The Golden Age Of Hollywood....
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A lot of us are fans of Classic Hollywood for different reasons. Some like the old times, and some fall for the actor or the actress. What ever the reasons are it is a wonderful area to take a journey to it
I will Share some of my favorite Films with you, and I will tell you what I love about them. You can join me by comments.
PS: This Page updated continuously... I post something every now and then,So keep visiting!
Gone With The Wind - 1939
It a wonderful epic...war, love and loss. a spoiled girl think the world
is her own. Beautiful, smart, courage, selfish and childish. Scarlett
never feel the happiness or appreciate what she had with Rhett. She
throw all of it away for illusion call Ashley. She keep trying to
convince herself that she is in love with him and someday he will admit
that he is in love with her too. She keeps hunting that ghost and
disregard her husband the man who's in love with her and do all he can
to make her happy. and lose him at the end for her illusion of loving
another man but she Never give up hope of get him back again after she
discover that She was in love with him from the first beginning. The film is in the time of the American Civil WarFor more Gone With The Wind photos Click Here
Hattie McDaniel performance was very strong, One of my favorite characters in the film actually! . It is also won her "Academy Award" for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and that made her became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Oscar. Vivien Leigh also won "Academy Award" for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also won (Best Art Direction - Best Cinematography, Color - Best Director - Best Film Editing - Best Picture - Best Writing, ScreenplayYou can read a short story with pictures of the movie in this link
Another Great Movie. I never liked Humphrey Bogart for no reason at all, although I never watched any movie for him but after watching Casablanca, I think he is a great actor. I loved the movie so much. The story is wonderful full of drama and romance, Ingrid Bergman was so lovely in the film.. a sparkle beauty. Love the romantic story between her and Humphrey. Sam and the song it is all a beautiful harmony Sam and the song it is all a beautiful harmony. This Movie may make you fall for Rick too!
The plot from Wikipedia:
It is early December 1941. American expatriate Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia and fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.
Petty crook Ugarte shows up and boasts to Rick of "letters of transit" obtained by murdering two German couriers. The papers allow the bearer to travel freely around German-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal, and are thus almost priceless to the refugees stranded in Casablanca. Ugarte plans to sell them at the club later that night. Before he can, however, he is arrested by the local police under the command of Vichy Captain Louis Renault, an unabashedly corrupt official. Ugarte dies in custody without revealing that he had entrusted the letters to Rick.
When Laszlo makes inquiries, Ferrari, a major underworld figure and Rick's friendly business rival, divulges his suspicion that Rick has the letters. In private, Rick refuses to sell at any price, telling Laszlo to ask his wife the reason. They are interrupted when Strasser leads a group of officers in singing "Die Wacht am Rhein". Laszlo orders the house band to play "La Marseillaise". When the band looks to Rick, he nods his head. Laszlo starts singing, alone at first, then patriotic fervor grips the crowd and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans. In retaliation, Strasser has Renault close the club.
That night, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café. When he refuses to give her the letters, she threatens him with a gun, but then confesses that she still loves him. She explains that when they first met and fell in love in Paris, she believed that her husband had been killed attempting to escape from a concentration camp. Later, while preparing to flee with Rick from the imminent fall of the city to the German army, she learned that Laszlo was alive and in hiding. She left Rick without explanation to tend her ill husband.
Rick's bitterness dissolves. He agrees to help, leading her to believe that she will stay with him when Laszlo leaves. When Laszlo unexpectedly shows up, having narrowly escaped a police raid on a Resistance meeting, Rick has waiter Carl spirit Ilsa away. Laszlo, aware of Rick's love for Ilsa, tries to persuade him to use the letters to take her to safety. When the police arrest Laszlo on a minor, trumped-up charge, Rick convinces Renault to release him by promising to set him up for a much more serious crime: possession of the letters of transit. To allay Renault's suspicions, Rick explains he and Ilsa will be leaving for America. When Renault tries to arrest Laszlo as arranged, Rick forces him at gunpoint to assist in their escape. At the last moment, Rick makes Ilsa board the plane to Lisbon with her husband, telling her she would regret it if she stayed - "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."
Strasser, tipped off by Renault, drives up alone. Rick kills him when he tries to intervene. When the police arrive, Renault pauses, then tells them to "round up the usual suspects." Renault suggests to Rick that they join the Free French at Brazzaville. As they walk away into the fog, Rick says, "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
The movie song:
"As time goes by" by sam (dooley wilson)
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