Screenwriter, novelist, and television producer Rod Serling pitched his new 
science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone, to prospective advertisers in
the spring of 1959. This was before the pilot episode, “Where Is Everybody?”
was shown to them.

Yvette Mimieux’s acting career began in coming-of-age films like "Where
the Boys Are" (1960). She also played Weena in the 1960 H.G. Wells film
adaptation "The Time Machine". She retired from acting in 1992 and is
now an anthropologist and a real estate investor.

Inner Sanctum Mystery, a popular horror anthology series that
aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. It was based on
the mystery novels of Simon and Schuster. A total of 526 episodes
were broadcast. Boris Karloff, who was heard regularly during the
first season, starring in more than 15 episodes and returned often
thereafter.The show moved to CBS in the fall of 1943.

Boris Karloff

Barbara Rush played in many notable 50s films, including "When
Worlds Collide" and "It Came From Outer Space". Rush began her 
career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional
life.  

1953

1951

James Arness as The Thing

The Thing from Another World is a 1951 sci-fi classic based on the 1938
novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell.

No actors are named during the film’s dramatic opening credits; the cast
credits appear at the end of the film. The movie was partly filmed in Glacier
National Park and interior sets built at a Los Angeles ice storage plant.

In 2001, the movie was deemed to be a "culturally, historically or aesthetically"
significant motion picture by the United States Library of Congress and was
selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

James Arness In his first movie role, played The Thing, but he is hard to
recognize in costume and makeup, because of both the lighting and the
other effects used to obscure his features.