Myra Gale and Jerry Lee Lewis, first cousins once removed, married when she was thirteen years old and he was twenty-two.
Posts Tagged: 1950s
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Navy Fav’s
“Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms and drowning far from home.”
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Rebel Heartthrob: Sal Mineo
“[Director] Ray was aware of Dean’s bisexuality and encouraged the actor to use it in certain scenes.
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Marine Boot Camp
A gangly group of rag tag teenagers transform their scruffy selfs into somewhat shiny new men with the loving support of the US Marine Corps.
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Lion Tamer
“Like almost everyone else, Pat English dreamed of being famous.
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A Taste Of Honey
Shelagh Delaney was eighteen years old when she wrote A Taste of Honey (1958), a groundbreaking play that talked about the social issues of the British working class and feminist cultural movements.
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Marilyn Movie Maker
In 1955, Peter Mangone was a big-eared, fourteen-year-old Bronx boy with a deep love for Marilyn Monroe.
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Rison Family Pictures
A collection of lovingly worn portraits and snapshots from the Rison Family Photograph collection.
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Special School #619
Left, a teen drug addict at Riverside Hospital is administered a shot in the arm.
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Desegregation in Tennessee
Clinton, Tennessee — African-American teens walk through a tense crowd of white boys to enter the newly integrated Clinton High School.