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Tuscadero
03-08-2003, 01:09 AM
What are you favorite classic films? Who are your favorite classic actors and actresses?

It's difficult to narrow this down, but here are some of my favorites:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
North by Northwest
Casablanca
Wuthering Heights
Notorious
Some Like it Hot
Showboat
Anything with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
The Philadelphia Story
African Queen
Rebel Without a Cause
Sunset Boulevard
Houseboat

Cary Grant (*swoon*)
Sophia Loren
Ava Gardner
Laurence Olivier
Lana Turner
Marilyn Monroe
William Holden
William Powell
Ingrid Bergman
Claude Rains
Humphrey Bogart
Katharine Hepburn

Your turn! :)

*ShortCake*
03-08-2003, 01:33 AM
LOL I will be here all night!!! Oh boy hmmm...


The Big Country
Guys and Dolls
The Grass is Greener
The Philedelphia Story
Houseboat
Bringing Up Baby
Operation PettyCoat
Yours Mine and Ours
The Long Long Trailer
The Fuller Brush Girl
Young Bess
Spartacus
National Velvet
Fancy Pants
The Thrill of it All
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Theres No Business lIke Show Business
How To Marry A Millionare (MY FAVORITE MM MOVIE!! LOL)

Fave actors/Actresses are :
Jean Simmons
Lucille Ball
Vivien Leigh
Marilyn Monroe
Kate Hepburn
Jane Russel
Cary Grant
Henry Fonda
Mitzi Gaynor
Doris Day
Rock Hudson
ill stop there though !LOL.

Jem
03-08-2003, 04:23 AM
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Big Sleep
The Party
It Came From Beneath The Sea
Rebel Without A Cause
The Getaway
Some Like It Hot
The Last Man On Earth



Humphrey Bogart
Peter Sellers
Steve McQueen
Vincent Price
Marilyn Monroe
Claudia Longet

RollerGirl
03-08-2003, 04:25 AM
I don't see these two on anyone's list and they are truly classics so, please, when you get a chance - do enjoy them! :)

Imitation of Life
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?

Unwanted Angel
03-08-2003, 08:21 AM
Originally posted by RollerGirl
I don't see these two on anyone's list and they are truly classics so, please, when you get a chance - do enjoy them! :)

Imitation of Life
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?

I love the movie Whatever happened to Baby Jane :D
also
Gone With The Wind
The Shakiest gun in the west
Yours mine and ours
The big street (My favorite Lucille Ball movie)
Little Women (With Janet Leigh)
Roman Holiday
Funny Face
Breakfest at Tiffany's

Vivian Leigh
Don Knotts
Lucille Ball
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Janet Leigh
Audrey Hepburn
and
Cary Grant

*ShortCake*
03-08-2003, 01:15 PM
I love Gone With The Wind!!! Ahh Ic ant believe i didnt list that.. *smacks head*. whatta bonehead I am lol.. i have heard about what happend to baby jane.. i might go rent that one day! :)

Mijada
03-08-2003, 03:53 PM
Any of the Hitchcock movies. I also like To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebel Without a Cause, It's a Wonderful Life, Picnic and The Philadelphia Story.


Classic Actresses -
Lana Turner
Natalie Wood
Katharine Hepburn
Kim Novak
Grace Kelly

Classic actors -
Jimmy Stewart
Tyrone Power
Cary Grant
William Holden
James Dean

Titania
03-08-2003, 04:57 PM
Originally posted by *ShortCake*
I love Gone With The Wind!!! Ahh Ic ant believe i didnt list that.. *smacks head*. whatta bonehead I am lol..

*GASP* how do you forget GWTW!! princess of tara and she forgets gwtw... does the ladyship have to issue a warning for that? ;) :p

lets see...

Gone With the Wind
Wuthering Heights
Portrait of Jennie
Brigadoon
Showboat
Gigi
On the Town
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1776
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Till the Clouds Roll By
Grand Hotel
Streetcar Named Desire
It Happened One Night
The Philadelphia Story
Woman of the Year
Waterloo Bridge
and a ton more...


Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra
Vivien Leigh
Katherine Grayson
Olivia DeHavilland
Katherine Hepburn
Cyd Charise
Leslie Caron
Robert Taylor
Laurence Olivier
Cary Grant
June Allyson
Betty Garrett
Gene Kelly
Judy Garland

Rhiannon
03-08-2003, 07:08 PM
the original Halloween

;)

Montclave
03-08-2003, 08:30 PM
Pillow Talk
The Philadelphian
Parish
The God Father
Cool Hand Luke



Paul Newman - Philadelphian
Robert Deniro - God Father
( I never realized how handsome they were when they were young.)

dlemond
03-09-2003, 01:09 AM
Casablanca
The Thin Man
Only Angels Have Wings
Laura
It Happened One Night
It's A Wonderful Life
All Through the Night
The Caine Mutiny
Rebel Without a Cause
Arsenic and Old Lace
North By Northwest
Monkey Business (Marx Brothers)
The Big Sleep
Key Largo
Wuthering Heights (Olivier)
My Man Godfrey
East of Eden
Notorious
Spellbound
Marty
Harvey
The Lost Weekend
Rear Window

°Bubbly Blonde°
03-09-2003, 07:42 PM
I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS
Splendor in the Grass
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
West Side Story
Some Like It Hot
Dont Bother To Knock
Niagra
Imitation of Life
The Misfits
Gypsy
Inside Daisy Clover
Love With the Proper Stranger
*this one movie I cant remember the name of it, I think it was made in the seventies, but it was about this couple who were having affairs and they both new it, and at the end the girl the man was having an affair with left him*

*this other i cant remember is about this trial taht happens because a man talks to teens about sex and they get put on trial...im pretty sure it was made in the 60s. Its in black and white*

A Raisin In the Sun
Inherit the Wind
Island in the Sun
Carmen Jones
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

and more...

actors:
Marilyn Monroe
Natalie Wood
James Dean
Sidney Poitier
Dorothy Dandridge

RollerGirl
03-10-2003, 06:10 AM
Lolita, Vertigo, Madame X, and the Long Long Trailer were really good as well :)

RollerGirl
03-10-2003, 06:11 AM
Originally posted by dlemond
Marty


Marty!! That's a great one lol :D

Penny Lane
03-10-2003, 10:58 AM
The Philadelphia Story

It's A Wonderful Life

The Hustler

Hud

Splendor In The Grass

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir



James Stewart
Paul Newman
Natalie Wood
Bette Davis

Georgia's on my Mind
03-10-2003, 04:52 PM
Movies:
Gone With the Wind
Rebecca
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Fiddler on the Roof
Anna Karenina
Wuthering Heights


Actors:
Vivien Leigh
Clark Gable
Olivia DeHavilland
Laurence Olivier
Joan Fontaine
Ginger Rogers