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Bandit

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Everyone knows the classics - Gone With the Wind and Casablanca, but there are some select few I love so much more.

My all-time favorite is probably Life With Father with William Powell and Irene Dunne (and a teenage Elizabeth Taylor.) It's hilarious, the acting is great, the characters are convincing and has some of the greatest lines ever. And reminds me a lot of my dad!

Another favorite is Margie with Jeanne Crain-another one of my favorites. I highly reccommend either of these classics from movies' golden age!

What are everybody else's thoughts? Why don't y'all tell us some of your favorite "old" movies.

Sweetbabygirl

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ooooh, fun post! I remember watching Margie once and liking it....it doesn't come on television much though. Everyone always made fun of the black kid from the projects with a fondness of old Hollywood, but I was the first one they'd come to whenever they had a question....they still come to me, even now!!

Anyhew, here are my favorites (in no particular order):

Mildred Pierce
(actually, any Joan Crawford movies)
Penny Seranade
Caged (Eleanor Parker)
Heaven Can Wait
Leave Her To Heaven
(Both with Gene Tierney, she was beautiful!)
Angels With Dirty Faces
White Heat
(LOVED James Cagney)

I have so many to list, but these quickly come to mind.

Sweetbabygirl

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 4:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's another one that I've been watching recently....Raisin In The Sun, with Sidney Poitier....damn, but he was BRILLANT in that!

Rissa

Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Until I was old enough to add up the years and work out how old he really was.... I had thee hugest crush on Howard Keel. Anything he was in with Katherine Grayson tops my list:

Kiss me Kate
Showboat
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (ya ok, that wasn't Grayson LOL)

Also loved Brigadoon with Gene Kelly
Holiday Inn w/ Bing Crosby

Fabnsab

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can't believe I have actually found people who have seen Margie!!! I can't tell you how excited I am. My sister and I caught this movie ages ago on tv and loved it so much. We taped it but the tape broke. For christmas I found it on video on ebay for her and paid $40 for it. It was never released on video or dvd. Someone said only fanclub members got one years ago.

Christmas morning this year we watched it and it was great. Its so funny though because now that we're adults, we were seeing it so differently. We were like,"Margie is a brat and a cling on." Or how cute Roy is with his adams apple...
I love this movie and recommend it highly.

My all time fave is Philadelphia Story. A true classic in so many ways. It has the three most impersonated voices in old hollywood in one movie.

Zachsmom

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Shirly Temple movies

Dean Martin Jerry Lewis movies

and my all time fav is "My Fair Lady"

Froggiegirl621

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 6:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Funny Face
Imitation of Life
Mildred Pierce
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

Just to name a few off the top of my head.

Squaredsc

Sunday, May 04, 2003 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
bandit, life with father is one of my favorite old movies. also love arsenic and old lace.

Bandit

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fabnsab - Yeah, my mom turned my sisters and me on to Margie many moons ago. And, unfortunately, not many people know about it. It comes on American Movie Classics every now and then. I'm like you though-I found it on Ebay and kept getting into MAJOR bidding wars over it-eventually paid $25.00 for a dubbed copy. I didn't mind though, I just wanted to have it! (Hey, maybe I was bidding against you-ha ha ha)

I know the whole movie verbatim. My mom even constructed a trivia type game about it for my sisters and me. That was fun!

Brenda1966

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
To me, Harold and Maude is an old movie, and my favorite. Maybe I'm too young for this thread... :) Does it have to be black and white to be old?

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Planet of the Apes
Soilent Green
Bless the Beasts and the Children

Tashakinz

Monday, May 05, 2003 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This one is especially relevant with all of the home improvements hubby and I are currently working on:

"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"

Any Cary Grant movie qualifies for this thread, but "Blandings", "Father Goose" and "Operation Pettycoat" were my top three faves from him.

Lycanthrope

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 12:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Depends how far back you wanna go.

Sons of Katie Elder
Big Jake
The Quiet Man
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Wizard of Oz
Metropolis
King Kong
Psycho
The Magnificent Seven
Topper
Pride of the Yankees
Shane

There are others, but those are the ones that come to mind quickest.

Marysafan

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A few of my old favorites would include:

Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn
Meet Me in St. Louis
Cheaper by the Dozen
Battle Cry (although the book was MUCH better)
An Apartment for Peggy
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The White Cliffs of Dover
The Tall Story (with a very young Jane Fonda)

Rissa

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Since we are talking about OLD movies, I have a question for all you smart people. LOL

I have been trying for a very long time to get my hands on a copy of "Ben Hur", the very first version (a silent film) made in 1926 without luck.

My grandmother's brother had this OBSESSION with horses and around 1923 at the age of 16 he ran away from hom to join the US Calvary (along the same lines as joining the circus I guess. LOL), he lied about his age and his nationality (Canadian, wasn't a US citizen) to join. Anyway, when they were filming this movie, they used the calvary horses and my G-uncle was sent along to train and supervise. I guess his made quite the impression on the director because he was given a part IN the movie. He had to resign from the Calvary in order to do this (they couldn't officially sanction it, I gather) and then reinlist afterwards. In 1933 he retired for good and returned to BC to breed horses until his death.

I would really love to get a copy of this film, either VHS or even old 8mm (or whatever) for my files. But I haven't even been able to discover if a copy of it survives much less is in circulation anywhere.

Anyone here have any ideas as to where to look? I heard something about old film reels kept at the studio and that a person could request a dubbing at quite the steep cost but I haven't even been able to discover which studio made the film. It's been a few years since I last checked indepth however.

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Are you talking about the "Ben Hur" with Ramon Navarro? It has played on TV multiple times in the past couple of years. I think it's on VHS. It's a stunning film - the kind of visual you don't get with talkies. Check with Blockbuster - you can look it up on their site, I think. Great story, Rissa - I'm going to see what I can find out about copies for you.

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
K - here ya go:

"Ben-Hur, a Tale of the Christ - 1925"

Rissa

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL!!!!!!!!! Pick one of my children and I will have her shipped out ASAP. RFLOL Thank you so much. You know.... Blockbuster was the very FIRST place I checked and the dimwit there assured me that there was no such film in their entire database.. not just at their location but not any of their stores or even to order through them. So I have been hunting obscure little film shops and sites but never bothered to check the blockbuster site. {sigh}. Will order a couple copies right now, thank you again!!!

Conejo

Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of my all time favorites with Betty Davis - Hush.....Hush, Sweet Charlotte.

Bandit

Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ooh-and one of the scariest movies I've ever seen - The Spiral Staircase with Dorothy L'Amour (I think her name was). It's genuinely frightening without being gorey and gross. :-)

Weinermr

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 11:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I watched The Best Years of Our Lives again tonight. Now THAT'S a movie. It's in the top 10 of my all time favorites.

I even had a crush on Teresa Wright for years.

Midlifer

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sweetbaby, Sidney Poitier is brilliant no matter WHAT movie he's in ("Lilies of the Field", "To Sir, With Love").....love that man.

Marysafan, you and I need to have a movie fest together...your list contained many of my fav movies, including:

Meet Me in St. Louis (gotta love Tootie and her dolls)
Sabrina (actually ANY Audrey Hepburn movie is wonderful)
Cheaper By the Dozen (I didn't know that anybody had seen that one...how about the sequel, Bells on their Toes)

may I add:

ANY Cary Grant movie (has anybody come close to that man's charm????)
Rebecca (with Lawrence Olivier)
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre

I could go on and on.....

Jhezzie

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 10:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As of now, I can think of:

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
All About Eve
Father Of The Bride
Life With Father
Red Dust (Jean Harlow)
An Affair To Remember
The Ten Commandments
Soylent Green
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Etc., etc., etc., ......:)

Fabnsab

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Midlifer, I love Cheaper by the dozen. I heard they're doing a remake. If you like that, you would love Margie, the movie we talked about earlier in this thread. It stars Jeanne Crain too.

My fave scene in CBTD is the prom when her friends all love the dad and dance with him and he flirts with the little redhead who puts perfume behind her knees. Too cute!

Kimmo

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 1:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am in chaste love with Leslie Howard, so two top picks are...

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Of Human Bondage
Stand-In

I will watch "Mildred Pierce" any day, any time that I come across it on TV! Sigh.

Others, off the cuff, I'll just stick with black and white movies that:

Little Women (with Katharine Hepburn as Jo)
Roman Holiday
The Innocents
Rebecca
Love in the Afternoon
Lolita
Seventh Heaven
The Lady Eve

Marefromny

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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