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Originally posted by evenodds
For your classics list, I would add It Happened One Night. I watched it again this weekend, when it aired on AMC. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, 1934. I think Billy Wilder directed. It's one of the best movies ever made.
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Worlds colliding -- my wife and I watched it last night on Turner Classics. You are right that it is one of the best movies ever made. It is amazing to watch, and hard to believe that it was made in 1934. Frank Capra directed (as I learned from the intro by Sidney Pollack), and Clark Cable was loaned to Harry Cohn's Columbia by MGM's Louis Mayer for this movie as punishment for some misdeed.
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Originally posted by evenodds
I also highly recommend The Philadelphia Story. I haven't seen it on television. I have it on vhs. It was one of the first movies I purchased. Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant.
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A *fantastic* movie! Unlike today's movies, you never really know who will end up with the girl.
However, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frankie Sinister did a musical remake (called "High Society") that I absolutely hated. Bing was too old for Grace, Grace did a bad Hepburn impersonation, and Frank didn't sing enough (although he and Bing did have a duet that was wonderful -- can't remember the title, but it was something like "have you heard" or "what a swell party this is"). And Louie Armstrong and his band play some good tunes, too.
