♥Happy New Year from some of my favorite stars ♥
John Wayne and 3rd wife Pilar
Judy Garland
Carole Lombard in Made for Each Other (1939) - forgot it on my list
Lombard kissing Jimmy Stewart
Showing posts with label New Years. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Years. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Ringing in the New Year with Classic Films
Don't have a glamorous party to go to tonight? Watch one of these classic films! No one has a better party than them!
The Gold Rush (1925) - silent Charlie Chaplin film (on HuluPlus)
Like most holidays, New Year's Eve is meant to be spent with friends and family -- and in the movies, any character who spends the evening alone is more than likely feeling pretty melancholy. Charlie Chaplin's 1925 classic The Gold Rush provides a particularly poignant example with its classic New Year's Eve sequence, in which Chaplin is duped into believing the object of his affection will be stopping by his poverty-stricken cabin to celebrate, only to be stood up -- and eventually fall asleep at his table, dreaming he's the life of the party after all. Calling it "the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures," Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times wrote, "Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness." source
One Way Passage (1932) - William Powell & Kay Francis (sad but good)
After the Thin Man (1936) - William Powell & Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Holiday (1938) - Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn
Bachelor Mother (1939) - David Niven & Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
Article on the TCM blog
Holiday Inn (1942) - Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire
Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Gloria Swanson & William Holden
Room For One More (1952) - Cary Grant & Betsy Drake ( his real life wife at the time)
An Affair to Remember (1957) - Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr (watch with a glass of pink champagne)
The Apartment (1960) - Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine, Fred MacMurray
List of New Year's films (not complete) - can you think of any others?
The Gold Rush (1925) - silent Charlie Chaplin film (on HuluPlus)
Like most holidays, New Year's Eve is meant to be spent with friends and family -- and in the movies, any character who spends the evening alone is more than likely feeling pretty melancholy. Charlie Chaplin's 1925 classic The Gold Rush provides a particularly poignant example with its classic New Year's Eve sequence, in which Chaplin is duped into believing the object of his affection will be stopping by his poverty-stricken cabin to celebrate, only to be stood up -- and eventually fall asleep at his table, dreaming he's the life of the party after all. Calling it "the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures," Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times wrote, "Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness." source
One Way Passage (1932) - William Powell & Kay Francis (sad but good)
After the Thin Man (1936) - William Powell & Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Holiday (1938) - Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn
Bachelor Mother (1939) - David Niven & Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
Article on the TCM blog
Holiday Inn (1942) - Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire
Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Gloria Swanson & William Holden
Room For One More (1952) - Cary Grant & Betsy Drake ( his real life wife at the time)
An Affair to Remember (1957) - Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr (watch with a glass of pink champagne)
The Apartment (1960) - Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine, Fred MacMurray
List of New Year's films (not complete) - can you think of any others?
Holidays in Hollywood: New Years
Happy New Year from the stars!
Myrna Loy, 1920s
Buster Keaton
Alice Faye
Jean Harlow
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford and husband Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at a New Year's Eve party, 1931
Shirley Temple
Olivia de Havilland
Dorothy Lamour, 1937
Bing Crosby, 1940
Betty Grable
Esther Williams
Donna Reed, early 1940s
Jane Wyman
Yvonne de Carlo
Greer Garson
Janis Paige, 1947
Vera-Ellen
Anne Baxter and husband John Hodiak
Janet Leigh
David Niven
Lucy and Desi
Sandra Dee
Barbara Eden
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