1950's Film & The Screenplay Draft

Please complete and turn in your screenplay drafts by the end of class.

For those of you who finish early, please begin researching the 1950's. See handout notes. You will find the information you need at this website.

For homework for Thursday please read the post article above and watch the film clips. Respond to this post on the forum to the question posed there (For Thursday!)

Finally, please take a look at some of the following clips/trailers for 1950's films:

• Harvey (1950) James Stewart
• Blackboard Jungle (1955) Sidney Poitier and another clip here. Blackboard Jungle.
• The Bad Seed (1956)
• The Wild One (1953) Marlon Brando
• Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando, 1951), Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, 1959), Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1955) (Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman)
• James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Giant (1956) with Elizabeth Taylor
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley - (1957)
• The Robe (1953)
• Ben Hur (1959)
• From Here to Eternity (1953) Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr

Marilyn Monroe:

• All About Eve (1950) Bette Davis
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• Some Like it Hot (1959)

HOMEWORK: 1. Complete (you will have no time to complete this assignment next class, as we are far behind in the curriculum) the 1950's notes. These are due at the beginning of class. I will not accept this homework after 8:30 next class. 2. View and respond on the forum to Ed Wood,