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Cocoanut Koala · 11-16-2007, 03:47 PM

OK, so as y'all know (or may not), I'm old.

At least compared to most of you.

I run around with a lot of young people on the game, and of course, have my own two Cocolings.

Occasionally it is frustrating, because I will bring up someone I thought everybody knew (like Fred Astaire), and they'll go, who?

Or I'll be watching a movie at home, and ask my still-living-at-home daughter if she can name the people in it, and she can't name Clark Gable, etc.

It's like she lives in a Time Bubble, or something.

Anyway, today the Thin Man movies are on, and that's one of my favorite old movies series. "Old" in that I wasn't alive when it was made.

I realize that everything that was out before we were born qualifies as an old movie to us. But - I think this still requires a cut-off point, as I want to hear about REALLY old movies, not something from 1983.

So, I guess, what really old movies - say from the fifties and older - are your favorites, and why?

Jessyanne · 11-16-2007, 03:49 PM

I really need to know how old Coco is now, cause I know who Fred is and I love the Thin Man

Cocoanut Koala · 11-16-2007, 03:52 PM

P.S., just as an aside, my daughters both have a greater education as concerns music. This is because I played oldies stations on the radio for them all the time, when I ran the mom mobile, and I'd ask them, "Who's that?" all the time. So they learned some. (And enjoyed it.)

But movies - I couldn't have a captive audience for teaching that.

Cocoanut Koala · 11-16-2007, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessyanne

I really need to know how old Coco is now, cause I know who Fred is and I love the Thin Man

I'm older that the average koala.

I'll put it more bluntly: I'm older than everyone on these boards. (And don't challenge me on that, because I know it's true, and I'm old enough to have reached the stage where I won't tell how old I am.)

You probably just live in far less of a time bubble than my daughters and many of my friends in SL do.

coco

Rev Eponym · 11-16-2007, 03:55 PM

Singin' in the Rain

North by Northwest

Most good Film Noir

Bogart and Bacall, anytime, anyplace

Thin Man rocks, Myrna Loy was hot like nothing else alive.

And tha freakin' Marx Brothers, man.
"I dunno what's keeping that teapot!"

I also enjoy creaky old 1930s dramas, with Eric Von Stroheim particularly.

Pyter Morgridge · 11-16-2007, 03:57 PM

I love all the old Universal horror movies (some while back they used to screen them regularly on TV late at night, bliss!).

Though I'm not actually old enough to remember them from first time round...

Oh, and one of my all-time favourite films is the comedy "Hellzapoppin'", which nobody else seems to have heard of. It's full of corny jokes and gloriously dotty (if not positively surrealistic!) sight gags. 1940s, I think -- there's an obviously topical gag about Citizen Kane.

Cocoanut Koala · 11-16-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Rev Eponym

Thin Man rocks, Myrna Loy was hot like nothing else alive.

Damn, wasn't she though? And I loved her in "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," with Cary Grant.

(Which was a book, too, so I went and found it in the library and read it - good book!)

coco

Oh, and it's taken me many, MANY years to appreciate William Powell. But finally, I understand fully his appeal.

Walker Moore · 11-16-2007, 04:08 PM

Ain't you seen Mourna and I discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari? Although released in 1920 in Germany, I believe it was filmed in 1919. It's an absolutely amazing film, making brilliant use of expressionist set design to evoke sinister emotions and the twist at the end is pure genius.

I ripped my previous forum avatar straight from the DVD:

That character (Cesare) is played by Conrad Veidt, better known for a role in a much later (but still very old) film I'm sure you're acquainted with. He was Major Strasser in Casablanca.

Beebo Brink · 11-16-2007, 04:08 PM

Silents:
Nosferatu
The Golem

Sound:
Grand Hotel
Anna Christie
Anything with James Mason

Trinity Serpentine · 11-16-2007, 04:11 PM

The Women (1939), starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland and Paulette Goddard.

Geniusly done.

Sela · 11-16-2007, 04:12 PM

Charade
Roman Holiday
Harold and Maude
and I'm a sucker for anything with a young Mickey Rooney in it.

Vivianne Draper · 11-16-2007, 04:18 PM

The African Queen
39 Steps
To Have and Have Not
The Maltese Falcon
The Great Escape
Taming of the Shrew
Bringing Up Baby
The Lion in Winter

I love old movies

Beebo Brink · 11-16-2007, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Sela

Charade
Roman Holiday
Harold and Maude
and I'm a sucker for anything with a young Mickey Rooney in it.

With the exception of a young Mikey Rooney, all of those barely count as middle-aged.

Brenda Connolly · 11-16-2007, 04:19 PM

Casablanca
Mildred Pierce
Stairway to Heaven AKA A Matter of Life and Death
Duck Soup
A Hard Days Night

Beebo Brink · 11-16-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Vivianne Draper

39 Steps

I love the 39 Steps -- I even own it on DVD. In fact, I still have a crush on Robert Donat. Not quite as strong as the one I have on James Mason or Wendy Hiller, but close.

Liona Clio · 11-16-2007, 04:26 PM

Casablanca, of course
It's a Wonderful Life
Singing in the Rain
All of the awesome comedies The Hudsucker Proxy is based on
Metropolis

...and why hasn't anyone mentioned the freakin' Wizard of Oz yet???

FLYING MONKEHS RUL!!!!

Kristian · 11-16-2007, 04:27 PM

Pretty much anything with Katherine Hepburn in it.

DaQbet Kish · 11-16-2007, 04:28 PM

gosh so many...
I always enjoyed the comedy duo movies like the “Road to ….” movies of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Or the Abbot and Costello movies. Not so much Laurel and Hardy they were just too creepy to me for some reason.
If I had to pick a really old one that I just always loved to watch it would have to be “Brining up Baby” with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. The house in that movie looked just like my Grandmothers. Of course these were movies made way before my time.
Favorite movies from my time as a kid…the ones that I went to the movie theater to see would be:
“Patton”, “Soylent Green”, and any of the Roger Moore, James Bond movies. And of course I loved Shaun Connery too but for some reason I just enjoyed the Roger Moore style.

*EDIT
Ooh, and everything listed above my post…no wonder I love you guys…

Ewan Took · 11-16-2007, 04:30 PM

The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Passport To Pimlico
It's A Wonderful life
King Kong (1933)
The Haunting

Cairo · 11-16-2007, 04:35 PM

The Sneeze
Alexander Nevsky
8 1/2

Jellin Pico · 11-16-2007, 04:42 PM

I may be slightly off on some of the names ..

Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein - Even in these days of slaher flicks, there's still some real scary shit in these two.

The Seven little Foys ( This title is probably not right, bob hope movie)

Captains COurageous -- OK who DIDN'T cry when Spencer Tracy went down to Davey Jones locker Arrrrrr when he was cut in half and drowned???? LIAR!!!!

The Princess and the Pirate

and Road film

Any Marx Brothers film

and especially and more than anything else

ANYTHING by my king and idol -- WC Fields

Joy Honey · 11-16-2007, 04:48 PM

The Awful Truth
Nothing Sacred
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing up Baby
His Girl Friday
All Quiet on the Western Front
To Be or Not to Be (Carole Lombard & Jack Benny)
A Night at the Opera
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer

When I was little, I adored Shirley Temple movies. The Little Princess and Heidi were my favorites.

Dnate Mars · 11-16-2007, 04:52 PM

There are so many. Too bad most of the ones I have watched, I have no idea what they were called. The one that I can recall that was not mentioned was 12 Angry Men.

Sela · 11-16-2007, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beebo Brink

With the exception of a young Mikey Rooney, all of those barely count as middle-aged.

With the exception of Harold and Maude they are all older than me

11-16-2007, 03:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cocoanut Koala Coco's Cottages There is no sanctuary. You may think there is, but there is not. Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 6,398 Business: Coco's Cottages SLShopper Ads: 3 Awards: 1	Your Favorite Old Movies . . . and I mean OLD! OK, so as y'all know (or may not), I'm old. At least compared to most of you. I run around with a lot of young people on the game, and of course, have my own two Cocolings. Occasionally it is frustrating, because I will bring up someone I thought everybody knew (like Fred Astaire), and they'll go, who? Or I'll be watching a movie at home, and ask my still-living-at-home daughter if she can name the people in it, and she can't name Clark Gable, etc. It's like she lives in a Time Bubble, or something. Anyway, today the Thin Man movies are on, and that's one of my favorite old movies series. "Old" in that I wasn't alive when it was made. I realize that everything that was out before we were born qualifies as an old movie to us. But - I think this still requires a cut-off point, as I want to hear about REALLY old movies, not something from 1983. So, I guess, what really old movies - say from the fifties and older - are your favorites, and why?

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Jessyanne Senior Member Likes the smell of green Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pa Posts: 4,645 Business: Lakeside Homes	I really need to know how old Coco is now, cause I know who Fred is and I love the Thin Man __________________ Me Picasa Albums

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Cocoanut Koala Coco's Cottages There is no sanctuary. You may think there is, but there is not. Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 6,398 Business: Coco's Cottages SLShopper Ads: 3 Awards: 1	P.S., just as an aside, my daughters both have a greater education as concerns music. This is because I played oldies stations on the radio for them all the time, when I ran the mom mobile, and I'd ask them, "Who's that?" all the time. So they learned some. (And enjoyed it.) But movies - I couldn't have a captive audience for teaching that.

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