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Your favourite Old Hollywood films?

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Darkling1 · 12/07/2025 22:24

I’m just getting into Old Hollywood films. I’ve only watched a handful so far, but right now my favourite is Bringing Up Baby (staring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant)

What’s your favourites?

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APurpleSquirrel · 12/07/2025 23:41

I had a thing for Gene Kelly so I love most of his:
Singin’ in the Rain
An American in Paris
On the Town
The Pirate

Also loved Guys & Dolls with Marlon Brando in a musical!!

ThisCraftySeal · 12/07/2025 23:36

Another one for Some Like it hot

tripleginandtonic · 12/07/2025 23:36

Casablanca

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Darkling1 · 12/07/2025 23:36

I forgot about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. A classic!

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Bbq1 · 12/07/2025 23:35

Gaslight

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 12/07/2025 23:33

Rebecca
My Cousin Rachel
Some like it hot
Any Doris Day film
Any Elvis film
Seven brides for seven brothers

BMW6 · 12/07/2025 23:33

ÚlldemoShúl · 12/07/2025 23:10

That’s it! Thank you so much Davros! Going to see where I can stream this now!

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Father Goose was on telly recently - I think BBC1

Not Hollywood films, English

Hobsons Choice
This Happy Breed
In Which We Serve
Whistle Down The Wind
Kind Hearts And Coronets

Hottchoc · 12/07/2025 23:29

Seven brides for seven brothers
Gone with the wind

ilovesooty · 12/07/2025 23:24

Of the ones not mentioned
The Dark Mirror
Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
I Want to Live
Angels With Dirty Faces
12 Angry Men
The Apartment
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

jaundicedoutlook · 12/07/2025 23:21

Does Chinatown count? Watched it a few weeks ago after many years and had forgotten how good it is. Was early 70s, but definitely has the feel of a classic old time Hollywood film.

A few have mentioned Mildred Pierce - never watched it, but have often intended to whenever I listen to Sonic Youth’s Goo album in the car (which I probably do more often than average)!

Pleatherandlace · 12/07/2025 23:18

What ever happened to baby Jane is an all time favourite and any Fred Astair and Ginger Roger’s film.

Sausagesonlegs · 12/07/2025 23:15

Trying to remember the name of the film with Jimmy Stewart as the clown who was
arrested at the end. It was a fabulous circus movie, full of big Hollywood stars . Think there was a train crash and the animals escaped too.

stonebrambleboy · 12/07/2025 23:15

Went the day well ( British)

pointythings · 12/07/2025 23:12

Has to be Scaramouche. Beautiful costumes, plot rattles along and the fencing is epic.

ÚlldemoShúl · 12/07/2025 23:10

Davros · 12/07/2025 23:09

I wonder if that is Father Goose?
I forgot All That Heaven Allows
Most Hitchcock films, Frenzy is my favourite (not Hollywood)
Most Billy Wilder films

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That’s it! Thank you so much Davros! Going to see where I can stream this now!

Davros · 12/07/2025 23:09

ÚlldemoShúl · 12/07/2025 22:50

Roman Holiday is my absolute favourite- Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn were just the pinnacle of hotness! As well as a lovely story too.
Houseboat- Cary Grant and Sophia Loren
Rear Window
Also a Cary Grant film where he was an alcoholic soldier in WW2 in the Pacific and ended up having to take care of an evacuated boat of schoolgirls and their teacher- can’t remember the name but great romantic comedy!

I wonder if that is Father Goose?
I forgot All That Heaven Allows
Most Hitchcock films, Frenzy is my favourite (not Hollywood)
Most Billy Wilder films

HansHolbein · 12/07/2025 23:06

Not strictly old or Hollywood but I love Mommie Dearest.

Endofyear · 12/07/2025 23:04

Not that old (1967) but one of my favourite films of all time is Barefoot in the Park - Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. It's very much of it's time!

Els1e · 12/07/2025 23:02

Arsenic and Old Lace. Don't know why but it makes me smile

babybythesea · 12/07/2025 23:02

I’m not sure if my two favourites are strictly speaking Hollywood! And one isn’t old.
But anyway..
Rebecca with Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier. I love the story and this is so well done.
My other one is 1970s but done to look like it is 1930s.
Paper Moon - Ryan and Tatum O’Neil. Absolutely brilliant- one of my all time best movies. Funny and sad and just wonderful!

way2serious · 12/07/2025 22:57

I love many of the films already mentioned but also an old British one , I Know Where I’m Going, occasionally shown on BBC2

Secularbeaver · 12/07/2025 22:56

Cleopatra

Rockandgrohl · 12/07/2025 22:56

Wuthering heights with merle oberon is my absolute favourite film of all time

AdaColeman · 12/07/2025 22:55

The African Queen Bogart & Hepburn

Gaslight possibly the best film ever made!

Any swashbuckling film with Errol Flynn leaping onto tables or swinging through ship's rigging wearing pirate costume.

The Mark of Zorro

And of course the wonderful Some Like It Hot!

More recently, Doctor Zhivago.

Legdaysucks · 12/07/2025 22:52

Doris Day and Cary Grant - That touch of mink. Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant - Indiscreet. Also My Fair Lady and A star is born. There are others but those I've watched so many times!

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