What happened in 1948?!
Question: I'd like to know all the info about what happened in 1948, from the top ten movies, top ten music, what was the fashion of the day.
Its my friend's 60th birthday so I thought it would be nice to create a bit of a montage of what happened in the year of her birth.
I've been searching quite a bit so far but I'd like to know your opinions and anything you have.
Answers: I'd like to know all the info about what happened in 1948, from the top ten movies, top ten music, what was the fashion of the day.
Its my friend's 60th birthday so I thought it would be nice to create a bit of a montage of what happened in the year of her birth.
I've been searching quite a bit so far but I'd like to know your opinions and anything you have.
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Hamlet
Best Director: John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actor: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
Best Actress: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor - Key Largo
Golden Globe Awards:
Best Picture (tie): Johnny Belinda
Best Picture (tie): The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Director: John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Actor: Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
Best Actress: Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
Films released in 1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Anna Karenina
Arch of Triumph
Bicycle Thieves aka The Bicycle Thief
Call Northside 777, with James Stewart
The Fallen Idol
Easter Parade
Fighter Squadron
Fort Apache, starring John Wayne
Hamlet
Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer
Johnny Belinda
Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Ladies of the Chorus
The Lady from Shanghai
Macbeth, directed by and starring Orson Welles
The Man from Colorado
Melody Time
Mexican Hayride, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
The Naked City
The Noose Hangs High, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Oliver Twist
The Paleface
The Pirate
Red River
The Red Shoes
Rogues Regiment, starring Dick Powell, Marta Toren and Vincent Price
Rope by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart
Scott of the Antarctic, starring John Mills
The Snake Pit
State of the Union
The Three Musketeers
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Up in Central Park, starring Deanna Durbin and Vincent Price
The Winslow Boy
Births
January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
January 16 - John Carpenter, director
February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress
March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress
July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
October 9 - Jackson Browne, songwriter
October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
Deaths
February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director
July 5 - Carole Landis, actress
July 15 - William Selig, pioneer studio builder
July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director
August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_in_fil...
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HIT SONGS of 1948
"Ballerina" Vaughn Monroe
"I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Art Mooney
"Ma?ana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" Peggy Lee
"Nature Boy" King Cole
"Woody Wood-Pecker" Kay Kyser
"You Call Everybody Darlin'" Al Trace
"A Tree in the Meadow" Margaret Whiting
"Twelfth Street Rag" Pee Wee Hunt
"Buttons and Bows" Dinah Shore
FASHIONS:
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/40scloth...
http://www.retro-housewife.com/1940-fash...
http://100megspop3.com/adira/1940s2.html
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NOTE: The Hippies and rock music were a LONG way off in 1948! Someone needs to check a history book or at least pay attention in class. Rock 'n' roll wasn't really going till the tailend of the Fifties and was gathering steam in the Sixites. The Baby Boomers were starting to build up the largest generation there has ever been in the history of the world! Just think: Samuel L. Jackson was born that year!
i dont kno anything about that time themost popular stuff was hippie stuff
rock music rocked and i know nothing else
Have you thought about going to a Hallmark store? They usually have a special section of cards arranged by year and the card tells just about all the info you'd want for 1948 or any other year from the 30', 40's, 50's, etc. I don't know if Hallmark still offers a service (for a fee) whereby they will print up a little booklet that is specific to a particular birth date. I had them made-up for all three of my kids. The info includes how much was the average car and how much was a loaf of bread and a quart of milk? It makes for a nice keepsake. Just an idea...
So much happened around then. I just did some research and I hope some of these sites help you out. Good luck!
List of top ten movies
http://movies.toptenreviews.com/list_194...
List of top ten music
http://music.toptenreviews.com/years/lis...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_in_mus...
Fashion during 1948
http://retro-fashion-history.com/html/19...
http://www.costumegallery.com/1940.htm
Info on 1948 history
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1948.html
http://www.babyboomers.com/years/1948.ht...
http://www.multied.com/20th/1948.html
And a cute gift for a 60th B-Day!
http://www.overthehillgifts.com/60thbirt...