Sixty years ago, American movies were entering on a new decade of improved cinematic technology-films were longer, screens were becoming larger and sound levels were deeper and louder. The fifties were also a time when new and exciting stars were appearing on the Hollywood horizon: Marlon Brando, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Elvis Presley, and, of course, the incomparible Marilyn Monroe.

This book takes us back to that remarkable decade and the fabulous faces that lit up American (and foreign) movie screens in such memorable films as The Wild One, Rebel Without A Cause, A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, Singin' in The Rain, and A Star is Born. As in his earlier collections for Dover, noted film historian John Kobal has assembled a striking treasury of glamorous publicity portraits of 114 major Hollywood stars (163 in all). In addition to the new stars of the Fifties, the collection also includes many established stars who were still going strong in that decade: Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor.