Members DAMfan Posted August 15, 2012 Members Share Posted August 15, 2012 TCM is showing 24hr of Lillian Gish movies today. ♠♥♣♦ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted August 15, 2012 Members Share Posted August 15, 2012 The QUEEN of acting! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DAMfan Posted August 16, 2012 Members Share Posted August 16, 2012 1 MINUTE OF - Intolerance (1916) David W. Griffith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWbRuhmsHPM&feature=youtube_gdata_player 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted August 16, 2012 Members Share Posted August 16, 2012 One thing I love about silent movies is you watch these giant scenes and there was no FX then, they literally had to build these ancient cities and use hundreds of extras. That was when Hollywood was at its zenith and the studios were making magic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted August 16, 2012 Members Share Posted August 16, 2012 Correct, sir. I just watched Scaramouche starring Ramon Navarro and Alice Terry. With the print I got looking immaculate, which is rare for silent films, the film seemed so regal during the aristocrat scenes. And it was exceptional with the very, very soapy scene near the end! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted August 16, 2012 Members Share Posted August 16, 2012 I adore Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart is another actor I love. Anyone seen "Little Women" the version that has Liz Taylor in it, that's my favorite version of that film. I also love "On Moonlight Bay" and "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted August 16, 2012 Members Share Posted August 16, 2012 I've the seen the best version of it ( ) starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Delia Posted August 18, 2012 Members Share Posted August 18, 2012 I prefer films from the late 1930s through the 1940s. I know it was the studio era and actors were treated like cattle and whatever, but those movies had story, tension, romance, drama and laughs. The movies nowadays are mostly trash. I especially love "Women's Pictures" from this time (something that sadly went out of vogue a long, long time ago). Nearly anything with Bette Davis (The Old Maid, Dark Victory, In this Our Life, Little Foxes, NOW, VOYAGER (perhaps my favorite film), Beyond the Forest, A Double Life, and The Man Who Came to Dinner - are all fabulous highlights). Joan Fontaine (A Letter from an Unknown Woman - one of the most heartbreaking films ever) and her sister Olivia de Havilland are two more favorites of mine. One can't go wrong with Joan Crawford either (Mildred Pierce is must see melodrama and Humoresque is glorious too!) I never really like Katherine Hepburn, however. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted August 18, 2012 Members Share Posted August 18, 2012 This is one of the finest movies ever made 'The Best Years Of Our Lives" with Fredrick March and Myrna Loy among others. It's about WWII vets having a difficult time adjusting to home. <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/20IGU4cVlMI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am A Swede Posted August 18, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 18, 2012 A classic movie based on a classic play. This is a scene from "Pygmalion" based on the G.B. Shaw play with the same name. Wendy Hiller, playing Eliza Doolittle, here becomes the first actress in British film to utter the word "bloody". Please register in order to view this content Co-starring as Professor Henry Higgins was Leslie Howard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DAMfan Posted August 18, 2012 Members Share Posted August 18, 2012 You can't take it with you (a rat with hair on it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jlIUAnF2pw&feature=youtube_gdata_player 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted August 18, 2012 Members Share Posted August 18, 2012 I like classic movies, but my favorite era really depends on the genre/style. Generally, I'll go for anything from the 60s and 70s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 <iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="360" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xlrtsa_abbott-and-costello-meet-frankenstein_shortfilms"></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlrtsa_abbott-and-costello-meet-frankenstein_shortfilms" target="_blank">Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/crazedigitalmovies" target="_blank">crazedigitalmovies</a></i> This is the best movie Abbott and Costello ever made, and a real treat. Bela Lugosi only played Dracula twice even though to this day when we think of Dracula's accent we really are hearing Lugosi. The final section when all the monsters come out is one of my favorite sequences ever because it would be so beyond insane if this was happening in real life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrQuartermaine Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 I agree that anything Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant starred in, as well as Paul Newman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am A Swede Posted August 22, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 One of my all-time favourites..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCj7joT1nYc Has there ever been a more beautiful couple on the big screen than Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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