Timelines for year 1953
Charlton Heston
Heston's portrayal of William F. Cody in Pony Express , a western from early in his career, inspired the Bills, a Congolese youth cult that idolized American westerns.
Loretta Young
In 1972, Miss Young sued NBC for violating her contract in allowing reruns of "The Loretta Young Show" (better known as "The Loretta Young Show") to be shown, wherein audiences might have ridiculed her gowns and hairstyles, which were by then 10 or even 20 years out of date. The court awarded her more than a half-million dollars.
Doris Day
Performed two songs in films that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane and "Que Sera, Sera" from The Man Who Knew Too Much . Introduced four songs that were nominated: "It's Magic" from Romance on the High Seas , "It's a Great Feeling" from It's a Great Feeling , "I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Love Me or Leave Me and "Julie" from Julie .
Has often cited Calamity Jane as her personal favorite of the 39 films she appeared in.
Measurements: 36-25-36 (in 1953) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Elizabeth Taylor
Two sons with Michael Wilding: Michael Howard (born January 6, 1953) and Christopher Edward (born February 28, 1955). Her daughter with Michael Todd, Elizabeth Frances Todd, called "Liza", was born August 6, 1957. Her daughter, Maria Burton, (adopted 1964 with Richard Burton) was born August 1, 1961.
Gary Cooper
He left America and Hollywood and didn't return for 18 months. During that time he was in Hawaii, Mexico and France and shot four films: Return to Paradise , Blowing Wild , Garden of Evil and Vera Cruz .
Elvis Presley
In 1953 while working as an usher in a local Memphis movie theater he sang, by request, "That's Amore" on stage.
1953 graduate of Humes High School, Memphis, TN.
Dabney Coleman
Was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Class of 1953...left after two years.
Paul Newman
He and Frank Sinatra are the only actors to win an Actor Academy Award, an Humanitarian Academy Award and a Special Honorary Academy Award. Sinatra won the Best Supporting Actor Award , Humanitarian Award and a Special Award ). Newman won the Best Actor Award , the Humanitarian Award and a Special Award .
Frank Sinatra
Briefly lost the ability to sing after his vocal chords hemorrhaged in 1953. When his voice returned, it had an extra dimension which many fans believed made his singing better than before.
Got the role of Pvt. Maggio in From Here to Eternity after Eli Wallach passed on it to do a Tennessee Williams play on stage, according to Wallach on a June 20th broadcast of "Morning Sedition" on "Air America Radio.".
Was broke by 1951. Ava Gardner had to pay his plane ticket, so he could accompany her to Africa, where she shot Mogambo .
Ann Sothern
In her role as Susie McNamara on "Private Secretary" (which ran 1953-1958), Sothern played the first working woman on an American TV sitcom.
In 1953, her film career waned and she decided to give TV a try. When a TV series based on her popular "Maisie" film character failed to materialize, she made her series debut with Suzie McNamara on "Private Secretary" .
Left visibly overweight by a bout of hepatitis, she only wore black outfits in her 1950s sitcoms "Private Secretary" and "The Ann Sothern Show" .
John Forsythe
Starred in the original 1953 hit Broadway production of "The Teahouse of the August Moon".
Marilyn Monroe
In How to Marry a Millionaire , her character Pola is reading a book called "Murder By Strangulation" on the plane. Coincidentally, this is how her character was murdered in Niagara .