Paris?
I like these old types of movies and they don't necessarily have to be musicals.
Anything else you would reccomend for me in this old movie genre?
:)
2006-11-27 15:17:58 · 18 answers · asked by DisneyLover 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Yeah yeah, I've seen the sound of music. who hasn't?
and as far as to kill a mockingbird, well, that just doesn't interest me all that much, but I can see where ya'll would come up with those answers.
2006-11-27 15:24:54 · update #1
Gigi, Bringing up Baby, Breakfast at Tiffany's, On The Town, Show Boat, Forever and a Day, For Me and My Gal, Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade.
2006-11-27 15:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by braennvin2 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are a number of biographical movies including The Glenn Miller Story, The Gene Krupa Story, bios of George M Cohan (Yankee Doodle Dandy), Cole Porter (an old one and one made last year), Tommy Dorsey, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin etc.
Most of the Rogers and Hammerstein musicals have been made into movies. Include South Pacific, Carousel, Show Boat, My Fair Lady.
One I really liked was The Boyfriend, directed by Ken Russell and starring Twiggy.
Check out movies starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. they made a number of those 'lets put on a show' type musicals. Look up one of them and what they made in the 40s & 50s on IMDB.
Also do a search for Busby Berkeley. He was a choreographer and director who was famous for these spectacular dance sequences, often filmed from above.
Also look up Fred Astaire and or Ginger Rogers. Most of the stuff they did was in the 30s.
There's lots more, but that will do. Check out some of these and then get a book on the history of the Hollywood musical and take it from there.
2006-11-27 19:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Jim T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
Casablanca
12 Angry Men
Citizen Kane
It's a Wonderful Life
To Kill a Mockingbird
Some Like it Hot
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Wizard of Oz
It Happened One Night
The Graduate
Duck Soup
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Mary Poppins
The Music Man
42nd Street
To name just a few. Enjoy watching.
2006-11-27 15:32:56 · answer #3 · answered by spiritoradio 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try "The Three Musketeers" starring Gene Kelly. It is a non-musical role, but he uses his natural dance agility in the sword-fights.
After that, I would suggest signing up for the newsletter and monthly schedule emails from Turner Classic Movies at www.tcm.com
That should give you a good rundown of what you can choose from each and every month. You can even request a movie to be shown, or, you could at one time. It's been a while since I've done that so I'm not sure if they still have that feature.
But regardless of that, and even if you don't have TCM on your cable line-up, you'll be able to find out about a whole lot of old movies that might strike your fancy.
2006-11-27 19:17:29 · answer #4 · answered by lyoskowitz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Streetcar Named Desire,Cat On a Hot Tin Roof,The Long,Hot,Summer,Hud,On The Waterfront,Rebel Without A Cause,Public Enemy #1,Butterflies are free,Where's Papa,Lord's Of Flatbush,Night Of The Iguana,The African Queen,Lillies Of The Field,To Sir With Love,& Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.
2006-11-27 16:31:30 · answer #5 · answered by brooklyn55 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter Parade
White Christmas
A Song is Born
On the Riviera
North by Northwest
Any movie with Danny Kaye or Bing Crosby
2006-11-28 12:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by Pusher Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Brigadoon, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The King and I, Cleopatra, Spartacus.
2006-11-27 20:49:36 · answer #7 · answered by wolflady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Three Little Words (Debbie Reynolds & Fred Astaire), Till the Clouds Roll By, By the Light of the Silvery Moon (Doris Day & Gordon Macrae)......
Should I go on?
2006-11-27 15:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by crash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot from MGM in their musical heyday...these are a bunch that I saw and LOVED!!...
The Music Man
The Wizard of Oz
Oklahoma
Mary Poppins
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Meet me in St. Louis
Grease
and don't forget a bunch of Disney Films, esp.
Beauty and the Beast.....
Good Luck!!!
2006-11-27 16:10:13 · answer #9 · answered by Christopher H G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm into oldies too!
Top Hat , Swing Time (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
Holiday Inn (Fred and Bing)
My all time favorite old movie is Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant. I think it is hillarious every time I watch it.
Pillow Talk with Rock Hudson and Doris Day is really fun too!!
Come September (Rock)
Those are some of my faves
2006-11-28 05:29:06 · answer #10 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋