"...and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... "

How I love being one of those "wonderful people out there in the dark." I was reminded today after talking to Kate about how much I love movies. There are so many that I love it's hard for me to list them all. Early in my life, my Mother showed me the old movies. Movie from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Movies that were in black and white and have iconic stars. Those are some that I have fallen in love with and that I can watch over and over.....

There are the classics:

• Sunset Boulevard - William Holden in his prime, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson....how well that movie tells the story.
• All About Eve - to be Bette Davis dressed in Edith Head classics.
• Gone with the Wind - as any Southern Girl knows the "Bible" of how to be a GRIT (Girl Raised in the South).
• Some Like it Hot - I'm still trying to find a contact in Hollywood to get a remake made with Steve Carell in the Jack Lemmon roll and Vince Vaughn in the Tony Curtis roll. I love this movie.
• The Quiet Man, True Grit, and The Searchers - All John Wayne films that I wouldn't classifiy as "typical".
• Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons - Fabulous examples of Orson Wells at his best.
• Holiday Inn and White Christmas - holiday classics at their best...how I wish I could live in these Christmas worlds.
• To Kill a Mockingbird - this movie and book means so much to me.
  
• Rebecca, Suspicion, and Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock in his early days.
• It's a Wonderful Life - a classic that makes me cry EVERY time.

Basically, this is my "go to" list. When I'm sick in bed, or Sunday afternoon tv has failed me, or I'm hand quilting on a Monday midmorning and I refuse to watch daytime tv, or I'm at Kate's on a sewing Sunday, or I'm wrapping Santa gifts at 11:30 Christmas eve...these are some of the movies I rely on. During this time of snuggling in warm quilts infront of a fire and long dark early nights, think about checking out these films. They haven't ever failed me.

There are other movies that I consider classics...movies from my generation and the generation before me. That's for another post....

What are your favorite movies....I'm interested to hear?