FAVORITE MOVIES FROM THE PAST: Pop’s & Granny’s Recommendations for Family Viewing

• McKenna’s Gold (Gregory Peck)

• Love Letters (Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton)

• Roman Holiday (Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn)

• Around the World in 80 Days (David Niven, Continflas)

• Wait Until Dark (Audrey Hepburn; May be too scary for some)

• Four Feathers (three different versions over the years)

• Charlie (Cliff Robertson)

• Meet Me in St. Louis (Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien)

• Random Harvest (Ronald Colemen)

• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jane Powell & Howard Keel)

• Student Prince (Ann Blyth & Mario Lanza’s great voice dubbed in)

• Bridge on the River Kwai (David Niven)

• High Noon (Gary Cooper, Grace Kelley)

• Easter Parade (Fred Astaire, Judy Garland)

• Lost Horizon (Ronald Coleman)

• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kevin McCarthy, Dana Winters; Rec. by Pops

• The Yearling (Dorothy McGuire)

• Spellbound (Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman)

• Ben Hur (Charlton Heston)

• Spartacus (Kirk Douglas)

• Rebecca (Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier)

• Wuthering Heights (Meryl Oberon, Laurence Olivier; & newer versions?)
• Rear Window (James Stewart, Grace Kelley)

• The Captain from Castile (Tyrone Power)

• Shane (Alan Ladd)

• The Pink Panther (The original version with Peter Sellers)

• Annie Get Your Gun (Betty Hutton)

• Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson)

• Keys to the Kingdom (Walter Pigeon)

• My Friend Flicka

• To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck)

• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movies: Top Hat, Swing Time, Shall We Dance?, and others.

• Lassie Come Home (Roddy MacDowell)

• The Birds (Tippi Hedron) May be too scary for some; Pops recommends.

• Miracle on 34th Street

• The Miracle Worker (Patty Duke)

• Sergeant York (Gary Cooper)

• The Love Boat (Jane Powell, Howard Keel)

• Unsinkable Molly Brown (Debbie Reynolds)

• How Green Was My Valley (Maureen O’Hara & Walter Pidgeon)

• National Velvet (Elizabeth Taylor)

• Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck)

• The Andy Hardy movies (Mickey Rooney)

• Marx Brothers: Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Money Business, Horse Feathers, etc.

• Disney movies: Lady and the Tramp, Bambi, Dumbo, Pinnochio, Song of the South, Old Yeller, Mary Poppins, etc.

• Wizard of Oz (1939)

• Oklahoma, State Fair, Sound of Music, The King and I

• Gone With the Wind (Clark Gable & Vivian Leigh)

• King Kong (1970s version)

• Singin’ In the Rain (Gene Kelley & Debbie Reynolds)

• The Bandwagon (Gene Kelley & Cyd Charisse)

• Going My Way & Bells of St. Mary’s (Bing Crosby)

• Good News (musical with June Allyson and Peter Lawford)

• The Greatest Show On Earth (Betty Hutton)

• I Remember Mama (Irene Dunn)

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye)

• Hans Christian Anderson (Danny Kaye)

• The Champ (70s version Priscilla liked.)

• An American In Paris (Gene Kelley & Leslie Caron)

• Moonlight Bay (Doris Day)

• Showboat (Katherine Grayson)

• Friendly Persuasion (Gary Cooper)

• Pajama Game (Doris Day and John Raitt)

• Music Man (Robert Preston & Shirley Jones)

• It Happened One Night (Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert)

• True Grit (John Wayne)

• Chariots of Fire

• The Farmer’s Daughter (Loretta Young)

• Madam Curie (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon)

• Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper)

• October Sky
 

Also worth considering:

• High Society (Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelley, Bing Crosby with Cole Porter music)

• No Time for Sergeants (Comedy that made Andy Griffith famous)

• The Spirit of St. Louis

• Pretty Technicolor musicals that are light & fun from the 40s & 50s

• Tea for Two

• My Wild Irish Rose

• Blue Skies

• Look for the Silver Lining

• Easter Parade

• Till the Clouds Roll By

• The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope)

• Little Women (1948-49 version; the newer one is good, too.)

• Yellow Sky (a classic western)

• Blast from the Past (really funny)

• Places in the Heart (very good film of Texas farm drama)

• Miss Potter (Beatrix Potter’s story of her Peter Rabbit books, etc.; gorgeous scenes of merry England’s Lake District)

• The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling’s story with Sean Connery & Michael Cain)

• The Impossible Years (David Niven as a psychologist tryin to raise a wacky teenage daughter; funny)

• Driving Miss Daisy

• Babe

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (the musical with Peter O’Toole)

• Oliver

• Fiddler On the Roof

• Awakenings

• Second Hand Lions

• Kings’ Row (Ronald Reagan’s famous film)

• Lillies of the Field (Sidney Poitier in a lovely story)

• Bus Stop (A really funny comedy with Marilyn Monroe, but probably not quite right for children)

• The Andromeda Strain (first version)