1940s My Favourite Movies


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A list of movies I have found to like a lot released within the 1940s

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1
The Loves of Carmen (1948,  Unrated)
The Loves of Carmen
Rita Hayworth is absolutely stunning
2
His Girl Friday (1940,  Unrated)
His Girl Friday
Excellently played past paced dialogue. Excellent plot :D
3
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949,  Unrated)
The Barkleys of Broadway
Ginger is WONDERFUL and the chemistry is excellent :) A REALLY good movie :)
4
Cover Girl (1944,  Unrated)
Cover Girl
Rita is GORGEOUS!
5
You'll Never Get Rich (1941,  Unrated)
6
The Philadelphia Story (1940,  Unrated)
The Philadelphia Story
excellent actors! Watch Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart get drunk together, hehe
7
Suspicion (1941,  Unrated)
8
Notorious (1946,  Unrated)
9
And Then There Were None (1945,  Unrated)
And Then There Were None
classic murder mystery. This is where it all began
10
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940,  Unrated)
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
A movie set in a time when women started to be allowed to make thier own choices and be seen more as equals to men. This movie surprisingly addressed questions that young women still deal with today! A thoughtful movie! stunning. Ginger Rogers is not only a gorgeous star, but is smart, down to earth, funny and sexy :) An excellent film!! :D
11
The Pirate (1948,  Unrated)
The Pirate
Humorous dialogue and fun acting. Bright colourful costumes and a fun storyline. This is a good entertainer :)
12
The Lady from Shanghai (1948,  Unrated)
The Lady from Shanghai
A classic film noir! Some excellent design and artistry in filming and setting, a great script with some excellent acting. Welles has a great accent and Hayworth is a bombshell blond.
13
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947,  Unrated)
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
A fun romance movie with a teenage Shirley Temple, a fumbling and adorable Cary Grant and strong female lead Myrna Loy. :)
14
Gilda (1946,  PG)
Gilda
Gilda lights up the screen and Glenn Ford does a classic performance.
15
Spellbound (1945,  Unrated)
Spellbound
Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta love the 'Liverworst'! :) hehehe
16
You Were Never Lovelier (1942,  Unrated)
You Were Never Lovelier
Rita's outfits are absolutely gorgeous! sweet :)
17
Casablanca (1943,  Unrated)
Casablanca
Of all the movies on all the shelves in all the world, this one has definately got to be on mine ;)
18
Second Chorus (1940,  G)
Second Chorus
A really old Fred Astaire! See the classic film flicker as Fred dances and croons into your heart! :)
19
To Have and Have Not (1944,  Unrated)
To Have and Have Not
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart have some excelptional chemistry in this classy film noir :)
20
Now, Voyager (1942,  Unrated)
Now, Voyager
Bette Davis is excellent as she plays a woman repressed by her mother to such a point that she needs to go to a psychiatric retreat. Once her term is up there she is sent on a voyage to find who she really is and to live as herself.
21
Murder, My Sweet (1944,  Unrated)
Murder, My Sweet
One of the most classic of film noir movies i have seen!! :) Quite entertaining!
22
The Great Dictator (1940,  G)
The Great Dictator
Charming, chaotic, dramatic, hilarious! This film is a CLASSIC with a huge message and a lot of slapstick. One of the 7 talkies Charlie Chaplin created, it helped cause him to be kicked out of America... A shame for such a wonderful man! An awesome film :)
23
Anna Karenina (1948,  Unrated)
Anna Karenina
An excellent film about a woman in a marriage she feels isolated and unloved within and the tragedy of living with her beauty which causes torment and pain to her and others. Realistically portrayed, Vivien Leigh acts her scenes DELICIOUSLY well. I nearly balled! :)
24
Gaslight (1944,  Unrated)
Gaslight
Like an Alfred Hitchcock, but I figured everything out too quickly and things were explained too much. Still excellent storyline and acting :) It was great to see young Bergman and Lansbury!! :)
25
The Big Sleep (1946,  Unrated)
The Big Sleep
The second hit starring the sensational chemistry of Bogart and Bacall! (the first one was To Have and HAve Not and is AWESOME!) This one is also an excellent sleuth film noir! My boyfriend is slowly getting into these old films, he used to think they were slow and boring, but got a laugh out of the witty talk and 007ish quality of the film, while being intruiged with the plot (and the main lady but, I was quite taken with her too).
26
Out of the Past (1947,  Unrated)
Out of the Past
An excellent film noir with mystery, romantic and classic scenes, gorgeous ladies, shadowy shots and engaging dialogue. If you like film noir, this is a pretty good one :)
27
Saboteur (1942,  PG)
Saboteur
A good Alfred Hitchcock!! :) The leads are very attractive, the plot is quite before it's time, the storyline is mysterious, strange and enticing. A classic!! If you like Hitchcock, this is a MUST SEE!
28
Lillian Russell (1940,  Unrated)
29
Week-End in Havana (1941,  Unrated)
Week-End in Havana
Fun and very entertaining. Romantic with some very classy scenes :) Love this movie!
30
That Night in Rio (1941,  Unrated)
That Night in Rio
Excellent! So entertaining :)
31
I Love You Again (1940,  Unrated)

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