Your favorite "old" movies?

[pigletliz]

Backstreet
Imitation of Life
Pollyanna
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Imitation of Life is one of my all time favorites. I love both versions. I am trying to save my pennies to attend the Turner Classic Movie Festival. Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore will be on hand to discuss it! It is expensive, but I think totally worth it.


http://www.tcm.com/festival/events.jsp

 

[Bee]

My favorite is Gone with the Wind!!

I love most of the others mentioned.. I used to spend summers with my great grandmother when I was little... she turned me onto classics..

One of my favorite's is:
Harvey- Jimmy Stewart- he see's a 6 foot rabbit .. very good movie

ane Topper- about a man who has a couple of ghosts around him.. a married couple very funny movie....

 

[The Mystery Machine]

What are some of your favorite classical movies? I have fallen in love with them as of late and am looking for some of your must-see movies. The only genre I am not really fond of is war/military movies.
TIA!

Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell
Any Doris Day movie

 

[hichewlova]

I get glued to TCM on a regular basis, but in my DVD collection, I have almost all of Hepburn's films.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

Arsenic and Old Lace ("CHARGE!!!!!", " I'm the son of a seacook!")
Bringing Up Baby
Its a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
White Christmas
Thoroughly Modern Millie

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

oh yeah...

"Manos: Hands of fate!"

a must see!!!

 

[themilesfamily]

LOOOVE classic films. Love, love, love.:

Some Like it Hot
Rear Window
Father of the Bride (w/Spencer Tracy & Elizabeth Taylor)
Father's Little Dividend
Bringing Up Baby
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse
Abbott & Costello's Hold that Ghost
Abbott & Costello's The Time of their Lives
The Philadelphia Story
Where the Boys Are
It's a Wonderful Life
How to Marry a Millionaire
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Singin' in the Rain
White Christmas
The Bells of St. Mary's
All of the "Road" Movies w/Bob Hope & Bring Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Bali, etc.)
The Thin Man

 

[themilesfamily]

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

I'm so glad someone mentioned this one! Scared the heck out of me as a kid. LOVED it!!!

 

[fhtpdw20]

Too many to name, but google the actors:
Any Greer Garson/Walter Pidegon
Any Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn
Any MGM Musicals with Judy Garland
Any Esther Williams
Francis the Talking Mule series with Donald O'Connor
Ma and Pa Kettle series Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride
Blondie and Dagwood series with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake (Alvin and Baby Dumpling crack me up)
Most Barbara Stanwyck
Most Bette Davis
Shirley Temple movies
Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Doris Day

 

[Tinkermommy]

This is a great thread! I am surprised by how many of these I have watched and loved.

Here's a few I didn't see that I highly recommend.

Westward the Women (it's a female-focused western and is very good)
10 Commandments (Yule Brenner and Ann Baxter rocked!)
Of Mice and Men (1939 with Burgess Meredith)

 

[paintnolish]

Wow! This thread is old. I am glad to see it resurrected, though, with new suggestions.

 

[AustinTink]

the older elizabeth taylor movies

Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are two of my favorites.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Ah...better a resurrected thread than a brand new one!

Has Danny Kaye been mentioned? The Court Jester (The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!) is good for a laugh!

I also love most of those movies already mentioned -- didn't see Gigi, though, one of my favorites, or Affair to Remember? Auntie Mame, too!

 

[Ppufi]

I'm a big biblical/anything epic and MGM musicals fan.

 

[njcarita]

the funniest old movie I have ever seen was " Arsenic and Old Lace " .. I f u haven't watched it with Cary Grant...... its a must see.....

 

[LukenDC]

All About Eve
Mildred Pierce
Rain
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Rear Window
The Letter
Sound of Music

 

[bookgirl]

Now Voyager

Bette Davis and some French guy smoking......

Ok actually is about a woman who is dominated by her mother and her journey to self worth and fulfilment.

The Nanny

Another Betty Davis, but this one is a thriller, she is not the good guy in this one.

 

[phorsenuf]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
Bringing Up Baby
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Ghost And Mrs. Muir
Rear Window
Three Coins In A Fountain
Sons of Katie Elder
Bird of Paradise
Cheaper By The Dozen
Titanic (The Original With Clifton Webb)
Gidget (With Sandra Dee)

I was going to suggest that one as well. The incredible Mr. Limpet is a good one too.

 

[SamRoc]

1. The Best years of our lives (i think this is the best movie i ever saw!)
2. Leave her to Heaven
3. Forever Amber
4. Casablanca
5. Wizard of Oz
6. The ghost and Mrs. Muir


Basically any movie that stars Humphrey Bogart or Gene Tierney!

 

[andrews_dad]

Can I vote for some "new classics" like Planes, Trains, & Automobiles .. Tommy Boy .... Dumb and Dumber .... Christmas Vacation ... Big ...