Profaine Angel

Thread 1: Classic Hollywood Couples - Dream Teams Of The Black And White Screen
Thread 2: Classic Hollywood Couples #2 - Black And White Magic
Thread 3: Classic Hollywood Couples #3 - Love And Romance At Its Best
Thread 4: Classic Hollywood Couples #4 - Beautiful People, Beautiful Movies
Thread 5: Classic Hollywood Couples #5 - Reel Love On The Silver Screen
Thread 6: Classic Hollywood Couples #6 - The Golden Age Of Romance
Thread 7: Classic Hollywood Couples #7 - Addicted To The Classic Love
Thread 8: Classic Hollywood Couples #8 - They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore
Thread 9: Classic Hollywood Couples #9 - Blurring The Line Between Reality And Magic
Thread 10: Classic Hollywood Couples #10 - It Could Only Be In Black & White
Thread 11: Classic Hollywood Couples #11 - Amazing, Addictive, And Ageless
Thread 12: Classic Hollywood Couples #12 - A Pantheon Of Screen Gods and Goddesses
Thread 13: Classic Hollywood Couples #13 - The Best And The Brightest
Thread 14: Classic Hollywood Couples #14 - Dazzling Couples In Dazzling Black And White
Thread 15: Classic Hollywood Couples #15 - Tragedy, Comedy, And Above All, Love
Thread 16: Classic Hollywood Couples #16 - You Can't Improve On Perfection
Thread 17: Classic Hollywood Couples #17 - It All Started With Kate
Thread 18: Classic Hollywood Couples #18 - Christmas Is Coming, My Classics Are Ready...
Thread 19: Classic Hollywood Couples #19 - Some Memories Never Fade


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-Classic Films: Modern Times
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-Reel Classics
-Classic Movie Scripts
-Internet Movie Database

[img]smilies/star.gif[/img] Meet the gang [img]smilies/star.gif[/img]

Name/Screenname: Alex/-Alex-
Favourite classic movie: The Thin Man
Favourite musical: Singin' In The Rain, On The Town
Favourite classic couple: Myrna Loy/William Powell, Cary Grant/Kate Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall
Favourite actor: Cary Grant
Favourite actress: Myrna Loy
Favourite kiss: Kate and Jimmy in 'The Philadelphia Story', and Joel and Jean in TMTM
Favourite quote: "You don't have to do anything and you don?t have to say anything. Oh, maybe just whistle. You do know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." - Slim, 'To Have And Have Not'
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Name/Screenname: Shawne/gaityr
Favourite classic movie: Bringing Up Baby
Favourite musical: Singin? In The Rain
Favourite classic couple: Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn
Favourite actor: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart
Favourite actress: Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy
Favourite kiss: Kate and Jimmy in 'The Philadelphia Story'
Favourite quote: "There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing!" - Bringing Up Baby
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Name/Screenname: Meg/NutMeg82
Favourite classic movie: Casablanca
Favourite musical: Singin' in the Rain
Favourite actor: Gene Kelly
Favourite actress: Ingrid Bergman
Favourite kiss: Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in 'Spellbound'
Fave Couple: Cary and Kate
Favourite quote: "Here's looking at you, kid."

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Name/Screenname: Sal/Profaine Angel
Favourite classic movie: Ball Of Fire
Favourite musical: Singin' In The Rain
Favourite classic couple: *thinking, thinking*
Favourite actor: Cary Grant
Favourite actress: Phyllis Calvert, Barbara Stanwyck
Favourite kiss: Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur in 'The More The Merrier'
Favourite quote: "This is the Voice of Doom calling. Your days are numbered, to the seventh son of the seventh son!" - The Philadelphia Story

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Name/Screenname: Star/Star5
Favourite classic movie: North By Northwest
Favourite musical: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers/Singin' In The Rain
Favourite classic couple: Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr, Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers
Favourite actor: Cary Grant, Robert Taylor
Favourite actress: Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers
Favourite kiss: Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North By Northwest'
Favourite quote: "We'll throw the book at 'em. Kidnapping. Assault with gun...and bourbon...and sports car. We'll get 'em.." - North By Northwest
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Name/Screenname: Anne/StellaSlight
Favourite classic movie: Notorious
Favourite musical: Singin' in the rain
Favourite classic couple: Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman in 'Notorious', Claudette/Clark in 'It happened one night'
Favourite actor: Cary Grant, James Stewart, Gene Kelly
Favourite actress: Ingrid Bergman
Favourite kiss : Cary/Ingrid in Notorious
Favourite quote: Don Lockwood: Dignity. Always, dignity. (Singin' in the Rain)
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Name/Screenname: Pix, Kitty
Favorite classic movie: East of Eden
Favorite classic couple: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Favorite actor: James Dean
Favorite actress: Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn
Favorite quote: "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to eachother, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." -- Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Name/Screenname: Bella/Bella Lumina
Favourite classic movie: Roman Holiday, Laura, and Notorious
Favourite musical: Singin? In The Rain
Favourite classic couple: Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck
Favourite actor: Cary Grant, Gregory Peck
Favourite actress: Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly
Favourite kiss: Audrey and Gregory's goodbye kiss in Roman Holiday
Favourite quote: "I've never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's most unusual!" -- Audrey in Roman Holiday
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Name/Screenname: Nsuck/tx_rosaddict
Favourite classic movie: The Thin Man series, The Quiet Man, The Philadelphia Story
Favourite musical: Singin? In The Rain, Meet Me In St. Louis, White Christmas
Favourite classic couple: William Powell/Myrna Loy, John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara, Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell, Gene Kelly/Judy Garland
Favourite actor: Jimmy Stewart, Bing Crosby, William Powell, Gene Kelly
Favourite actress: Maureen O'Hara, Rosalind Russell, Judy Garland
Favourite kiss: Bing Crosby/Rosemary Clooney & Danny Kaye/Vera-Ellen in White Christmas
Favourite quote: "When I figure out what you just said, I'll come up with a crushing reply." Bob Wallace 'White Christmas'

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Name/Screenname: Monica/MonSTAR
Favourite classic movie: The Philadelphia Story
Favourite musical: Singin? In The Rain
Favourite classic couple: Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn
Favourite actor: Cary Grant
Favourite actress: Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh
Favourite kiss: Kate & Jimmy in 'The Philadelphia Story'; Ingrid & Cary in 'Notorious'
Favourite quote: "How dare he make love to me and not be a married man!" - 'Indiscreet'
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Name/Screenname: Elisabeth/WackyBuffy
Favourite classic movie: All About Eve, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Breakfast at Tiffany's
Favourite musical: Singin? In The Rain & Taming of the Shrew
Favourite classic couple: Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck , Elizabeth Taylor/Paul Newman
Favourite actor: Paul Newman
Favourite actress: Audrey Hepburn
Favourite kiss: The Holly/Paul kiss in Breakfast at Tiffany's at the end in the rain
Favourite quote: "I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage, that's all. You know, that's the first time you've raised your voice in a long time. Crack in the stone wall? I think that's a
fine sign. Mighty fine." - Maggie, ?Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'
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Name/Screenname: Mallory/angelfallon
Favourite classic movie: A Place In The Sun, It Happened One Night, Splendor In the Grass, Rebel Without A Cause, A Streetcar Named Desire
Favourite musical: Singin? In The Rain & West Side Story
Favourite classic couple: James Dean/Pier Angeli,
Favourite actor: James Dean or Marlon Brando
Favourite actress: Natalie Wood
Favourite kiss: Liz/Monty kiss while they are dancing in A Place In the Sun
Favourite quote: "Eek! Officer Krupke, you've done it again. This boy don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen. It ain't just a question of misunderstood; Deep down inside him, he's no good!" - 'West Side Story'
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Name/Screenname: Samantha/Maliejandra
Favourite classic movie: My Best Girl, Tess of the Storm Country, Grand Hotel, Gone With the Wind, ect. ect.
Favourite musical: Ziegfeld Girl
Favourite classic couple: Mary Pickford/Buddy Rogers, Jean Harlow/Clark Gable
Favourite actor: Charlie Chaplin (although I love many others)
Favourite actress: Mary Pickford
Favourite kiss: Mary Pickford and Lloyd Hughes in Tess of the Storm Country, Mary Astor and Clark Gable in Red Dust, Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone in Suzy, and Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart in The Philidelphia Story

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Name/Screenname: Anabela/Vitalogy
Favourite classic movie: "Gone with the Wind"
Favourite musical: "Singin' in the rain"
Favourite classic couple: Clark Gable/Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind"
Favourite actor: Cary Grant, Clark Gable, James Stewart
Favourite actress: Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn
Favourite kiss: Gable/Leigh in Gone with the Wind
Favourite quote: "Tomorrow is another day": Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind"

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Name/Screenname: Shannon/MissShannon
Favourite classic movie: The Philadelphia Story
Favourite musical: Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, though if we're choosing from movie musicals I guess I'd have to say The Wizard of Oz
Favourite classic couple: Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn
Favourite actor: Cary Grant
Favourite actress: Katherine Hepburn
Favourite quote: "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." C.S. Lewis

[img]smilies/star.gif[/img]The Birthday List [img]smilies/star.gif[/img]

January 8 - Sal
February 2 - Anne
May 25 - Star
June 20 - Shawne
July 6 - Meg
August 31 - Alex

Old thread can be found here

Anabela

Hi

Thank you for opening the thread, Sal.

My best friend rented some Hitchcock movies.
We've already seen Rope and we loved it. I didn't think the plot was all that interesting. Maybe it was my mood at the time.
What I did like was the huge shots and the way the cuts between shots were "hidden". It's a smart movie.
I'll watch North by Northwest soon.

I've ben seeing movies by Vistor Sjostrom, a swedish director from the 20's.
I loved He Who Gets Slapped, The Scarlett Letter and another movie he made in Sweden that I can't rememeber the title. I should look it up.

*Maxi*

Thanks for the new thread, Sal! Love the title.

Anabela - aww, Victor Sjöström. It's been ages since I saw any of his movies. Time to catch up on them again.

Star5

Whoooh!! New thread Thanks for starting it Sal.

Dropping by briefly to say that I went to see Kiss Me Kate yesterday and it was fabulous All the songs from the film (it was well over a 3 hour show so they managed to fit everything in), and incredible leads taking Howard, Kathryn and Ann's roles. I think I fell in love with Tommy Rall's character And when I was looking in the programme afterwards it said that he had been invited to perform at an MGM gala celebration at the London Palladium where he got to partner Cyd Charisse. How fantastic is that! Tom, Dick or Harry and Too Darn Hot were of course my favourites but So In Love was gorgeous as well. And I Hate Men where the actress ended up practically throwing all the props across the stage

And they actually had a merchandise store afterwards so I bought a t-shirt and a cd of the original Broadway recording.

Anabela

Kiss me Kate is one of my friends' favourite movie. I've never seen it.

I missed The Wind , by Victor Sjostrom last week. I was going to go with a friend but then he said he couldn't go and I didn0't feel like going alone. But now I'm sorry I didn't go. I love Lillian Gish.

Profaine Angel

Star your KMK sounds terrific! That's one I'd love to see done on the stage (In fact a friend and I have pretty much decided it's going to be done here next year and we're by now very convinced so will be very shocked if it isn't )

Imagine dancing with Cyd

Did they have any songs in it that weren't in the film too? I love when that happens. Pretty much the entire of Broadway High Society is songs from other Cole Porter shows and maybe 4 from the actual film

I haven't watched any films in ages though I do have many, many tapes piling up. Oh, but here's weird news: don't know if anyone watches Neighbours (did you mention it once Star or was that because your mum or someone else wanted to know what was going on? ) but anyway the cast of it are doing a one-off performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show which should be fantastic Albeit very, very strange.

Must get back to essay!

Anabela

It's almost the same with me. Last week, one of my housemates rented North by Northwest and I didn't have time to watch it before she had to return it.

Madicken

princess grace with Prince Rainier

*Maxi*

Sal - I'm the same with books as you are with films. The pile of unread books I have bought keeps growing and growing. And still I keep buying more. As for films, I'm a bit behind on those too, since I haven't had time to watch as much as I would have liked recently.

I have tried to make up for it a bit this morning though, by watching Frenzy. I stopped after about 20 min. though because I had troubles getting into the story. I am not sure if I'll start from scratch again, continue or just give up on it. We'll see. It had a different feeling to it than most other Hitchcock movies I've seen before, not sure if I imagine things?

Randa Beth

Yeah, I think we've talked about this on the board before, but I agree. 'Frenzy' was one of the last films Hitch made, and I personally think all of his later films were of poorer quality than the rest. One of the main things that bothered me about 'Frenzy' was the violence shown... Hitchcock never had to show grisly scenes, it was all about the build up. Of course, any Hitchcock film is better than about 97% of other films, so it can't really be said that 'Frenzy' is a poor film. It's just a poor Hitch film
Only my opinion, of course.

Star5

Sad news. My Dad just told me that Howard Keel passed away on the weekend

*Maxi*

Star - Howard Keel died? So sad. I liked him.

Randa - yeah, that's my main problem with Frenzy too. It showed too much 'in the face' both with what you saw and what was talked about. One of Hitchcock's strongest abilities in his best movies are the subtle references.

Profaine Angel

It was so weird, I was just finishing typing up my AGYG essay when my mum said that Howard Keel had died. Like right as I was writing about him

*Maxi*

Aww.

I'm still upset about it.

Randa Beth

Yeah, its been a bad several weeks for some of my favorite classic movie actors...

I am actually very excited about this Monday, because 'Presenting Lily Mars' is coming on! I have never seen it, but I like Van Heflin, and everyone knows how much I adore Judy! Seeing them together, though... that will be interesting. Has anyone seen the movie before?