Favourite old classics?

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DD16 and I have been watching the odd movie together (loved the chance to spend time with her!) and she really enjoyed Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Singing in the Rain.

Obviously lots of outdated stereotypes in these films that's she's more than aware of but she loved the music, fashions, comedy and wonderful dancing.

Any favourite old movies that we could add to our list?

Some Like It Hot

Oh yes! That's definitely one for the list!

SLIH definitely
Top Hat, Swing Time and Shall We Dance are all crackers - the other Astaire/Rogers movies aren’t quite so
good.

Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Ladykillers
A Matter of Life and Death
Kind Hearts and Coronets

West Side Story

I like Audrey Hepburn so maybe Funny Face.

They are all pretty on the sexism front.

I have just bought An American in Paris, not seen it.

I like An Affair to Remember, Brief Encounter and Breakfast at Tiffany's for non-dancing ones.

Any Doris Day

The Nuns Story, Mary queen of Scots the 1970s film same with Keith Michelle the six wives of Henry the eighth.

Double Indemnity.

I watched Casablanca with ds11 this afternoon which was enjoyable but took a lot of explaining as he just didn't know enough about WW2/visas/the resistance/Morocco to understand it all!

Hitchcock, African Queen and Casablanca.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ... bonkers, nail-bitingly tense and amazing acting from Bette Davis.

Has she seen Gone With the Wind?

Top Hat
Calamity Jane
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Waterloo Bridge - requires tissues

Twelve Angry Men
Philadelphia Story

My suggestions:
White Christmas (ok maybe wait a while!)
The Bishop's Wife (someone always suggests this on mn so thought I'd get in first!)
North by Northwest
Big Country (can't normally stand Westerns but make an exception here)
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Black Narcissus

Oh and the original Secret Life of Walter Mitty (for the sublime fashion show sequence if nothing else)

Other MGM musicals like On the Town, Good News, An American in Paris, High Society, Anchors Aweigh etc... Fred and Ginger and Doris Day ones are good too.

Comedies like Bringing up Baby, To be or not to be, the Philadelphia story, Adams Rib.

Hitchcock, vertigo, strangers on a train and rear window are my favourites. So many good ones.

Romantic - Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Marty, Now Voyager.

I rewatched From Here to Eternity the other day and really enjoyed that.

I got really into classic films as a teenager an still love them!

It Happened One Night - no dancing but it's definitely a classic

I really like The Ladykillers (with Alec Guinness).

South Pacific - musical
Arsenic and Old Lace - great Cary Grant comedy
Harvey -James Stuart has an invisible 6ft white rabbit as a friend.
comedy
Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Ingrid Bergman
another vote for West Side Story

Some 70’s classics?

Paper Moon
Love Story
The Way We Were
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Jaws
The Goodbye Girl

80’s

Pretty in Pink
Ferris Bueller
Weird Science
Breakfast Club

The Champ also!!

The Great Escape
Mr Deeds comes to town (James Stewart)

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Double Indemnity.

Ooh that takes me back, I did part of my media studies a level on that film.

Brigadoon?
It's a Wonderful Life
High Society
Rear Window
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon

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Guys and Dolls
Top Hat
Funny Girl
Hello Dolly