A report on The Beat Generation
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.
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Mamie Van Doren
1 linksAmerican actress, model, singer, and sex symbol.
American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol.
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.
Steve Cochran
1 linksAmerican film, television and stage actor.
American film, television and stage actor.
Albert Zugsmith used him for the lead roles in The Beat Generation (1959) and The Big Operator (1959).
Beatnik
1 linksMedia 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.
The Beat Generation (1959) made an association of the movement with crime and violence, as did The Beatniks (1960).
Beat Generation
1 linksLiterary 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.
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Maila Nurmi
0 linksAmerican actress who created the campy 1950s’ character Vampira.
American actress who created the campy 1950s’ character Vampira.
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.
Ray Danton
0 linksRadio, 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).
He returned to MGM to star in two films for Albert Zugsmith: The Beat Generation and The Big Operator.
Fay Spain
0 linksAmerican actress in motion pictures and television.
American actress in motion pictures and television.
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
0 linksAmerican 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.
Margaret Hayes
0 linksAmerican film, stage, and television actress.
American film, stage, and television actress.
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Richard Matheson
0 linksAmerican 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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