Favorite Entertainment Pre-1950? (1 Viewer)

[JC Callender]

What entertainment do you really love that was produced before 1950? I've always loved the Three Stooges and feel like their comedy is timeless and have watched every short film several times over (posting this between episodes on YouTube). :stooges

This includes any form and as far back as you would like to go. opcorn2:

 

[Kobie]

I like some films from the 1930s and 40s, like old Hitchcock and Welles stuff.

 

[ttwtt78640]

The early blues musicians come to mind and their influence is still with us today.

Sonny Boy Williamson
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WBBQQU2aKd4

Howlin' Wolf
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_nXlXU5ACqI

Buddy Guy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NU5xA6ty0a4

 

[gdgyva]

Books

Nothing better....

From the classics, to the novels of the early 20th century

 

[Aunt Spiker]

What entertainment do you really love that was produced before 1950? I've always loved the Three Stooges and feel like their comedy is timeless and have watched every short film several times over (posting this between episodes on YouTube). :stooges

This includes any form and as far back as you would like to go. opcorn2:

Books and B&W films.

Rope, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Metropolis are four of my favorites movies.

Book wise - where do I begin? Wow... so much good stuff is the old stuff! Fiction and Non-Fiction alike. I recently read the diaries of Lewis and Clark (wow), and a book of European Travel letters called 'Young Americans Abroad' from the mid 1800's that's amazing. And right now I'm reading The Night Watch - published in 1805 in German by the psuedonum of Bonaventura. It's a ****ed up story - seriously - modern fiction doesn't dare come close to how bizarre and twisted this story is.

 

[PoS]

Same with Aunt Spiker, there's some very good classic books that I read and as a film buff I do occasionally watch silent films.

 

[Kobie]

Books

Nothing better....

From the classics, to the novels of the early 20th century

The Great Gatsby and Jack London's books are classics. As far as early 20th century American literature goes, however, there is nobody I hate more than John Steinbeck.

The greatest authors in American history are Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, both of whom mostly miss the time period of the thread.

 

[Kobie]

Books and B&W films.

Rope, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Metropolis are four of my favorites movies.

Book wise - where do I begin? Wow... so much good stuff is the old stuff! Fiction and Non-Fiction alike. I recently read the diaries of Lewis and Clark (wow), and a book of European Travel letters called 'Young Americans Abroad' from the mid 1800's that's amazing. And right now I'm reading The Night Watch - published in 1805 in German by the psuedonum of Bonaventura. It's a ****ed up story - seriously - modern fiction doesn't dare come close to how bizarre and twisted this story is.

Rope and Metropolis are absolute classics. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, I've never seen.

KOBIE'S TOP 10 PRE-1950s FILMS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

1. Double Indemnity
2. Wizard of Oz
3. The Third Man
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Rope
7. A Night At The Opera
8. Casablanca
9. Pinocchio
10. The Best Years Of Our Lives

Honorable Mention: All Quiet On The Western Front, Red River, It's A Wonderful Life, Dracula, Frankenstein, King Kong, Trip To The Moon, Birth of a Nation, The Great Train Robbery, Battleground, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, M, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Little Caesar, Scarface

 

[Port & Starboard]

Bogie & Bacall - Key Largo
Bogie & Hepburn - African Queen ( although it was 1951)
Laural & Hardy .....any of them.

 

[Kobie]

Bogie & Bacall - Key Largo
Bogie & Hepburn - African Queen ( although it was 1951)
Laural & Hardy .....any of them.

Key Largo is excellent.

 

[gdgyva]

The Great Gatsby and Jack London's books are classics. As far as early 20th century American literature goes, however, there is nobody I hate more than John Steinbeck.

The greatest authors in American history are Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, both of whom mostly miss the time period of the thread.

Mark Twain is also one of my favorites....but I like Steinbeck. The grapes of wrath is an epic novel, and is somewhere in my top 200 list.

My tastes are eclectic....and go from the classics, to the comedies, to the murder mysteries.

But I would be remiss if I didn't mention the western classics......louis lamour(sp).....that my grandad introduced me to as a kid

Instead of watching tv, I would be engrossed in one of his books out on the patio

 

[Mr Person]

Plenty of authors.

Old school blues.