Do you have a favorite old movie?

18 years ago

DH and I are big movie fans, and we love a lot of the old classics. One of my favorites is Notorious with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. I thought it might be fun to start a thread seeing which classic movies other people like.

Ruth

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kacram
18 years ago
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN!
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18 years ago
I used to love "Mr Peabody and the Mermaid" It was on all the time when I was a kid. I even have a VHS copy of it.
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An Affair To Remember (of course)

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Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert

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Shop Around The Corner
Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan

His Girl Friday
Rosalind Russell & Cary Grant
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Rhapsody In Blue
Roberta Alda and Joan Leslie
About George & Ira Gershwin, mainly about George

Madame Curie
Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon
Very, very good about their (her) discovery of radium, which led to xrays and many other medical inventions

Random Harvest
Greer Garson & Ronald Colman

Captain's Courageous
Spencer Tracy & Lionel Barrymore

TCM (Turner Classic Movies) always shows the great ones - all the great ones and many we never knew about. If you don't have cable television, you can go to TCM's website and see what's playing for more ideas. You and hubby both will find lots you like. I'm not good at suggesting movies for men.
nicki_in_niles
18 years ago
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Gone with the Wind
monica_pa Grieves
18 years ago
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...I wish it was available on DVD.
kathy_
18 years ago
GWTW
Friendly Persuasion (Quaker family in the Civil war era)
Gaslight (if you want a real oldie)
mrsmarv
18 years ago
The African Queen
Humphrey Bogart & Katherine Hepburn

The Man Who Would Be King
Michael Caine & Sean Connery

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Cary Grant & Myrna Loy (also Melvyn Douglas)

An Affair to Remember
Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr

North By Northwest
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint & James Mason

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Rex Harrison & Gene Tierney

Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck
Marcia Thornley
18 years ago
mrsmarv, you took the movies right out of my mind!
I'll also add:

To Kill A Mockingbird (My personal all time favorite)
Gregory Peck

Arsenic and Old Lace
Cary Grant

Holiday
Cary Grant
Katherine Hepburn

The Quiet Man also Rio Bravo
John Wayne

Rear Window
Jimmy Stewart

Sabrina
Audrey Hepburn

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bestlawn
18 years ago
I never cared much for John Wayne, but Mush reminds me of his movie McClintock I thought was very good.
minnie_tx
18 years ago
DSitto to almost all of them and The Night of the Hunter with Bob Mitchum
Also River of no return with B Mitchum and M Monroe

a favorite funny one is The Man Who knew too Little with Bill Murray
Almost all the old Christmas movies and some of he remakes too.
ronf_gw
18 years ago
Another vote for The African Queen.

Also, Father Goose with Cary Grant.

msmarv and mush covered most of my picks.

Ron
maryanntx
18 years ago
Harvey with Jimmy Stewart
Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
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Giant, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Quiet Man, Northwest Passage, Pillow Talk.
paleblue
18 years ago
There are so many....but I Remember Mama, A Tree Grows in
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ralf58
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18 years ago
These are great responses. Keep 'em coming!
gneegirl
18 years ago
Great choices here - I just purchased a big-screen. I'm gonna start watching these. I love movies and that's why I got the TV. After reading these I know I don't have just one favorite - I love everyone on these lists. Bestlawn - you got most of mine!! Great thread - thanks for starting.
des_arc_ya_ya
18 years ago
The McConnell Story with June Allison & Alan Ladd
Strategic Air Command with June Allison & Jimmy Stewart
The Glenn Miller Story with June Allison & Jimmy Stewart

Do you see the beginning of a pattern, here!? LOL

For a little more recent movie, I've always loved Giant with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean.
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People Will Talk
Cary Grant & Jeanne Crain
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Rhapsody In Blue (wonderful music)
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Casablanca
The Quiet Man
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18 years ago
I Remember Mama
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18 years ago
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Tyrone Power
Maureen O'Hara

Father Goose
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18 years ago
The Yearling with Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman.
The Biscuit Eater, one of the best dog movies ever (the 1940 version, not the remake).
Titanic with Barbara Stanwyck.
Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck.
Lonely Are The Brave with Kirk Douglas.
Caged with Eleanor Parker.
Imitation of Life with Lana Turner.
Each Dawn I Die,, Jimmy Cagney.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy with Jimmy Cagney.
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Young Frankenstein, I can quote many lines from the movie!

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Here is a link that might be useful: The Biscuit Eater
Marigene
18 years ago
The 1961 version of Back Street with John Gavin, Susan Hayward and Vera Miles.
trishaw
18 years ago
I am hoping this qualifies as a classic, but the original Parent Trap is still an all time favorite of mine. I watch it at least twice a year. Almost any of the original Disney movies work for me. Still a big kid I guess.

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dotmom
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To Sir With Love....Sydney Poitier (sp?)

River of No Return....Robert Mitchum & Marilyn Monroe

Murphys Romance....James Garner & Sally Field
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18 years ago
Casablanca
Sand Pebbles
Rebecca (the book, too.)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
His Girl Friday
Notorious
Oklahoma!
Dr. Zhivago
The Godfather I & II
Magnificent Seven
The Out of Towners (Jack Lemmon)
Groundhog Day

Oh, I could go on and on. I love movies that are very faithful to the book (not that it matters) - like Rebecca, GWTW, Dr. Zhivago. We never rent or borrow movies, just watch 'em as they come on TV. The kids think we're nuts.
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