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Lasposa, movie recs
I'm doing this just for fun. Here are movies I really enjoyed along with the actresses who starred in them. (I read a lot of books about old Hollywood.)
Vivien Leigh---Waterloo Bridge
Ingrid Bergman---Notorious
Elizabeth Taylor---Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Place in the Sun
Grace Kelly---High Society, To Catch a Thief
Paulette Goddard---Kitty
Ginger Rogers---Kitty Foyle, Stage Door
Katharine Hepburn---Bringing up Baby
Rita Hayworth---Gilda
Bette Davis---All About Eve
There's a longer list.
now i know how Nancy Kerrigan felt. that's insight into SCARY ISLAND. you have no clue what really went down.
Re: Lasposa, movie recs
Thank you! I've been wanting to watch more classic Hollywood movies. I'm embarrassed I've only seen All About Eve on that list (LOVED it!).
Other favorites of mine are A Streetcar Named Desire and Citizen Kane.
Keep the recs coming -- I definitely trust your taste in movies!
"Streetcar" is one of the few movies I have on video. Others are from the list above, Casablanca, On Golden Pond (love Kate Hepburn), Philadelphia Story...
I just love All About Eve.
Another good movie, though off the beaten track quite a bit, is Israeli, I think: "Lemon Tree." A guy from Gold Derby recommended it. Gold Derby is a site that has a really "inside the business" entertainment forum. If you follow it, you can score at least top five in any Oscar contest.
I've seen all 11 of Grace Kelly's movies. Her first one, Fourteen Hours, co-starred Agnes Moorehead (we have the same alma mater) and Barbara Bel Geddes, who was Miss Ellie on Dallas.
A few others:
On the Waterfront (Brando and Eva Marie Saint won Oscars)
Reds (Warren Beatty)
Patton
I liked the Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh Anna Karenina movies as well. I've seen quite a few Leigh films: Waterloo Bridge, That Hamilton Woman, Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
I'm listening to these podcasts where the bloggers are talking about past Oscar years, like 1975 when One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept. So interesting.
Only two weeks until Great Gatsby's released! I may see that if the reviews are decent. I'm dying to see the Grace Kelly and Princess Diana biopics, plus Wolf of Wall Street. They'll be out at the end of this year or beginning of next.
It'd be so interesting if people turned on Clooney, Heslow, and their "Monuments Men," saying it's dull, boring, a history lesson, blah blah blah because that was the Oscar campaign against "Lincoln."
I watched Life of Pi last night; very interesting movie. I am getting Perks of Being a Wallflower, Searching for Sugar Man, Rust and Bone, and Pitch Perfect soon from the library. I quit my Blockbuster subscription, so I am just renting. It's funny how nothing comes in for months, then everything at once.
I just finished Pi, Frankenweenie, and am working on Veep.