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Michele
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 Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: Favorite Black & White Films |
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Sunset Blvd
Double Indemnity
Scrooge
Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
It's a Wonderful Life
Help me think of more! |
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Vintage Girl
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Off the top of my head:
The Bishops Wife (with David Niven)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Heaven Can Wait
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JuanaLaLoca
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Anything with Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, or the Marx Brothers
The Heiress
Gaslight
Suspicion
Psycho
Wuthering Heights
For Me and My Gal
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
The Man in the White Suit
Paper Moon
Curly Top
The Little Princess
The Wizard of Oz (counts as part b&w?) |
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Kind Hearts & Coronets
St Trinians (All of them)
Passport to Pimlico
Sparrows Can't Sing
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,
Casablanca,
Abbott and Costello: Jack and the Beanstalk (part of it is black and white!),
Some Like it Hot,
Carry on Cabby,
Carry on Constable,
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Michele
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| I thought of one today - The Little Princess with Shirley Temple. |
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| Michele wrote: | | I thought of one today - The Little Princess with Shirley Temple. |
Ha! Beat you! (see my post above) That's my FAVORITE Shirley Temple movie - I always cry when she finds her father. And the scene where she dumps ashes on the snooty girl is hilarious!
I just ordered the complete Thin Man series of movies, which also comes with biographies of Myrna Loy and William Powell. And a boxed set of five Cary Grant comedies (I think those are all b&w, too). |
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I love these movies and countless others
Rebecca
Witness for the Procecution
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
The Song of Bernadette
Sabrina
Roman Holiday
Ninotchka
All About Eve
Jane Eyre
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Michele
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| JuanaLaLoca wrote: | | Michele wrote: | | I thought of one today - The Little Princess with Shirley Temple. |
Ha! Beat you! (see my post above) That's my FAVORITE Shirley Temple movie - I always cry when she finds her father. And the scene where she dumps ashes on the snooty girl is hilarious!
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 The Little Princess is such a classic, even though I was usually reduced to tears halfway through.
My husband does the best Cary Grant voice, except when it starts to mush into his David Bowie impression. |
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Michele
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I can't believe I forgot this one... It's a favorite of my mom and me.
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Also, Dr. Strangelove... |
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JuanaLaLoca
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| Yes, Bette Davis really kind of morphed into a suspense/horror actress in later years (as I mentioned above, she and Greta Garbo are my favorite actresses). I think Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? came first, and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (great role for Olivia de Havilland, too) came shortly after. Then there was The Nanny not long after that. Later movies (in color) included Madame Sin, Scream, Pretty Peggy, Burnt Offerings (loved that book!), Harvest Home (another good book), and Watcher in the Woods. An interesting change in direction. |
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I love Bette Davis movies ... she really had something special about her.
Terry's uncle 'by marriage' Lazlo Willinger used to photograph a lot of the old Hollywood celebrities ... He preferred Bette 'in person' over Joan Crawford. It was of the questions I was able to ask him over the dinner table.  |
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How about Citizen Kane? There's a movie that was ground breaking in so many ways, truly a classic.
Inherit the Wind
To Kill a Mocking Bird
There are so many movies that while they were rather substandard in plot, the cast is what made them great. I'm a sucker for any Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart movies.
I also thought Good Night & Good Luck with George Clooney was a really good movie too. It certainly didn't need to be in color to make it's point. |
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Citizen Kane also brings to mind that other great Orson Welles film, The Third Man.
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One of my favourite B&W films is the original version of The Bishops Wife, starring David Niven and Cary Grant.
The remake starring Denzel Washington paled by comparison even though it was made in colour.
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Laurel & Hardy - any film.
White Heat
The Great Dictator
Dr Strangelove
Queen Christina ( not sure of name - Greta Garbo looking gorgeous)
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Vintage Girl
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| leutnant wrote: | | Queen Christina ( not sure of name - Greta Garbo looking gorgeous) |
Did you mean this one?
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Brief Encounter
The Bishops Wife
Casablanca
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Oh, there are so many...my brain won't work!
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| Vintage Girl wrote: | | leutnant wrote: | | Queen Christina ( not sure of name - Greta Garbo looking gorgeous) |
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That's my favorite Greta Garbo film! And, contrary to publicity, she did laugh in it, prior to Ninotchka (my 2nd favorite Garbo). |
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