William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) 

Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy
Award for Best Actor in 1974. He is one of the most popular and well
known movie stars of all time, Holden was one of the biggest box office
draws of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the
Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961) and appeared on the American
Film Institute‘s 100 Years…100 Stars list as number 25. He starred
in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time,
including such blockbusters as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),
The Wild Bunch (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Network
(1976). 

         Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982)

Hans Conried was an comedian, character actor and popular voice actor who 
appeared regularly on many radio shows during the 1940s and 1950s, notably 
the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, on which he played a psychiatrist. His 
many television guest appearances included such shows as The Monkees
and I Love Lucy. Conried also was a cast member of The Rocky and Bullwinkle
Show, voicing the character of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right
shorts. He also hosted Fractured Flickers, a live-action syndicated half-hour
television comedy show .Critics regarded Conried as one of the great comic
character actors. 

    Wardell Edwin "Ward" Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960)

Ward Bond was featured in over 200 movies and the television series
Wagon Train on NBC from 1957-1962 and on ABC from 1962-1965. He
initially starred as the wagon master, but was later replaced upon his
death in 1960 by John McIntire. In 2001, Bond was inducted into the
Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.  

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1956

Elvis Presley made the first of two appearances on The Milton Berle Show,
live from the flight deck of the USS Hancock,San Diego, California. He made
$5,000 for performing "Heartbreak Hotel", "Money, Honey" and "Blue Suede
Shoes".

Elvis (second from left) and Berle (center) during rehearsal for the show

Tales of Tomorrow is an anthology science fiction series that was performed
and broadcast live on ABC, Friday’s from August 3, 1951 to June 12, 1953. It
featured such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., and 20,000 
Leagues Under the Sea with Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo. Other
episodes featured such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Rod
Steiger, Leslie Nielsen and Paul Newman. The series had many
similarities to the later Twilight Zone. Tales of Tomorrow ran for
a total of eighty-five 30-minute episodes.

A 27-year-old Paul Newman received his very first screen credit when he played
a young Army sergeant in the episode "Ice From Space," originally broadcast on
August 8th, 1952.