The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year…

Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie…

— Tab Hunter

“The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and…

— James T. Patterson

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

— John Charles Polanyi

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in…

— George Emil Palade

What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of…

— Elvis Mitchell

I am a product of the 1950s.

— Debra Jo Rupp

We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-class American family consisted of a father with…

— Peter Schiff

“Nixon had sought the treatment of a psychiatrist throughout the 1950s.”

— Mike Colapietro Roger Stone

“Disneyland was one perfect answer. It provided, an almost sacred space where it is permissible and safe to let one's guard down, take a…

— Leslie Le Mon

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker.…

— Clark Zlotchew

“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that…

— Sara Sheridan

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she…

— Hugh Hefner

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,…

— Katharine Hepburn

“Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven”

— James Ellroy