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saluki
saluki Member Posts: 2,287
edited June 2014 in Bonded by Breast Cancer
If you get a chance try to catch the The Profile of Marlon Brando. It's on Turner Movie Classics and its really
enjoyable. For you younger gals that only remember him as Vito Corleone you'll be impressed. I've got On the Waterfront but it makes me want to see some of the others again.
A fascinating look with glimpses of the man and the actor.
Its worthwhile looking for. Even when he made a flop it was worth seeing. What pain he must have drawn from to get
those performances.
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Susie
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  • Jorf
    Jorf Member Posts: 498
    edited May 2007

    Just saw Camille with Greta Garbo - it's a great old movie. Saw that on DVD. Had a great weekend a few weeks ago and saw, in the theaters Seven Samurai and Children of Paradise. It was so cool to go to theaters and see B&W movies with intermissions!

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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited May 2007

    It Happened One Night was on TCM today! Great movie! The old sci-fi movies are so much camp that you have to laugh after today's special effects.

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  • gwenn
    gwenn Member Posts: 106
    edited May 2007

    I love China Town with Jack Nicholas. Ive been wanting to rent Casablance. Believe it or not Ive never seen it. I love White Christmas, Singing in the Rain and Alfred Hitchcock.

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  • djatlake
    djatlake Member Posts: 128
    edited May 2007

    My favorite movie is Splendor in the Grass with Natalie Wood. I didn't like the remake. Just wasn't the same!

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited May 2007
    I guess I like um really sappy---Wuthering Heights
    Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven and Geraldine Fitzgerald ---something Kennedy---

    Many remakes--nothing came close
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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited July 2008

    I trend toward the funny movies. The funniest movie I've ever seen is an old classic called "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' and it has almost all the great classic actors....Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, etc.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited May 2007

    I adore all the old Katherie Hepburn movies. she was amazing. African Queen was such a goodie with Bogart. The thing I love about old movies is that my imagination is used for the sex scenes and it's much better than the actual scenes used in todays movies!

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  • PuppyFive
    PuppyFive Member Posts: 2,808
    edited May 2007
    I enjoy all of the Shirley Temple movies!!
    It is ashame that most little girls have no clue who she is
    i watched her movies when i was a teen! Puppy
    {sure wish they played them more}
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  • tflowers
    tflowers Member Posts: 442
    edited May 2007
    My favorites:

    Barefoot in the Park with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

    Harvey with James Stewart.
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  • juanita63
    juanita63 Member Posts: 171
    edited May 2007

    My favorites are the Thin Man movies with Myrna Loy and William Powell. Even named my son Nicholas Charles. Though Charles is his middle name and not his last.

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  • biondi
    biondi Member Posts: 223
    edited August 2007
    BLAZING SADDLES! WHAT A HOOT.. AND OF COURSE, SUMMER PLACE, TROY AND SANDY DEE. I WAS JUST HITTING PUBERTY AND OMG. HOW ROMANTIC IT WAS FOR ME BACK THEN..A TRIST AT THE OCEAN, BREATHING HEAVY..AND IT JUST SHOWED THEM DISAPPEARING ONTO THE BED! LEFT SO MUCH TO THE IMAGINATION. AND BOY, MINE WAS IN (NOT SO VIRGINAL) OVERTIME.
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited August 2007

    I found out that if you have a plan with Netflix you can watch movies right away on the computer watched "Brigadoon" today, no extra charge. S, as long as I don't want new releases, I can watch a lot of older movies that way. Check it out! I don't have digital cable with OnDemand so this works out fine.

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  • pconn03
    pconn03 Member Posts: 643
    edited September 2007

    I just found this thread and I am a huge fan of old movies. I just love TCM!!! It is really hard to pick just one favorite old movie but one of my most favorites has to be "To Kill a Mockingbird" with Gregory Peck et. al The book of course was wonderful as well.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited September 2007
    I am a Paul Newman fan..and just loved
    "The Long Hot Summer"
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  • Rosemary44
    Rosemary44 Member Posts: 2,660
    edited December 2007

    I just watched Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford before the eye brow coloring.  There was a documentary on the disc also about her.  No more wire hangers! is explained.   Betty Davis actually kicked her one in the head in a scene they did together in Baby Jane.

    No love lost there.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    I love Sidney Portier, so "To Sir With Love" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" are two of my favorites...

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    I love older movies too. I watched the old shirley temple movies as a kid, love anything with Natalie Wood (I was crushed when she died) and Katherine Hepburn, Sydney Portier,  Jimmy Stewart, any old musical, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford etc. I don't like when they colorize old black and whites and I really hate remakes because the oldies are such classics they can't ever be made any better in my opinion.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Oh! Just remembered one of my favorite holiday classics, "March of the Wooden Soilders" with Laurel and Hardy...

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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited January 2008

    A friend of ours was getting rid of all her VHS tapes.  She knew we liked old classics and gave us the whole collection of the "thin Man" series.  Now we just have to keep our VCR in tip top shape, lol.  She also gave us a "Godfather" collection that runs chronologically, not starting with the wedding like in the book.  It was neat (do they use that word anymore?) to watch the story from when he was a kid in Italy.

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