At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old James Dean was killed when the Porsche he was driving hit a Ford sedan at an intersection. The driver of the other car, 23-year-old California Polytechnic State University student Donald Turnupseed, was dazed but mostly … [Read more...]
Flashback 1955: Fred Astaire and Daughter Ava
At the New York premiere of Daddy Long Legs. (t/y Louis) … [Read more...]
Drag Flashback 1955
Frederick Brittain (died 1969), Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature and Keeper of the Records, Jesus College, Cambridge. Photographs by Antony Barrington Brown. (National Portrait … [Read more...]
Happy Times: Early Elvis Footage
In fact, the earliest Elvis footage known to man. Also featuring Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, this silent film was shot in 1955 in Oklahoma City while Holly and Presley, both still alive, were working two bottom slots on a country package tour headlined by Hank … [Read more...]
Framed: 1955 Fashion Flashback
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