Classic Icons Must-See Film List- Add Yours!

[Miss.Blondie.]

I have been reading all the threads about old hollywood actresses, so now im really interested in movies from that era...besides the obvious movies like casablanca, gone with the wind and breakfast at tiffany's, I have no idea what movies to see! anyone feel like helping me out with the name of old (b/w or colour), 1910-1945 movies that you have seen and would recommend to me? Non-english movies (with subtitles) are also okay with me thanks in advance chicas!

I edited the title and pinned this so that it would get seen by everyone in here You can expand your list to fit this entire Icon subforum. Just remember, must be pre-1980's.

 

[Josephine]

i love old movies and here are my suggestions (i tried to make a list of critically acclaimed films as well as some of my faves

-The Philadelphia Story (1940)
-Citizen Kane (1941) [thought to be the greatest film ever made]
-How Green Was My Valley (1941)
-Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
-cover girl (1944)
-The Best Years of our Lives (1946)
-It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

 

[alicia753]

Notorious
It's a wonderful life
Meet John Doe
The ghost and Mrs Muir
Spellbound
Lulu
Rebecca
The portrait of Jennie
The Philadelphia Story

 

[Colette_B]

-ninotchka 1939
-wuthering heights 1939
-the great dictator 1940
-breif encounter 1945


alicia and josephine have made some good choices that i would also recommend!

 

[PrincessProzac]

Bringing up Baby - Katharine Hepburn is just perfect in this

Metropolis is a silent film, but definitely worth seeing in my opinion.

The original King Kong

Anna Karenina starring Greta Garbo

Laura - one of my favourite films ever and starring the most beautiful woman to ever grace the screen B)

 

[jackieonassis]

The Philedelphia Story
Wizard of Oz
Bringing up Baby
To Have and Have Not
Casablanca

 

[alicia753]

To be or not to be
Under capricorn
The shop around the corner
The most dangerous game
The maltese falcon
Key Largo
Dark Passage
The big sleep

 

[Ziegfeld Girl]

I adore old movies!

Some of my favourites between 1910-1945:

The Women (1939)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Rebecca (1940) - anything by Hitchcock is a winner.
Modern Times (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Regle du jeu, La (1939)
The Thin Man series
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Laura (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Little Foxes (1941)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)

 

[Kira Charisse]

Bogart and Bacall are great, together or seperately.

Fave Bogart:
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The African Queen (his only movie with Katharine Hepburn)

Fave Bacall:
Designing Woman (with Gregory Peck)
How to Marry a Millionaire (with Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe)

Fave with both:
To Have and Have Not
Dark Passage
Key Largo

 

[Ziegfeld Girl]

Bogart and Bacall are great, together or seperately.
Fave with both:
To Have and Have Not
Dark Passage
Key Largo

Don't forget The Big Sleep (1946).

 

[Josephine]

Designing Woman (with Gregory Peck)

oh i love that film - its so clever how you can hear their thoughts

 

[Orchide]

Some of mine I would recommend for any classic film lover:

Laura (Preminger starring Gene Tierney)
Rebecca (Hitchcock starring Joan Fontaine & Olivier)
Portrait of Jennie (Jennifer Jones)
The Boyfriend ( Ken Russell directed Twiggy flapper vehicle)
Gilda (Rita Hayworth)
The Misfits (MM)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, Dietrich, Janet Leigh)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Joan Crawford, Bette Davis)
All About Eve (Bette Davis)
Chinatown (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway)
Marnie (Hitchcock starring Tippi Hedren)
This Property Is Condemned, Inside Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood)
Babydoll (Tennessee Williams starring Carroll Baker)
Young Girls of Rochefort, Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Catherine Deneuve)
Daisies (1960's Czech new wave)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski directed with Mia Farrow)
Annie Hall, Love & Death (Woody Allen directed both starring Diane Keaton)
A Streetcar Named Desire, GWTW (Vivien Leigh)
Shanghai Express, The Blue Angel (Dietrich)
Gah...I am naming too many and still have so many
For silents:
Metropolis
Piccadilly (Anna May Wong)
It (Clara Bow)
Pandora's Box (Louise Brooks)
The Unknown (Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford)
Our Dancing Daughters (Joan Crawford, Anita Page)

thats it for now

 

[starburst]

My suggestions:

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Sabrina (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Picnic (1955)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)- my personal favorite
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Charade (1963)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Graduate, The (1967)

Some Hitchcocks:

Rebecca (1940)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)

 

[Josephine]

^ i really love a lot of those films starburst - nice choices

 

[SusanSuperstar]

I love all the old movies!!!!!!!

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Psycho
How to mary a Millionaire
Casablanca

 

[Lacroix]

I adore 1930-1960 film. I just love that era, I wish I was born so that I could have lived through it, such an elegant and classy time imo.

Here are my personal favorurites that I would definately suggest.

-Wuthering Heights; Lawrence Olivier is absolutley gorgeous in it.
-To have and have not- I love the chemistry between Bogie and Bacall, she is such a beautiful woman.
-An affair to remember; My favourite Cary Grant movie, Deborah Kerr is really stunning in it, I was never really a fan of her, but I love her in this.
-Gentleman's Agreement; Gregory peck is amazing , it's a moving story about anti-seminism
-Duel in the sun; Westen movie but it was the first Peck movie I saw when I was about 8/9, and I fell in love with him
-Wait until dark; 60's Hepburn movie, not my personal favoutite time period, I hate that mod look etc, but she's great in it, and it's a less common movie of her's and shows her acting range well.
-Pride and Prejudice; The best Austen adaptation imo
-Little Women; I think the fact that it's black and white adds to the appeal, as well and Katherine Hepburns beauty.
-Rebecca; Such an eerie movie, beautifully acted, although I'd also suggest the book by Daphne Du Maurier.
-Roman Holiday; The only bad point about the movie is that I so wanted Gregory and Audrey to be together but that's the whole point I suppose, duty and love
-Sabrina Fair; Audrey is so adorable in it, and I love love love her outfits, she is the epitome of parisian chic in this movie
-Marked Woman; It was a strange liking for me, but Bogart is at his best in it imo, such a talanted actor.
-Suspicion;- Joan Fontaine is beautiful as always, Cary Grant delivers as the desirable rebel as always, he's très attractive whilst doing it.
-Spellbound; Not a Bergman fan at all, I don't see the appeal but she's brilliant in this as is Mr. Peck...thats why I like it, can't get enough that scoundrel.

 

[Josephine]

this is a nearly complete list of mine:

-Easter Parade
-The man who knew too much
-To catch a thief
-rear window
-the last time i saw paris
-till the clouds roll by
-splendor in the grass
-gigi (my absolute favourite film of all time)
-les girls
-sabrina (my fave audrey film)
-west side story
-a place in the sun
-gilda
-cover girl
-marnie
-good news
-singin in the rain
-an american in paris
-on the town
-the opposite sex
-funny face
-how to steal a million
-anchors aweigh
-the ghost and mrs muir


i pretty much love any musical

 

[sunshine daisy]

Oooohhhh.. for musicals don't forget Singin' in the Rain and Cabaret.

 

[Diamond Star]

Some like it hot-one of my favourite movies ever

 

[Tushka_BeLLa]

Some of my favourite musicals ....

The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills version)
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Meet me in St. Louis