The 20 coolest on-screen couples from classic movies

'Cool' definition from Wordreference: fashionably attractive or impressive.

Here's my list of 20 couples that looked terrific together on screen, that complemented each other and had fun together all the movie (or until the script spoiled it all for them) or overcame difficult situations to be together and hopefully lived happily ever after.

In no particular order: 

Harry Morgan & 'Slim' Browning from To have and have not

Gilbert & Iris Henderson from The lady vanishes

Paul & Corie Bratter from Barefoot in the Park

Nicky Ferrante & Terry McKay from An Affair to Remember

Nick & Nora Charles from The Thin Man

Robin & Marian from The Adventures of Robin Hood

Sean Thorton & Mary Kate Danaher from The Quiet Man

Ben Quick & Clara Varner from The Long, Hot Summer

Capt. Daniel Craig & Lucy Muir from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Juan Herrera & Vance Jeffords from The Furies

C.C. Baxter & Fran Kubelik from The apartment

Joe Bradley & Princess Ann from Roman Holiday

Noah Praetorious and Deborah Higgins from People Will Talk

Leon and Ninotchka from Ninotchka

Longfellow Deeds & Babe Bennett from Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Jane & Tarzan from the Tarzan movies with Johnny & Maureen.

Peter Joshua (or whatever his name is) and Reggie Lampert from Charade

Brian Hawke & 'Spitfire' Stevens from Against All Flags

Armand Duvall & Marguerite Gautier from Camille

Johny Case & Linda Seton from Holiday

What do you think?

Haikus # 8 & 9: "Key Largo" and "Leave her to heaven"

I didn't post my haiku yesterday, so I give you two for one :) Remember that yesterday I created the FB Fan Page for this blog, you can like it if you please (there or in the sidebar button). Well, here we go:

Credits: DoctorMacro

Key Largo (1948)

"Remember our first
date? A hotel, a storm
a kidnap, the Mob? "

Leave her to Heaven (1945)

"You shouldn't go sailing
with women hiding her look
behind dark glasses."

This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now.

Classic stars references in modern films #1: S1mone (2002)

The other day, when I was writing about the rumor of classic actors "acting" in new movies, I mentioned the film S1mone (2002). Critics didn't like it very much, but I found it really interesting. Anyway, I *think* that I'll be doing a new series of posts which cleverly I'm gonna name: Classic stars references in modern films (is that grammatically correct?). I know there are a lot and I'll try to post one scene once in a while. Here's the first, in which Al Pacino is teaching his computer generated actress tricks of the "old guard":

Cool, uh?

Day 18- Actor or Actress who should have won an Oscar

Uhm, before I start rambling about the many Oscar injustices, let me say that I finished my internship and I'm officially a journalist. So, I'm officially a journalist.

Ok, now let's see...

People who should have won a real non-Honorary-Oscar but sadly didn't because life generally isn't fair...or because their contenders were too good 

(The titles below the pictures correspond to the best movies I've seen of each actor and it doesn't necessarily mean that they are Oscar-nominated roles.)

CLAUDE RAINS: Hello? Mommy's boy in "Notorious", the cop from "Casablanca"?

WILLIAM POWELL AND MYRNA LOY: Together: The Thin Man? Libeled Lady? Separated:  The Best Years of Our Lives? My Man Godfrey?

EDWARD G. ROBINSON: Key Largo? The Whole Town's Talking? Double Indemnity?

GLORIA SWANSON: Sunset Boulevard???

IRENE DUNNE: I remember mama??? The Awful Truth? Show Boat? My favorite wife? Penny Serenade?

JEAN ARTHUR: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town? The more the merrier? History Is Made at Night?

MARLENE DIETRICH: Witness for the Prosecution?? Morocco? Shanghai Express? Der blaue Engel? Blonde Venus??

CARY GRANT: WHAT?????

GRETA GARBO: Camille? Anna Christie? Ninotchka?

ROSALIND RUSSELL: His girl Friday? Auntie Mame? Picnic?

BARBARA STANWYCK: WHAT?????????????

CAROLE LOMBARD: My Man Godfrey? In Name Only? Nothing Sacred? To Be or Not to Be?

ORSON WELLES: Citizen Kane? The Third Man? Touch of Evil?

ROBERT MITCHUM: The Night of the Hunter??? Out of the Past? Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison? The Sundowners? 

MAUREEN O'HARA: The quiet man? How Green Was My Valley? 

MONTGOMERY CLIFT: A Place in the Sun?? From Here to Eternity? Suddenly, Last Summer? The Heiress??

DEBORAH KERR: SIX nominations and NO Oscar??

AVA GARDNER: The Barefoot Contessa? The Night of the Iguana?

LAUREN BACALL: To have and have not?

OMAR SHARIF: Doctor Zhivago? Funny Girl?

Smile!

Hace como un mes hice este video. Puse momentos de [son]risas de pelis & actores clásicos (Paul Newman, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Grace Kelly, Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman...) al ritmo de la canción When You're Smiling versión de Michael Bublé: