James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...

Back in the 1950s, Danny Kaye’s The Court Jester was the most expensive comedy ever made – here’s the story behind a swashbuckling spoof. “The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; ...

Whilst the 1950s - with rationing continuing till the middle of the decade and economic austerity rife throughout - were relentless drab and grim for many who lived through them, this first full ...