Promotional poster for The Beat Generation

The Beat Generation is a motion picture released in 1959 by MGM starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, Cathy Crosby and Ray Anthony. Download high resolution version (356x917, 122 KB)Movie Poster The Beat Generation from loc. ... Download high resolution version (356x917, 122 KB)Movie Poster The Beat Generation from loc. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... See also: 1958 in film 1959 1960 in film 1950s in film 1960s in film years in film film Events The Three Stooges make their 180th and last short film, Sappy Bullfighters. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Actor Steve Cochran in What You Need (Twilight Zone episode 1959) Film actor Steve Cochran (May 25, 1917 - June 15, 1965) was born Robert Alexander Cochran in Eureka, California. ... Mamie Van Doren Mamie Van Doren (born February 6, 1931) is an American actress and sex symbol. ... Jackie Coogan (October 26, 1914 - March 1, 1984) was a American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. ... Louis Armstrongs stage personality matched his flashy trumpet as captured in this photo by William P. Gottlieb. ... I am an old timer who really enjoyed the music of the great Ray Anthony He recorded a song on a 78 record by Capitol # 1739, the song was Mary Rose. I played the record so often it finally wore out. ...

It is a sensationalistic interpretation of the beatnik culture of the "beat generation" (and is sometimes considered one of the very last films noir to be produced.) The movie was also shown under the title This Rebel Age. Beatnik redirects here. ... The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: This is... Film noir is a film style and mood primarily associated with crime films, that portrays its principal characters in a nihilism and existential world. ...

The director was Charles F. Haas; Richard Matheson and Lewis Meltzer are credited with the screenplay. The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Richard Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror or science fiction. ...

External links

• The Beat Generation at the Internet Movie Database