1934 Little Women – Katherine Hepburn as Jo and the mesmerizing Douglass Montgomery as Laurie.
1939 Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, and delectable jazzy music.
1942 The Maltese Falcon – Humphrey Bogart as the inimitable Sam Spade. Also, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre make it well worth watching.
1947 It’s a Wonderful Life – Despite not winning the ultimate, this heartwarming picture holds center stage at least once a year in our holiday home.
1950 A Letter to Three Wives – Melodrama type of movie I watch every time it runs. I especially love the chemistry between saucy Ann Southern and alpha Paul Douglas.
1953 The Quiet Man – John Wayne in Ireland. LOVE this movie, even the scene where he drags her across hill and dale.
1954 Shane – Enjoyed the book and the movie. It was one of my husband’s favorites. “Come back! Come back!”
1959 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Not only Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, but stellar performances from Dame Judith Anderson and Burl Ives.
1964 Cleopatra – In my mind nothing surpasses the chemistry of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
1966 Doctor Zhivago – Loved Boris Pasternak’s book (even read it in Spanish) and love the movie with Omar Sharif as Yuri and Tom Courtenay as Pasha. Also Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, and the topnotch villain Rod Steiger. And that music–oh my heaven!
1967 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Again the remarkable passion of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
1968 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Delicious Sidney Poitier takes the cake, and one of my favorite scenes is the one where Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn visit a drive in to get ice cream.
1970 Anne of the Thousand Days – Richard Burton as Henry VIII. I suspect you can tell he’s one of my favorites. So is Anne Boleyn.
Cheers & Happy Reading and Viewing!
Flossie Benton Rogers, Conjuring the Magic with Paranormal Fantasy Romance
You’ve got some great choices in there, Flossie. I haven’t seen all of them but I have seen several and am aware the others had a lot of buzz surrounding them. Vintage cinema definitely had a lot of Oscar-worthy contenders. Happy Friday!
Those oldies are often fascinating, Mae. It is amazing some of the great ones that lost the best picture honor.
Wow! Oldies but goldies, as they say.
Like Mae, I saw some and will definitely try to see others from the list, John Wayne is an icon in western American movies. Sidney Poitier and Richard Burton. . . Real Gods of movie world. Thanks for sharing this list!
Do you also like Richard Burton, Carmen? He was good in everything he did.
Absolutely! Richard Burton remains one of the greatest British actors, even if he’s more frequently remembered for his turbulent personal life and multiple marriages.
Oh, that’s good to hear, Carmen. He always turned his roles into fascinating performances.