Oldies~but~Goodies

[Lilith]

Wondering if any of you beat away the blues like I do by watching old movies........ I mean movies made before the 60's-70's.

Any favorites?

I love "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" etc.......watched it so many times that in a pregnancy induced stupor I considered naming my (now we know SON) kid Lorelei Lee.....

[T-S]

Any Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy pics. Also Some Like It Hot.

[Vintage Vixen]

I always liked the old Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies...they were always good for a laugh.

[Lilith]

Great choices!!! All faves of mine as well! Abbott & Costello do it for me too!

[horseman12]

Any with James Cagney, John Wayne, or Jimmy Stewart

[Vigil]

Casablanca.

[Tess]

Loved the oldies with Bogart, especially with either Bacall or Hepburn. "African Queen" is truly a classic. The movies with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn are always fun to watch.

[quisath]

Definitley John Wayne................. The Searchers ..................and couple more of his Movies. Audey Murphy was my bestest War Hero though.

Lee Marvin and Steve McQueen are up there to.

[Vintage Vixen]

The seven year itch ..Marilyn Monroe that was a classic
Whatever happened to baby Jane
Harvey
The Birds
Pyscho

[souls_cry2000]

Fred Astaire "Daddy Long Legs"
Judy Garland movies
"My Fair Lady"

I love classics.

[LixyChick]

I can't help it!
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (Doris Day)

African Queen (Humphrey Bogart)

Any Dead End Kid movie (Now I'm showing my age!)

When glancing through the channels.........I'll stop at any classic (B&W) movie and check it out to see if I can tolerate it! Some are really obscure!

[dicksbro]

West Side Story

Fiddler on the Roof

and on television

The Bowry Boys

[Bronzedozzy]

All the old Jap Sci-fi movies, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan.....absolute
favorite.....Godzilla V The Smog Monster.....something kinky about a guy walking around in a rubber lizard suit kicking the crap out of balsa wood power stations......now those were the days of special effects.

[fzzy]

Charade, Arsenic & Old Lace, that old Doris Day/James Garner one where she had been on the desserted Island with Chuck Connors --- I can never remember the name of that one but it seems like "Darling" is in the title, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest -- almost any Cary Grant movie does it for me! :)

[T-S]

Originally posted by fzzy
that old Doris Day/James Garner one where she had been on the desserted Island with Chuck Connors --- I can never remember the name of that one but it seems like "Darling" is in the title

Move Over, Darling - was on here the other day. :)

[Lilith]

Originally posted by Bronzedozzy
All the old Jap Sci-fi movies, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan.....absolute
favorite.....Godzilla V The Smog Monster.....something kinky about a guy walking around in a rubber lizard suit kicking the crap out of balsa wood power stations......now those were the days of special effects.


mmmmmmmm my weakness......Gamera was my fave:p

[scotzoidman]

"Move Over Darling" was the one that started out as "Something's Got To Give" with Dino & Marilyn, her last movie...when the studio fired her Dino quit, so they started over with Garner & Day...just a bit of trivia...

Almost any old Marx Bros. will grab me, also "Harvey"
Mister Roberts (all-star cast)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (another great cast, & a western that tears down the myth of the "classic western")

[Tess]

Don't forget the Hitchcock movies!! "Vertigo" and "Rear Windows" are mesmerizing. "Notorious" and "North by Northwest" are cinematic art.

[2-4-tea]

loved John Wayne movies, and I loved Some Like it Hot Marylin Monroe. Liked Hard Days Night with the Beatles

[PantyFanatic]

There is no homework today, but there will be a quiz at the end of this thread.:)

I shrugged when I saw the title……….. but took a peek anyway. A lot of the “back in the day” threads are about the 70’s & 80’s when I was totally immersed with a family and career and fumbling my way through life. I was hard pressed to add to pop trivia as it was..... well, trivial at the time.:(

This time you opened the book to MY time of filling up that space to “know what everything is about”. And I’m going to take this opportunity to bore the shit out of you with it.:D

Any knowledge beyond your family came from school, your neighborhood, early TV (not akin to todays) and the MOVIES. Admission for a kid 12 and under was a dime. A box of popcorn cost 10 cents too, but they ripped you off by charging 6 cents for a candy bar that you knew you could purchase down the street for only a nickel. So two quarters could fill the empty weekend of an empty head. I saw a lot of movies.

They also had Wednesday “BANK NIGHT” or “DISH NIGHT” when they gave prizes to fill the place during the week. At intermission, they rolled out a tumbler full of cards that a kid would draw from. If you were there when the doors opened, you could sing-up to be that kid and they gave you two passes for doing it. Now my movies were free, …..and that was important as I just passed into the JUNIOR age group and the price jumped to $.15. (Didn’t know what I’d do when I became 16 and had to pay the full ADULT fare of $.25):eek:

You also need to know that a day at the movies was NOT 30 minutes of previews and a 90 minute movie on a 12 ft. screen for $8.50. Your quarter got you 10 minutes of previews for the next weeks showings. The always double-header package of two movies changed on Sunday and Thursdays. You would see a 10 minute NEWS reel from around the world, a short subject of comic of general interest, the next chapter of the Red Rider or Rocket-man serial, a Three Stooges or alike segment and at least 2 cartoons. All this in a minimum 500 seat theater with a 30 foot screen and the giant velvet curtain. (That’s why the old fuck sitting behind you was grumbling about the price last night):o

The movies was where I first saw the top HALF of a bulging bosom and a skirt raised above the stocking, clear to the garters, but “PantyFanatic” wanted more.:p

I SAW A LOT OF OLD MOVIES!:D

[PantyFanatic]

(should that last post have been on a story thread some place)

I’m happy to see that I’m not the only Bogart fan left. A number of his movies have to be at the top of my list of classics.
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon *** lol
Key Largo
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

It’s hard to think of classic movies and not have some of BiSexyBabeDD and fzzy favorites by Hitchcock come to mind.
As horseman12, H@rd Rock and quisath noted, that group of guys were something. Cagney, Wayne, Stewart, Tracy, Murphy, Marvin, McQueen and Grant were part of a group that has to include Peck, Quinn, Brando, and Mitchem to name a few. There just is no end to it. :D

12 Angry Men
The Caine Mutiny
Run Silent, Run Deep
Angels with Dirty Faces
On the Waterfront
The Defiant Ones
Stalag 17
Moby Dick
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Grapes of Wrath
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Summer Place ;)
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Spellbound
Citizen Kane
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The War of the Worlds


…..SOMBODY STOP ME!!!