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?

The Searchers
Stagecoach
To Kill a Mockingbird
Rebecca
Anything with Fred Astaire

Rear Window
The Apartment

ps top thread

African Queen Hepburn & Bogart
True Grit John Wayne

Top Hat

@ÚlldemoShúl Do you mean Father Goose? I love that one!

Thank you! I wonder if anyone else has started watching Old Hollywood films off the back of this thread.

The thread is lovely - I haven’t got anyone else irl to talk about these films.

When I finally got round to watching Casablanca I loved it. Love a Hitchcock film too - my favourite is North by Northwest.

The 39 Steps is good too - pre WWII.

Sorry, I completely missed this.

It’s an incredible film. Very witty and clever. Very quotable too. It’s my favourite out of the lot, thus far! It stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.

We’ve watched Now Voyager and The Shop on the Corner. Both great films. None have topped Ninotchka for me, yet.

North by Northwest
Charade
Gone with the wind
Gaslight
It’s a wonderful life
Vertigo
39 Steps (Kenneth Moore)
The Birds
Whatever happened to baby Jane

Rear Window

Grace Kelly can’t act for toffee but she’s absolutely luminous and James Stewart is fantastic

Just realised you said “access” and not assess. We used FMHY to stream it.

How To Marry A Millionaire with Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. Such wonderful costumes

Hollywood Films not yet mentioned
Top Hat
On the Town
Weekend at the Waldorf
The Best Years of Our Lives
The VIPs
Giant
Splendor in the Grass
This Property is Condemned

My favourite British b and w film
is The Wicked Lady about a rich bored woman who becomes a highwayman

Some like it hot.
A Philadelphia story
His girl Friday

Brief Encounter, Gone with the Wind, any Hitchcock , Carousel

Sunset Boulevard will be our next worth, since it has been mentioned so many times. Thank you 😊

BBC IPlayer has got some great old films - scroll down to Hollywood Greats: the Golden Age.

I watched Now Voyager yesterday. I've known the famous quote for as long as I remember and had seen a few clips but realised that I had never actually watched the film.

I enjoyed it but was a bit taken aback by the ending. Not what I'd expected. I was also a bit irritated by the trope that women (and girls) with glasses are necessarily dowdy and unattractive.

Thank you. The Women is what we’ll be watching next 😊

Some great suggestions.
My favourite film of all time is Random Harvest with Greer Garson & Ronald Coleman , the ending gets me every time

Random Harvest is brilliant!

Despite all kinds of things (won’t bore readers here…) I think the best version of Wuthering Heights is the old Hollywood one with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. It’s just got something…and captures the cruelty and passion of the story better than later versions.

Gone with the Wind, of course.

Meet me in St Louis

Jezebel with Bette Davis

Mildred Pierce

Double Indemnity

Now, Voyager

Citizen Kane

The Magnificent Ambersons

Not Hollywood - an Ealing comedy: Kind Hearts and Coronets (the best fil ever made bar none). AllEaling comedies are great too.

Ben Hur

So many!

Mine too!

Oh wow - Cary Grant’s suits in that film! So chic.

And the gorgeous, sinister James Mason.

Ooh - forgot Rebecca - superb.

Thank you - I think Double Indemnity will be next.

Unpopular opinion, but I really didn’t like Gone with the Wind!