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This post serves as a memory prompt and a keyword search for the growing list of movie classics that Gerry and I have been watching recently. Not to be lazy, but my goal here is modest, no reviews -- just a list of titles and stars.
It turns out that we were watching so many old-time classics that we couldn't keep them all straight in our heads. Thus, I have compiled these lists in an attempt to prevent all of our recent viewing from merging into one huge indiscernible dramatic mishmash.
Here are the movies we've been watching, loosely organized by year, with a few cross references and connections of interest thrown in for good measure.
try this website: The Numbers
1924 Battleship Potemkin
1927 Metropolis
1930 Anna Christie ~ Greta Garbo
1931 Susan Lenox ~ Greta Garbo & Clark Gable
1933 Baby Face ~ Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne
1933 Duck Soup ~ Marx Brothers: Chico, Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo
1934 The Thin Man ~ William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
1934 The Barretts of Wimpole Street ~ Norma Shearer & Frederic March & Charles Laughton & Maureen O'Sullivan
1934 Babes in Toyland ~ Laurel & Hardy
[see also 1998 The Impostors ~ a tribute of sorts to L & H with Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, Billy Connolly]
1934 It Happened One Night ~ Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable
1934 Imitation of Life ~ Claudette Colbert
[see also 1959 Lana Turner]
1934 Of Human Bondage ~ Bette Davis & Leslie Howard
1935 Top Hat ~ Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
1935 The 39 Steps ~ Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll
1936 Modern Times ~ Charlie Chaplin & Paulette Goddard
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips ~ Robert Donat & Greer Garson
[see also 1969 with Peter O'Toole & Petula Clark]
1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ~ Jean Arthur, James Stewart
1939 Wuthering Heights ~ Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven [and many more versions]
1939 The Women ~ Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Mary Boland, Florence Nash, Virginia Grey, Marjorie Main, Phyllis Povah, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Butterfly McQueen, Theresa Harris, Hedda Hopper
Film scholar Victoria Amador refers to The Women as a
"gay camp classic film . . . an estrogen-soaked comic souffle . . . "
So many women!
1939 ~ Jamaica Inn ~ Charles Laughton, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara
[Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier]
1940 Rebecca ~ Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier
[Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier]
1940 The Shop Around the Corner ~ Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan
1940 The Great Dictator ~ Charlie Chaplin & Paulette Goddard
1940 His Girl Friday ~ Rosalind Russell & Cary Grant
1940 The Philadelphia Story ~ Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart
1940 The Letter ~ Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
1941 How Green Was My Valley ~ Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall
1941 The Lady Eve ~ Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda & Charles Coburn
1941 The Maltese Falcon ~ Humphrey Bogard & Mary Astor
& Jerome Cowan as Miles Archer
-- not the same as Lew Archer / The Name is Archer
1942 Mrs. Miniver ~ Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons ~ Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead
1942 Now, Voyager ~ Bette Davis
"The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find."
Thanks again to Victoria Amaddor, Ph.D.
for additional insights & witty repartee
1943 Casablanca ~ Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman
1943 Shadow of a Doubt ~ Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotton, Macdonald Carey
1944 Laura ~ Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace ~ Cary Grant
1944 Double Indemnity ~ Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis ~ Judy Garland
1945 Blithe Spirit ~ Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
1945 Christmas in Connecticut ~ Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall
1945 Leave Her to Heaven ~ Cornel Wilde & Gene Tierney
1945 The Valley of Decision ~ Gregory Peck & Greer Garson, Jessica Tandy, Lionel Barrymore, Reginald Owen
1945 Mildred Pierce ~ Joan Crawford
[also 2011 ~ Kate Winslet]
Classic Cinema, 1946 - 1986
For a list of current suggestions:
Barb Reviews the Movies
We always read and follow - up on these lively suggestions!
For a comprehensive contemporary list:
Joan Tollifson's Recommended Movie List
Thanks to my friend Diane Cox for sharing Joan's master list!
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From Aaron Burrows
ReplyDeleteI love this. From this list I’ve only seen Casablanca and Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. I also saw a live stage performance of Meet Me In St Louis at the Muny theater here in St Louis, fittingly. 🙂 One that I really want to see is Metropolis. I love science fiction, and it’s a seminal masterpiece; a shame that I haven’t seen it yet.
A friend of mine and I always talk movies and have been discussing a blog and/or podcast in the future. Lately we’ve been discussing the fact that there is an endless deluge of “content” from all the studios and streaming services, such that there are many classics that we haven’t seen. There are several amazing filmmakers still today, but there are definitely classics that are worth going back to.