georgiegirl

I think you're pulling my leg. I challenge any 15 year old who loves Ray Milland, not that he isn't worth it, and I'm not saying your aren't 15, but maybe just a little odd. Just kidding. lol If you are really 15, I think it's wonderful you're here and love the old movies. And my favorite Ray Milland movie is The Uninvited. :-) And I think he was in Rhubarb which I also like. lol

Ha! lol

My first movie extravaganza was seeing Disney's Cinderella. I was 1958, I was five and it was at either the RKO on 23rd Street or Radio City. My oldest sister took me. After the movie, in the lobby they were selling Cindy merchandise. Big sis bought me a Cinderella watch and coloring book. I lost my watch when I was a teenager, but I see them on Ebay and plan on replacing it someday. :-) Message was edited by: georgiegirl

Uh, fifteen? Then what the heck are doing hanging out with a bunch of old fogies? lol

I got it! The movie I couldn't think of! Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 :-) Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi Message was edited by: georgiegirl

I guess I can?t blame those who are being cryptic with their ages and want me to do calculations or research to find out rather than them saying it aloud. It?s a scarey thing as your rack up the years. I know I choked having to write 56! lol Gee, this thread seems to have brought out some feistiness and humor in some of you, which is cool! lol If we can?t laugh at ourselves and have fun, well... What the he*l are we doing here? I didn?t come here to talk doom and gloom but to talk movies, get to know folks, and have fun in the process. Okay, we all know we?re as young as we feel, so I?ll go with what a friend told me, I?m celebrating the 40th year of my 16th birthday. That?s my story and I?m sticking to it! Okay, so let?s name some movies that have to do with age or aging. I?ll go first but I need your help in remembering the title, and though I can see their faces, I can?t think of the stars. Anyway, it was about this loving old couple whose married children decide to send father off to a home and take the mother in. I cried at the end because I thought the couple, being as in love as they still were at their advanced age, would put up a fight with the kids to stay in their own home. It was due to financial difficulty they had to be separated. I think the mother was played by the woman who played Jimmy Stewart?s mom in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But in lieu of that one, On Borrowed Time with Lionel Barrymore. :-)

I thought that movie introduced him as the character Henry Aldrich but I see it did not. I'd hate to give folks looking for answers the wrong one. Thanks for keeping me in check. :-)

Thanks. Hm, my worst fear is now imagined, I'm the oldest one on this thread! lol

I hoped the title would be catchy enough to draw attention, but I never figured that! Hahahhahahaha! lol

Bargar-I agree, there are films made today that are going to be classics, but they are few and far and in between. However, I wouldn't pay the price of a movie ticket today to go see them all to find the one gem that stands out. I usually wait for them to come to cable, and nine out of ten times I'm always glad I didn't spend the coinage for a ticket. lol Don't even get me started on remakes of the old classics. Ugh! I have yet to see one that I felt came close to that same feeling the original inspired in me I also agree IFs are making a lot of headway. One that stands out in my mind, and if memory serves that it was an IF, was a movie called The Mighty. I found it very moving, and that's what I base a good film on. If it makes me laugh, cry, or rethink my outlook on certain issues, whether they be moral or social, then it has merit and well worth the time I took to watch it. I am not by any means a prude, but they can keep their soft porn in movies today, too. Give me Clark Gable taking Vivien Leigh in his arms on that bridge and I'm a goner. Or Mr. Cagney taking Betty Davis over his knee in the dessert and pulling cactus thorns our of her tush. Or John Garfield taking a shower and then running around in his jeans in They Made Me a Criminal. lol

Ha! I see there were 95 views and only a couple of folks willing to fess up to their age, albeit one who wanted me to do some arithmetic. lol I also see someone brought up a thread on this very subject and I found it interesting to see that thread had 495 hits and only 35 replies. lol What a bunch of chickens! lol It?s only a number and we don?t even know each other. lol Human nature is so funny sometimes. lol Gee, I thought folks would be much older here. More my age, and then some. Taking the average from both threads, I am delighted to see many young folks are here who love the old movies. I always fear someday the classics will go away and die with us elders who love them. To see the torch passed is very encouraging. :-) Thanks for the answers, guys and dolls, much appreciated. :-)

I'm curious as to the average age of folks here on the TCM message board. Though I can't believe I'm going to say this aloud, I just turned 56!!! Ouch! :-)

Next to TCM, I love this site! In most cases you can find what you're looking for. Let your fingers do the walking into the past, and let your mind run wild as you sit and enjoy a blast from the past. http://www.youtube.com/ Just put what you're looking for in the search box. Message was edited by: georgiegirl

Hey, thanks for posting that. It was a good read. :-)

Oh, I have so many fond memories of the city, my mom and the movies and me. I could talk about them forever and it wouldn't be satisfying enough to me. Navigating 42nd Street was an adventure in itself. lol You're so lucky to have passed down your 'movie gene' to the next generation. I don't have children and none of my nieces and nephews are interested in them. I guess that gene didn't spill over into my sisters as deep seeded as it did me. My mother must be looking down in disappointment. lol Her only saving grace may be one of her grandchildren is into theater. :-) I've gotten Blockbuster gift certificates and used them for the classics. I wouldn't give you two cents for most movies made today. lol

Ya' know, now you got me thinking. Back in the 60s channel 13 (PBS here in NY) use to show the old movies and the opening was a black and white shot of an movie house called the Bijou. It's possible I've confused the two. What I'm hoping is another old movie buff will pop in here who grew up in NY in the 60s and tell me where I've gone wrong. The show I use to watch on 13 had the same set up; a cartoon, a short and then the main feature. Getting old is a real stinker sometimes. lol I'm sure you've seen these, but just incase... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96y5osnJPR0&feature=related http://matineeatthebijou.blogspot.com/

Love Me Or Leave Me

I'm with you on this. I just told my husband the other day, the Game Show Network should have a game show where a panel has to guess who the contestant's mother/father/ aunt/uncle, grandparent etc. was, as in old time celebs. lol Could go into history, science, music, whatever, but just Hollywood would be fine with me. lol I think they had a show like that years ago, but it went bye-bye. Short of that, I love where the children of the old stars do talk overs on TCM's little bios. Like the ones with Gary Cooper's daughter, and Liza Minelli talking about her dad, Vincent. I think it would be soooo very cool if Robert Obsborne had a child of a celeb on when they have a certain celeb profiled, or just at random, I don't care the how and when, just do it! lol I'm like you, I want more, more, more!!! :-)

That was the right movie?! Holy cow! lol I just threw that one out there because I kinda remembered the mood you described existing in it. lol You're very welcome! :-)

Where it was more a movie of sacrifice, The Fighting Sullivans were from a large family and the movie showed how they, as a large family, interacted, so... All Mine To Give was another tear jerked about a five siblings after their parents die. And Roughly Speaking was another good one, but I don't remember exactly how many children there were.

Here ya' go... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zanrNUTSXlk

Here's a TCM trailer for a Henry Aldrich movie... :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmXfFBJ7H4

The one with Debbie Reynolds could be Susan Slept Here. Mark Christopher (Dick Powell) is a thirty-five-year-old successful Hollywood scriptwriter who has, since winning an Academy Award for sceenwriting, suffered from partial writer's block, and has been unable to produce a decent script. One Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected and very unwanted surprise present. A vice cop Sergeant Sam Hanlon (Herb Vigran), whom Mark befriended on a film set and had helped him on a script, remembered his comment that he was thinking about writing a script about juvenile delinquency and wanted to talk to a delinquent. So the policeman brings him seventeen-year-old Susan Landis (Debbie Reynolds). Susan had been abandoned by her mother and was arrested for vagrancy. Not wanting to keep her in jail over the holidays, the kindhearted cop decided to bend the rules (much to the disapproval of his partner) and let her stay in Mark's luxurious apartment until her arraignment the day after Christmas, and giving Mark what he had casually asked for. http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLF_en___US281&q=susanslepthere&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=_SqbSb_nLuH8tgeZ6am9Cw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers? This is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in 1946, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. The movie is based on the short story "Love Lies Bleeding" by playwright John Patrick, using the pseudonym Jack Patrick, and was produced by Hal B. Wallis. The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin, who was not credited, and was directed by Lewis Milestone. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. On a rainy night in 1928 in a Pennsylvania factory town called Iverstown, Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson), a young girl yearning to escape from the guardianship of her wealthy, domineering aunt, is caught trying to run away with her friend, the street-smart, poor Sam Masterson (Darryl Hickman).[2] Martha is taken home. Later that night, Sam comes for her, but hides when her aunt hears Martha's beloved cat wandering on the staircase. When Mrs. Ivers attacks the pet with her cane, Martha intervenes, with fatal consequences. This is witnessed by Walter O'Neil (Mickey Kuhn), the son of Martha's tutor (Roman Bohnen). The greedy Mr. O'Neil suspects what happened, but presents Martha's version of events to the police, that a strange man was responsible. However, he uses his power over Martha to move into the mansion and take control of her life. Years later, he blackmails her into marrying his son by having her testify against an innocent man, resulting in his execution. Eighteen years later, Walter (now played by Kirk Douglas) is the district attorney, while Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) used her inheritance from her aunt to built a large business empire. However, their marriage is one-sided; he loves her, but the reverse isn't true. Sam (Van Heflin), now a drifter and gambler, stops in the small town by chance when he crashes his car and has to wait for it to be repaired. At his old home, now a boarding house, he meets vulnerable bad girl Antonia "Toni" Marachek (Lizabeth Scott), who has just been released from jail. She is later picked up for violating her probation by not returning to her hometown. Sam goes to see Walter, to see if he can use his influence to get her released. Walter worries that he has returned with blackmail in mind. When he observes his wife's joyful reaction to the news, he has an additional motive for running Sam out of town. He threatens Toni into setting Sam up. Sam is beaten and driven out of town, but he is too tough to intimidate. When all else fails, Walter makes a half-hearted attempt to kill Sam himself, but is easily disarmed. Martha then inadvertently blurts out the couple's fears, but they prove to be groundless: Sam never witnessed the death. Martha breaks down and laments that he left without her all those years ago, taking with him her only chance for love and freedom. Sam is torn between his old love and his new. Although he eventually forgives Toni for betraying him, he and Martha spend an idyllic day together, rekindling his feelings for her. Walter arranges to meet Sam to finally settle matters. Before Sam arrives, Walter gets somewhat drunk and Martha finds out about the meeting. When she tries to get Sam to kill her husband, Sam's love for her is extinguished. He leaves the guilt-ridden couple to contemplate the wreckage of their lives. Before he goes, he gives Walter back his gun and turns his back on him, but Walter does nothing. Martha then picks up the gun, but she cannot fire either. After Sam leaves, Walter embraces Martha, then points his gun at her midriff. She, oddly relieved, puts her hand over his hand on the trigger and presses. As she is dying, she defiantly states her name is not Martha Ivers, but Martha Smith. Outside, Sam hears the shot, then soon after, a second. Sam starts toward the house, then realizes it is too late and departs. He leaves Iverstown with Toni.

Yeah, that's the one, the animated apartment houses with the lights going out one by one. The last one lit my mom always said was ours. I'm sure a million other moms or dads said that. lol Yep, the movie clap board with the NY skyline behind was the original Million Dollar Movie opening in my day. :-) My favorite MDM presentations were Mighty Joe Young and King Kong. :-)