Old Movies

MrsMcCartney · #1 03-23-2004, 01:06 AM

Is anyone else into old films? I have always had certain fave actors and actresses from the past that I was into, i.e. Vivien Leigh, Natalie Wood, Peter Sellers, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, etc.....I have been watching TCM a lot lately and really getting into it. One area that I never thought would fascinate me is the silent era. I have only seen a few feature length silent films, but the ones I have seen have totally captivated me. I saw one called "Body and Soul" from 1925 that kept me up watching until 4 in the morning! Then I saw the first hour of "Metropolis" but I finally had to go to sleep, and I was so pissed about missing it I tracked it down on DVD and bought it on Ebay! Last night I watched one called "Mare Nostrum" from 1926 and once again was totally mesmerized.

I also love the old horror flicks from the 30s. Dracula will always be my fave but I saw a good one last night just before Mare Nostrum called The Raven, with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff....very dark, very spooky! Just my thing!!!! I may be preppy soccer mom on the outside but I am all goth in the dungeon on the inside!!!!!

tinydancer · #2 03-23-2004, 10:45 PM

You should come and live at my house! TCM is on a LOT of the time. I don't sleep very well, so many times I just get up in the middle of the night and watch the old movies. I love them, especially the film noir movies of the 30s and 40s, and screwball comedies of those eras.

If you want a good movies reference book, get Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide. There's a new one each year. Can't get along without my Maltin's!

honeychile · #3 03-23-2004, 10:49 PM

One of my favorites is "The Women". It's so campy, it's magnificent!!

tnxbutterfly · #4 03-25-2004, 08:53 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
One of my favorites is "The Women". It's so campy, it's magnificent!!

I love that movie. I'm a huge fan of Joan Crawford.

I love old movies. Mildred Pierce is my all-time favorite movie. Veda made me want to jump into the tv and strangle her

midwesterngirl · #5 03-25-2004, 09:02 PM

I love old movies. I enjoy musicals. 'Meet Me in St Louis' with Judy Garland is one of my very favorite movies of all time. I really enjoy TCM and AMC around halloween. They show the nuclear insects and the Hammer films and Vincent Price movies. I love those.I can sit through those again and again.

SoProud2BeAnAlphaXi · #6 03-26-2004, 02:49 PM

I love so many older movies, but my faves are It Happened One Night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, The Philadephia Story (or really anything with Katherine Hepburn, or Cary Grant for that matter) and any of the Thin Man movies, which are truly hysterical. Meet Me in St. Louis is also right up there!

justamom · #7 03-26-2004, 04:08 PM

MONKEY BUSINESS Cary Grant!
Not talking quality, but a real hoot-all the Ma and Pa Kettles-Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello.
edited here-How could I forget all those "Road Trips" with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope!
The silent era didn't grab me, but I have seen a few Charlie Chaplin movies. LOVE the Keystone Cops!

Some of the best movies I've ever seen were in B&W.

What's kind of cool is to see an old OLD movie and recognize people who became famous later in life. One musical-Oklahoma-has the dream sequence. I can't remember now if it's Palmer or Chandler (All My Children) doing the dance, but it's one of them.

Thrillhouse · #8 03-26-2004, 08:48 PM

I like watching the old silent films because the acting is so much more exaggerated.

tinydancer · #9 03-26-2004, 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by justamom

What's kind of cool is to see an old OLD movie and recognize people who became famous later in life. One musical-Oklahoma-has the dream sequence. I can't remember now if it's Palmer or Chandler (All My Children) doing the dance, but it's one of them. [/B]

It's Palmer dancing in the dream sequence, and I can't remember his real name (having a senior moment.....)

ThetaPrincess24 · #10 03-26-2004, 10:10 PM

MY favorite old movies are: Ben-Hur, Gone with the Wind(a very southern classic), and Breakfast at Tiffany's

justamom · #11 03-27-2004, 08:28 AM

Thanks tinydancer. Sometimes my memory is like Swiss cheese!

I've been trying to think of the OLDEST movie I remember.
Wurthering Heights with Laurence Olivier was late 30's (I think)

This is GREAT music...kinda like silent film. Only a few looked familiar.(1917-1934)

http://www.vitaphone.org/color.html

edited here- Hey almost all of us have seen something pretty "old"
Disney put out Micky Mouse in Steamboat Willie 1928. 1937 was
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
First feature-length animated film. Also the first original motion picture soundtrack recording ever released.
1940 Fantasia, 1941 Dumbo and '42 Bambi!

http://www.disneyinternational.com/A...eport/tpr2.htm

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