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Archive through May 22, 2004

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Weinermr

Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Keys of the Kingdom - RIP Gregory Peck

Babyboo

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i love oldies, some of my favs are based on tennessee williams plays.

cat on a hot tin roof

sweet bird of youth

streetcar named desire

night of the iguana

who's afraid of virginia wolf

just to name a few, they don't make them like they used to.

Scootersmom

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love the oldies (especially b&w). My favorites to watch over and over again (subject to change when I think of more...lol)

I Remember Mama
Paleface
Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Whatever Happened to Sweet Baby Jane
A Nun's Story (Audrey Hepburn, wonderful)

Anything with Myrna Loy and Audrey Hepburn. :)

I love Myrna Loy! I just have to think of all the movies she was in...my mind has gone blank!

Babyboo, you're so right..I consider the oldies as classics.

Cjr

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Scootersmom, I love Myrna Loy also!
The Thin Man and Cheaper by the Dozen are my favorites with her.

I love anything that Claudette Colbert was in:
Three Came Home
The Egg and I
Imitation of Life

I also love Father Flanigan's Boys Town but my all time favorite is Calamity Jane with Doris Day. My sister and I will watch that movie anytime we get together and have some down time.

Readonly

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Thin Man movies were great. I also love anything with Audrey Hepburn, especially Love in the Afternoon. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby. Greer Garson in the Mrs. Miniver movies (and any other WWII tearjerker). I enjoyed all the Charlie Chan movies too.

Not1worry

Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not classics like the ones mentioned, but now that we have our Netflix membership, I've been trying to find some decent movies for my kids, 5 & 7, to watch. I've been trying to remember the older Disney movies, before Disney went PG-13. So far we've rented the original Parent Trap, which they found hysterical. My husband thought the funniest thing was the dad continually was either smoking or drinking throughout. Today they watched The Love Bug. Of course we've done Sound of Music, the Wizard of Oz, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Amusingly, after they watch an old movie, will look at me accusingly - as thought I've been hiding these great movies from them. "Why haven't we ever seen this movie??"

Marysafan

Monday, July 14, 2003 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not1worry....check out Disney's "Follow Me Boys". I took my little brother to see it when he was only seven and saw for the first time a remarkable young actor named Kurt Russel.

Disney then exploited this young talent in a set of very lame movies.

Haley Mills in Polyanna and In Search of the Castaways were also good.

Another Disney Favorite was The Swiss Family Robinson.

Not1worry

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary, we just picked up Pollyanna from the library today! I had forgotten about Follow me Boys and Castaways...am going to Netflix now, thanks!

Julie

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 2:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My favorite old movies are "Wizard of Oz"..kind of a fanatic and have a few collectibles. And "Little Women"...I used to watch this with my grandmother all the time, it was one of her favorites too.

Kimmo

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The 1939 "Little Women" and the 1993(?) version are the best versions!

I wanted to suggest "Bedknobs and Broomsticks". "Tom Thumb"? "National Velvet." I loved watching "A Little Princess" when I was in grade school. The 1990s version is good too.

Not1worry

Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, thanks Kimmo. My mom thought of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang too. They watched Pollyanna today, and I wasn't sure my son would like it. (My daughter likes everything that's not scary) I told him it was about a bunch of cranky people and a cheerful girl who falls out of a tree. He did seem to like it, although it certainly didn't rank with the Love Bug!

Ric_Munoz

Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 2:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Babyboo: Tennessee Williams did not write "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - that masterpiece was penned by another gay genius, Edward Albee. I'm assuming you know that, but in case you don't...

Zeno39

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 4:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved "Rose Marie", "Show Boat", "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", and the oldie "Annie Get Your Gun". Two of the best movies ever made (IMO) were "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "An Affair To Remember". I have to get my tissue when I watch them. Cry every time I watch the scene at the end of "An Affair To Remember"-- I am very soft hearted and sentimental.
"Cat Ballou" was good too. "On The Waterfront" was terrific and the best movie for scenery was "Dr. Zhivago". All of these are just a few of my favorites.

Bearware

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Breakfast at Tiffany's - classic tearjerker. Absolutely one of my all time favorite movies.

Bronxie

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 5:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
With the exception of Gone With the Wind, my favorites seem to be musicals. Gigi; Annie; Guys and Dolls; The Music Man; My Fair Lady; Damn Yankees; The Wizzard of Oz, and Chicago.

Carrie92

Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oh, I like Guys and Dolls too! and...
Rebecca
Gone With the Wind
Pride and Prejudice (w/Greer Garson)
The Greatest Show on Earth
Jane Eyre
Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
The Parent Trap
Splendor in the Grass

Mamie316

Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Carrie, I love Splendor in the Grass and watch it every time it is on! I love any Cary Grant movie and especially those with Irene Dunne such as Penny Serenade or My Favorite Wife. They really don't make them like that anymore!

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"The Best Years of Our Lives" is on TMC right now.

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 5:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Watched one of my favorites again on Sunday... Breakfast at Tiffany's

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I try to catch A Christmas Carol on tv each year. My all time favourite is the 1951 version with Alistair Sim. To me he IS Scrooge! lol.

I also very much enjoy George C. Scott's version and Edward Woodward as Christmas Present is absolutely priceless. :-)

The late 30s version with Patrick McNee is not bad and the American version, with Henry Winkler...forget the name of it, was also extremely good.

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Moon, Audrey Hepburn is Weinermrs' favorite actress.

Great picks Rupertbear. I like your Christmas movie choices.

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Weinermr.

I think the next version of A Christmas Carol should be done with Stuart Little & friends....lol ;)

Broxi
Member

03-11-2004

Friday, May 21, 2004 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My Favorite Old Movies....

Imitation of Life circa 1959 with Lana Turner playing Lora Meredith.

The original Imitation of life was filmed in 1934 with Claudette Colbert playing the lead whose name in this version was Beatrice 'Bea' Pullman {Both versions are good but I like the 59 version a little more.

An Affair to Remember ...

Another.... That Hamilton Woman aka "Lady Hamilton".... circa 1941 starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

But.... my all time Favorite was Wuthering Heights circa 1939 with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier and David Niven. I saw this for the first time when I was 12 and to this day watch it I re-tape it every couple of years. {when the tape starts getting noisy.}


P.S. to Rupertbear.... Notice NO Kilts in any of those movies LOL

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Broxi, the last scene in Imitation of Life, I cry everytime. My mom got me hooked on that movie.

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 9:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My absolute favorite old movie:
It Happened One Night

Other favorites:
Rebecca
North by Northwest
Strangers on a Train
The African Queen
Rear Window