Today I am going to discuss something that pretty much anyone that knows me well enough already knows. I love old movies! Give me some Film Noir anyday. Nothing like a g
ood black and white on a rainy day or on a date night with the husband. I think this passion of mine for old movies began when I was very young. I used to spend summers with my grandma and we would just watch old (not old to her) movies all the time. I can't even begin to tell you how many movies I watched during those summers. I learned so much about the actors of the 30s, 40s and 50s, the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. Even to this day, I would LOVE to have lived during that time. It just seemed like Hollywood was magical, quite the opposite of today. I fell inlove with actors like Cary Grant in "Bringi
ng Up Baby" and "The Philadelphia Story", Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" and Alan Ladd in "Shane". I idolized femme fatales like Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" and Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". I wanted so badly to be Audrey Hepburn in "Sabrina" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Gene Tierney in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" . I'd give anything to learn surfing so I could be like Sandra Dee in "Gidget". I laughed with Mickey Rooney, The Marx Brothers, Lucille O'ball in "I Love Lucy" and "The Long, Long Trailer", Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the "Road To.." series. I wiggled in fear of 
the Alfred Hitchcock classics "Pyscho" and "Vertigo" and I gasped at the epics adventures of Charlton Heston in "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur". There are so many countless others, I can't even begin to name them all. Needless to say Turner Classic Movies is my favorite channel. :)
ood black and white on a rainy day or on a date night with the husband. I think this passion of mine for old movies began when I was very young. I used to spend summers with my grandma and we would just watch old (not old to her) movies all the time. I can't even begin to tell you how many movies I watched during those summers. I learned so much about the actors of the 30s, 40s and 50s, the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. Even to this day, I would LOVE to have lived during that time. It just seemed like Hollywood was magical, quite the opposite of today. I fell inlove with actors like Cary Grant in "Bringi
ng Up Baby" and "The Philadelphia Story", Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" and Alan Ladd in "Shane". I idolized femme fatales like Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" and Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". I wanted so badly to be Audrey Hepburn in "Sabrina" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Gene Tierney in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" . I'd give anything to learn surfing so I could be like Sandra Dee in "Gidget". I laughed with Mickey Rooney, The Marx Brothers, Lucille O'ball in "I Love Lucy" and "The Long, Long Trailer", Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the "Road To.." series. I wiggled in fear of 
the Alfred Hitchcock classics "Pyscho" and "Vertigo" and I gasped at the epics adventures of Charlton Heston in "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur". There are so many countless others, I can't even begin to name them all. Needless to say Turner Classic Movies is my favorite channel. :) The best part was that everything was rated G, sure sometimes the content I didn't fully understand, but the acting was good and the story line was fantastic. That's the problem with movies today, they have become so CG that they have completely lost what a story is. Not to mention the actors today don't even really have to act, everything is done for them later on the computer. But not those old movies. There was no CG, it was just real acting and raw emotion. Real people in real situations, no tricks or green screen. Almost all the movies they make today are remakes of older movies. And it makes me sick the way the ruin them. Adding sex, violence, gore and everything else to degrade the movie. Sure, maybe I sound like an old-timer but it's true. And don't get me wrong, these old movie tackled very difficult subjects like muder, rape, sex, ect. but not once is there nudity or gore. And yet they still managed to make those movies and get the point across. Now, that is good acting, writing and directing. These days they take people who have no acting skills and expect them to fill the shoes of film legends like Bette Davis or Katherine Hepburn? I just read they are in the process of remaking "Wuthering Heights". Sorry, no, please try again. Thank you.
For a list of references of must-see old movies please see my above list or email me if you have a particular genre in mind that suits you and I will do my best to help you with some direction. Happy movie hunting :)
As a former film major I may have seen more old movies than you...and certainly more obscure ones. So if you ever need some suggestions let me know...
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