By Old Hollywood I'm referring to anywhere between silent film (1910s-1920s) and the 1950s and '60s. (Maybe a little later than the Golden Age lol.) Idk if any of you watch or have watched those kind of movies, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Gregory Peck, Lucille Ball (her TV shows, mostly), Cary Grant, Natalie Wood, Katharine Hepburn. My dad is a big Jimmy Stewart fan but I'm not really on board with that lol.
Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
I love movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood:
Actors:
Errol Flynn
Humphrey Bogart
Claude Rains
Orson Welles
Gregory Peck
Robert Preston
Stewart Granger
William Holden
Paul Newman
Spencer Tracy
Actresses:
June Allyson
Yvonne DeCarlo
Judy Garland
Maureen O'Hara
Olivia de Havilland
Anne Baxter
Elizabeth Taylor
Ann-Margaret
Donna Reed
Natalie Wood
Shirley Jones
Diana Rigg
I haven't watched much Old Hollywood stuff but I find Marilyn Monroe fascinating, like overall. I also really loved watching I Love Lucy when I was growing up.. I wonder if I would still like it today!
I haven't watched much Old Hollywood stuff but I find Marilyn Monroe fascinating, like overall. I also really loved watching I Love Lucy when I was growing up.. I wonder if I would still like it today!
Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
I love movies from the Golden Era of Hollywood:
Actors:
Errol Flynn
Humphrey Bogart
Claude Rains
Orson Welles
Gregory Peck
Robert Preston
Stewart Granger
William Holden
Paul Newman
Spencer Tracy
Actresses:
June Allyson
Yvonne DeCarlo
Judy Garland
Maureen O'Hara
Olivia de Havilland
Anne Baxter
Elizabeth Taylor
Ann-Margaret
Donna Reed
Natalie Wood
Shirley Jones
Diana Rigg
I feel so dumb for forgetting half the people on the list until now lol
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I also find Rudolph Valentino fascinating but I’m not really a silent movie person lol.
Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart were great in Barefoot Contessa, imo
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Hedy Lamarr…I don’t know much of her acting but she had an interesting life.
Mae West…omg LOVE her. So quick-witted
Carole Lombard also had a brief, yet interesting career.
audrey hepburn and gregory peck, very easily my favorites. lucille ball was also a delight to watch too but i don't feel like i've seen enough of her stuff. breakfast at tiffany's is a movie i very much enjoy, i do have to skip some of the parts that havent uh, aged well.
edit: HOW COULD I FORGET MAE WEST
audrey hepburn and gregory peck, very easily my favorites. lucille ball was also a delight to watch too but i don't feel like i've seen enough of her stuff. breakfast at tiffany's is a movie i very much enjoy, i do have to skip some of the parts that havent uh, aged well.
edit: HOW COULD I FORGET MAE WEST
Never seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s or any Audrey movie, but a lot of people listed her here so I’ll have to see some of her stuff. My dad likes the movie Sabrina.
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I guess this isn’t really acting but I love the old Christmas movies, like Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol (1938), and White Christmas. I’ve seen others too but I love the old Christmas ones lol.
Vincent Price was in a lot of film adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe's works and I might be just a teensy bit obsessed with Poe so there's that. He is a brilliant actor and I love the early horror movies, though. Which reminds me, how did I forget to add Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi to the list!
Never seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s or any Audrey movie, but a lot of people listed her here so I’ll have to see some of her stuff. My dad likes the movie Sabrina.
Audrey Hepburn is always the first actress I think of when asked these types of questions. She's classy and fun all at the same time, which is what I love about her. My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's are some of her most popular films. Sabrina is also good. But my favorites are Roman Holiday and The Children's Hour. Some of these movies have not aged well, as already stated above, but I think most fans of old cinema are used to that.
Vincent Price was in a lot of film adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe's works and I might be just a teensy bit obsessed with Poe so there's that. He is a brilliant actor and I love the early horror movies, though. Which reminds me, how did I forget to add Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi to the list!
Audrey Hepburn is always the first actress I think of when asked these types of questions. She's classy and fun all at the same time, which is what I love about her. My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's are some of her most popular films. Sabrina is also good. But my favorites are Roman Holiday and The Children's Hour. Some of these movies have not aged well, as already stated above, but I think most fans of old cinema are used to that.
I think I saw the Pit and the Pendulum? (Vincent Price was in that) And some of the Masque of the Red Death, too. I watched the Poe movies around Halloween a few times. But yeah, my Dad is more of a Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, film noir kinda fan so I was surprised that he said Sabrina was a good movie. (Bogart was in it, so makes sense.)
Also, a fun fact, my Dad had to read The African Queen for school as a kid. But instead of reading it before doing the book report, he watched the movie with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. He told me he failed it ofc.
Marlon Brando was talented and handsome, but I hate how a lot of the comments on the younger photos of him say stuff like "before he got fat lol." Like...you can be fat AND hot.
James Garner. Wasn't old enough to be "old Hollywood" but I did see him in the Rockford Files. In his interviews he seemed so kind…and so handsome! He’s like a friend's hot dad-- you know what I mean? Like you're at your friend's house (as a teen I guess) and their dad comes in and is like "hey, girls, what's going on?" And you're like... Definitely got a crush on him!
Myrna Loy
William Powell
Donald O'Connor
Cary Grant
Audrey Hepburn
Judy Garland
Fred & Ginger
Katherine Hepburn
Lionel Barrymore (actually, all the Barrymores)
Marie Dressler
Jean Harlow
Gene Kelly
Edward Everett Horton
I'm sure I'm missing a few.
Favorite movies:
The Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man series
Wife vs. Secretary
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Singin' in the Rain
Guys and Dolls
Shall We Dance (Fred and Ginger)
Mr. Lucky
His Girl Friday
The Women
Little Women (mainly the June Allyson/Peter Lawford version, but the Hepburn one is awesome, too)
A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim version)
Easter Holiday
Mister Roberts
Myrna Loy
William Powell
Donald O'Connor
Cary Grant
Audrey Hepburn
Judy Garland
Fred & Ginger
Katherine Hepburn
Lionel Barrymore (actually, all the Barrymores)
Marie Dressler
Jean Harlow
Gene Kelly
Edward Everett Horton
I'm sure I'm missing a few.
Favorite movies:
The Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man series
Wife vs. Secretary
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Singin' in the Rain
Guys and Dolls
Shall We Dance (Fred and Ginger)
Mr. Lucky
His Girl Friday
The Women
Little Women (mainly the June Allyson/Peter Lawford version, but the Hepburn one is awesome, too)
A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim version)
Easter Holiday
Mister Roberts
He told me he failed it ofc.
Definitely got a crush on him!
