1950's:
 

1950’s -  musicals- Elizabeth Taylor, Marliyn Monroe, Deborah Kerr, Betty Davis, Judy Garland.  War was over and people wanted happy stuff.   Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire.  Glamorous clothes and wardrobes.  Beginning of “B” horror movies – Creature from The Black Lagoon, The Blob.  Hitchcock’s females were all blondes, strong but vunerable because they were always punished for their crimes.

1950s – Films use homosexuality to promote sexual conformity, reminding woman to be feminine: John Cromwell’s Caged (1950) depicts lesbian inmates and Michael Curtiz’s Young Man with a Horn (1950) stresses the role of women as homemakers.  For men, the struggle between masculinity and sensitivity is explored (subliminally) in films like Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy (1956), Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and William Wyler’s Ben Hur (1959). 

Comedies—Howard Hawks’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Michael Gordon’s Pillow Talk (1959) and Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959)—include jokes that allude to homosexuality.