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1951
 
     
Elia Kazan directs Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire        
1951
 
     
John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story        
1951
 
    
Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon       
1952
 
    
Gene Kelly dances a famous routine with an umbrella in the film Singin' in the Rain       
1952
 
     
Grace Kelly has her first starring role in High Noon, with Gary Cooper        
1952
 
     
Vaughan Williams bases his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, on his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic        
1953
 
     
Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando in the film On the Waterfront        
1953
 
    
Fred Zinneman directs Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity       
1953
 
     
William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome        
1953
 
    
French actor Jacques Tati directs and stars in the zany comedy Mr Hulot's Holiday