Morning movies: Catch a '50s classic.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Free showings of five films from the ``Fabulous Fifties'' are scheduled as part of this year's Oregon Festival of American Music.

Each screening will be at 10 a.m. in the chapel at the Shedd.

They include:

Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in Stanley Kramer's "High Noon" (1952) on Thursday;

Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb in Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront" on Friday;

James Dean, Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper in Nicholas Ray's "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) on Aug. 11;

James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" on Aug. 12; and

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" on Aug. 13.

Composer Dmitri Tiomkin won an Academy Award for his "High Noon" score, and Leonard Bernstein was nominated for "On the Waterfront."

Leonard Rosenman composed the music for "Rebel Without a Cause," Bernard Herrmann scored "Vertigo" and Adolph Deutsch wrote the music for "Some Like It Hot."

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``High Noon,'' starring Gary Cooper, is one of five 1950s films that will be screened for free during this year's ``Fabulous Fifties'' Oregon Festival of American Music.