A report on The Beat Generation

Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown

1959 American crime film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, James Mitchum, Vampira, and Ray Anthony.

- The Beat Generation
Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown

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Mamie Van Doren at the 2007 launch of her new wine

Mamie Van Doren

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American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol.

American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol.

Mamie Van Doren at the 2007 launch of her new wine
Van Doren in The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
Van Doren with her son in 1960
Van Doren at a Gay Pride event in Los Angeles, California, 1987

Some of Van Doren's more noteworthy movies include Teacher's Pet (1958) at Paramount Pictures, Born Reckless (1958) at Warner Brothers, High School Confidential (1958), and The Beat Generation (1959), the latter two at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Cochran in The Chase (1946)

Steve Cochran

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American film, television and stage actor.

American film, television and stage actor.

Cochran in The Chase (1946)

Albert Zugsmith used him for the lead roles in The Beat Generation (1959) and The Big Operator (1959).

Beat, Beat, Beat (1959) by William F. Brown

Beatnik

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Media stereotype prevalent from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the late 1940s and early to mid-1950s.

Media stereotype prevalent from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the late 1940s and early to mid-1950s.

Beat, Beat, Beat (1959) by William F. Brown
Poster for The Beat Generation (1959)
Stereotypical beatnik woman
The news photo caption for this 1959 event in Venice, California read: "Beatnik Beauties: Posing before a sample of beatnik art are contestants for the title of Miss Beatnik of 1959, which will be conferred Sept. 12 under sponsorship of the Venice Arts Committee. From left are Michi Monteef, Sammy McCord, Patti McCrory, Shaunna Lea and, in rear, Jan Vandaveer."
Poster for The Beatniks (1960)
Jules Feiffer's ad art for the Beat musical The Nervous Set was used on the 1959 cast album (reissued in 2002).

The Beat Generation (1959) made an association of the movement with crime and violence, as did The Beatniks (1960).

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Beat Generation

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Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.

Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden

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Nurmi in a 1947 publicity photo

Maila Nurmi

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American actress who created the campy 1950s’ character Vampira.

American actress who created the campy 1950s’ character Vampira.

Nurmi in a 1947 publicity photo
Nurmi in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Maila Nurmi as she appeared in the 2001 documentary Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Grave of Vampira at Hollywood Forever

She is also billed as Vampira in the 1959 film The Beat Generation, where she appears out of character and instead plays a beatnik poet.

Danton in trailer for The George Raft Story (1961)

Ray Danton

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Radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most famous roles were in the screen biographies The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and The George Raft Story (1962).

Radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most famous roles were in the screen biographies The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and The George Raft Story (1962).

Danton in trailer for The George Raft Story (1961)

He returned to MGM to star in two films for Albert Zugsmith: The Beat Generation and The Big Operator.

Spain in 1959

Fay Spain

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American actress in motion pictures and television.

American actress in motion pictures and television.

Spain in 1959

Spain followed this success by playing Maureen Flannery in the film Al Capone (1959), and appeared in such films as The Beat Generation (1959), The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960), Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961), Black Gold (1962), Thunder Island (1963), Flight to Fury (1964), The Gentle Rain (1966), Welcome to Hard Times (1967) and The Todd Killings (1971).

James Mitchum

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American actor.

American actor.

He has appeared in more than 30 films including The Beat Generation in 1959; The Victors in 1963; as a surfer named Eskimo in Ride the Wild Surf in 1964; In Harm's Way (1965) with John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Henry Fonda.

In Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Margaret Hayes

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American film, stage, and television actress.

American film, stage, and television actress.

In Blackboard Jungle (1955)

The Beat Generation (1959) - Joyce Greenfield

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Richard Matheson

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American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

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The Beat Generation (1959)