D'oh! How could I miss that one? And I *LOVE* Powell and Pressburger movies!
I also left off 'I Know Where I'm Going!', which is an absolutely *PERFECT*romance! D'oh, D'oh! Bruce On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:33 PM, bqjansen <[email protected]> wrote: > I will vote Bruce, but only if you add the romance that defeated heaven. I > mean of course David Niven and Kim Hunter in A Matter Of Life And Death. > Wim > Op 19 dec 2008, om 23:29 heeft Bruce Hershenson het volgende geschreven: > > This week, I am running a poll in my weekly e-mail club, asking about > the members' personal choice for the best on-screen romantic pairing ever in > one movie *EVER!* > > Here is how I presented this to my e-mail club (4,800 members). I thought > some of you here might enjoy seeing the list, and that some of you might > want to make your choice known, or add a choice that is *NOT* on my list > (of course, if you want your vote to count, and you want a chance to win a > set of 23 full-color books, you have to vote in the club itself!). > > Here is what I wrote: > > "A great romantic movie has a lead couple where you completely believe that > they belong together, both in the movie, and in real life (and often, such > couples go on to actually *BE* together in real life!). In this poll, we > are looking for the romantic couple in one specific movie that *YOU* feel > was the absolute single *BEST* romantic pairing of any movie you have ever > seen! Note that, in the case of couples who appeared together in several > movies, we have usually picked only one of their movies as a poll choice > (although you are welcome to vote for a different one), and we have > specifically *OMITTED* "love triangles" (such as The Philadelphia Story, > Jules and Jim, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being), but only those where > there is a somewhat "equal" element to the triangle (not where there is one > person who clearly is going to be excluded from the triangle!). Of course, > there is an endless number of such movies, and we almost surely have omitted > many wonderful choices, so please in no way restrict yourself to our poll > choices, which are just there to jog your memory! > > As always, our main goal is to provide people with a list of wonderful > movies they may have never seen, but should strongly consider adding to > their "must see" list. Please vote for one of the options below, and give > your reasoning for why you voted as you did. > > Adam's Rib (Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn) > Affair to Remember (Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr) > African Queen (Humphrey Bogart/Katharine Hepburn) > Algiers (Charles Boyer/Hedy Lamarr) > Amelie (Audrey Tautou/Mathieu Kassovitz) > American Graffiti (Charles Martin Smith/Candy Clark) > Annie Hall (Woody Allen/Diane Keaton) > As Good As It Gets (Jack Nicolson/Helen Hunt) > Awful Truth (Cary Grant/Irene Dunne) > Ball of Fire (Gary Cooper/Barbara Stanwyck) > Before Sunrise (Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy) > Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant/Loretta Young) > Bodyguard (Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston) > Bonnie and Clyde (Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway) > Breakfast at Tiffany's (George Peppard/Audrey Hepburn) > Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood/Meryl Streep) > Bridget Jones's Diary (Hugh Grant/Renee Zellweger) > Brief Encounter (Trevor Howard/Celia Johnson) > Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn) > Brokeback Mountain (Heath Ledger/Jake Gyllenhaal) > Camille (Robert Taylor/Greta Garbo) > Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman) > City for Conquest (James Cagney/Ann Sheridan) > City Lights (Charlie Chaplin/Virginia Cherrill) > Clock (Robert Walker/Judy Garland) > Crying Game (Stephen Rea/Jaye Davidson) > Dirty Dancing (Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey) > Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif/Julie Christie) > Dodsworth (Walter Huston/Mary Astor) > Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray/Barbara Stanwyck) > Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp/Winona Ryder) > English Patient (Ralph Fiennes/Juliette Binoche) > For Whom the Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman) > From Here to Eternity (Burt Lancaster/Deborah Kerr) > From Here to Eternity (Montgomery Clift/Donna Reed) > Ghost (Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore) > Gone With the Wind (Clark Gable/Vivien Leigh) > Goodbye Girl (Richard Dreyfuss/Marsha Mason) > Grease (John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John) > Guys and Dolls (Marlon Brando/Jean Simmons) > Harold and Maude (Bud Cort/Ruth Gordon) > His Girl Friday (Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell) > Holiday Affair (Robert Mitchum/Janet Leigh) > It Happened One Night (Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert) > Jerry MaGuire (Tom Cruise/Renee Zellweger) > King and I (Yul Brynner/Deborah Kerr) > King Kong (King Kong/Fay Wray) > La Belle et la Bete (Jean Marais/Josette Day) > Lady and the Tramp (Tramp/Lady) > Longtime Companion (Bruce Davidson/Mark Lamos) > Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (William Holden/Jennifer Jones) > Love Me Tonight (Maurice Chevalier/Jeanette MacDonald) > Love Story (Ryan O'Neal/Ali MacGraw) > Love With the Proper Stranger (Steve McQueen/Natalie Wood) > Man and a Woman (Jean-Louis Trintignant/Anouk Aimee) > Marty (Ernest Borgnine/Betsy Blair) > Maytime (Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald) > More the Merrier (Joel McCrea/Jean Arthur) > Morocco (Gary Cooper/Marlene Dietrich) > Moulin Rogue (Ewan McGregor/Nicole Kidman) > Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Gary Cooper/Jean Arthur) > Mr. Lucky (Cary Grant/Laraine Day) > Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (James Stewart/Jean Arthur) > My Big Fat Greek Wedding (John Corbett/Nia Vardalos) > My Cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci/Marisa Tomei) > My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison/Audrey Hepburn) > My Man Godfrey (William Powell/Carole Lombard) > Notorious (Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman) > Now, Voyager (Paul Henreid/Bette Davis) > Officer and a Gentleman (Richard Gere/Debra Winger) > Out of Africa (Robert Redford/Meryl Streep) > Palm Beach Story (Joel McCrea/Claudette Colbert) > Pat and Mike (Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn) > Pepe Le Moko (Jean Gabin/Mireille Balin) > Pillow Talk (Rock Hudson/Doris Day) > Plainsman (Gary Cooper/Jean Arthur) > Postman Always Rings Twice (John Garfield/Lana Turner) > Pretty Woman (Richard Gere/Julia Roberts) > Princess Bride (Cary Elwes/Robin Wright) > Queen Christina (John Gilbert/Greta Garbo) > Quiet Man (John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara) > Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean/Natalie Wood) > Red Dust (Clark Gable/Jean Harlow) > Rocky (Sylvester Stallone/Talia Shire) > Roman Holiday (Gregory Peck/Audrey Hepburn) > Romeo + Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes) > Roxanne (Steve Martin/Daryl Hannah) > Say Anything (John Cusack/Ione Skye) > Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart/Audrey Hepburn) > Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta/Karen Lynn Gorney) > Secretary (James Spader/Maggie Gyllenhaal) > Sheik (Rudolph Valentino/Agnes Ayres) > Shop Around the Corner (James Stewart/Margaret Sullavan) > Sid & Nancy (Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb) > Singin' In The Rain (Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds) > Sleepless in Seattle (Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan) > Some Like It Hot (Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe) > Some Like It Hot (Joe E. Brown/Jack Lemmon) > Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve/Jane Seymour) > South Pacific (Rossano Brazzi/Mitzi Gaynor) > Splash (Tom Hanks/Darryl Hannah) > Splendor in the Grass (Warren Beatty/Natalie Wood) > Star is Born (James Mason/Judy Garland) > Strictly Ballroom (Paul Mercurio/Tara Morice) > Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea/Veronica Lake) > Summer Place (Troy Donahue/Sandra Dee) > Summertime (Rossano Brazzi/Katharine Hepburn) > Sunset Blvd. (William Holden/Gloria Swanson) > Swing Time (Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers) > Thief of Bagdad (John Justin/June Duprez) > Thin Man (William Powell/Myrna Loy) > Titanic (Leonardo DiCaprio/Kate Winslet) > To Have and Have Not (Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall) > Top Gun (Tom Cruise/Kelly McGillis) > Trouble In Paradise (Herbert Marshall/Kay Francis) > Two for the Road (Albert Finney/Audrey Hepburn) > Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Nino Castelnuovo/Catherine Deneuve) > Untamed Heart (Christian Slater/Marisa Tomei) > Vertigo (James Stewart/Kim Novak) > Way We Were (Robert Redford/Barbara Streisand) > Wedding Singer (Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore) > West Side Story (Richard Beymer/Natalie Wood) > When a Man Loves a Woman (Andy Garcia/Meg Ryan) > When Harry Met Sally (Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan) > While You Were Sleeping (Bill Pullman/Sandra Bullock) > Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier/Merle Oberon) > Year of Living Dangerously (Mel Gibson/Sigourney Weaver) > You've Got Mail (Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan) > Other (PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option). > > So, MoPo members, what's *YOUR* personal choice for the best on-screen > romantic pairing ever in one movie? > > Bruce > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
