4 Films & TV Shows Set In Maryland During The 1950s
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Liberty Heights
Maryland The 1950sYou're only young once, but you remember forever. — Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955.
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Avalon
Maryland The 1950s The 1940sThree generations of family. They shared a dream called America in a place called Avalon. — Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes of Jewish assimilation into American life.
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Cry-Baby
Maryland The 1950sGood girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse. — A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Diner
Maryland The 1950sSuddenly, life was more than French fries, gravy, and girls. — Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.