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Welcome to the Forums, KittyBirch! I'm not sure what you've seen, but some of my favorites are: Miracle of Morgan's Creek The More the Merrier Palm Beach Story The Lady Eve Bachelor Mother The Shop Around the Corner Indiscreet Sabrina What have you seen? Message was edited by: casablancalover

I love Ennio Morricone's Cinema Paradiso and Days of Heaven. And when I need some "triumph" music to face a difficult day, try his Untouchables theme. It's used in the "100 years--100 films short" they show on TCM from time to time. What an eclectic style! Bernard Herrmann's also a favorite. I have a goal of enjoying a Hollywood Bowl concert featuring his music sometime. He also doesn't have a "style"--he seemed to write in total emotional connection to the movie; for instance, when he wrote the score for Verigo, he relied heavily on Wagnerian themes. The story is almost operatic, with it's passion and lost love and redemption! And then, he wrote the score for North by Northwest. I always felt John Boorman used set classical works where he could in his Excaliber because Bernard Herrmann wasn't around anymore.

I'm listening to the soundtracks of Picnic, Cinema Paradiso, Field of Dreams, Casablanca (natch) on my Ipod and I want to throw out this question. Has there ever been a time when you had an experience where you wanted (or even had!) a soundtrack playing to it? I've had that happen to me. I was to meet a girlfriend to play golf. But it was the location of a big break-up many years before. When I arrived at the course, my CD of Field of Dreams was playing "The Place Where Dreams Comes True". But this where certain dreams died, and the emotional music brought me to tears. I didn't even get out of the car; I turned around and left. Music is special and adds soul to a movie. Whenever my husband and I go out and there's live music, we always asked if they can play, "As TIme Goes By" (it's our song) and we heard many variations through the years. I can always use some added soul to my life. Message was edited by: casablancalover

Wow, so everybody's seen Tovarich? To Be Or Not To Be(1942)? Start the Revolution Without Me? Sons of the Desert?

I forgot to mention my favorite screen pair: Laurel and Hardy ! Two peeeesss in a pod-duh!

Betty Field and Robert Cummings in King's Row. Yet another movie that had me racing to my Public Library! The scene in the darkened house, lit only by a storm's lightining--magnificent! I agree with another poster's pairing of Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, but those two seemed to be hot with just about everyone they worked with. Jean Arthur and Jimmy Stewart, or Jon Lund, or Ronald Coleman, or Bob Cummings, or Gary Cooper, etc. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert, or Veronica Lake, or Laraine Day, or Merle Oberon, or Barbara Stanwyck, or etc. We could go on and on about these universal pairings too.

Enchantment what a movie! Yes, David Niven and Theresa Wright should've been married. How would we change that storyline? I was captivated by this exchange: Evelyn Keyes: "Lark? What a pretty name...What ever happened to her?" Leo G Carroll: "Nothing happened to her, miss." Thank you for the enchanting thought..

Please indulge one more baby-boomer into this topic. I am not threatened by younger posters to this fourm, and while at times their missives seem immature or juvenile, I welcome their input into the discussions about film. In fact, some of our more youthful posters have started the best threads, such as Kimpunkrocks' "Casablanca--the Remake" thread. GREAT THREAD!! I'm always impressed with the sheer volume of readers/contributors to this forum. I recommend it to others I feel enjoy Classic film as I do. As a film discussion board, I think it has no parallel. That we have so many younger contributors, it speaks well to the quality of the TCM programming. Remember, they started watching for their favorites; now they are also watching ours. "Only youthful women threaten me; but time (and Cosmic Justice) will even the score there as well."---casablancalover

Good for you! Maybe you can answer the philosophical question about "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"-- If Mrs. Muir is a widow, then if she is in love with a ghost, is she cheating on her dead husband by being with another dead guy? --from another thread.

Haven't you all seen Will Farrell in: "AnchorButtcrack" I love lamp........

"Field of Dreams"--I do cry in anticipation of the climax, I don't even wait. "Mr. Skeffington"--This movie means more to me the older I get. "Tin Cup"--I shoulda done what Rene Russo did--so I do "regret crying". "Lassie Come Home"--sucker for dog movies. Did I ever tell you the first time I fell in love was when I was 6 yrs old, and I lost my heart to Jon Provost (Timmy) on the Lassie TV series...another blond!--see "blond" thread.........

Erebus wrote: The first to come to mind were Lee Remick and Michelle Pfeiffer, due to intelligence, attitude, and looks. If that was your qualifications for make out sessions, how come I would have to sit home on Saturday nights in high school?

Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee, in the abandoned building by the sea in "A Summer Place"; that scene was there for us love-sick and love-starved girls like me. It is so sweet when Sandra would give him the plot line of a monster-movie for their alibi. I learned about creating alibis on dates from that movie. I tried not to think about what happened to Sandra because she went with Troy to the abandoned building (she got pregnant). Joel McCrea putting the moves on Jean Arthur in "The More The Merrier" and Veronica Lake in "Sullivan's Travels"--he's seems he be a great "make out King" too. Frances Dee was one lucky woman-and they stayed married their whole lifetime! When I'm feeling low or under-appreciated, those are the magic moments I think about!

A Movie Star?! We're stopping with movie stars? Okay, it has to be Joel McCrea or Troy Donahue. I been thinking about an old golf partner for weeks now, ever since I discovered he was divorced. But the last 3 couples who have broken up in my wide circle of friends, it was because the husband has come "out of the closet"..... It's bringing me down with the thought that my personal media hero may have joined the other team :-( ... It would help my fantasies if he still prefers a slightly crazy aquarian woman.

You know, Frank, I don't know if we should start up the whole Casablanca discussion here too. The romantic in me will always have a sweet spot for illicit (even accidently illicit) love. That's what keeps these stories interesting. But I am intrigued about "Destiny" and I will be looking that one up! Thanks for the great shots!

Enjoyed this thread, but I have always had a philosophical question about "The Ghost and Mrs.Muir"; Mrs. Muir was a widow, she had a dead husband; wasn't she then "cheating" by being with another dead guy? I always thought that she should've been divorced, just to make sense out of it. Just asking.... And the end of "Now, Voyager" is perfect to me. I don't think Charlotte and Gerry should ever get married. It would kill the romance. Let's keep up the tension on these stories.

Great Post, CineMaven. In GWTW, the reoccuring theme I see is the futility in following "honor" when the core beliefs are mistakenly messed up. Sometimes it works, but other times it pays to be pragmatic. I enjoy how Scarlet moves from one "blink" decision to another. Do you believe she considers herself as Intuitive? I think she's strong in that corner.

I thought Bogie did a great job with timing in The Big Sleep. At the bookstore.

Very good CineMaven! I see the similarities between Sandra and Paula. I thought of 2 more: Cary Elwes......................Douglas Fairbanks Jr Gene Wilder.....................Danny Kaye

I thought of a few more characters who style remind me of: Bonnie Hunt........................Eve Arden Benjamin Bratt ...................Ricardo Cortez Julie Andrews......................Irene Dunne Bill Pullman.........................Bill Paxton (LOL- Hollywood joke; those poor Bills) Who would you compare/match to Sandra Bullock?

Welcome, DannyNoonan! Is that in the honor of one of the leads in my husband's favorite comedy--"Caddyshack"?!!

Yes, Victor Mature had the legs for it. I also loved him in "Easy Living", which he starred with who I considered the 'ice beauty'--Lizabeth Scott. She plays his overly-ambious career wife.

I see (as type): Harrison Ford......as......Humphrey Bogart Russell Crowe.....as......Gregory Peck George Clooney...as......Joel McCrea (can handle comedy or drama) But who do you think matches with one of my all-time favorites, Paul Muni? Or Barbara Stanwyck? CineMaven, glad I'm not the only one to see Oliver Platt......as......Orson Welles You had several good matches. But I will have to go to www.imdb.com to look up some like Victor Webster. They had faces back then. I think our stars today seemed a little homogenized.

What I find interesting in American Madness is in the opening when the tellers are arriving at the bank and they open the main safe. In his early features, Capra would include these film snippets of technology (the action of the safe's locks). Have you ever seen Dirigible? They capture a take-off and docking very technically.

Hope you're enjoying the holidays, Kim. Thanks for mentioning the boxed set of Capra--I was looking for a gift for someone who loves "It's a Wonderful Life"!!