The Golden Age of Hollywood

The Golden Age of Hollywood
"Garbo, Bogart, Bacall, Gable, K. Hepburn, Astaire, Rogers, Brando, The Marx Brothers, Crawford, Wayne, Stewart, Keaton, Colbert, Gene Kelly, Lancaster, Garland, Peck, Taylor, Douglas, Davis, A. Hepburn, Harlow, Hitchcock, Ford, Hawks, Grace Kelly, Olivier, Dietrich, Cagney, Gardner, Grant, Bergman, Fonda, Monroe, Dean, Welles, West, Holden, Loren, Leigh, Cooper and Fontaine, Tracy, Stanwyck, Gish, Power, Temple, Heston, Hayworth, Pickford"

Monday, October 11, 2010

Decade in Review - 1940s


Kate Hepburn
                                    
                                   My favorite actor: Cary Freaking Grant

In this next segment i will review the 1940s which is second favorite era (favorite is the 50s). The 1940s was the height of The Golden Age of Hollywood, and it was. With the onset of WWII, movies had a darker, wartime feeling. Little Technicolor was used. Stars like Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart were at their best.
  • A new genre, called Film Noir, was formed. Noticebly darker, the people in them were often ambiguous. This is one of my favorite genres. Some movies include Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, Laura, The Third Man, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, etc. 
  • Probably the two most famous movies of the 40s are Casablanca and Citizen Kane, Casablanca is on my top 10 of all time. Some other great war time movies were The Best Years of Our Lives, Mrs. Miniver, I was a Male War Bride and The Grapes of Wrath.
  • A new British director came to America. His name was Alfred Hitchcock. The 40s were the start of some of his greatest pictures. Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound, Lifeboat, and Shadow of A Doubt the pictures he made in the 1940s.  
  • My favorite movies from the 40s are: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, The Treasure of The Sierra Madre, Notorious, Rebecca, Mildred Pierce, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, Now Voyager, It's A Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
I will be reviewing the 1950s, not tomorrow, but the day after. 
                                             
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