring: Robert Rockwell and Hannelore Axman

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On 19 June, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair of Sing Sing Prison for conspiracy to commit espionage. The photo above shows their last embrace before being executed.

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because pretty much every american university didn’t admit jewish students until the fifties and sixties, a lot of jews flooded into one of the few that did: the city college of new york. the influx of jewish students was enormous, and by 1920, 80 percent of the university was jewish and 90 percent of its women’s college. these students turned it into a hotbed of working-class jewish radicalism that earned it the nickname “harvard of the proletariat”. the cafeteria was famous for its debates between alcove 1, where many well known trotskyists, such as irving howe (as well as, unfortunately, well known neoconservatives like irving kristol), cut their teeth, and alcove 2, where the (marxist-leninist) young communist league, including a young julius rosenberg, cut theirs, outnumbering alcove 1 by ten-to-one. in 1945, in response to antisemitic and anti-black faculty members, students organized the first ever general strike at a university. this tradition of radicalism was carried on by puertorriqueñx and black students, such as assata shakur, for many decades after the student body became less predominantly jewish (because enrollment at other universities was finally opened to jews)

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CultureHISTORY *50s* - The Rosenbergs Execution - #McCarthyism

“The hours count. The minutes count. Do not let this crime against humanity take place.” – Pablo Picasso, 1951

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Grace Kelly in button-down shirt, cuffed jeans worn with a scarf instead of belt, and penny loafers,  1955

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Peter Lorre and friends, 1944

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Elizabeth Taylor plays with a duckling at home, 1957. 

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Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain, 1952

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Times Square on a rainy day, photo by Fred Stein, 1949