50's prom/romance movies?!


Question: I'm looking for any 50's movies that are about 'proms' or 'romance' - u know the typical teens going to a drive-in-movie kinda movie? then they go to a prom etc i need to know one so if anyone knows of any that would be great! :D thankyou


Answers: I'm looking for any 50's movies that are about 'proms' or 'romance' - u know the typical teens going to a drive-in-movie kinda movie? then they go to a prom etc i need to know one so if anyone knows of any that would be great! :D thankyou

A lot of what we watched at the drive-in were comedies, science fiction and horror. A lot of the teen flicks waited till the Sixties. But, I'll see what the Fifites have to offer.
Blackboard Jungle (1955)~It opens with Bill Haley & the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock", the first time rock 'n' roll hit the movies.
East of Eden~James Dean
Rebel Without a Cause~James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo~~Hollywood started to catch on to what a HUGE audience they had in the Baby Boomers. (I'm not sure that they had named us yet.)
Picnic~At least Madge and her sister are teenagers.
Love Me Tender (1956)~the first Elvis Presley film, if I recall
I Was a Teenage Werewolf~Horror films were beginning to show, with an intended young audience. We'd already been watching every sci fi film that came along.
Jailhouse Rock~Elvis again
Loving You~Elvis
Peyton Place~appealed to young and old~~very scandalous!
The Blob (1958)~The movie focuses almost entirely on teens, who end up alerting the town.
Bonjour Tristesse
Gidget (1959)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the seriously teen trend didn't start until the Sixties. Prior to that, the young crowd had to settle for what the adults were watching, which wasn't so bad. America didn't see typical teens until the following decade.

Maybe that's why Hollywood made films such as "Mischief", "Grease" and "Grease 2". They didn't make films like this in that decade. Now, I could try to find some other films that are set in the Fifties, such as these:
September 30, 1955 aka 9/30/55~~the date of James Dean's death
The Buddy Holly Story~Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Great Balls of Fire!~Jerry Lee Lewis
La Bamba~Ritchie Valens
All of these do a fairly good job of capturing the time period, even though they were made decades later. You can tell your teacher that I actually went through lists of all films made in the 1950s. Besides, I grew up then!

Why would you wanna watch crap movies like that?

I'm thinkin Grease but it seems such an obvious answer.



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