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1950s Movies

A Summer Place (1959)

November 20, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

A Summer Place movie storyline. The Hunter family has long owned a mansion on Pine Island, a summer resort located off the Maine coast. Bart Hunter’s now deceased father was able to open the mansion for free when Bart was younger, but current owner Bart, a drunkard and weak man, must now live there year round for financial survival with his wife Sylvia and their late teen-aged son Johnny, the family which is barely able to eke out a living with the mansion now as a year-round inn which is in an extreme state of disrepair.

1960s Movies

Portrait in Black (1960)

October 16, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

Portrait in Black movie storyline. In San Francisco, shipping magnate Matthew Cabot, though fatally ill, watches over his fleet and remains controlling and cruel to his wife Sheila and second-in-command, Howard Mason. As he does each day, Dr. David Rivera, who is secretly having an affair with Sheila, arrives to administer Matt’s injection of ether to control the pain, a procedure Howard considers suspicious.

1950s Movies

The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

October 13, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Reluctant Debutante movie storyline. Jimmy (Rex Harrison) and Sheila Broadbent (Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Jane is from Jimmy’s first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the stepmother she has never met. While visiting, Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists.

1950s Movies

Imitation of Life (1959)

August 20, 2020January 15, 2023 - by greatmovies

Imitation of Life movie storyline. Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) is a struggling actress with a 6-year-old daughter, Susie. She hires an African American woman, Annie Johnson, as a maid. Annie has an 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Jane, who instantly befriends Susie.

1960s Movies

That Funny Feeling (1965)

June 13, 2020July 2, 2023 - by greatmovies

Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy apartment that she cleans on a daily basis not knowing that it’s his place. Tom plays along with the charade despite not knowing who Joan really is, while she tries to tidy up Tom’s place not knowing who he really is.

1960s Movies

Come September (1961)

May 17, 2020July 12, 2023 - by greatmovies

Come September movie storyline. Wealthy New York based businessman Robert Talbot owns a villa in Italy where he has spent every September since the war with his Italian girlfriend, Lisa Fellini.