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1950's
Academy
Awards
"Camera, Lights,
Action!"
Let's take a trip back to see what we can see
To the 1950's without VCR's and DVD's
Off to the movie house with a date to hold our hand
To see the best movies and stars in movie land.
The theaters contained only one movie screen
With a commercial to go to the popcorn machine
We saw a cartoon; such as Tom and Jerry the mouse
Or Sylvester and Tweety demolishing the house.
The newsreel would flick the "News of the Day"
Before the main feature got on its way
Then we all settled back to watch the stars we adored
And hoped they'd get picked for an Academy Award!
. . . and now, on with the
show!
Click on the names of the Songs to hear
the "Best
Song of the Year"
Click reload/refresh to hear the background song again
Because
there are 10 songs on this page, they have all been reduced to samples
only. The name/names of the artist who performed the song in the
movies is in parenthesis under the title of each song. Because I do not have some songs
by the original performers, I had to substitute other artists, and these artists are listed second under the song title.
Academy Awards Winners of
*** 1950
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BEST ACTOR
Jose Ferrer
"Cyrano de Bergerac" |
BEST PICTURE
"All About Eve" |
BEST ACTRESS
Judy Holliday
"Born Yesterday"
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BEST SONG
from
"Captain Carey"
"Mona
Lisa"
(Nat King Cole)
#1 on the Charts in 1950 |
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1951 ***
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BEST ACTOR
Humphrey Bogart
"African Queen" |
BEST PICTURE
"An American in Paris"
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BEST ACTRESS
Vivien Leigh
"A Streetcar Named Desire" |
*** 1952
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BEST ACTOR
Gary Cooper
"High Noon" |
BEST PICTURE
"The Greatest Show on Earth"
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BEST ACTRESS
Shirley Booth
"Come Back, Little Sheba" |
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BEST SONG
from
"High Noon"
"High Noon"
(Tex Ritter)
** Frankie Laine's version made
#1 on the Charts in 1952 |
*** 1953
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BEST ACTOR
William Holden
"Stalag 17"
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BEST PICTURE
"From Here to Eternity" |
BEST ACTRESS
Audrey Hepburn
"Roman Holiday" |
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BEST SONG
from
"Calamity Jane"
"Secret Love"
Doris Day
#1 on the Charts in 1953 |
*** 1954***
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BEST ACTOR
Marlon Brando
"On the Waterfront"
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BEST PICTURE
"On the Waterfront"
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BEST ACTRESS
Grace Kelly
"Country Girl" |
*** 1955
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BEST ACTOR
Ernest Borgnine
"Marty" |
BEST PICTURE
"Marty"
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BEST ACTRESS
Anna Magnani
"The Rose Tattoo"
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*** 1956
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BEST ACTOR
Yul Brynner
"The King and I" |
BEST PICTURE
"Around the World in 80 Days"
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BEST ACTRESS
Ingrid Bergman
"Anastasia" |
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BEST SONG
from
"The Man Who Knew Too Much"
"Que Sera Sera"
(Doris Day)
#2 on the Charts in 1956 |
*** 1957
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BEST ACTOR
Alec Guinness
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
BEST PICTURE
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"
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BEST ACTRESS
Joanne Woodward
"The Three Faces of Eve" |
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BEST SONG
from
"The Joker is Wild"
"All
The Way"
Frank Sinatra
#2 on the Charts in 1957 |
*** 1958
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BEST ACTOR
David Niven
"Separate Tables" |
BEST PICTURE
"Gigi"
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BEST ACTRESS
Susan Hayward
"I Want to Live" |
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BEST SONG
from
"Gigi"
"Gigi"
(Louis Jourdan)
Vic Damone
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1959 ***
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BEST ACTOR
Charlton Heston
"Ben-Hur" |
BEST PICTURE
"Ben-Hur"
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BEST ACTRESS
Simone Signoret
"Room at the Top" |
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BEST SONG
from
"A Hole in the Head"
"High
Hopes"
(Frank Sinatra)
#30 on the Charts in 1959 |
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~ StinaLisa ~
  
"Hooray for Hollywood"
Sequenced by Ted Keener
All the music on
this page are samples only, and are for entertainment, educational
and evaluation purposes only. Titles have full copyright by their
respective artists and record companies. Please show your support for the
artists who gave us this great music by purchasing their CDs.
If
you are interested in purchasing any of the songs or the movies on this
page, I have provided a link to Amazon.com so you can search by artist,
song or movie title. Amazon sells both new and used CDs and DVDs. Amazon
also sells MP3 downloads in several categories with single songs priced
from 89 to 99 cents.
Thank
you.
February 2001
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