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AB, let's discuss old Hollywood.
Favorite director?
Favorite movie?
Favorite era?
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Re: AB, let's discuss old Hollywood.
I am not sure I have a favorite director. I respect the work of Martin Scorsese and Alfred Hitchcock the most. I love multiple films from each of them---Goodfellas, The Departed, Notorious, To Catch a Thief, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder.
My favorite movies are Gone with the Wind and All About Eve. From modern times, it's A League of Their Own. I get choked up at the end every time, like when Stillwell's mom and Jimmy Dugan (sp.?) were dead.
I like actresses and have read a lot on them. I will read anything on Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward, etc. My two favorite books are the Hayworth biography "If This Was Happiness" by Barbara Leaming and "Grace" by Robert Lacey. "Grace: An Interpretive Biography" by Steven Englund is also great. I like to say that half of what I know re Old Hollywood I know because of Madonna's Vogue. I've read a biography of almost every person mentioned in that song.
The 40s and 50s are my favorite era. I have watched the majority of Best Pictures and try to watch the main Oscar contenders each year unless the film totally doesn't interest me.
I feel that the best recent Oscar winners were Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" and Helen Mirren in "The Queen." With men, Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote stick out.
I become very Sheldonesque and long-winded in my discussion of this subject, sorry.
I lost the Oscar prediction contest because I missed actress, cinematography, visual effects, documentary, and one or two others that I forget. This year I read that the frontrunners are The Master and Lincoln (picture, director, actor). Supporting Actress may be especially loaded, with Annette Bening, Amy Adams, and Anne Hathaway all up.
Oh, I forgot Katharine Hepburn and "Stage Door." I loved that movie; it's a story about actresses living together in a boarding house. It had Kate, Ginger Rogers, Eve Arden, and Lucille Ball among others.
I have a few old movie tapes that include "Gilda" starring Rita Hayworth, "Kitty" starring Paulette Goddard, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" starring Liz Taylor, "Philadelphia Story" and "Stage Door" starring Hepburn, and "Kitty Foyle" starring Ginger Rogers.
I was in a movie club for awhile and got Some Like It Hot, Seven Year Itch, On Golden Pond, Casablanca.... I'm excited that I have seen all 11 movies with Grace Kelly. Her first movie starred Barbara bel Geddes, who was Miss Ellie from "Dallas," and Agnes Moorehead.Cool. I haven't been able to see many recent movies lately. I can't remember the last time I went to a theater, even.
My favorite director by far is Billy Wilder. From "The Major and the Minor" to "One, Two, Three" that man can do no wrong in my book.
My favorite era is the 30s and the 40s. I particularly love the pre-Code and depression era movies. I wrote several papers in college about the portrayal of society in those films in terms of rich vs. poor, minorities vs. white, etc. I find that entire subject fascinating.
I don't really have a favorite movie but my tastes tend to run towards screwball comedies (Ball of Fire, for one) and the speed talking witty comedies like His Girl Friday.
I like Billy Wilder as well. Did you know that when Jean DuJardin won best actor last year for The Artist, he said he'd like to thank Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder, and Billy Wilder. That was neat.
I enjoyed Ball of Fire (like Barbara Stanwyck A LOT) and I own His Girl Friday.
Carole Lombard is someone you might want to check out if you like screwball comedies. Bringing Up Baby and My Man Godfrey are two good ones, I think.
(Carole Lombard was wife of William Powell and Clark Gable before she died in a plane crash during a tour during WW 2.)
I vaguely remember The Major and the Minor. I think it had Ray Milland and Ginger Rogers, if I'm thinking of the right one. Rogers is great in so many films, esp. the Astaire ones.
"Meet John Doe" and "Lady Eve" are also good movies by Stanwyck. She had many Oscar nominations but didn't win until her honorary Oscar, which I think was given to her after the death of her friend William Holden.
"Double Indemnity" and "Sorry, Wrong Number" are really good.
Sorry, I like talking about this a lot.
One of the college papers I wrote was about My Man Godfrey.