Old film recommendations please.

[TiffanyIceberg]

I've just watched Gaslight, and started on A Night To Remember.

I was trying to remember ones my mother used to watch, I remember an old Hollywood music and dancing based one that had a swimming pool on the stage but can't really remember much about it, it was in colour not black and white.

But any other recommendations would be great. Trying to keep my mind occupied after a horrible break up.

Kind hearted and coronets
Arsenic and old lace
Scrooge (the Alistair Sim version)
A matter of life and death

The Ghost and Mrs Muir.

The Old Maid with Bette Davis

Not as old but I love The Servant with Dirk Bogarde
Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson is fab!

@katy1213

The old Rebecca is so much better than the new one. And The Bishop's Wife is possibly the best Christmas film ever!

Thank you @katy1213. It's my favourite Christmas movie too

Thank you so much, I have a lovely long list to get through now.

Rear Window and The Birds are my favourites. The fashions were exquisite and the stories properly gripping.

High Society: Grace Kelly with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.

And the original Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Danny Kaye

Some like it hot

Any James Cagney film

Oh, High Society is lovely too!

The clock with Judy garland and robert walker
any fred and ginger!
somewhere in time...not that old but I love it with jane seymour and Christopher reeve.

Casablanca
High society
Singing in the rain

Thank you for the link mog!

I'll add the old St Trinian's films, and second Calamity Jane.

And State Fair (the 40s rather than the 60s version) has lovely music and costumes, but isn't really that well-known.

Wuthering Heights with Larry Olivier and Merle Oberon

Jezebel with Bette Davis

Sunset Boulevard
Rear window
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Some Like it Hot

Pretty much all the black and white Audrey Hepburn films!

anything with Danny Kaye. The man was truly amazing. Walter Mitty is brilliant, but also try The Court Jester. sublime

Casablanca
Whisky Galore

Ones from the 60s and 1970
Ladies who do
The Family Way
Spring and Port Wine

Happiest Days of your Life
I'M Alright Jack
Two way stretch
School For Scoundrels

Vertigo

I love gentlemen prefer blondes! Marilyn is utterly charming and it's comedic! Psycho for the chills too!

And for sheer glamour 'How to marry a miliionaire' with Lauren Bacall Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe...fabulous outfits!

swimming pool one would have involved Esther Williams

@bruffin

If you have cable look on the channel Talking Pictures. Lots of old black and white films and old tv

Talking Pictures is also on Freeview. London Live also shows some good old ones sometimes.

Some great ideas on here - my suggestions are:

Meet Me in St Louis
Hobson's Choice (with John Mills and Charles Laughton)