Damien wrote:I love that Joan Fontaine mentioned the wonderful-but-largely-forgotten Ann Harding.
I'd somehow missed out on Ann Harding until just a few years ago when I saw When Ladies Meet...I was knocked out by her. Since then I've caught The Animal Kingdom (had seen Magnificent Yankee and Man in the Grey Flannel Suit years earlier, but hadn't registered her). She really was a unique presence.
Is her Holiday completely squelched by the Hepburn/Grant version? And is East Lynne available anywhere?
Surprisingly classy list (barring Mickey Rooney, of course). I'm glad to see Gaslight and A Place in the Sun show up on people's lists, though very disappointed that I couldn't really pick out a single silent era film.
I'm beginning to wonder if Hugh Jackman's really hiding his sexuality...those picks are very homo-friendly.
Wesley Lovell
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this book, which is about two years old, before. It's written by Anton Fraser, Bendan's wife, and lists the films you'd expect it to list, but with a twist. The selections of the best films made from the silent era through 1967 are by a group of Hollywood notables from stars as old as Anita Page to as young as Elizabeth Banks and Thora Birch.
What's interesting is how much about the various participants is revealed by their choices which run from the magnanimous (Olivia de Havilland including Brief Encounter whose Celia Johnson was her main competition at the 1946 Oscars) to the vain (June Allyson and Mickey Rooney picking their own films and in the case of Rooney far from his best) to the truly bizarre (Livvy's sister Joan Fontaine picking the films of Conrad Nagle.)
Here are a few examples:
Juna Allyson:
The Glenn Miller Story
Good News
Little Women (1949)
Strategic Air Command
David Arquette and Courtney Cox:
All About Eve
Ben-Hur (1959)
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Gone With the Wind
It's a Wonderful Life
Now, Voyager
Sunset Boulevard
The Wizard of Oz
Halle Berry:
Bringing Up Baby
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Porgy and Bess
Jeff Bridges:
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Carousel
Citizen Kane
High Noon
Mister Roberts
On the Waterfront
Out of the Past
Sunset Boulevard
Twelve Angry Men
Vertigo
Jackie Collins:
The African Queen
Citizen Kane
The Killers
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Rebel Without a Cause
Shane
Singin' in the Rain
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
The Wild One
Olivia de Havilland:
Brief Encounter
Dodsworth
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Henry V
High Noon
Little Women (1933)
A Place in the Sun
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Singin' in the Rain
Jenna Elfman:
Adam's Rib
Career
Holiday
It Happened One Night
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Nights of Cabiria
The Philadelphia Story
Vertigo
Joan Fontaine:
The movies of
George Arliss
Ronald Colman
Dolores Costello
Bette Davis
Marlene Dietrich
Greta Garbo
Alec Guinness
Ann Harding
Paul Muni
Conrad Nagel
Brendan Fraser:
The Bride of Frankenstein
Citizen Kane
Duck Soup
East of Eden
High Noon
It's a Wonderful Life
Paths of Glory
The Philadelphia Story
Tarzan and His Mate
Umberto D.
The Wizard of Oz
Hugh Jackman:
All About Eve
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Roman Holiday
Scaramouche (1952)
Singin' in the Rain
Witness for the Prosecution
The Wizard of Oz
Piper Laurie:
The 400 Blows
Dark Victory
Dodsworth
Notorious
Now, Voyager
The Public Enemy
Spellbound
Sullivan's Travels
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Jimmy Lydon:
How Green Was My Valley
The Informer
The King and I
A Star Is Born (1937)
James Marsden:
Casablanca
Doubel Indemnity
A Place in the Sun
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
The Wizard of Oz
Ian McKellen:
High Noon
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The 39 Steps
Top Hat
M. Hulot's Holiday
Fayard Nicholas:
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Gone With the Wind
The Great Dictator
High Society
It Happened One Night
Lost Horizon
Sinin' in the Rain
Stagecoach
Stormy Weather
Margaret O'Brien:
Duel in the Sun
Gaslight (1944)
Gone With the Wind
Leave Her to Heaven
The Letter (1940)
Marie Antoinette
Meet Me in St. Louis
Mr. Skeffington
That Hamilton Woman
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Sidney Poitier:
Casablanca
Double Indemnity
Children of Paris (1931)
The Grapes of Wrath
Red River
Room at the Top
Shane
Sullivan's Travels
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Watch on the Rhine
Mickey Rooney:
The Atomic Kid
The Big Wheel
The Bridges at Toko-Ti
Drive a Crooked Road
National Velvet
Off Limits
Winona Ryder:
Ball of Fire
Born Yesterday
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Dodsworth
The Heiress
The Lady Eve
Stalag 17
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Sullivan's Travels
Sunset Boulevard
Sissy Spacek:
Citizen Kane
A Face in the Crowd
It's a Wonderful Life
M
The Member of the Wedding
Metropolis
Sunset Boulevard
John Woo:
The 400 Blows
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Bicycle Thief
The Bridge on the River Kwai
On the Waterfront
Paths of Glory
Rear Window
The Seven Samurai
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wizard of Oz
Elijah Wood:
Harvey
The Night of the Hunter
Evan Rachel Wood:
Auntie Mame
The King and I
Rebel Without a Cause
Sabrina
Some Like It Hot
The Wizard of Oz
