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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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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!

FloraBotticelli · 12/07/2025 22:46

It’s a Wonderful Life (must watch on Christmas Eve!)
Roman Holiday (similarities to Notting Hill)
Singing in the Rain (Donald O’Connor in Like a Clown is brilliant)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
A Streetcar Named Desire
Brief Encounter (best use of Rachmaninov!)

PangoPurrl · 12/07/2025 22:44

So many! Love Hitchcock, especially Rear Window and North By Northwest. You can't really go wrong with Cary Grant and James Stewart.
It's A Wonderful Life, but maybe wait until December for that one! And Holiday Inn!
Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
Gone With The Wind.
Bit later but absolutely love Some Like It Hot, so so funny.

Figcherry · 12/07/2025 22:43

Some Like It Hot
Ben Hur
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

3luckystars · 12/07/2025 22:42

It’s a wonderful Life

3luckystars · 12/07/2025 22:41

Some like it Hot too!

saveforthat · 12/07/2025 22:41

Shylo · 12/07/2025 22:38

so many wonderful films but my favourite is Some Like it Hot

Yes mine too. Also love National Velvet which used to be on every Christmas eve but I haven't seen it for years.

3luckystars · 12/07/2025 22:40

I love Blue Hawaii the Elvis film. If anyone else was in it, it wouldn’t be any good, but it’s my favourite of his films.

I loved Casablanca, and I don’t know if this counts but the Poseidon Adventure too.

smurfmonkey · 12/07/2025 22:40

Rear Window, absolute classic and completely gripped me when I first saw it

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Darkling1 · 12/07/2025 22:40

Shylo · 12/07/2025 22:38

so many wonderful films but my favourite is Some Like it Hot

This is next on my list!

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MichaelandKirk · 12/07/2025 22:40

Ghost and Mrs Muir. It looked like it was filmed on the UK coast and was very disappointed it was US based.

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Darkling1 · 12/07/2025 22:39

Whitehorses67 · 12/07/2025 22:30

All Doris Day films. Such style plus she reminds me of my mum.

I grew up watching Calamity Jane. I love it! Haven’t seen any other Doris Day films, mind.

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Shylo · 12/07/2025 22:38

so many wonderful films but my favourite is Some Like it Hot

Davros · 12/07/2025 22:38

3678194b · 12/07/2025 22:25

Brief Encounter! So tame really but I love it!

Not a Hollywood film but I shouldn’t be so pedantic!
Laura
Mildred Pierce
Sullivan’s Travels
All Bette Davis films
Leave her to Heaven
Adam’s Rib
The Women
The Fountainhead
Everybody Does it
Song of Love
lots more…

Swiftie1878 · 12/07/2025 22:37

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

CheerfulBunny · 12/07/2025 22:36

Oh and High Society is maybe my favourite film. The bit where they sing True Love on the yacht always makes me cry.

CheerfulBunny · 12/07/2025 22:35

The Bishop's Wife at Christmas - lovely! I really enjoy an old war film as well, I Was Monty's Double is brilliant.

Bongosbanjo · 12/07/2025 22:32

Mildred Pierce or any Joan Crawford film. Spencer Tracey films great too

Ponoka7 · 12/07/2025 22:32

Whistle down the wind, Swiss family Robinson.

Denimrules · 12/07/2025 22:31

Casablanca
Roman Holiday
Third Man

Ive a soft spot for Ealing and Powell Pressburger movies in the oldies category too. Lady Killers, A Matter of Life and Death

Ponoka7 · 12/07/2025 22:31

Gone with the wind. Penny Serenade, Houseboat (Cary Grant again). Marilyn Monroe films. Musical wise, Show boat and Fiddler on the roof. I also like original Charles Dicken's B&W films.

Whitehorses67 · 12/07/2025 22:30

All Doris Day films. Such style plus she reminds me of my mum.

littlebilliie · 12/07/2025 22:30

Laurence of Arabia

littlebilliie · 12/07/2025 22:29

The Philadelphia story

HappySeven · 12/07/2025 22:29

Ooh and I always have time for Ice Cold in Alice.