La Dolce Screwball: October 2009

Movies Watched (since I began to keep track)

2008

FEBRUARY

Sunset Boulevard - William Holden, Gloria Swanson 5/5

Indiscreet - Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant 4/5

A Streetcar Named Desire - Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando 5/5

Dark Journey - Vivien Leigh, Conrad Veidt 5/5

MARCH

An Affair to Remember - Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant 4/5

Houseboat - Sophia Loren, Cary Grant 3/5

His Girl Friday - Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant 5/5

APRIL

The Shop Around the Corner - Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart 5/5

The Thin Man - Myrna Loy, William Powell 4/5

The African Queen - Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn 4/5

Holiday - Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant 5/5

Bringing Up Baby - Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant 5/5

The Grass Is Greener - Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant 5/5

MAY

After The Thin Man - Myrna Loy, William Powell 5/5

Carrie - Jennifer Jones, Laurence Olivier 3/5

Titanic - Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb 3/5

Letter From A Unknown Woman - Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine 5/5

Wife vs Secretary - Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow 5/5

Libeled Lady - Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow 5/5

Christmas in Connecticut - Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan 4/5

JUNE

Sullivan’s Travels - Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake 5/5

The Palm Beach Story - Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert 4/5

The Divorcee - Norma Shearer 3/5

The Lady Eve - Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda 4/5

Macao - Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum 5/5

Shadow of the Thin Man - Myrna Loy, William Powell 5/5

Double Wedding - Myrna Loy, William Powell 5/5

The Prince and the Showgirl - Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier 3/5

His Kind of Woman - Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum 5/5

Love Crazy - Myrna Loy, William Powell 5/5

JULY

The Thin Man Goes Home - Myrna Loy, William Powell 3/5

I Love You Again - Myrna Loy, William Powell 5/5

Easy Living - Jean Arthur, Ray Milland 5/5

Manhattan Melodrama - Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, William Powell 4/5

The More the Merrier - Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea 4/5

Sylvia Scarlett - Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant 2/5

This Gun for Hire - Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd 3/5

AUGUST

Ball of Fire - Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper 5/5

Midnight - Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche 5/5

Song of the Thin Man - Myrna Loy, William Powell 3/5

Meet John Doe - Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper 5/5

Unfaithfully Yours - Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell 5/5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper 5/5

History Is Made At Night - Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer 5/5

The Major and the Minor - Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland 5/5

The Lost Weekend - Ray Milland 4/5

Stalag 17 - William Holden 5/5

My Man Godfrey - Carole Lombard, William Powell 4/5

The Good Fairy - Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullvan 3/5

The Women - Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford 4/5

Love in the Afternoon - Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn 2/5

Love Affair - Charles Boyer, Irene Dunn 3/5

The Divorce of Lady X - Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon 4/5

SEPTEMBER

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife - Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper 5/5

Ninotchka - Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo 4/5

Only Angels Have Wings - Cary Grant, Jean Arthur 4/5

Trouble in Paradise - Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins 4/5

A Foreign Affair - Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur, John Lund 4/5

Bachelor Mother - David Niven, Ginger Rogers 5/5

Stage Door - Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers 4/5

Hands Across the Table - Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray 3/5

Random Harvest - Greer Garson, Ronald Coleman 5/5

The Talk of the Town - Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman 4/5

A Letter to Three Wives - Linda Darnell, Ann Southern, Jeanne Crain 5/5

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Jean Arthur, James Stewart 4/5

OCTOBER

Baby Face - Barbara Stanwyck 5/5

The Last of Mrs Cheyney - Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, William Powell 3/5

Roberta - Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers 4/5

Arch of Triumph - Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer 1/5

Arsenic & Old Lace Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane 4/5

Sin Takes a Holiday - Constance Bennett, Kenneth McKenna 4/5

Dodsworth - Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor 5/5

Lady for a Day - May Robson 4/5

Love on the Run - Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone 3/5

Design For Living - Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Frederic March, Edward Everett Horton 3/5

Evelyn Prentice - William Powell, Myrna Loy 3/5

NOVEMBER

Peter Ibbotsen - Gary Cooper, Ann Harding 4/5

When Ladies Meet - Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Robert Taylor, Herbert Marshall 4/5

Platinum Blonde - Jean Harlow, Robert Williams, Loretta Young 4/5

China Seas - Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Rosalind Russell 4/5

Mogambo - Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly 4/5

Gilda - Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford 4/5

Star of Midnight - William Powell, Ginger Rogers 4/5

Kitty Foyle - Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan 4/5

Top Hat - Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Edward Everett Horton 5/5

Heaven Can Wait - Don Ameche, Gene Tierney 5/5

The Gay Divorcee - Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire 4/5

Mrs. Miniver - Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright 4/5

The Shanghai Gesture - Gene Tierney, Walter Huston 3/5

DECEMBER

Mr and Mrs Smith - Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery 5/5

Twentieth Century - Carole Lombard, John Barrymore 5/5

Bell, Book and Candle - Kim Novak, James Stewart 5/5

All This and Heaven Too - Charles Boyer, Bette Davis 4/5

I'll Be Seeing You - Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten 5/5

That Uncertain Feeling - Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas 4/5

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas, Louise Beavers 5/5

Gone With the Wind - Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel 5/5

Nothing Sacred - Carole Lombard, Frederic March 5/5

2009

January

Born Yesterday - Judy Holliday, William Holden 5/5

I Married A Witch - Veronica Lake, Frederic March 4/5

Red Dust - Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor 5/5

The Miracle Woman - Barbara Stanwyck 5/5

Hold Back the Dawn - Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland 5/5

The Man Who Came to Dinner - Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley 5/5

Shall We Dance - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers 3/5

Pride & Prejudice - Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier 4/5

Executive Suite - Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden 3/5

February

The Young at Heart - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Janet Gaynor 4/5

Cluny Brown - Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer 4/5

If You Could Only Cook - Jean Arthur, Herbert Marshall 4/5

Too Many Husbands - Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas, Fred MacMurray 5/5

Adventure in Manhattan - Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea 4/5

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford - Jean Arthur, William Powell, Eric Blore 3/5

The Farmer's Daughter - Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Edith Barrymore 5/5

Saratoga Trunk - Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper 4/5

Theodora Goes Wild - Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas 4/5

Breakfast for Two - Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Eric Blore 5/5

Petticoat Fever - Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Owen 4/5

Romance in Manhattan - Ginger Rogers, Francis Lederer 5/5

Love Letters - Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones 4/5

Fifth Avenue Girl - Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly 3/5

Private Lives - Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery 4/5

The Great McGinty - Brian Donlevy 3/5

The Ghost and Mrs Muir - Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison 4/5

The Great Lie - Bette Davis, Mary Astor, George Brent 4/5

Angels Over Broadway - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Rita Hayworth 4/5

Portrait of Jennie - Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones 4/5

The Mating Season - Gene Tierney, John Lund, Thelma Ritter 5/5

March

Grand Hotel - Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford 4/5

Love is News - Tyrone Power, Loretta Young 5/5

That Wonderful Urge - Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney 4/5

Boom Town - Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr 5/5

Hail the Conquering Hero - Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest 4/5

Blood and Sand - Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth 4/5

Three on a Match - Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, William Warren 3/5

Female - Ruth Chatterton, George Brent 4/5

Bells Are Ringing - Judy Holliday, Dean Martin 5/5

The Mysterious Lady - Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel 4/5

Day-Time Wife - Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell 5/5

Second Honeymoon - Tyrone Power, Loretta Young 3/5

This Above All - Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine 3/5

High Society - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra 4/5

April

The Letter - Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall 4/5

The Valley of Decision - Greer Garson, Gregory Peck 4/5

No Man of Her Own - Clark Gable, Carole Lombard 4/5

It Should Happen to You - Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford 5/5

Frisco Jenny - Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern 4/5

Midnight Mary - Loretta Young, Franchot Tone 5/5

Nightmare Alley - Tyrone Power 3/5

Niagara - Joseph Cotten, Marilyn Monroe 4/5

A Woman's Face - Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas 5/5

Riff Raff - Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy 5/5

No More Ladies - Joan Crawford, Robert Motgomery, Franchot Tone 4/5

Employee's Entrance - Warren William, Loretta Young 5/5

May

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer - Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple 5/5

Topper - Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke 4/5

Mildred Pierce - Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth 5/5

Northwest Frontier - Lauren Bacall 4/5

True Confessions - Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel 5/5

Rain - Joan Crawford, Walter Huston 4/5

The Assassination Bureau - Diana Rigg, Oliver Stone, Telly Savalas 5/5

Designing Woman - Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck 5/5

The Feminine Touch - Don Ameche, Rosalind Russell, Van Heflin, Kay Francis -5/5

The Stolen Jools - short from 1931 with tons of stars 4/5

June

Whirlpool - Gene Tierney 3/5

Old Acquaintance - Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins 4/5

Red-Headed Woman - Jean Harlow, Chester Morris 5/5

A Breath of Scandal - Sophia Loren, John Gavin, Maurice Chevalier 4/5

One Hour With You - Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald 5/5

Man-Proof - Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell 2/5

The Girl Who Had Everything - William Powell, Elizabeth Taylor 5/5

Third Finger, Left Hand - Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas 3/5

Julia Misbehaves - Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon 4/5

Christopher Strong - Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive 5/5

Morning Glory - Katharine Hepburn, Adolph Menjou, Douglas Fairbanks Jr 3/5

Love Before Breakfast - Carole Lombard, Preston Foster 2/5

Stamboul Quest - Myrna Loy, George Brent 3/5

Whipsaw - Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy 3/5

The Strawberry Blonde - James Cagney, Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland 5/5

July

Crossroads - William Powell, Hedy Lamarr 5/5

The Heavenly Body - William Powell, Hedy Lamarr 3/5

Take A Letter, Darling - Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray 5/5

A Woman's Vengeance - Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth 5/5