Do you like watching old films, that is black and white films?
By maribea
@maribea (2366)
Italy
March 2, 2007 3:24am CST
Do you like watching old films? I mean those films that are in black and white? I love them...first of all black and white can create a soft and romantic atmosphere and secondly I am a fan of Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and so on...it was just last night that on Sky Classics I could see a great film with Bette Davis and Olivia...oh can't remember the full name...she was in Gone with the wind...it was a powerful film...two sisters..Olivia the good and Bette the bad one...what strong characters!!!!
and what about you? tell me, please...maybe the films have a different title in Italy but if you describe it I'll understand!!!
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
3 Mar 07
Mae West and W.C. Fields The classic comedies.. Three Stooges and Little Rascals. My favorite mail actor is Paul Newman. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. To me Paul was the most handsome actor ever and not even Brad Pitt can compete with Paul. Audrey is also a favorite of mine..movie, Bringing Up Baby was great. Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Harvey. Wuthering Heights starring Lawrence Olivier. Zorba thr Greek with Anthony Quinn. I could go on and on...
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
3 Mar 07
oh you can go on and on....I love readin posts like this..and how much I agree with you....I am definitely in love with Paul Newman...the fact is that he was not only handsome but also fascinating and this is something different that not always comes with beauty...Audrey Hepburn is one of my favourite and I am so happy that I look a bit like her because I am little and thin!!!! Breakfast at Tyffany...I have seen this film so many times but I am never tired of it
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@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
17 Mar 07
Yes,I went through a period of illmess andwas at home with a child who was very young at the time, only 3. He and I would watch the 10 Am Classics (he would, I would fall asleep midway through). They're brilliant if a small child will be riveted. For my little boy, he loved Jo from Little Women. It really stuck with him.
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@kiiizu (1901)
• Estonia
2 Mar 07
I guess Olivia is Olivia de Havilland. I'm also fond of old films, my favorites are Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - a wonderful couple! "Woman of the year", "Adam's Rib"... In "Bringing up baby" she is with Cary Grant, in "African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart. But you are an Italian, so I'd like to mention a black and white Italian serial from early 70ties, with very young and handsome Ugo Pagliai - "Il segno del comando". I was watching it in my early teens on Finnish TV, then it made a big impression on me. Couple of months ago I even found out, there were DVD-s available... but, alas, I couldn't find any with English or German subtitres. As much I know, there is a remake also but I'm interested only in original. The childhood memories, you know... Do you have seen it? And I have seen some great Italian oldies with Sophia Loren, and/or Marcello Mastroianni, like 'Marriage Italian-Style', and 'Divorce - Italian Style'
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
2 Mar 07
of course being Italian I know movies with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and I love them...Yesterday, Today and tomorrow is my favourite...I know Ugo Pagliai but I don't remember seeing the film you are talking about...as for Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy well they were great...I do agree with you!!!!
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@aidonia (4209)
• Greece
4 Mar 07
As you must know I'm a movie collector.I have many old films in my collection.Some of my friends they joke about this but.....I even have a film called Metropolis from 1926.I love Alfred Hithchcock films and specially the old ones(I have almost all).Ofcourse I like Tiffany and Sabrina from Audrey Hepburn, and Roman Holiday with her and Gregory Peck(another good actor).Also I have His girl Friday(Gary Grant),Mutiny on the Bounty (Clark Gable),Sirocco (Humphrey Bogart),Another time Another place(Sean Connery),From here to Eyernity(Deborah Kerr),The third man (Orson Welles),The country girl(Grease Kelly)Trapeze(Tony Curtis),On the beach(Ava Gardner)Suddenly(Frank Sinatra)The pride and the passion(SophiaLoren).........and many more(over than 100).And still I didn't complete my collection.You can call me a movie wikipedia!!!!
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@aidonia (4209)
• Greece
5 Mar 07
I wish we can watch movies together...It will be so nice.I just watch another old movie and this time was from your country..L'Innocente, a Visconti film with Giancarlo Giannini and Laura Antonelli .I think you must know the film.Thanks for the best response.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
5 Mar 07
wonderful!!!! I wish we could watch films together...we have so much in common...I love all the films you are talking about! I love Audrey and I am so happy I am a bit like her ...I love Cary Grant and Hithcock (oh Marnie and Psycho, Birds...Rebecca, the first wife),and Grace Kelly and Gregory Peck...wonderful!!!
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@cristobert (332)
• India
13 Mar 07
It's a wonderful life is my favourite movie, There are some great movies by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astire.. Let's not forget Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy
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@drakan291 (817)
• Ireland
22 Mar 07
I love them, especially the soft focus semi blurry ones. It's something I associate with childhod and being sick and being allowed to watch television under a big quilt.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
22 Mar 07
The only time I will watch anything black and white is Laurel and Hardy, the comedy in the 30s, I had all their videos at one stage. Getting them all changed into dvds is a costly business. I wasn't into westerns which were mostly black and white in my childhood and I am not struck on old films, in fact I don't have one single black and white film in my dvd collection. It's good that people still do appreciate them, but for me it has to be colour.
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@albert2412 (1782)
• United States
18 Mar 07
A lot of the great movies of the 1930's and 1940's were made in black and white. A lot of the best actors were alive back then. I love a lot of those old movies.
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@AmbiePam (92711)
• United States
31 Mar 07
Are you speaking of Olivia de Haviland? That is the only Olivia I can think of that was a movie star at that time.
I think there are black and white movie classics and there are black and white movie stinkers, just like today (all though these days there seem to be more stinkers than classics). 'Casablanca,' 'It's a Wonderful Life,' and 'Arsenic and Old Lace,' are just a few of the best.
It is interesting to see that some Hollywood producers/directors are taking cues from the black and white days. 'The Good German,' starring Cate Blanchett and George Clooney is one of the recent movies done in black and white. The effect can cause a difference in mood and perception, which is one of the main reasons I enjoy movies done in black and white.
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@honeyangel (1991)
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21 Mar 07
im afraid i will have to say no,i dont like black and white movies all that much.one with spiecal fx anyday
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@FrancyDafne (2047)
• Italy
26 Apr 07
Yes, I do.
.... and Ingrid Bergman? :)
Well, you are very lucky to have sky, so you can watch really a lot of "real" and artistic films. Unfortunately I don't have the subscription to Sky, and even if I had it I couldn't watch it because I'm a very busy person, but when my little son will grow up I'll make the subscription to Sky.
I saw my last "black and white" films many years ago, I saw some of them when I attended the Dams in Bologna: I loved the films by Truffault very much.
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@creematee (2810)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I love old movies!!! My favorites at Audrey Hepburn and old Hitchcock films. We used to belong to Netflix because it seemed like the only place we could rent those old movies. May have to join again, just so we can get them again. :) We can't find those movies in any video store around here. :(
@butterfly39 (3904)
• Philippines
3 Jul 07
NO I don't like the black and white anymore...only the colored ones.
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
16 Mar 07
I love movies and there are some that are in black and white that are fantastic. There are some that aren't but others that are great and would be no matter if they were in black and white or in color. One of my favorite movies is Arsenic and Old Lace. It's a comedy staring Cary Grant and it's in fantastic. Cary Grant is very good in it. If you haven't seen it then I would recommend it. It will make you chuckle.
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@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
16 Mar 07
Old movies are good regarding story. I like to watch movies and some of old movies are my favourite. But I don't like every black and white movies. Some of those are really great and I like them. I like Charlie chaplin's movies.
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@diansinta (7544)
• Indonesia
17 Mar 07
black and white movies are so romantic. bring back all memories and make us appreciated old people what they can do.