Timelines for year 1954
Tennessee Ernie Ford
He also sang the title song in the movie River of No Return (1954)starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. It was released as a single and did well on the record charts.
Sharon Tate
Lived in Richland, Washington from the summer of 1954 to the fall of 1959 and attended Spalding Elementary School from 1954-1955, Chief Joseph Junior High School (now Chief Joseph Middle School) from 1955-1958, and Columbia High School (now Richland High School) from 1958-1959.
Tristram Coffin
He was the infamous "dead man walking" from early television, an often-told tale about the "corpse" who got up and walked out of a scene on live TV. The incident was so well known that Los Angeles Times ran an article a few days after the incident, saying, "It seems that on the new high-budgeted CBS dramatic series, "Climax!" (1954), which had its debut on KNXT (2) Thursday night, actor Tristam Coffin was lying under a blanket and Detective Dick Powell was talking about having the body removed when the actor arose from the dead and strolled off scene. Powell and the other actors went right on talking as if nothing had happened. And the show went on and the private eye finally solved the murder, leaving televiewers a little perplexed. CBS blushingly explained yesterday that Coffin thought the scene was over and that he was off-camera when he took his macabre stroll".
Ethel Waters
Often appeared on the various radio & TV shows of New York City media couple "Tex & Jinx" (John Reagan 'Tex' McCrary & Eugenia 'Jinx' Lincoln Falkenberg). Waters appeared as a regular on the Tex & Jinx TV Show over WNBT in NYC starting January 29, 1954.
Olivia Newton-John
She grew up in both England and Australia. In 1954 (at age 5), she moved to Australia but returned to live in England about 10 years later when she was 15.
Christina Crawford
Suffered from an ovarian cyst in 1968 while appearing on "The Secret Storm" (1954). While she was recovering from surgery, her mother, Joan Crawford, 63 years old at the time, temporarily took over Christina's role as a 28-year-old on the show. Christina wrote in her book "Mommie Dearest" that when she watched her mother's scenes on the telecast, it was obvious to her that Joan Crawford had been drinking before the taping.
Barbara Payton
In May 1954, when her finances were low, it was alleged that she gave two fur coats, valued at thousands of dollars, to the owner of a bar so that he would tear up her $200 bar tab.
Dustin Hoffman
As of 2010, Marlon Brando and he are the only actors to win two Oscars for leading roles in pictures that earned Oscars for best pictures: Brando won for his performances in On the Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972) and Hoffman won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988).
Jo Stafford
A lifelong Republican throughout the years supported Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and George W. Bush. She was even an honored guest and singer at a luncheon hosted at the White House by Mamie Eisenhower in 1954.
Mary Pickford
Son Ronnie has two children, daughter Jamie (born 1954) and son Tommy (b. 1955). Daughter Roxanne gave birth to a daughter, Katina, in the early 1960s.
Barry Nelson
He was the first person to play "James Bond" in a visual sense (others have played him on radio); he appeared as "Card Sharp Jimmy Bond" in an American TV adaptation of "Casino Royale" on the TV series "Climax!" (1954).
Bruce Lee
Lee was trained by Yip Man from 1954-1957 & Wong Shun-Leung from 1957-58.
Lee was trained by Yip Man from 1954-1957 & Wong Shun-Leung from 1957-1958.
Karen Morley
In 1954, she ran unsuccessfully as a New York lieutenant governor candidate for the American Labor Party.
Robert Symonds
Appeared in a number of plays with longtime wife Priscilla Pointer, including "The Crucible" (1954), "Peer Gynt" (1967), "Fighting Over Beverley" (1997) and "The Road to Mecca" (2000). The couple first started working together as young adults at the avant garde Actor's Workshop in works by Pinter and Beckett. The workshop was co-founded by Ms. Pointer's first husband, Jules Irving, who died in 1979. The three were close friends.
Cher
Is one of only six actors/actresses to have both a number one single and an Oscar for acting. The others are Frank Sinatra , Barbra Streisand , Judy Garland (Honorary Oscar) , Jamie Foxx , and Bing Crosby .