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A collection of films I've covered set in New York city during the 1950s.
Carol (2015) set in 1952
For the 2015 film Carol, the production team turned Cincinnati into 1950s New York City. Carol's filming locations spanned the city and took advantage of Cincinnati's great stock of preserved period architecture.
The film, starring Cate Blancett and Rooney Mara, not only uses it's filming locations to get the look and feel of 1952, but also the work of cinematographer Edward Lachman. Lachman, inspired by the 1950s street photography of Saul Lieter, Vivian Maier, and Ruth Orkin, worked to achieve an aged photo look for the film.
With the help of all these elements, the team behind Carol was able to use film locations in Cincinnati to recreate a specific time and place, New York 1952.
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The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
Tyrone Power, Kim Novak and Mid Century 1950s New York City are on beautiful display in THE EDDIE DUCHIN STORY. The 1956 biopic about bandleader Eddie Duchin incorporates stunning shots of New York that are full of romance, longing and melancholy.
Tyrone Power plays Eddie Duchin from the 1920s until his tragic death in 1951, and although the production design does the bare minimum to believably place us in the 20s and 30s, the exterior shots of Central Park and New York City streets place us lovingly in 1956.
Costarring Kim Novak and directed by George Sidney, it was a top ten film of 1956 and its lush soundtrack preformed by Carmen Cavallaro was an antidote for those wanting to turn back the clock on rock and roll and indulge in an old fashioned love story.
On the Bowery (1956)
The 1956 docudrama ON THE BOWERY is about as raw as you can get in its examination of New York City's infamous neighborhood the Bowery. Produced and directed by first time film maker Lionel Rogosin, On The Bowery pulls no punches in showing viewers this world populated by men on the edge of society.
Filmed in a with guerrilla style camerawork, the show takes us from Brooklyn to the Bronx to Broadway. "Decoy" is a time capsule view of mid-century New York.
Featuring real life Bowery residents Ray Salyer and Gorman Hendricks, this is a true life look at three days and nights in the life of the men who populate the Bowery.
On The Bowery strips away all the usual ideas we have of the 1950s, and gets down to the gritty truth of life.
Decoy (1957-1958)
It is 1950s New York City like you've never seen before. The underrated and under seen tv show "Decoy," (1957-1958) starring Beverly Garland was a groundbreaking, but short lived, television show that directed its focus on the work of police women.
Specifically one policewoman, Casey Jones (Beverly Garland). It was the first television program to feature a female cop in any capacity, let alone as lead protagonist, and it was the first show to film entirely on location in New York City. It's a portrait of New York 1958.
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