And that was fun. But setting a play in the Fifties demanded study. I used Fifties movies and Fifties television as a guide for how they're supposed to look and act. Fifties cinema sucks. Thirties and Forties movies are much better, and Sixties and Seventies.
Fifties is a big fucking black hole in cinema.
I'd rent movies that I can't get through. They're very useful because they give you a feel for how the language should sound and how they speak the words and the words they choose to use. But I just barely got through On the Waterfront . I rented some television shows like Abbott and Costello . Now, I love Abbott and Costello, but their TV show sucked .