August DVD's

I'm still working my way through actors and actresses trying to build a classic collection. I started off with 50 Screen Legends but picked some guys like Errol Flynn, Tyrone Powers, Hedy Lamarr, and Doris Day that are not considered 'legends'. In September and October I will jump to the present and work my way backward since some people have been complaining that I'm stuck in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood and to some extent they are right. I think I have been scrimping on 'Modern Classics'. It's just that we are so far behind in building the DVD collection that I can't seem to get a collection I'm proud of yet.

August DVD's

Flying Down to Rio - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers first movie together.
Top Hat - Some say its the best musical of all time.
Funny Face - Fred Astaire with Audrey Hepburn and a George Gershwin Score.
Gay Divorcee - Fred and Ginger
Barkleys of Broadway - And More Fred and Ginger (I think I got them covered, finally)
To Have and Have Not - Where Bacall says to Bogie "You know how to whistle don't you?"
How to Marry a Millionaire - Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell.
Harper - Paul Newman and Lauren Bacall in a Ross McDonald Mystery.
Intermezzo - Ingrid Bergman in her first American role. The ultimate Chick Flick.
Anastasia - Bergman won an Oscar for this one.
We're No Angels - Bogart doing comedy, and doing it well.
Young Lions - Brando and Montgomery Clift in a superior WWII movie.
Superman II - Not as good as Superman I
White Heat - Classic Jimmy Cagney "I'm on top of the world, MA!"
One Two Three - Cagney doing comedy but the Great ones could. Don't miss this one.
Roaring Twenties - Typical Gangster movie but its Bogart and Cagney!
It - This is the movie that made Clara Bow the 'It' Girl.
Kid - One of Chaplin's best.
Boom Town - Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr.
Lost Horizon - Just one of the best movies ever made.
Prisoner of Zenda - Ronald Coleman and Douglas Fairbanks in the classic swashbuckler.
Pride of the Yankees - One of Gary Cooper's best.
Ball of Fire - Gary Cooper does Comedy but like I said the greats ones could.
Plainsman - Cecil B. Demille does the wild west as it never was. You'll love it!
Grand Hotel - The classic. A must see for every film fan.
Dancing Lady - Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Nelson Eddy but its the Three Stooges that steal the show!
Humoresque - Joan Crawford and John Garfield in her greatest performance.
Letter - Bette Davis does Sumerset Maugham, superbly.
Rebel Without a Cause - THE teen angst movie.
Marlene Dietrich: the Glamour Collection
Cast a Gaint Shadow - Kirk Douglas Epic of the 1948 Arab Israeli War.
20,000 Leagues under the Sea - My second favorite movie as a kid.
Out of the Past - Classic Film Noire with Kirk Douglass and Robert Mitchum.
Young Man with a Horn - Kirk Douglass,Lauren Bacall, Doris Day.
Advice and Consent - An all star cast get to play Washington Power brokers.
Once upon a time in the West - The Sergio Leone Classic.
Command Decision - Clark Gable is a Squadron Commander in this WWII classic.
San Francisco - Clark Gable, Janette MacDonald, and Spenser Tracy.
Queen Christina - Gretta Garbo at her most beautiful.
Snows of Kilimanjaro - Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in a Hemingway Classic.
Mogambo - Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, and Africa.
Star is Born - This is the Judy Garland version.
Meet me in St. Louis - More Judy Garland
Intolerance - Another one of the Great Movies from the Silent era.
Destry Rides Again. Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich in a classic western
Planet Earth - BBC and Richard Attenborough
Plow that Broke the Plains and the River - Two Depression era Documentaries