Which old movies and movie stars do you like.

[Nikepallas]

Just to lighten things up I thought we can talk about something fun before our minds got back to the true Business at hand...Trying to figure out how to get Bush out of office.


Okay I'm not that old but I love the movie the Quiet Man.(The only John Wayne movie I really REALLY like.) I know it is sexiest in a sense but aside from that it is a VERY cute movie. I LOVE the fight scene in the end and I honestly believe it is the best fight scene in a movie. And the way the Catholics and Protestations got a long in a sense makes me wish that it wasn't all Hollywood.


I also find that I love Buster Keaton silent movies. His eyes just seem to drag you into the world of the movie.


I also like Rosalind Russell movies... I the early days she often played a successful business woman of some sort who of course gave up career for marriage.(I know kind of out dated.) But what made them soo cool to me was the fact that in the 1930's and 1940's she was playing such a smart successful woman. Two movies I would tell anyone to see: "Take a Letter, Darling" and "His Girl, Friday" Which has the best dialog I have ever seen and I do wish She and Cary Grant did have a chance to make another movie together.

[ET Awful]

1. Audrey Hepburn - especially the era of Roman Holiday, etc.

She was a complete knock out and extremely talented as well :).

And, since I mentioned Roman Holiday, let's toss Gregory Peck into the mix.

[MacCovern]

30. I miss Audrey Hepburn also

Audrey had a timeless elegance.
I almost broke down and cried when I was driving home one day
years ago and they announced her death on the news.

[K8-EEE]

37. My 14 y/o daughter & friends worship Audrey

She is so popular with that age group -- don't know if it's just her school or in general?

[Nevernose]

2. Jimmy Stewart, anything by Alfred Hitchcock n/t

[oxymoron]

3. Speaking of Rosalind Russell

My all time favorite is "Auntie Mame" Such a witty script.

[Nikepallas]

My ALL TIME FAVORITE

"Life is a Banquette and most poor suckers are starving"! best line ever

You know Rosalind actually modeled her performance after her own sister--which was known as "The Duchess". I could talk for hours about that movie.:bounce: :bounce:

[K8-EEE]

39. Trouble With Angels

OMG -- love her early roles but she was so great in TWA, I love Hayley Mills...named my first daughter Hayley!

My friend & fellow school mom played Marvel Ann!!

[sundog]

4. Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria & La Strada

[AlamoDemoc]

15. Yul Brenner "The King & I"

Cary Grant "The Philadelphia Story"

Sydney Portier "Guess Who's coming to diner"

[WoodrowFan]

5. Cary Grant

who put tho oo in COOL.

oh, and Henry Fonda cause he seems like a decent guy!

[Ann Arbor Dem]

6. I love the Thin Man movies...

Actually most any movie with William Powell and/or Myrna Loy. The Madcap Miss Manton with Barbara Stanwyk is a favorite too. Pre-code movies are a hoot to watch, especially the ones about "fallen" women.

[NashVegas]

7. I Just Watched the Quiet Man, Too

It has one of the best fight scenes ever, but my favorite moment is the look on Maureen O'Hara's face after the Duke finally takes a swing.

Of course I dig old Kate Hepburn movies - who doesn't? And I'm gearing up to investigate Patricia Neal's finest.

[Shopaholic]

8. Was there ever a better looking man than Cary Grant?

Damn, he was fine. I love the Thin Man movies too--William Powell was just beyond perfection and Myrna Loy was gorgeous and funny to boot. Other favs: Jimmy Stewart, and Ava Gardner (she wasn't the best actress in the world but she kicked Frank Sinatra's ass so you gotta love her for that if for no other reason!)

[liberalmuse]

12. 'An Affair to Remember'...

Awwww. Then that damn movie 'Sleepless In Seattle' had to ruin it for me.

[Penndems]

38. "North by Northwest" - Excellent Hitch movie with Cary

A classic by anyone's standards.

I'm in the process of reading Marc Eliot's outstanding biography on Grant. A must for any fan. Those rumors about CG and Randolph Scott really were true.

[Carla in Ca]

45. self-delete

[Zero Gravitas]

9. Bogart

From Casablanca to the Caine Mutiny... great stuff.

[truthpusher]

10. I loved Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels...

[bettyellen]

14. THAT'S A GREAT ONE !!

[liberalmuse]

11. I also love 'The Quiet Man'.

And Audrey Hepburn. What a beautiful human being she was. I watched, 'Rear Window' the other night. I'm developing an even greater appreciation of Hitchcock!

My guilty pleasures include Doris Day movies such as 'Pillow Talk' and 'That Touch of Mink'--great one-liners! I haven't watched many classics lately, so I think my tastes may have changed from years ago when I used to watch them a lot.

[bettyellen]

13. BALL OF FIRE BARBARA STANWYCK +GARY COOPER, SHE'S A MOB MOLL +

HE'S AN CLOISTERED ENGLISH PROFESSOR ON A RARE VISIT TO THE REAL WORLD TO UPDATE HIS ENCYCLOPEDIA CHAPTER ON MODERN SLANG. LOTSA GREAT DIALOUGE, GREAT CAR CHASE SCENE FROM NYC OVER THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE INTO N.J.
STANWYCK IS AWESOME SINGING "DRUM BOOGIE" WHILE GENE KRUPA PLAYS IT WITH MATCHSTICKS.
SHE ALSO TEACHES COOPER THE MEANING OF "YUM" AND "YUM YUM"!

[AlamoDemoc]

17. Of course my all-time favorite

female actresses are Audrey Hepburn and Vivien Leigh

[CBHagman]

19. Oh, that's a classic, bettyellen!

What a terrific, entertaining movie, and such a great cast, too. Gary Cooper was great at portraying a shy man just awakening to life, and of course Stanwyck is just Stanwyck!

And I love that cast (the last scene is classic). Keep your eye on both Henry Travers and S.Z. Sakall.

As for myself, I am such a sucker for old character actors -- Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Edna May Oliver, Thelma Ritter, George Tobias, Una O'Connor, Edmund Gwenn. Forget star power; just give me these pros!

And I must also mention how much I've been impressed by John Garfield. What a tragedy that he died so young. He was electrifying on screen.

As for the others, there are so many great pairings, scripts and movies that it's hard to know where to start. Everybody in "The Philadelphia Story" and "Bringing Up Baby" is marvelous, for example, and I could watch "Casablanca" or "To Have and Have Not" pretty much every week.

Yes, Turner Classic Movies is an occasion of sin for me!

[bettyellen]

56. what's the one w/ her and henry fonda where she's a con woman on a ship?

love ee horton and ritter, damn you know them all though! ball of fire is just the best script ever for fluff. i don't know why it's not more widely known.

[faithnotgreed]

60. the lady eve. she is so incredible in that movie. but then she always is

[bettyellen]

62. she holds her own with all the greatest actors and comes off like quite a

person to reckon with. i could have had worse role models.

[Spiffarino]

42. Barbara Stanwyck

...always made my poor teenage heart absolutely pound. She was the hottest thing I had ever seen.

[bettyellen]

57. my dad felt the same way, he tried to mold me to be like her. hopefully...

[flygal]

64. That's the one I was thinking of....

Apparently the dvd came out in limited release and it's worth over $200 now.

GREAT MOVIE - I taped it off TCM and watch it over and over...

My favorite line

Gary Cooper: kind of corny, huh?

Barbars Stanwick: right off the cob!

[calico1]

16. I love old movie comedies with

Carole Lombard. She was a very funny and talented actress. Love "To Be Or Not To Be" which ended up being her last movie.

[bettyellen]

58. she was an amazing talent, carole lombard

[faithnotgreed]

61. "in name only" is one of my favorites. starred carole lombard/cary grant

[Penndems]

18. Those old MGM musicals, especially with Mickey Rooney and

Judy Garland ("Let's put on a show, kids!). Also "An American in Paris", "On the Town", any and all Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies ("Top Hat", "Roberta", "Carefree"). "Citizen Kane", "The Best Years Of Our Lives", "Double Indemnity", "The Public Enemy", "Key Largo", "A Face in the Crowd", "On the Waterfront". Saw "Blackboard Jungle" a few weeks back -- gotta love it! Love those Warner Brothers mob movies, too ("The Roaring Twenties").

I really enjoy watching the "Sunday Night Silents" program on TCM (if I can stay awake long enough). Just thinking that my grandparents and great-grandparents may have seen some of those flicks makes me feel a bond with them. Greta Garbo has to be one of the most beautiful women who ever lived. When she teamed up with John Gilbert (the reigning sex symbol of his day) sparks FLEW! :loveya: (Check out "Love" sometime). And in "Camille", Garbo was radiant.

Favorite actors: Robert Mitchum, William Powell, Frederick March, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Cary Grant, James Garner, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and - MOST DEFINITELY - Clark Gable. What a major HOTTIE he was! :loveya:

Favorite actresses: Garbo, Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Ann Sheridan, Marilyn Monroe.

[Nikepallas]

23. It's kind of funny...

I use to think silent movies were corny the way they over acted and everything... but I slowly realized that those actors really did convey the movie by gestures and facial expressions. Could any of today's actors do that?

[Penndems]

26. Isn't that AMAZING?

They had to rely solely on their facial and hand gestures. Just incredible.

Ever see the original silent version of "Zorro" with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.? He did all of his own stunts.

And that was in the early 1920s!

[Nikepallas]

31. YEP and my all time favorite is Phantom of the Opera...

monster is not scary BUT none the less it was good acting.

[Penndems]

33. Ah, yes - "The Man Of A Thousand Faces"

Loved Lon Chaney in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and the silent with Joan Crawford - "The Unholy" (?) - can't think of the name of it . . .

[Nikepallas]

36. I think that's right

[CBHagman]

73. I think it's "The Unholy Three"

Did you see the documentary on Lon Chaney on Turner Classic Movies? They discussed that particular film. Chilling stuff!

[Penndems]

79. Yes, I did - a GREAT documentary

Lon Chaney was truly a man ahead of his time (and a pioneer in the field of make-up artistry).

[Wols]

20. Dr. Strangelove

Still relevant.

[lpbk2713]

21. Just give me anything with Spencer Tracy or Gary Cooper

and I'll watch it.

[VOX]

22. I will watch anything with Jimmy Cagney in it...

He was a cocky ball of energy, and often lovable and endearing (even as a tough guy), but he could also be totally psychotic and truly frightening (as in "White Heat").

[Penndems]

25. Ditto

I love every movie he's ever made. If the City of New York could be represented by just one actor, it would be Cagney.

He's the very personification of The Big Apple.

[bikebloke]

24. Johnny Weissmuller

OK, he wasn't a great actor, but he was Tarzan. After a few decades, I'm watching the early Tarzan flicks again. I see them differently, but still find them enjoyable. Perhaps it's merely nostalgia. A guilty pleasure....and you're all now sworn to secrecy.

Also, Bogie and Cary Grant.

[oxymoron]

27. I love Fred and Ginger films!

Also anything by the Marx Brothers.

[bettyellen]

59. i love fred and also gregory peck in roman holiday mmm mmm mmm.

[July]

75. I love Ginger in her non-dancing movies.

Bachelor Mother with David Niven.

Once Upon a Honeymoon with Cary Grant.

Kitty Foyle.

She is unique.

Also adore Cary Grant in anything. Fan of David Niven, love him with Loretta Young in The Bishop's Wife. Carole Lombard, Jimmy Stewart, Irene Dunne.

[henslee]

28. Dan Duryea, Millard Mitchell

[Penndems]

29. Millard WHO, LOL?

What movies was he in?

[henslee]

32. Uh, just a few....

# Here Come the Girls (1953) .... Albert Snodgrass
... aka Champagne for Everybody (1953)
# Naked Spur, The (1953) .... Jesse Tate
# Singin' in the Rain (1952) .... R.F. Simpson
# My Six Convicts (1952) .... James Connie
# Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) (voice) (uncredited) .... Gen Cutler
# Strictly Dishonorable (1951) .... Bill Dempsey
# You're in the Navy Now (1951) .... Larrabee
... aka U.S.S. Teakettle (1951) (USA)
# Mister 880 (1950) .... Mac
# Convicted (1950) .... Malloby
# Winchester '73 (1950) .... High-Spade Frankie Wilson
... aka Montana Winchester (1950)
# Gunfighter, The (1950) .... Marshal Mark Strett

# Twelve O'Clock High (1949) .... Maj. Gen. Ben Pritchard
# Everybody Does It (1949) .... Mike Craig
# Thieves' Highway (1949) .... Ed Prentiss
... aka Collision (1949) (USA)
... aka Thieves' Market, The (1949) (USA)
# Foreign Affair, A (1948) .... Col. Rufus J. Plummer
# Double Life, A (1947) .... Al Cooley
# Kiss of Death (1947) .... Shelby
# Swell Guy (1946) .... Steve
# Mr. and Mrs. North (1946) (TV)
# Slightly Dangerous (1943) .... Baldwin
# Dixie Dugan (1943) (uncredited) .... Accident Victim
# Mayor of 44th Street, The (1942) .... Herman
# Get Hep to Love (1942) .... McCarthy
... aka She's My Lovely (1942) (UK)
# Big Street, The (1942) (uncredited) .... Gentleman George
# Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942) (uncredited) .... George 'Sleepy' Miles
... aka East of Chinatown (1942) (UK)
# Grand Central Murder (1942) .... Detective Arthur Doolin
# Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) .... Detective Mullins

# Dynamite Delaney (1936)
# Singapore Sue (1932) (uncredited) .... Second Sailor
# Cheat, The (1931) (uncredited) .... Courtroom Spectator
# Lesson in Love, A (1931) (uncredited)
# My Sin (1931) (uncredited) .... Trooper
# Secrets of a Secretary (1931) .... Drunk
# What Price Pants? (1931) (uncredited) .... Secretary

[Penndems]

40. Got it - he was a supporting actor

Thank you for enlightening me. :)

[henslee]

41. He was Jimmy Stewarts sidekick in Winchester 73.

Something about character actors during the studio era of movies. They became stars in a different way. Also, don't want to leave the ladies out. Veronica Lake a fave as is Barbara Stanwyck.

[Penndems]

44. Saw "Winchester '73" - great, great Western

as is "High Noon", a true classic.

I REMEMBER ole Millard in that part!

[henslee]

50. High five. So much presence. Shelly Winters looked pretty good too.

on edit. I read this geat book called West of Everything, about western films. It talks about horses being the secret stars of western movies and its true. Once you start watching the horses in the movies, you really start to laugh and get into it. Especially when they don't behave.

[faithnotgreed]

49. i think duryea was in "the magnificent ambersons"

that was a good movie. was he in "the little foxes" as well?

[henslee]

51. At one point , Duryea was known for smacking women in his films....

I seem to remember him always rouging up girls as he quizzed them about "what exactly they told the cops" They would always tell him something like, "Nothing, Johnny, I swear! I told him you were with me all night." Then he would mix himself a drink.

[faithnotgreed]

53. that sounds precisely like richard widmark. or a bit like robert ryan

of course there were more than a few men who were like that but reading your description i couldnt help but think of mr widmark.

[henslee]

68. Sometimes you can flick around the tube & see Robert Ryan in about four

different war movies. He aged well. He's been in soo many. Widmark has too but not as much. Widmark was awesome.

[oxymoron]

34. Eve Arden

The perfect wisecracking sidekick.

[AlCzervik]

35. Bette Davis

I love all about Eve and Dark Victory.

Another favorite but not starring Bette was "The Woman".

[really annoyed]

66. Second That!

I own "The Women."

Scary though... The woman behind the film, Clare Booth Luce, is now a title for a female conservative institute. Luce was associated with the Republicans. Reagan awarded her with the Presidental Medal of Freedom.

Love Bette though!

[yardwork]

69. And Now Voyager!

I love Bette Davis. Best of all, her great line from All About Eve is quite appropriate for our times -

"Fasten your seatbelts. We're in for a bumpy ride."

[Penndems]

43. Another great actor: Montgomery Clift

"A Place In The Sun", "The Young Lions", "Raintree County", "The Misfits" - all excellent.

Such a tragic life, though.

[Carla in Ca]

46. Clark Gable

My Beagle is named Jean Harlow. If you have never seen 'Red Dust' (1934)before, please do. It is still one of the best.

[faithnotgreed]

47. double indemnity. b stanwyck, jean arthur, bette davis, vivien leigh

rosalind russell, cary grant, eve arden, robert ryan

i watch old movies as much as i can on turner classic movies. i dont watch many new ones at all but if i do, they are independents

there are so very many old movies that i love. my list would be far too long.... but another favorite is carole lombard and cary grant "in name only". what a sad, sweet and great movie. they are so good together in this one

[faithnotgreed]

48. speaking of rosalind, anyone see "no time for comedy" w/her and jimmy

stewart? its from about 1940

saw a little of it one time on tcm i think but not the whole thing, and cannot find it on video.

[mitchum]

52. Robert Mitchum, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, John Garfield...

Holden and Stanwyck may have been right wingers, but they were both great talents

[elfrangel]

54. Vincent Price, John Wayne, Gene Kelly

Horror films are the best with Vincent....I love the way he sold the maniacal villain.

I love "The Duke" in "Quiet Man" and "McClintock", two must sees for him.

Gene Kelly.....there just are no words. He was wonderful. His musicals were fabulous. I loved him in "The Three Musketeers", he played D’Artagnan. It's GREAT to watch.


Also, LOVE Kieffer Sutherland. (Much Ado About Nothing, Phone Booth, Three Musketeers)

All of the Lord of the Rings films. I truly think they are great. Ian McKellen was perfect as Gandalf.


Quite eclectic, huh?

[CBHagman]

74. Be sure to see John Ford's "Stagecoach"

That was 1939, with a very young John Wayne, and still one of the best pieces of filmmaking I've seen. It's a great story, too, of courage and redemption. The terrific supporting cast includes a lot of great character actors.

[elfrangel]

78. Think I have actually...

I'll have to check and see though. My parents have a DVD of nothing but early John Wayne, may have seen it on that. If not, I will definitely try to see it.

[Hello_Kitty]

55. Greer Garson in "Mrs. Miniver"

Also anything with Joan Crawford or Bette Davis. Especially the very eerie and excellent "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane".

[yardwork]

70. That one creeped me out (Baby Jane)

"By the way, we have rats."

oooooooooh.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

63. The following:,

James Dean: Rebel without a Cause
Marilyn Monroe: BusStop
John Wayne: (tie) The Sons of Katie Elder, Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Both Rooster Cogburn movies, McClintock.
Paul Newman: Cool Hand Luke.
Just in general old movies Kelly's Heroes, How Green is My Valley, The Wizard of Oz, (Insert name of Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western here)....

[flygal]

65. love Doris Day...

not sure I can forgive her for supporting * though.

[Robeson]

67. Vincent Price, Bette Davis...

...and I love all the Vincent Price Poe Gothic Horrors, and movies made from Tennesse Williams plays.

[dancing kali]

71. Fred and Ginger.

or just about any of the other great movie musicals. (I'm a dancer - what did you expect me to say?)

[montana_hazeleyes]

72. Any movie

with my all-time favorite actor- Burt Lancaster. Oh my, what a specimen of a man. Wonderful actor. I just love him!

[gollygee]

76. Gene Kelly

I love anything with him in it

[DrZeeLit]

77. Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper, Ronald Coleman, Kate & Spence, Tyrone Power

You know... the whole troop -- Jimmy Stewart, Walter Brennan, Margaret O'Brien; I'm a sucker for Fred & Ginger, too.

I still have my Shirley Temple doll.

Ronald Coleman -- just get a load of that old b/w Tale of Two Cities.

I had a swoony thing going for Tyrone when I was very young. Quite dashing as, was it Zorro? It was something swashbuckling, that's for sure.

[seaj11]

80. "Arsenic and Old Lace"

is my favorite "old" movie. Mmm...Cary Grant. :-)

[bettyellen]

81. i don't see anybody saying citizen kane, and i agree with that

okay maybe it's brilliant, but it's just not lovable somehow.

[Penndems]

82. Check Post #18

It's one of my favorites, too. :)