black and white movie suggestions please - Page 2

[annettemarie]

I'm watching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn right now. I love this movie!

[Mamafreya]

I love Frank Capra movies a lot... Some of my favorites:
You can't take it with you
Lost Horizon
It's a Wonderful Life

I also love:
To Have and Have Not
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
The Big Sleep
Harvey
The Shop Around the Corner
Now Voyager
Rebecca

I could go on and on. I love old black and white movies. : That list that Collinsky linked to has a lot of great ones on it.

[Belia]

Originally Posted by Collinsky

I heart Bing Crosby. Holiday Inn does have a scene that was a bit offensive to me (the Lincoln's birthday performance) but it's the movie that gave us "White Christmas." Definitely worth seeing.

Oh yes... that is very true. The portrayal of the African-American housekeeper is also pretty stereotypical. I guess I've seen the movie so many times that I don't hardly see those parts of the movie anymore. I think I decided when I first saw it that those portrayals were more normal within the context of the time the movie was made.

[Collinsky]

Originally Posted by Belia

Oh yes... that is very true. The portrayal of the African-American housekeeper is also pretty stereotypical. I guess I've seen the movie so many times that I don't hardly see those parts of the movie anymore. I think I decided when I first saw it that those portrayals were more normal within the context of the time the movie was made.

Totally, I do agree and would never say "Don't see this film" because it reflected the attitudes of the time - and I actually think that the makers of the film felt pretty progressive, because the housekeeper is outspoken with him in a motherly but bossy kind of way.

But for someone unused to those kinds of portrayals I'm sure it's pretty jarring to see them, and I'm sure a lot of parents may want to wait to open those topics up with their kids, kwim?

[travlr]

I love The Thin Man. I have to second that one. Myrna Loy is the best!! She's funny, she's a strong woman and she never behaves- a totally modern woman in a movie from so long ago. And the costumes she wears- hilarious!

[crittersmum]

Originally Posted by travlr

I love The Thin Man. I have to second that one. Myrna Loy is the best!! She's funny, she's a strong woman and she never behaves- a totally modern woman in a movie from so long ago. And the costumes she wears- hilarious!

Isn't she great? Carole Lombard and Rosalind Russell are fantastic, funny and strong women, too, I find -- moreso than a lot of the modern Hollywood roles for women!

I love the outfits in The Thin Man but I my jaw truly drops at the amount those two drink! "Darling, there's an intruder in our bedroom." "Gracious, darling! That calls for a drink!"

[travlr]

Originally Posted by crittersmum

Isn't she great? Carole Lombard and Rosalind Russell are fantastic, funny and strong women, too, I find -- moreso than a lot of the modern Hollywood roles for women!

I love the outfits in The Thin Man but I my jaw truly drops at the amount those two drink! "Darling, there's an intruder in our bedroom." "Gracious, darling! That calls for a drink!"

So true! Nick and Nora are some wild party animals. But somehow they always solve the mystery and do so in some lavish hotel in their silk pajamas with martinis in hand. I guess for me the appeal is that William Powell and Myrna Loy's characters seem so fallible and I never associated that with classic black and white films.

[philomom]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

I know where I'm Going

About Mrs. Leslie

Now, Voyager

[1xmom]

Originally Posted by mamatoablessing

Patch of Blue is one of my all time favorite movies - starring Sidney Portier and Shelley Winters.

I LOVE this movie.

Another fav. of mine is Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers)
The original movie "The Women" (w/Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell)

[transformed]

Peyton Place. My favorite. Very racy.

[Bell]

Citizen Kane (my favourite) and The Great Dictator (with charles chaplin)

[Thalia the Muse]

Wow, so many great ones have alreayd been listed! Here's my two cents (may be some duplicates)

Casablanca (duh)
Animal Crackers
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Key Largo
Touch of Evil
Little Women
The General
Shadow of a Doubt
All About Eve (I LOVE THIS MOVIE!)
Night of the Hunter
The original Cape Fear
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dinner's at Eight
From Here to Eternity
Some Like It Hot
Bride of Frankenstein

And some foreign-language:

Pandora's Box
Rules of the Game
Rashomon
Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
La Dolce Vita
Metropolis

[Avocado]

It Happened One Night! It's one of my favorite movies of all time. Also, Some Like It Hot, Love In The Afternoon and Roman Holiday :

[artgoddess]

So many good choices. I'll add Double Indemnity to the list.

[That Is Nice]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

That is definitely one of the best films ever, and best books ever.

Gregory Peck

[artgoddess]

Originally Posted by That Is Nice

To Kill a Mockingbird.

That is definitely one of the best films ever, and best books ever.

Gregory Peck

Great movie!

[KaraBoo]

My 10yr old has LOVED The Thin Man movies for years. Every now and then we drag them out and have a marathon

[MadameXCupcake]

The Egg and I
It can be found on the Ma and Pa Kettle Collection, I know Netflix has it. I have to beg DH to watch old movies with me and he really liked the Egg and I, oh its a comedy btw.

Some other classics,..
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
To Catch a Thief
Casablanca
The Time Machine
Any Marx Brothers Movies
Du Berry was a Lady