Posted on 12/12/2009 2:22:11 PM PST by randita
Since You Went Away
One Touch of Venus (1948) with Robert Walker & Ava Gardner!!
Ever seen “Vampyr”, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer? I think it was released in 1932. It’s not a silent, but it’s the scariest version of the Dracula legend I’ve ever seen.
I agree -- I remember seeing this on "Saturday Night at the Movies" for the first time when I was about 15 (mid-60's) and raving about it when my parents got home. They laughed that it was such an old classic.
I always wondered: how did Frank Capra achieve the "soft night lights" that made his films so magical?
God bless you!
"Beauty and the Beast" is an excellent movie.
Bette Davis movies, Casablanca and Dinner At Eight.
(1) M
(2) The Wizzard of Oz
(3) White Heat
(4) The Treasure of Sierra Madre
(5) All Quiet on the Western Front
(6) The Best Years of Our Lives
(7) The Battleship Potemkin
(8) Sons of the Desert
(9) Richard III
(10) GWTW
Agreed.
Singing in The Rain..so wholesome and peppy, Gene Kelly could sing dance & act. America,America, 60ish but one of my favorites before all the illegals came to live off us.
Have you seen Mildred Pierce (1941)? Joan Crawford won an Oscar for that one. Eve Arden, the bitchy daughter won Best Actress.
I mean Eve Arden won Best Supporting Actress. She was REALLY good.
Jack Benny's magnificent portrayal of the great, great Polish actor, Joseph Tura.
Noöne could do it better. Noöne.
My younger brother would argue that point. Ca late 1940s, he, my sister and I saved up a hard-earned 20c apiece (redeeming glass soda bottles at .02 each) and went to see "The Mummy" (1932) with Boris Karloff. Everything was OK - at first. We were getting the crap scared out of us, and enjoying every moment. However, when the mummy came up the gravel driveway after one of the archaeologists, my brother went "YAAAAH!" and bolted out of the movie house. We went out after him but when we tried to get back in, the ticket guy said no way - 20c shot to Hell. We beat on my brother from 18th to 22nd Street (NYC). When things calmed down, he said he was OK until he heard the sound of the mummy dragging his foot over the gravel, then he snapped. (It wasn't until the late night movies of the '50s that we found out how it all turned out.)
To get back on topic:
Ebb Tide (1937)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Maltese Falcon (1941)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three Strangers (1946) a sleeper, with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
The Birthday Cake Polka.
Now, that’s too cute! I keep it for my grandkids.
There’s such a warm, safe feeling in those childhood memories! Childhood, we had a childhood...
Good pick for Preston Sturges, but don't forget "Hail the Conquering Hero" from 1944 with Eddie Bracken and his inimitable double-takes. It's consistently the funniest of Sturges' films.
SmokingJoe: I agree with you. One of my favorite childhood memories was listening to old 45 RPM records of Jimmy Stewart reading the Winnie the Pooh books (I'd get to listen to these when I was home sick).
A favorite Jimmy Stewart memory was back in the mid-1960's when he came out to campaign for William Scranton, who was running for governor in Pennsylvania. I was a teenager at the time and lived in Delaware but since we got our broadcast TV from Philly, we always got Pennsylvania news. Well, Jimmy shows up at a campaign event in Scranton, PA, to support William Scranton running for governor against the Pennsylvania Dem machine (must have been around 1962). He shows up wearing his Air Force Reserve uniform -- I think he was still an active Air Force Reserve Brigadier General, I believe -- and he comes out in this huge auditorium with 20,000 screaming Republicans. In typical fashion Jimmy begins, "You know, I was once told that you could put all of the Republicans you can find in Pennsylvania and put them into a single phone booth..... Some phone booth!" What a rip-roaring pitch he made. I hadn't realized what a good conservative he was until that night and it made him even more my favorite Hollywood personality.
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