Your favourite Old Hollywood films?

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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?

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

Some like it Hot too!

It’s a wonderful Life

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

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.

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!)

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!

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!

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.

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

Cleopatra

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

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!

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

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!

Not strictly old or Hollywood but I love Mommie Dearest.

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

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

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

Went the day well ( British)

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.

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

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)!

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

Seven brides for seven brothers
Gone with the wind