TV

=//**Pop Culture: 1950’s**//=

__Popular TV shows and TV stars__
o Popular Comedy Shows were • I Love Lucy • The Honeymooners • The Families of the Fifties • Dragnet • The Twilight Zone • Superman • Private Everywhere • Howdy Doody Time • Lassie • Walt Disney • Mickey Mouse Club o In the fifties if you had a television, you would be the neatest kid on the block. o Even though at the beginning they only had a few shows, anything would be fun, in 1956 some scientists did a study on how much kids ages 10-16 watched television. The results showed that a average kid watched six hours of television a day which was equal to how long they went to school everyday. Television was groovy. o One of the popular shows for teenagers was American Bandstand. o **Famous TV stars of the 50’s were** • Marlon Brando • Montgomery Clift • Tony Curtis • James Dean • Cary Grant • Charlton Heston • William Holden • Gene Kelly • Grace Kelly • Marilyn Monroe • Kim Novak • Frank Sinatra • Jimmy Stewart • Elizabeth Taylor
 * • Interesting Facts**
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-->Known as the Golden Age of Television. Variety was widely spread as different shows and comics were becoming hits. I love lucy was the most popular show for many years in the 50s. The Red Scare threatened the careers and lives of many Hollywood actors. The black list was a list of all the accused communists in Hollywood.