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?

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

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

Gaslight

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

Casablanca

Another one for Some Like it hot

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!!

Hitchcock’s films are tremendous as is The African Queen if you want to see Hepburn and Bogart at their very best.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

And another vote for Whistle Down the Wind. I remember sobbing my heart out watching it.

Also spent many a childhood day crying through the Lassie films.

Harvey - it is my absolute favourite film.

A Christmas Carol with Alistair Simm, the black and white version.

Blithe Spirit - love it.

So many already mentioned, Gone with the wind is just fabulous. Best Doris Days imo are On Moonlight Bay and By the Light of the Silvery Moon. On the Town and Kiss Me Kate. Ann Miller dancing to Too Darn Hot is one of the most wonderful things ever.

Citizen Kane.

I will stop now

I've always loved the old movies and was a bit sad TCM no longer available until I realised you can find alot on YouTube! My recommendations:

My Girl Friday (Cary Grant)
Maltese Falcon
Charade (Grant / Hepburn)
Operation Petticoat (Grant / Curtis).

I loved Lassie too!
So much that I have one of my own!!

Not what you asked, but Singing in the Rain was on TV recently and I was watching it with my daughter and thought ‘oh lovely’ and it was, there was a fabulous scene where 3 of them were dancing and singing and it was just wonderful, and I was totally drawn in.

Then it drifted into to insane crazy weird sequence and we hadn’t a clue was going on. We were both wondering what the heck had just happened and were we watching the same film. It was mad.

I used to absolutely adore Now Voyager. Some famous critic, whose name I can't remember, said it had the best last line in a movie. Plus, I blame Bette Davis and the two cigarette shtick for starting me smoking.

Yes, I am an idiot.

Some like it hot!

Almost anything with Cary Grant. The man was all that and a bag of chips. Unbelievably gorgeous.

Meet me in St. Louis is my favourite

I remember that debbie reynolds said that the actor in singing in the rain was horrible to her.

Absolutely The Big Sleep if you like a thriller/touch of noir.

Sabrina - the original version starring Audrey Hepburn.

And Genevieve - British classic!

Casablanca. The ending gets me every time.

A bit later, but some of the musicals, especially High Society - Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly - to name a few. What's not to love about that?