| 1949 film that won Olivia de Havilland an Oscar, with "The" | 69 |
| 1950 film in which Frank Bigelow investigates his own murder | 60 |
| 1950 film that opens with a man reporting his own murder | 56 |
| 1950 hit that begins "The night is like a lovely tune" | 64 |
| 1950 Isaac Asimov collection of sci-fi short stories | 52 |
| 1950 Jose Ferrer film shown on C-SPAN, appropriately? | 53 |
| 1950 movie on which the musical "Applause" is based | 61 |
| 1950 World Cup host, with a stadium for 180,000+ people | 55 |
| 1950's horror film creature, with "the" | 53 |
| 1950's-60's thoroughbred, five-time Horse of the Year | 61 |
| 1950s kiddie show hosted by "Miss Frances" | 52 |
| 1950s movie monster whose wing-flapping could blow buses into the air | 69 |
| 1950s-'60s "Man on the Street" comic Louis | 56 |
| 1950s-'60s baseball nickname, with "The" | 54 |
| 1950s-'60s left fielder selected for nine All-Star Games | 60 |
| 1950s-'60s singer Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly | 54 |
| 1950s-'60s sitcom that ran on all three networks | 52 |
| 1951 film "Une Personne des États-Unis" | 53 |
| 1951 John Van Druten play that later inspired "Cabaret" | 65 |
| 1951 Montgomery Clift/Elizabeth Taylor film, with "A" | 63 |
| 1952 George Axelrod Broadway farce, with "The" | 56 |
| 1952 Rosalind Russell movie "Never Wave at ___" | 57 |
| 1953 dystopian novel in which books have been outlawed | 54 |
| 1953 film based on "The Taming of the Shrew" | 54 |
| 1953 film featuring Lana Turner and Ricardo Montalban | 53 |
| 1953 Kentucky Derby winner or a 1974 cult sci-fi film | 53 |
| 1953 musical with the song "No Other Love" | 52 |
| 1953 Oscar-nominated film based on a novel by Jack Schaefer | 59 |
| 1953 Western hero to whom Joey cried "Come back!" | 59 |
| 1954 Emmy winner for Best Female Star of a Regular Series | 57 |
| 1954 film based on the short story "It Had to Be Murder" | 66 |
| 1954 sci-fi movie with an exclamation point in its title | 56 |
| 1955 #1 hit that ends "I owe my soul to the company store" | 68 |
| 1955 Astaire film about an orphan and her benefactor | 52 |
| 1955 Oscar nominee for "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" | 58 |
| 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor | 61 |
| 1955 Tony winner in Noel Coward's "Quadrille" | 59 |
| 1956 star of Vadim's "And God Created Woman" | 58 |
| 1956 uprising during which Soviet forces invaded Budapest | 57 |
| 1957 film narrated by Alistair Cooke, with "The" | 58 |
| 1957 film with the 1963 sequel "Savage Sam" | 53 |
| 1957 film with Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, and Error Flynn | 69 |
| 1957 four-LP jazz set subtitled "A Musical Autobiography" | 67 |
| 1957 hit covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968 | 56 |
| 1957 hit song that begins "One, two, three" | 53 |
| 1957 novel with the working title "The Strike" | 56 |
| 1957 Oscar nominee for "A Farewell to Arms" | 53 |
| 1957 R&B chart-topper inspired by a schoolteacher | 53 |
| 1958 best seller by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick | 57 |
| 1958 film that won all nine Academy Awards it was nominated for | 63 |
| 1958 hit that won the first-ever Grammy for Song of the Year | 60 |
| 1958 hit with the line "Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip" | 66 |
| 1958 sci-fi film starring Steve McQueen, with "The" | 61 |
| 1959 #5 hit with the B-side "I've Cried Before" | 61 |
| 1959 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominee featuring cross-dressing | 67 |
| 1959 Broadway hit with the song "All I Need Is the Girl" | 66 |
| 1959 Broadway musical that won a Pulitzer Prize for drama | 57 |
| 1959 Broadway show subtitled "A Musical Fable" | 56 |
| 1959 comedy with Anna Neagle (with ''The'') | 59 |
| 1959 hit song set on "a tragic and fateful day" | 57 |
| 1959 hit with the line "Fight the fare increase!" | 59 |
| 1959 hit with the lyric "Fight the fare increase!" | 60 |
| 1959 movie starring Red as Randy Sherman (with "The") | 63 |
| 1959 Ricky Nelson hit with the lyric "We gotta get on home" | 69 |
| 1959 Tony-nominated play whose title is from a Langston Hughes poem | 67 |
| 1960 Grammy co-winner for the song "We've Got Us" | 63 |
| 1960 hit with the line "I'm-a gonna tame you down" | 64 |
| 1960 James Cagney biopic about Admiral Halsey, with "The" | 67 |
| 1960's TV war drama, with "The" [2008] | 52 |
| 1960's TV's "The Ghost and Mrs. ___" | 54 |
| 1960's-70's backup group, with "the" | 54 |
| 1960s album with a cover photo of its band crossing the street | 62 |
| 1960s band with a car-related name, with "the" | 56 |
| 1960s cartoon inspired by "The Phil Silvers Show" | 59 |
| 1960s doo-wop group with an automotive name, with "the" | 65 |
| 1960s group who sang "She's Not There" | 52 |
| 1960s sitcom with the catchphrase "Sorry about that, Chief" | 69 |
| 1960s TV show featuring the cross-eyed lion Clarence | 52 |
| 1961 Fredric March-Ben Gazzara-Dick Clark drama, with "The" | 69 |
| 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni film a k a “The Night” | 58 |
| 1961 Tony-winning musical inspired by Elvis being drafted | 57 |
| 1961 Winston Graham novel on which a Hitchcock film was based | 61 |
| 1962 #1 hit by the group hinted at in this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| 1962 #1 hit with the lyric "True love will never die" | 63 |
| 1962 hit attributed to The Crystals but sung by The Blossoms | 60 |
| 1962 hit with the repeated lyric "A little bit softer now" | 68 |
| 1962 movie whose title means "danger" in Swahili | 58 |
| 1962 Paul Anka hit that translates to "That Kiss" | 59 |
| 1963 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee for Roman Polanski | 64 |
| 1963 film based on Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By" | 69 |
| 1963 film of a Chekhov classic with Laurence Olivier | 52 |
| 1963 hit by The Angels, ''I ___ Him'' | 53 |
| 1963 Peter Weiss play set in the French Revolution, briefly | 59 |
| 1963 Robert Mitchum film, and this puzzle's theme | 53 |
| 1963 song investigated by the F.B.I. for supposedly obscene lyrics | 66 |
| 1963 submarine thriller by Alistair MacLean made into a 1968 film | 65 |
| 1964 #1 hit by the Shangri-Las ... or this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| 1964 and 1968 Oscar-nominated role for Peter O'Toole | 56 |
| 1964 cross-country skiing gold medalist Mäntyranta | 53 |
| 1964 Record of the Year Grammy winner, with "The" | 59 |